US380193A

US380193A - Corset-clasp

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Publication number: US380193A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1888-03-27
Anticipated expiration: 1905-03-27

Description

1 (No Model.)

J. DAY. CORSET oLAsP,

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- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIca:

JOSEPH DAY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO JOSEPH -KOON,

, OF SAME PLACE:

CORSET-CLASP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 380,193, dated March 27, 1888. Application filed January 16, 1888. Serial No. 260,868. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrn DAY, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Corset-Clasps; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which [0 said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figures 1 and 2, front views of the two busks,

detached; Fig. 3, a front view of the corset in the clasped position; Fig. 4, aperspective view of the two busks in the operation of clasping;

Fig. 5, a modification.

This invention relates to an improvement in the clasping device for corsets.

In the usual construction of busks they are provided the one with studs'and the other with loops or eyes riveted or otherwise secured to the busk and adapted to engage with the studs on the other busk to secure the corset upon the person.

The object of this invention is to avoid the use of the eyes, and thereby avoid the expense of riveting or securing the loops and the Weakening of the busk incident thereto; and it consists in constructing one busk with a longitudinal slot in each end and the other busk provided with studs in position corresponding to said slots, and so that said slots will engage with said studs and serve to clasp the two busks, as more fully hereinafter described.

A represents one busk, which is made from steel, as usual, but preferably wider, and is provided with headed studs a, secured thereto in the usual manner, one near each end, and preferably one or more intermediate studs, b. B is the second busk, which is also made from steel, preferably narrower than A, constructed with a longitudinal slot, d, in each end, the width of the slots corresponding to the diameter of the body of the studs a and less than the diameter of the head of the said studs. The

slots are best made with an enlargement at the extreme ends sufficient to permit the heads of the stud to pass through, as represented; but the slots may open through the end of the busk, as represented in Fig. 5. These busks areinserted in the corset in the usual manner; but the slotted ends of the busk B are exposed, as seen in Fig. 4.

In the body of the corset immediately in rear of the narrow busk B, at one or more points between the ends of the busk, an eyelet, e, is inserted, corresponding to and adaptedto engage the intermediate studs, b, on the busk A. One such intermediate stud and eyelet is sufficient. 60 The busks are connected by first setting the slot in one end of the busk B onto the stud at that end of busk A, as shown, and then bending the busk B so that the slot at theother end will pass onto the stud at that end of the busk A, and the spring of the metal, when free, will then force the two busks to interlock, and so as to prevent accidental removal. 7 The eyelet (I is set over the intermediate studs, 6, to take the intermediate transverse strain. By this construction it will be seen that the eyes which are usually applied to the busk B are omitted, thereby avoiding the operation of riveting or otherwise securing the loops, and the consequent weakening of the busk is avoided, 7 and the busks are securely interlocked, so that accidental disengagement is impossible.

I claim The herein-described corset-clasp, consisting of the steel B, constructed with a longitudinal slot at each end formed directly in the steel itself, combined with the busk A, provided with studs corresponding to said slots and with which said slots may engage, and the said busk provided with one or more intermediate studs, 8 5 substantially as described.

' JOSEPH DAY.

'Witnesses:

FRED C. EARLE, J. H. SHUMWAY.