US398569A - Otto bannier - Google Patents

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O. BANNIER CORSET BUSK. NO. 398,569. Patented Feb. 26, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

OTTO BANNIER, OF HAMBURG, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO ADOLPII HINRICH- SEN (it 00., OF SAME PLACE.

CORSET-BUSK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,569, dated February 26, 1889. Application filed June 11, 1885. Serial No. 168,303. (No model.) Patented in Belgium May 15, 1885,11'0. 68,885; in France May 23, 1885, No. 169,110; in Austria-Hungary October 9, 1885, N0..Z9,109 and No. 51,312, and in England June 4, 1885, No. 6,807, and June 18,1886,N0. 8,129.

To all whom, it may concern: by the hinges (,1, while the straight parts of Be it known that I, OTTO BANN1ER,'a subthe spring and the hinges (I are covered by ject of the Emperor of Gern'iai'ly, and a resithree metal plates, 19, the middle one of which dent of Hamburg, Gern'iany, have invented a serves as a rabbet for the two outer ones, and 5 new and useful Improvement in Busks for thereby prevents any bending of the husk at Corsets, (for which Robert Hinrichsen and this point toward the inner side. The ends of Adolph IIinrichsen, of Hamburg, have with the pins .5- may also be fitted in a suitable I my consent obtained patents in Belgium May manner to the extremities oi the two outer 15, 1885, No. (58,885; in France May 23,1885, plates, forming hinge-joints. Then the mid To No. 169,110; in Austria-I-Iungary October 9, dle plate must be dispensed with altogether, 1885, No. 20,10!) and Xo. 51,312, and in Great as shown by Fig. 6. ln adopting this arrange- Britain June 1, 1885, No. 6,807, andJune 18, i ment only one pin used, around which the 1886, No. 8,129,) of which the following a spring is wound in such a manner as to make 3 specification. a lever-like formation, r, in the middle. The The object of my invention is to avoid the, bent end of the spring catches in a slit, l,probreakage of busks or stays at the waist,where vided at the upper or lower part of the husk. r they are mostly exposed to breakage, and at I am aware that prior to my invention corthe same time to give them greater stiffness set-busks have been made, each consisting of against bending toward the inside of the cortwo parts united by springs. I therefore do set. I attain this object by the mechanisms not claim such a combination, broadly; but

illustrated in the accom pan ying drawings, in \Vhatl do claim as my invention, and desire which l to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Figure 1 is a front VlGW; Fig. :2, a vertical 1. A corset bush or stay composed of two section of the middle part of an improved halves united by hinge-joints and a helical double bush. Figs. 3 and 1 are modifications. spring placed transversely to the bush or stay, A Fig. 5 is a detail; Fig. (3, a modified form of one end of the said spring being attached to the spring, while Fig. 7 shows the application one half and the other end to the other half of of a flat spring in the mechanism instead of the husk or stay, substantially as described. a helical sprin 2. In a husk or stay, the combination, with 3c Each busk consists of an upper part, A, and a single or double hinge, (I, fitted with a single a lower part, B,whieh are united by means of or double spring, f, across the staff coiled a helical spring, f, placed transversely to the round pins 8 of cover-plates p. bush, and hinges cl, the upper end of the said OTTO BANNIER spring being attached to the part A and the lower end to the part B of the bush. Pins 3 \Vit-nesses:

are passed through the adjacent spirals of the ROBERT HINRICHsE 3, spring f. The ends of said pins are inclosed GEORGE LU DWIG.

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