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(No Model.) 7 J. M. v. LE- BEAU. CORSET CLASP. I No. 409,410. Patented AuguZO, 1889.

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JOHN M. V. LE BEAU, OF NEW ORLE ANS, LOUISLANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE CORSET-CLASP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 409,410, dated August 20, 1889.

Application filed July 6, 1888. Serial No. 279,200. (No model.)

To all whom may concern.-

ie it known that 1, JOHN M. V. LE BEAU, of New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented a new and of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to corset clasps or fastenings, and has for itsobject to provide a simple, inexpensive, apd efficient clasp of this character, which maybe readily fastened and' unfastened while putting on and removing the corset, and will not become unfastened accidentally by sidewise or longitudinal strains, to which clasps of this kind are ordinarily subjected.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts of the corset-clasp, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a face view of a corset-clasp made in accordance with my invention, and

, portions of the corset to which the busks are attached. Fig. 2 is a detail reverse side or face view of the central portion of the clasp; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view, which shows parts of the two busks and a slightly-modified form of one of thefastening devices.

' The herein-described corset-clasp consists of two spring-steel or elastic busks A 13, a

3 per fastening lower fastening device G, and a series of updevices D, of which there may be any required number, three being shown in the drawings. All of the fastenings C D are held to the face of the busk A, and en gage headed pins or buttons E, which are fixed to the bnsk B to lock or clasp the corset F to the body of the wearer, as presently explained.

I more particularly describe the clasp-fastenings C D, as follows: The lower fastening O is made with two main parts or jaws G H, the former being fixed to the busk A by two rivets g g or otherwise, so as to beiminovablc on the busk. The movable jaw ll of this fastening is pivoted to the bush by a pin or rivet 71 and between the edgewisereccssed inner parts of the jaws G II is held, by a pin or rivet '2', a spring 1, preferably made of a bent metal plate or wire and acting normally to close the jaw ii to the jaw or part G of the fastening. In this jaw G, at its outer part and upper edge, is formed a .notch or slot c, with which the corresponding button E on the busk l3 engages when the corset-clasp is locked.

The extremities of the outer parts of both jaws G ll, which overlap the bush 1 are curved inward toward their joint with each other,thus causing the button E to automatically open the jaws of the fastening when it is pushed against the outer ends of the jaws, and when the jaw ll. opens away from the fixed jaw G the pin or button slips into the notch c, and the spring then instantly closes the jaws and the fastening is locked. The movable jaw ii is bent at its back end over the outer edge and into the back of the busk A to form a prong or lip at 7b, substantially like the bent-over lips 7t 7t on the back ends of the two hinged jaws K K, forming the main parts of one of the upper clasp-fastenings D, which I will next describe.

Each of the fastenings D is made with two movable jaws K K, pivoted to the busk A, on the same pin it, and fitted, like the fastening O, with a spring I, which normally closes the jaws, which have outer curved extremities, causing them to open automatically as an opposing pin or button E on the busk B is pushed against their ends, and the lower jaw K of each fastening D is provided, like the lower jaw G of the fastening O,with a notch 0, into which the pin or button E slips prior to the closing of the jaws K K by their spring I, as will readily be understood.

he guide-lip h on the jaw ll of the fastening C, anualso the lips 7t on the jaws K of the lower fastening D, work in a notch a, the inner wall of which describes an are. or portion of a circle having the pivot of the movable jaws H K as centers, and this construction assures the constant engagement of these lips with the bush A and free movement of the lips as the jaws open avoids extension or projection of the jaws inward beyond the inner edge of the busk.

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g in a notch a, cut into ing at their adjacent straight longitudinal busk, the lip edges and beveled or inclined inwardly at their outer ends, one of said straightcontacting edges being notched, as at e, and the stud, whereby the stud may be released by moving it out of the notch and against the adjacent straight edge of the other jaw, or moving the fastener bodilyin the opposite direetion,sub-

The modification represented in Fig. 3 of stantially as set forth.

he drawings shows how a metal keeper L 2. he combination, with the bush B, havmay be fastened at its ends to the bus A so ing studs E, of the bush A,havingfastenings as to overlap the back ends of the movable consisting beveled or of spring-pressed jaws jaws of the fastenings. The guides or keeprounded at their outer ends toward their ers h 7t" L have the same object, which is to meeting edges to guide said studs, the lower prevent rocking of the fasteningaws on or jaw of one fastening being relatively fixed,

across the bush A or both busks A B; or, in the notches e in the upper edges of the sevother words, the guides, in connection with eral lower jaws, the lower edges of the upper the pivots of the movable jaws, hold them flat jaws being plain or straight, whereby the ant securely to the studs will open the jaws by pressing against that they cannot easily be twisted from the the ends thereof, substantially as set forth.

A corset-clasp comprising two busks, one

a series of fastenings having inner aces of the movable jaws of the fastenings slots a in the buskA forengagementwith theback thereof,

as is shown at the two upper fastenings Din drawings.

It will be noticed that as the lower jaw of movable or spring-actuated jaws, and the one of the corset-fastenings (preferably the other having a series of pins or buttons lower fastening is fixed it will not allow the adapted for engagement with the fastenings,

pin E on the bush ll, which engages it, to force this fastening open by strains brought upon the clasp by downward-hending move ments of the wearer of the corset; hence it will be quite impossible for the corset to be come unfastened accidentally when in use.

To fasten the clasp, it is only necessary to press the pins or buttons E against the ends of the jaws of the fastenings C D to open them and admit the pins E to theirnotehes c, and the corset may be easily and almost instantly taken off the wearer by moving the busks A ll endwise in reverse directions, (indicated by the arrows in Fig. 1 of the drawings,) which will open the jaws and release and the movable ing lips or guides which are hooked around at the back of the bush to which theyare attached, the bush having curved surfaces at the points where the lips hook around it, substantiall y as herein set forth.

, n a corsetelasp, the combination, with a busk A, of a fastening comprising a fixed jaw G, having a notch e in its upper edge, a movable jaw II, a spring closing said jaw, a series of fastenings comprising two movable spring-actuated jaws K K, the lower ones having notches e, and a busk 13, provided with series of pins or buttons E, adapted to enter the notches e of the fastenings, subthe pins E from their notches e, as will readstantially as described, for the purposes set ilybe understood. forth. I

Having thus described my invention, what 7 T f 1 7) claim as new, and desire to secure by Let JOHA LE BEAU ters Patent, is- \Vitn esses:

l. Aeorset-fasteni ngcom prising two spri ng- HYP. GARROT, operated jaws in vertical alignment, contact- S. S. JONES.

jaws of the fastenings hav-

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