US42460A - Improvement in corsets - Google Patents

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lJ'NiTnn STATES PATENT Ormea.

SMITH COLLINS, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORSETS.

Specification forming partI of Letters Patent No. 412,460, dated April 26,1864.

To all whom it may 00K cern.;

Be it known that I, SMITH GoLLINs, of the city and count-y of New Haven, and State of Connecticut, have invented new and useful Improvements in Corsets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of a complete pair of corsets; Figs. 2, 3, and 4, sectional views of the busk, to more fully illustrate my invention.

Same letters refer to like parts.

The usual manner of attaching busks or busk-clasps is to insert thein from the edge and between the two thicknesses of which the corset is made, and close the two parts over the busk and stitch the edge. It is impossible to make anicely-inished edge in this manner; and, further,whenever it is necessary to remove the busk-as for renewing orto send to the laundry-this stitched edge must be ripped, which necessarily injures the edge more or less, until from frequent ripping and restitching the edge of the corset is entirely destroyed long before other portions of the corset are worn.

Another trouble to wearers of corsets arises from the fact that however much careis taken in applying the corsets they will wrinkle more or less between what are termed the breast77 and hip7 stays-that is, the stay runnin g from the hip up to the armpit, and that next in front and nearly parallel to the rst.

Long experience in the manufacture of corsets has made me familiar with these troubles, and they have suggested the improvements herein described, whereby I have been enabled to produce corsets which entirely overcome these troubles.

My invention relates only to such corsets as are cut and made from two or more thicknesses of fabrics; and it consists- First. In folding the outer thickness over the busk inward and stitching the same down back of the busk on one side, and on the other side providing for a lappet by stitching a separate piece of fabric to the edge of the corset by two or more rows of stitching on a lappet thus formed, and folding the said piece over the busk and stitching the same down back of the busk in like manner as when the fold is made from the outer thickness of the corset, for the purpose of producing a linished edge to the corset, and so that when it is desired to remove the busk the fold which holds the busk may beripped from the back edge of said busk, and so preserve the edge of the corset in its original perfection.

Second. In placing a diagonal stay running from the armpit or top of the hip-stay down to or near the lower end of the breast-stay. This new and additional stay serves to prevent any inclination to wrinkle, and also forms an important stay to support the breast, and adds much to the perfection of the form of the wearer.

To enable others skilled in the art to make my improved corsets, I will proceed to describe my manner of so doing.

In the manufacture of my corsets I place one of the busks close to the edge and set the other a little back, so as to form a lappet or ily, A, Figs. 1,2, 3. I cut one of the thicknesses of which the corset is composed (the outer) enough wider than the other (the inner) to give sufcient material to fold back and over the busk, as in Figs. 2 and 4. To make the lappet or fly A, I stitch at a and b, then insert the busk c, then stitch down the fold overit at d. The other, as in Fig. 4, I insert the busk o, fold the outer thickness over and stitch it down at e. By this operation I form a perfect edge, and when desired to remove the busks I rip only the seams d and e. When the busk is replaced,restitch as before. Thus it will be seen the edge is never interfered with, and the ripping does not add to the wear of the edge, to destroy that part of the corset before other parts are worn. A very good edge may be made by stitching to the edge of the corset a separate piece of fabric, as shown in Fig. 3, by seams a and b, and after inserting the busk stitch down at d, the same asin Fig. 2. This would answer where the lappet or fly was formed; but if there were to be no fly it would not accomplish the object.

In Fig. 1,13 represents the hip-stay; C, the breast-stay. I insert an additional stay, I),

running from or near the top of the hip-stay B to or near the bottom of the breast-stay C, to prevent the corset from wrinklin g between the stays B and C, and to better support the breast and give amore perfect form to the figure.

It will be seen that the stay D in my corset begins at the top of the corset under the arm, back of the upper gore, and, running diagonally down, terminates front of the lower gore. This affords a support for the breast 'which has heretofore been imperfectly given by stays in the gores, as in the woven corsets, and in which, also, my single stay D serves the same purpose of several stays in the woven corset, and at the same time places the support where it is required; and, further, the woven corsets cannot be made with my diagonal stay D, on account of crossing the Warp between the ..gores.

folding over the whole thickness ofthe fabric and stitching down back of the busk, which forms a thick, clumsy, and objectionable edge, Therefore I do not broadly claim folding the entire fabric of the corset over the busk for the purpose of inclosing the same. Neither do I broadly claim a lappet or iiy but What I do claim as new and useful7 and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A corset having the. diagonal stays l) arranged relatively to the stays B C, and the busks c c inserted and secured in the manner described, and for the purpose specified.

SMITH COLLINS. Witnesses RUFUs SANFORD, J oHN E. EARLE.

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