US438858A

US438858A - Corset

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Publication number: US438858A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-10-21
Anticipated expiration: 1907-10-21

Description

(No Model.)

G. L. OLMSTEAD.

CORSET.

Patented 001:. 21, 1890,

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' UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

OHAUNCEY L. OLMSTEAD, OF WEST BROOKFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 438,858, dated October 21, 1890.

Application filed April 24, 1890. Serial No. 349,297. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHAUNOEY L. OLM- STEAD, of West Brookfield, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented new Improvements in Corsets; 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 said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a front view of the corset; Fig. 2, the breast-section or front portion of one side of the corset as prepared to receive the yoke and breast portion; Fig. 3, the yoke detached; Fig. 4, a vertical central section on line at w of Fig. 1.

This invention relates to an improvement in the construction of that class of corsets in which the swell of the breast is produced by shirring or fullin g the fabric in contradistinc- In this class of corsets as heretofore manufactured it has been difficult to produce a neat and strong finish at the intersection of the shirred and body portions of the corset. I

The object of my invention is to produc a neat and durable construction of thisdesirable class of corsets; and the invention consists in a yoke made in the form of an overlay extending down each side of the breast-piece and across under the breast-piece, the said yoke double, and so as to lie upon the surface of the corset surrounding the shirred portion, While the shirred portion is inclosed within the inner edges of the yoke, as more fully hereinafter described. The general cut of A the corset, aside from the breast portion, may

be of any of the usual constructions. I show a common cut otherwise than as to the breast portion. At the point where the breast portion is to be introduced the sections or parts below are cut short, and so as to leave a nearly rectangular-shaped recess A at the upper edge of the corset, corresponding to the part designed to inclose the breast. Around the edges of this opening or space a yoke is applied. This yoke is out from fabric, as seen in Fig. 3, of a shape corresponding to the shape of the opening A-that is, it is a piece of fabric cut to form two branches B 13,

ness upon the outside and the other upon the inside, as seen in Fig. 4.

D represents the breast portion of the corset, which is made from suitable fabric and of a size as much greater than the spaceAto be filled as the fullness required for the breast portion. The part D is introduced between the inner edges of the yoke, fulled or shirred across the bottom, and extending up the sides, and so that the edges of the said parts D will substantially abut against the edges of the recesses in which they are placed, and is stitched into the yoke, as represented in Fig. 1. The upper edge of the part D is shirred or fulled into a suitable binding. The

part D may be made of double thickness, as

with the yoke and introducing the full breast portion into that yoke I am enabled to give to the corset a neat and finished appearance and to make a strong union of the parts. By thus uniting the inserted parts with the surrounding portion of the corset the overlapping of the shirred portion upon the surrounding edge of the recess is avoided, the yoke being the sole means of securing the parts together.

In the make-up of the corset the yoke would naturally be applied to the breast portion D before the yoke is attached to the corset; but the parts maybe otherwise assembled.

I do not claim, broadly, a corset having a cut-away breast portion filled with a fabric shirred or fulled therein, as such, I am aware, broadly considered, is not new.

A corset the body of which has the breast portions cut away so as to leave a recess in the body at the breast portions, combined withsponding to the said recesses, and so that the edges of the said breast-pieces will abutagainst the edges of said recesses, and a double-thickness yoke of a shape corresponding to the 5 shape of said recesses, but of a size to overlap the edges of the said breast-pieces and the surrounding edges of the body of the corset, one of said thicknesses of yoke applied upon the outside and the other upon the inside of the corset, and the parts all stitched together, 10 whereby the said breast-pieces are united to the body of the corset by said yoke, substantially as described.

CHAUNOEY L. OLMSTEAD.

Witnesses;

S. BELLE STEARNS, WALTER S. RoBINsoN.