US634153A - Bustle. - Google Patents

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Patented Oct. 3, i899. No' 634l53' T. P. TAYLOR.

BUSTLE.

(Application led June 12, 1899.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 634,153, dated October 3, 1899. .tppncaionaearum12,1899. serrano. 720.227. momia.)

.To @ZZ whom, vif may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS P. TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States,residing at Bridge port, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bustles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has reference to certain new and useful improvements in bustles, but more particularly relates to the manufacture of bustles from sections of fabric comprising warp and weft resilient strands, such as ne Wire. Heretofore in bustles made from this fabric the wires of the blank and in the cornpleted bustle cross each other at substantially right angles from top to bottom and from side to side and certain bias cuttings have been made at the side edges in order that the latter might be contracted, so as to give the required fullness to the bustle.

While it is admitted that the broad idea of making a bustle from woven-wire fabric by utilizing a blank With any of its edges cut on the bias, so that the required fullness is obtained by contracting these bias-cut edges, is shown, described, and claimed in Letters Patent No. 601,361, issued March 29, 1898, to Henry H. Taylor, and in Letters Patent No.

617,452, issued January 10, 1898, to Henry H.

Taylor and Myron B. Hammond, still an exceedingly good bustle can be made by utilizing a blank in Which the wires cross each other obliquely, so that substantially all the edges are cut on the bias.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this application, Figure l is a plan view of the blank; Fig. 2, a front elevation of the completed bustle; Fig. 3, arsection at the line a a of Fig. 2. Fig. 4, a rear View of the completed bustle; Fig. 5, a rear View of a slightly-modified form of my bustle, and Fig. 6 is a plan view of a modified form of blank.

Similar numbers ofL reference denote like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

or suitable binder 3 while in this contracted condition. This will of course produce a concavity at the top of the completed bustle, as shown at Figs. 2 and 4, While the rest of the outline ofthe bustle will be convex.

By using a blank in which all the edges are bias-cut it will be clear that a great variety of shapes may be obtained, according to the degree of contraction in various localities of the blanks, and While I prefer to utilize the form of blank shown at Fig. l, because the lower extremities of the bustle will thereby be rounded, still I do not wish t0 be limited to any particular shape of blank, and I can even utilize a form of blank such as is shown at Fig. 6, which is entirely rectangular, the result in the instance of this last-named blank being that the lower corners are angular instead of rounded.

The rear of the bustle may be entirely closed by a cloth facing 4c, as shown at Fig. 4, or it may be left entirely open, or stay-pieces 5 may be simply stitched to the sides of the rearand drawn together by lacings 6, as shown at Fig. 5, this feature being merely a matter of preference and not entering into the essentials of the invention. A waistband 7, secured to the upper portion ofthe bustle, is employed for the purpose of securing the bustle to the body of the wearer.

As I said above, I do not Wish to be under*- stood as claiming a bustle made from a section of Woven Wire with the necessary fullness obtained by the contraction of bias-eut edges broadly, in the patents above named; but

' of such section,because this feature is claimed, 95

WlmtIdo claim as new, und desire to seeure and hound whereby the fullness of the bustle by Letters Patent, is is obtained, substantially as set forth. xo

A bustle made from :t single section of fub- In testimony whereof I aix my signature rie comprising resilient warp and weft in presence of two witnesses. 5 strandssuch as line Wiresaid strands THOMAS P. TAYLOR.

crossing the longitudinal axis of the bustle lVitnesses: :tt oblique angles thereof, the strands at the F. XV. SMITH, J r.,

boundary of said section being Contracted l M. T. LONGDEN.

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