US723495A - Ventilated bustle and hip-form. - Google Patents

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PATENTBD MAR. 24, 1903.

O. H. SCOTT. VBNTILATED BUSTLB AND HIP FORM.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 3, 1902.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. SCOTT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

VEN-TILA.T-ED BUSTLE- AND HIP-FORM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 723,495, dated March 24, 1903.

Application filed November 3, 1902. Serial No. 129,887. (No model.)

To all whont it may concern:

Beit known that I, CHARLES H. SCOTT,a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ventilated Bustles and Hip- Forms,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in an article of wearing-apparel to be worn by women for producing a more symmetrical figure and to cause the skirts to fit more gracefully; and it consists in certain peculiarities of the construction, novel arrangement, and operation of the various parts thereof, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth and specifically claimed.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a bustle and hip-form which will be light and comfortable to the wearer and will produce an attractive and symmetrical figure, besides furnishing means to cause the skirts to hang properly and fit snugly and neatly around the waist and hips.

Another object is to provide a device of the above-described character which shall be of such a construction that when in place on the body of the wearer it will aiford means for the escape of airconfinedbetweenitslowersurface and the body and at the same time, as well'as when it is not worn, will be self-ventilating that is, it will be so made that air will be circulated through its padding or fillingthus keeping it free of moisture from the perspiration of the body and rendering it at all times cleanly and sanitary.

A still further object is to so construct the form that it will be reversible and either side worn next to the person.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be disclosed in the subjoined description and explanation.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention pertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe it, referring to the accompanying drawings, in whicl1 Figure 1 is a view in sideelevatiou of a por-- tion of the body of a woman, showing a bustle or hip-form embodying my invention in place thereon. Fig. 2 is a detached plan view of the bustle and hip-form. Fig. 3 is'a crosssectional View taken on line 3 3 of Fig. 2 looking in the direction-indicated by the arrows and illustrating by dotted lines the position the parts will assume when reversed. Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmental view in elevation of a portion of the body of a woman, showing the bustle and hip-form in section, taken on line 4 4 of Fig. 2, and in place thereon and illustrating the position of the skirt. Fig. 5 is a plan view of a portion of the bustle, showing one of the ventilating-gromets therein. Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view taken on line 6 def Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a plan View of a fragment of the bustle and hip-form,showing a modification in the construction of the ventilators. Fig. 8 is a cross-section thereof, taken on line 8 8 of Fig. '7. Fig. 9 is a detached perspective view of one of the ventilator-disks employed in the construction illustrated in Figs. 7 and 8. Fig. 10 is a plan view of a portion of the bustle and hip-form, showing still another modification in the construction of the ventilators. Fig. 11 is a crosssectional view taken on line 11 11 of Fig. 10. Figs. 12 and 13 are fragment-a1 plan views of the bustle and hip-form, showing other modifications in the construction of the ventilators.

Like numerals of reference refer to corresponding parts throughout the different views of the drawings.

The numeral 20 represents the covering of the bustle and hip-form, which'may be made of any suit-able material, but preferably of cloth which is substantially non -porous or very closely woven in order to prevent the curled hair 21 of the padding piercing or passing through the same. This covering is preferably made of two pieces 221mm 23, which are of the same shape and have at their upper edges a curved recess 24 to fit around the waist of the wearer. are sewed together at their edges and areso padded that they will present tapered or feathered edges all around the device, thus causing it to fit the figure in such a manner as to produce a perfect fit and poise of the skirts without being discernable there through. As the pieces 22 and 23, forming the covering of the bustle and hip-form, are substantially non-porous and as the device is so made that it forms a shell-like or concavo -convex form when in position on the body of the wearer, it becomes necessary in order that it shall not be uncomfortably warm for the wearer that it be perforated, so that The pieces 22 and 23 the heat of the body and air may pass through said perforations. To accomplish this end, I have shown in the drawings a variety of ventilators, any of which I may employ without departing from the spirit of my invention.

In Figs. 5 and 6 I have shown one of the ventilators, which comprises a thimble 25, which has on its lower end an annular flange 26, provided with a series of openings 27 to admit air to the padding or filling 2], which may be of curled hair or other suitable material. The thimble 25, which has its upper and lower ends open, is placed in suitable openings in the pieces 22 and 23, forming the covering of the form, and a disk 28, having a series of openings 27 and a central opening to receive the upper end of the thimble, is placed on the upper surface of the covering 22, when the upper end of the thimble may be clenched by means of a die or suitable instrument, so as to hold the disk 28 in position. Before securing the parts together, however, a piece of gauze, bobbinet, or other reticulated material 29 is placed between the piece 23 and the lower portion of the padding 2i and between the piece 22 of the covering and the upper surface of the padding, so as to prevent the padding escaping through the openings 27, yet admitting air to circulate through the padding from one ventilatingopening to the other.

As shown in Figs. 2 to 4, inclusive, the bustle and hip-form is tufted, as usual, and is formed with an enlargement or pad 30 at its central upper portion, through which pad is passed one of the ventilators. This enlargement or pad 30 produces a channel or circular groove 31 at the lower portion thereof, which groove or channel will guide the air to the series of ventilators which are located in the form, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4 of the drawings.

Instead of using the gromets shown in Figs. 5 and Band above described as ventilatorsI may employ the construction illustrated in Figs. 7 and S, which comprises two disks 32 and 33, each of which hasa central opening 34 and a series of openings 35 near its periphery. Between the piece 23 of the covering and the lower surface of the filling is located a piece of reticulated material 29,

and between the piece 22 of the covering and i the upper surface of the filling is located another reticulated piece 29, which pieces extend across the central opening 34:, as shown in Fig. 7 of the drawings, thus allowing the air to pass through the form and to circulate through the padding or filling from one ventilator to the other.

In Figs. 10 and 11 is shown still another modification in the construction of the ventilators, which consists in forming the covering 20 of the form with openings 36, which may be worked around their edges like buttonholes. In this construction two pieces of gauze or reticulated material 29 is placed between the upper piece 22 and the lower piece 23 of the covering and the upper and lower surfaces of the filling, respectively, as is clearly shown in Fig. 11, thus permitting the air to pass through the form and to circulate through the filling, as in the other constructions.

In Figs. 12 and 13 are shown two other forms of ventilators, in the former of which a gromet 37 of the ordinary or any pre- -ferred construction is used and which may be placed in suitable openings in the form, arranged so as to be located in the circular channel 31 and in the middle of the pad or enlargement 30, as-shown in-Figs. 2 and 4,and at other points in the form when desired. In Fig. 13, as well as in Fig. 12, the reticulated material is omitted, and the opening 38 is worked around its edges like a buttonhole.

From the foregoing and by reference to the drawings it will be seen and clearly understood that by employing my construction a thoroughly-ventilated and highly-sanitary device is furnished, one of the important features of which is the enlargement or pad 30, which is centrallyperforated and ventilated, and which pad, with the lower portion of the form, produces the channel'30, which guides the heated air to the ventilators located in said channel.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. As an improved article of manufacture, a hustle and hip-form comprising a covering having a series of ventilators, filling located in said covering, the filling and covering being so made as to produce an enlargement or pad at the central upper portion of the form and a circular channel near the lower portion of the pad, the ventilators being located in said channel, substantially as described.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a hustle and hip-form comprising a filled covering, an enlargement or pad at the central upper portion of the form, an opening about the center of the enlargement or pad, a series of openings located around the edge of the pad, a piece of reticulated material located at each end of said openings, each of said pieces having an opening, a thimble located within the openings of the reticulated material, pad and filled covering, and having an apertured annular flange on its lower end and an apertured disk secured on the upper end of the thimble, substantially as described.

3. As an improved article of manufacture, a hustle and hip-form comprising a filled covering having a series of ventilating-openings, a reticulated piece of material secured at each end of and over each of said openings and between the covering and the filling, substantially as described.

CHARLES H. SCOTT.

Witnesses:

CHAS. O. TILLMAN, A. GUSTAFSON.

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