US89018A

US89018A - Improvement in fastenings tor stays op corsets

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Publication number: US89018A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1869-04-20
Anticipated expiration: 1886-04-20

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JQ W. BROOKS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters' Patent No. 89,0I8, (lated April 20, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN FASTNINGS FOR STAYS Oli' CORSETS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part tif the same.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J. W. BROOKS, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Corsets, consisting of a new and improved method of fastening the whalebones or stiffcners of corsets, or other garments; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

I am aware that the ends of the whalebones or stiffeners havebeen covered with a metal cap, put on outside of the pockets containing them, to prevent their ends from wearing through the pockets of the fabric, but the cap is only held to the bones or stiffeners by the pressure of its spurs, clinched on the inner side of the fabric, and for want of a more perfect union between thecappand the whalebone, the latter is liable to get loose, and by its movement wear the fabric, for,

` unless the bone is held still, the wear at the ends is more upon the inside of the pocket than u'pon the outside.

The cap being put over the ends ofthe bones, which already show a raised projection near the edge of the corset, adds so much to the thickness of this projection as to give a clumsy appearance to this part of the garment.

I am also aware that eyelets have been used to fasten the bones of corsets by putt-ing them through a hole in the whalebone and clinching them upon the outsides of the fabric; ,but the clinchiug process splits many of the bones, and while eyelets, as usually clinched upon nothing but fabric, so double in and pinch the fabric between their two clinched ends as to hold it firmly, intel-posing, as in this case, the bone between so reduces the hold ofthe eyelet upon the fabric that it is easily disengaged, when the garment is ruined.

To obviate these diiculties, and to permanently keep the whalebones or stilfeners from moving in their pockets, is theobject'of this invention.

'Io enable others skilled in the art to make and use to any garment.

Apurpose of ,showing how the ends may beprepared to receive the different forms of fasteners.

The holes or notches in the bones or stiifeners may be of any form, size, number, or position, or their ends out in any shape required to suit the varied form of fastener desired.

' The holes or notches should not be made so near the ends of the bones or stiifeners as to be in danger' of splitting out, or so large as to too much weaken the bones.

d. e fvg lt lj lo l m n represent a number of different shaped metallic fasteners, which may be varied in form and left plain, 01 stamped with any device which the fancy may suggest.

They are provided with two or more prongs, which, in using, are thrust through the fabric and the holes in the bones, and clinched on the under side, or through at the side of the bones, as the case may be, and clamped around or upon the bones or stiffeners.

When the bone or stiifener is` not so formed at the point of applying the fastener as to prevent its slipping within it when clamped, the fastener may be provided with one or more very short spurs, as at o o, on clamps f and lc, which, in aliixing the fastener, are forced suciently into the bone or stiifener to hold it n rmly from slipping.

These fasteners can be cheaply made with dies and stamps prepared for the purpose.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The device, herein described and represented, for fastening the whalebone, or stiffener in corsets, and other garments, viz, a metallic clip,.having two or more points, which pass into or through two or more openings in the stiffencr, and clinched therein or thereto, as hereindescribed and represented. f

J. W. BROOKS. Witnesses:

BABsoN S. LAnD, FRANK B. Branson.