US980745A

US980745A - Corset.

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Publication number: US980745A
Application number: US54258610A
Authority: US
Inventors: Darwin Spencer Berger
Original assignee: Berger Brothers Co
Current assignee: Berger Brothers Co
Priority date: 1910-02-07
Filing date: 1910-02-07
Publication date: 1911-01-03
Anticipated expiration: 1928-01-03

Description

V D. S. BERGER.

CORSET.

urmoumn FILED FEB. 7, 1910.

Patented Jan.3,1911

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DARWIN SPENCER BERGER, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO BERGER 3308., OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 3, 1911.

Application filed February 7, 1910. Serial No. 542,586.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, DARWIN SPENCER -BERGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at- New Haven, Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Corsets; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the.

accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to bee full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

' Figure 1. a view showing a pad adjusted on a person with the corset d sengaged in. view of a portlon' front. Fig. 2 an enlarged of one side of a corset showing means for adjustably attaching buckles thereto. Fig. 3 a similar view illustrating modified means of adjustably attaching the straps to the corset. Fig. 4 a front view of a buckle particularly adapted for use with my corset.

This invention relates to an improvement in corsets and particularly to corsets adapted for use by women after surgical operations, the object being to rovide a broad supporting belt inside the ront corset over the lower abdomen to relieve and cure symptoms due to relaxed and inefiicient abdominal walls. Pads or bands have been used in connection with corsets, but as heretofore constructed they are inclined to ride up so that instead of maintaining a proper support at the point desired,they have been liable to displacement and so as to have a contrary effect from the purpose for which they are designed; and the invention conslsts in certain details of construction as will be hereinafter described and particularly re-I cited in the claims.

In carrying out my invention I employ a.

corset which may be of any approved design comprising, as usual,

twovmembers

2 and 3 which are preferably secured together at the front. At each side there is a'slot or opening, preferably a long slot 4, as'shown,

in Fig. 2 of the drawings, which slotis closed by lacings 5. At the rear'of these slots are a series of-eyelets 6. Secured-to these eyelets by tapes 7 are one or more, and preferably two buckles 8 the particular charactor of the buckles being immaterial to this invention, but preferabl the frames. of the buckles will be forme with loops 9 by which the buckles may be held in place by in the county of New the tapes 7, and so that they may be conveniently raised or lowered as desired. Preferably the buckles will have two loops 9 corresponding to the distance between the eyelets 6. The pad 10' which will be shaped for the person to wear it, and which is adapted to extend across the abdomen, is

provided on opposite sides at the upper and lower edges with straps 11 which extend outward through the slots 4 and which engage with the buckles 8 and so that the tension of the pad may be adjusted as desired.

- these hooks, but preferably the buckles will be employed as the straps may thereupon be adjusted with greater nicety. With a pad thus adjusted and secured to a corset, the strain of support is evenly distributed over the entire surface so as to support and protect any desired area, and. is easily and quickly adjusted to any degree of pressure and protects the abdomen from the pressure 'of the front steels of a corset from which it is, as before stated, absolutelyindependent.

I claim 1. The combination with a corset having side openings, of a one-piece abdominal pad formed at each side with two'straps adapted to pass through said openings, means at the rear of said openings for adjustably attachingthe ends of the strap to the sides of the corset at different elevations.

2. The combination with a corset having side openings, of buckles secured to the corset at the rear of said-openings and adapted to be adjusted vertically, combined with a one piece non-elastic abdominal pad having straps at opposite sides adapted to pass through sai openings and engaged -with said buckles.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscrlbing witnesses, Y

DARWIN SPENCER BERGER.

Witnesses:

Fnnonurc C. EARLE, CLARA L. WEED.