US173124A - Improvement in corset-springs - Google Patents

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OATHARINE JUDSON, OF BOSTON, MASSAGHUSETTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,124, dated February 8, 1876; application filed December 30, 1875. v

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GATHARINE JUDsoN,'of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Corsets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,

and exact description thereof, reference being" had to the accompanying drawing, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention relates particularly to that portion of a corset known as the clasp or.

spring, and is intended to prevent the breaking of the steel or busk at that portion where breakage is most likely to occurviz., at the part near the natural waistby means of an additional short supporting-steel, fixed immovably upon the wide steel or busk at two points, one above and the other below the waist or center of the busk, and having its ends free. e

I am aware that inventions have been patented which include additional strengtheningsteels, unfastened or fastened at the center to i the main steel. The advantage which my steel, fastened at the two points above named, has over steels unfastened or fastened at their centers to the busk is, that between the points of fastening, the steels being kept stift' by the fastenings, help to support each other, while, if they were fastened merely at the center, the additional strength would only be the strength of an unaided steel, even then weakened by the fastening process. I e

In the accompanying illustration, Figure 1 is a view of a corset-clasp embodying my invention. The clasp is represented as being unfastened, and a portion of the cloth of the corset is attached to the upper portion of the clasp. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the clasp when fastened. 1

of the steels a b, but is a short steel,-placed where it is most needed-i. 0., near the center of the clasp-steels, at the natural waist, where the steels are bent and strained the most. This steel is not provided with any clasping devices, and is solely a strengthener, made as economically and as small as possible. The ends d of the steel d are left free, while from c to ethe steel dis stiff and immovable. It lies in the same pocket as the steel a.

It will thus be seen that the clasp is strengtlrened by a steel fixed at points each side the waist or center, which is small, economical, taking little room, and placed where it will do the most good.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by'Letters Patent, isv s v j In a corset clasp or spring, the combination, with the busk a, of the short strengtheningsteel (1, said steel 11 being fastened or fixed to the said busk upon each side of that portion next the natural waist, or each side the center of the busk, and having its ends free, as and for the'purpose herein specified.

OATHARINE Jonson.

Witnesses:

Mrs. N.- G. GIBBS,

HENRY W. WILLIAMs.

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