US658943A - Corset-clasp. - Google Patents

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Patented Oct. 22 i900.

.1. G. DALLAIRE.

CORSET CLASP.

(Apphcntxon led Mu 21 1900\ cfosep/a G'. allazf, inventor @um n No. 658.943 A (No Model.)

` UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH GAUDIOSE DALLAIRE, OF ST. LAURENT DORLEANS, CANADA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 658,943, dated October 2, 1900.

Application led March 21, 1900,- Serial No. 9,483. (No model.)

To all 'wh/0m, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH GAUDIOSE DAL- LAIRE, a subject of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, residing at St. Laurent dOrleans, county of Montmorency, Province of Quebecanada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oorset-(llasps, and I do hereby declare that the following is 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.

This invention relates to corset-fasteners; and one object is to provide fastening devices for corsets which cannot be accidentally detached, yet can be readilyhooked and unhooked by the wearer when so desired.

A further object is to provide corset-clasps which are simple in construction, effective and reliable in operation, and which can be manufactured at a low cost.

To these ends the invention consists in a fastening device for corset-clasps constructed substantially as hereinafter illustrated and described, and defined in the appended claim.

Referring to the drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate similar parts, Figure l is a View in elevation of a corsetfastening means constructed in accordance with this invention, showing the parts in the position assumed when fastened together.

Fig. 2 is a similar View showing the parts un-' fastened. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a cross-section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is an enlarged broken view showing a detail.

In the drawings, A and B represent corset clasps or steels, which may be of any usual or preferred form and material best suited for the intended purpose. At suitable points on the clasp A are secured the eye members @,which are constructed, preferably, as shown what downwardly curved and. extends over va recess or cut-away portion C of the clasp B.

Upon the lower portion of the clasp A is secured a metal plate D, which projects at right angles therefrom and is provided with a number of openings d, which are tapered or narrowed at their outer portion. Upon the clasp B are secured a number of lugs d', having a narrow shank and a broad head, which are adapted to be inserted in the wide portion of the opening d and moved along the narrowed portion, so that the broad heads of the lugs d will engage the top of the plate D, and thus lirmly and securely lock the parts together.

The two clasps of the corset are fastened together by simply snapping the hook members into the eye members and then engaging the lugs d with the openings of the plate D. To unfasten the clasps, it is only necessary to disengage the plateD and then move the two clasps vertically yin opposite directions, when the hook members will become disengaged from the eye members.

I attach especial importance to the steel B, having a series of cut-away portions in one edge thereof,and to the series of eye members attached to the other steel A in position to register with cut-away portions of the firstnamed steel, each eye member being provided with a plate, which is fastened to the steel A, and also provided with a springtongue, the latter arranged to bear against the extremity of the hook a. The hooks b are likewise provided with plates, which are riveted to the steel B, said hooks being curved in downward directions across the cut-away portions in the edge of said steel B, and these hooks b are adapted to be engaged with the eye members by snapping them 'through the spring-tongues thereof. The series of hooks on one steel are loosely engaged with a series of eye members on the other steel, so as to prevent a lateral or edgewise separation of the two steels; but to prevent vertical movement of the steels with relation one to the other I employ the apertured plate D, which is fastened to one steel and has interlocking engagement with studs d on the other steel.

The improved fastening overcomes any tendency of the steels to become separated ICO accidentally in the use of the corset to which the fastening is applied; but to disengage the said steels it is only necessary to uncouple the plate D from the studs CZ and thereafter withdraw the curved hooks b by an edgewise movement of the steel B from engagement with the eye members.

I claim- A corset-fastening comprising a pair of steels, A, B, the latter having eut-away portions in an edge thereof, a series of eye members each having a plate fastened to the steel A in position to register with one of the cutaway portions in the steel B and also pro-

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