US280565A - Corset - Google Patents

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I M'. P. BRAY.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MORRIS P. BRAY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 280,565, dated July 3, 1883,

Application filed March 30, 1883.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MoRRIs P. BRAY, of New Haven, in the county of .New Haven and State of Connecticut, haveinvented anew Im- 5 provement in Corsets; and I do hereby declare the following, whentaken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings eonstitutepart of this specifi cation, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a part of a section of a corset, show ing the stays in place; Fig. 2, atransverse section of the stay enlarged; Fig. 3, a face view of the stay.

This invention relates to an improvement in corsets, and stays to be used in the manufacture of corsets, the object being to produce a stay composed of parallel cords, but which shall give to the corset substantially the appearance of bones; and the invention consists in the construction of the stay and of the corset, as hereinafter described, and more ticularly recited in the claims.

I produce the stay by weaving a strip, A, Fig. 3, of suitable width for the stays of asection of a corset. In this strip, at intervals, pairs of cords a b are introduced, the two cords composing each pair set as close together as may be, leaving only two warpthreads, 0 d, between them. Between the pairs of cords several warp-threads e are in troduced, as in common weaving. The filling g is introduced and interwovenwith the cords. and the warps, the filling passing alternately over and under the cords,in the usual manner of weaving, and in the passage of the filling 9 it is interlaced with the intermediate warps, c. This leaves aflat space or web, f, between par- 40 the pairs of cords to I), as seen in Figs. 2 and 3. The cords lying so closely together appear (No model.)

as a broad rib, h, projecting upon both sur faces, as seen enlarged in Fig. 2.

The cord used should be hard and ofa nature to give a certain amount of stiffening to 5 the strip. The strip thus produced is cut into lengths required for the respective sections of the corset.

The stay isintroduced between the outer and inner thicknesses, i l, of the corset, and lines of stitches m run through the web portion f, between the pairs of cords, as seen in Figs. 1 and 2, giving to the surface a ribbed appearance, the same as the introduction of bones in pockets produces, and at a much less cost than bones can be procured.

I illustrate in Fig. 1 only a portion of one section of corset; but that will be sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to apply this improved stay to other sections.

' I claim 1. The herein-described stay, consisting of a strip composed of pairs of cords to I), with series of warp-threads 6 between said pairs, the said cords and warp-threads interlaced with the filling-thread g, whereby webs f are formed between said pairs of cords, substantially as described.

2. A corset composed of two thicknesses of fabric, combined with stays introduced between said thicknesses, composed of pairs of cords, a b, with warp-threads 6 between the cords, interlaced by filling-threads to form webs f between said pairs of cords, said warpthreads and cords being united by the filling in the process of weaving, and the said thicknesses of the corset stitched together through the said webs, substantially as described.

MORRIS P. BRAY. \Vitnesses:

JOHN E. EARLE, Jos. C. EARLE.

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