US1500474A - Corset stay - Google Patents

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Jufiy 8 1924.

R. TOVE CORSET STAY Filed May 31 1922 IN V EN TOR. f

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Patented July 8, 1924.

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YRIVEN TOVE, orsourrr NoRWALK, oonunorroor.

Application fi 1ed may at,

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, RIVEN TovE, a citizen of the United States, residing at South Norwalk, county of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement in Corset Stays, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to corsets and par-. ticularly to the stays or stiffening elements therefor. j V I It is an object of the invention toprovide a stay or stiflening element which will have a tip or end which is flexible and which will yield under pressure both longitudinally of the stay and transversely thereof as the wearer bends but will return to the'original position immediately the wearer straightens. It is also an object of the invention to pro vide a stiffening element in which the probability of injuring the wearer is very remote and also one in which the ends will not tend to force through the cloth of the corset tearing the same and also injuring the wearer. It is a further object of the invention to provide a stiffening element which is not liable to breakage and so will reduce liability of injury to the wearer. It is a still further object of the invention to provide a spring tip for corset stays and clasp steels that will adjust itself to the figure of the wearergiving the proper and desired effect without danger of injury or annoyance and which at the same time holds the corset in proper position without wrinkling the material. 7

With these and other objects in view I have devised the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a plan view of a section of a corset showing my stifl'ening element applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is aside view of the stiffening element removed.

Fig. 3 is an edge view thereof.

Fig. 4 is an edge view of one end thereof showing the tip bent to one side, and

Fig. 5 is a side view of the modified construction of the stiffening element.

The body of the corset, represented by the numeral 10, may be of any desired material in which is sewed in the usual manner the stiflening elements, such as stays 11 of which I have illustrated two, and the clasp steel 12 at the free edge of which I'have shown one only. As my improved tip may be ap- 1922 Serial No. 564,747.

7 plied equally well to the stays or clasp steels,

I have for brevity employed the term stay in the generic sense as including the stay proper or the clasp steel. In the form shown in Figs. 1 to 4:, the body of the stay is made of the usual flatthin stripof steel 13 which in the ordinary construction has its free ends covered with a metal cap of some kind. These stays will yield laterally a certain amount but the greater part of the yielding will be at the center with very little at the ends so that they are very uncomfortable to the wearer of the corset when she bends over. Referring to my invention I apply a flexible resilient tip for these stays andprefer to put a tip of this character on each end of the stay. This tip is a flattened coil of wire, preferably a flattened helical spring a few of the coils of which are wrapped around the end of the flat body, as shown at 14, and the coils 15'bey0nd the ends of the body are spaced from each other, as shown, to allow the tipto yield not'only laterally but also longitudinally ofthe stay. This tip may be of uniform width but I prefer to make the two or three'coils at the end thereof of somewhat smaller diameter than the remain ing coils, as shown at 15', so as to give a slightly rounded effect to the free end of the tip. The tightly wrapped or securing coils 14 may be Wound around the end of the body portion without reducing the width thereof ut I prefer to reduce the ends of the body, as shown at 16, so that when the resilient tip is applied the stay will be of substantially uniform width throughout. Also ing down too far onto the body portion. When the stay is sewed into the corset, as it is entirely enclosed, the stitching will prevent the tip loosening and moving off the body portion.

In the modified construct-ion shown in Fig. 5, I form the entire stay of a single piece of wire in the form of a flattened helical spring or coil, the body portion 18 having the adjacent coils close together or in contact while the desired number of coils at the end of the stay are separated, as shown at 19, to provide the resilient tip correspond ing toy that applied to the stay as shown in Figs. 1 to 4.

When the corset including my improved stays is worn the flat body portion of the stays will hold the corset to the figure of y the. shoulders 17 will prevent the tip from push-' the wearer without wrinkling the material and thus spoiling the. effect desired, as when the wearer bends or sits down instead of all of this bend being compensated for in the body of the stays this body portion keeps l wearer, but they will form sufficient support andone which is sufiiciently yielding to'nof only not injure the wearer but will cause no discomfort or annoyance. As these tips are made of very flexible resilient material there is. very little probability of their breaking and causing injury to the wearer. With the ordinary flat steels when they break, which is more or less commonythe sharp rough broken ends tear through the cloth of the corset and often cause serious injury to the wearer. This danger is practioallyeliminated in my form of stay. It

will-be apparent from an 'inspection'of the drawing that the free ends of the tips are -,-blunt, and, therefore, will not be lia-ble'to,

. not obtainable with the ordinary straight push their way through the walls'of the enclosing. material. Immediately the wearer. returns to a straightened posit-ion after bending, the flexible. resilient tip; also re-' turns to a straightened position at the same time acting as a support for the busts. When the wearer is'bending over it also takes the weight although at the same time yielding downwardly so as to give a relief stay. It is very sensitive and so gives per.- f eet freedom. Having thus described the nature of my invention, what I claim is:

1. A corset stay comprisinga body por-' tion of resilient material yielda'ble; laterally of the stay but being substantially .n'onyieldable longitudinally thereof, and a cushion spring tip at the end of said stay yieldable both laterally and longitudinally of the stay.

coil 1 of wire having yield-able longitudinally thereof, and a resilient tip fo-r said stay composed of a flat p g the adjacent turns spaced from each other.

3,. A corset stay "comprising a flat, flexible, resilient body portion adapted to yield laterally but being substantially nonyieldable longitudinally of the stay, and a resilient tip for said body portioncomprising '1 flattened helical spring with the adjacent convolutions spaced from each other and the convolutions at the free end thereof becomring gradually smaller to give a tapered effect to the freeend of the tip.

4. A corset stay comprising a fiat, flexible, resilient body portionnarrowed adjacent its end and a resilient tip for said body portion comp-rising. a flat helical coil of wire with a portion of its convolutions embracing said narrowed portion: of the body and the convolutions beyond this end spaced from each other. V v

5. A corset stay comprising a fiat flexible resilient body portion. substantially nOnyieldable longitudinally thereof,- and a tip for said body portion comprising a flat, flexible, resilient coil ofwire of less-stiffness than the body portion and having the adja cent convolutions thereof spaced-from each other. i

6. A corset stay comp-rising a flat 'fle'xible, resilient body -porti nwith the edges removed adjacent its end to provide a por tion narrower thanthe remainder of the body and to provide shoulders'oEn opposite sides of the body at'the inner end of this narrowed portion", and a separate resilient tip for said body portion comprising a. flat helical coil" of wire with aportionTo-f'its convolutions embracing said narrowed portionof the body with the shoulders limiting its inward movement and the convolutions beyond this end being spaced from a h e he 1 In testimony whereof- I affix m signature.

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