US1185884A - Corset-steel shield. - Google Patents

Description

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 8, 1914. 'SeriaINo. 849,700.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIZABETH M. DHALE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fruitvale, in the county of Alameda and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements, in Corset-Steel Shields, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to an improved shield for corset steels.

Garments in which corset steels are used, as in ladies corsets and dresses, are rapidly deteriorated by the ends of the corset steels wearing through the cloth.

The object of my invention is to provide means for preventing this wear, while not detracting from the flexibility of the corset steel.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a side view of a portion of a corset steel equipped with my improved shield; Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the shield; Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1 of a modified form thereof, the corset steel being omitted; Fig. l is a View similar to Fig. 3 of a further modification; Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 1 of a further modification; Figs. 6, 7 and 8 are views similar to Fig. 3 of further modifications; Figs. 9 and 10 are perspeotive views of further modifications.

Referring to the drawing, 1 indicates a corset steel, the term being used in the general sense to include an elastic device of this character made of steel, whale-bone or any other suitable material. In order to prevent the end of the steel wearing against the cloth of the garment, I provide a shield therefor in which said end can slide. This shield may be of many different forms according to size and to the conditions under which it In Figs. 1 and 2 it consists of a piece of sheet metal 2, of which the marginal portions are bent over or toward one another to form flanges 3, between which and the main portion 2 of the sheet the steel is retained and can slide. The sheet has a longitudinally extending portion 4, bent over-- and secured to said main portion 2 by an eyelet 5, through which the shield can be secured to the cloth by stitching. It will readily be seen that by this shield the wear upon the cloth is avoided, since the end of the steel does not come in contact with the cloth. At the same time the elasticity of-the steel is not diminished, since the end of the steel can slide longitudinally in the shield.

In Fig. 3 said main portion is cut out in the middle as shown at 6.

In Fig. 4 the shield is made like that in Fig. 3 except that the flanges 3 are brought closer together.

In Fig. 5 is shown a device of the same form as that in Fig. 1 with another form of securlng means instead of the eyelet 5. In this form two loops are formed by means of a piece of wire 7, the ends of which are clamped between the steel and its flanges,

while an extension 8 from the shield is bent over the middle portion of the wire and secured by a rivet 9. These loops serve the same purpose as the eyelets in Figs. 1 to 1.

Figs. 6 and 7 illustrate shields similar in general form to those in Figs. 3 and 4; respectively, but with the loops for stitching formed like that in Fig.5.

In Fig. 8 is illustrated another mode of forming the loop for stitching,-namely, by bending an extension 11 back on itself and riveting it, as shown at 12.

Fig. 9 illustrates another modification of the invention in which a hole 13 is formed through the sheet ofmetal, and a terminal extension 14 is bent over to form a smooth end for the shield.

Fig. 10 illustrates another modification in which the shield is formed from a thimbleshaped device by pressing together the two sides of its closed end and forming a hole 17 therethrough, and pressing the sides of the remainder almost together to form a guide 16.

It is understood that the shields may be made of any suitable sheet material, as sheet steel, celluloid, vulcanite, or the like.

. The distinctive feature of my invention is that it can be pushed lengthwise within a long, narrow guideway formed in the cloth, and of width just great enough to receive the steel, until the shield on one end thereof arrives at the end of the guideway; then the shield at the other end can be placed in the other end of the guideway, and said shields when so adjusted in the two ends of the guide-way can be easily secured thereto by stitching.

I claim A shield for stifieners for corsets and the like, formed of sheet material curving closely around the edges of the stiffener to guide the latter in its sliding movement in the shield having means for limiting said Patented June 6,1916.

movement longitudinally in one direction my hand in the presence of two subscribing and fornaed with a, hole longitudinally be- Witnesses. yond sai limiting means permitting the shield to be secured in the end of the pocket ELIZABETH DHALE' bystitches, through said hole and through Htnesses: said pocket from the outside. FRANCIS M. WRIGHT,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set G. M. BALL.

Gopies of than patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner ef Patents, Washington, D. C.

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