Improvements in corsets or stays designed more especially for the relief of the deformed or crippled / [Milton Josiah Roberts].

  • Roberts, Milton Josiah.
Date:
1887
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Improvements in corsets or stays designed more especially for the relief of the deformed or crippled / [Milton Josiah Roberts]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Date of Application, 16th Aug., 1887. Specification Accepted, 16th Sept., 1887. A.D. 1887, 16*/t August. N° 11,208. COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. Improvements in Corsets or Stays Designed more Especially for the Relief of the Deformed or Crippled. I, Milton Josiah Roberts (Physician and Surgeon) of 105, Madison Avenue in the City, County and State of New York, United States of America, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:— 5 My Invention relates to corsets or stays for the support of the human body. It is designed especially to support the body and relieve the suffering of the deformed and crippled. It is also well adapted to the support of the body in all instances where corsets are or may be advantageously worn. To this end it is made of wire. The corset is of peculiar construction and is made 10 in a peculiar manner to adapt the same to the uses for which it is intended. Wire corsets have heretofore been made from wire gauze in the form of sheets, from which sheets-sections have been cut in accordance with certain patterns, which sections in turn have been moulded or stamped in such a manner as to approximately fit the contour of the body to which they are to be applied. These pieces of wire gauze, cut 15 in accordance with a special pattern, are soldered or otherwise fastened together so as to form a corset. Corsets have also been made out of woven fabric in the form of a sheet in which the threads running in one direction were wire, and those running at right angles were of other material. From such sheets sections are cut and swedged up or otherwise brought into the form of a corset. 20 In my invention I do not use an already woven fabric, nor stamp or otherwise work into form, sections from the same. The distinctive feature of my corset is that it is woven over a form into curvilinear contour out of wire strands. One of the ways in which my corset may be constructed is as follows: First of all, a model is required. If the individual for whom the corset is intended 25 be deformed, a mould of the body is taken in plaster or other substance, and from this mould a cast is made; over this cast or form the corset is woven. By referring to Figure 5 which illustrates one of my corsets partially constructed, a good general idea will be obtained of the mode of its construction. [I'ric* lit/.]