Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Specification of Emily Wymer : abdominal belts. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![o Abdominal Belts. {This Invention received Provisional Protection only.) PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Dame Emily Wymer at the Oj0B.ce of the Commissioners of Patents, with her Petition, on the 21st April 1875. I, Dame] Emily Wymer, of Paddington, in the County of Middlesex, 6 do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Improvements in Abdominal Belts,” to be as follows:— My Invention relates to improvements in abdominal belts, whereby much greater ease and comfort are ensured at the same time that the desired support is afforded, which is not the case with belts of this kind as 10 hitherto made. Such belts have heretofore been made to open at the back only and be there fastened by lacing or otherwise, so that in order to tighten the belt to the figure at any particular part, in front for instance, it was necessary to tighten the whole belt in order to do so, thereby causing an excessive pressure in some parts. Moreover such belts have invariably 15 been made full in the front where such fullness is not required, and in¬ sufficiently full towards the sides where greater space is necessary, the elasticity of,the fabric being depended on to make the belt conform to the figure. But inasmuch as the support is insufficient if the fabric is elastic enough to conform to the figure, on the other hand if the fabric is less](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3075169x_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
