Specification of Emily Wymer : abdominal belts.

  • Wymer, Emily.
Date:
1875
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Emily Wymer : abdominal belts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2 A.D. 1875.—N“ 1463. Provisional Specification. Wymer^s Improvements in Abdominal Belts, elastic, the figure is necessarily caused to conform to the belt which is very prejudicial. It has also been usual to provide a whalebone down the front which is also to a certain extent objectionable, as it tends to prevent the belt accommodating itself to the figure. Now my Invention consists in so making these belts as to avoid the 5 above disadvantages, and to ensure perfect ease and comfort with adequate support. According to my Invention I make the belt preferably of a non-elastic fabric, and construct it to open down the front and make it fasten there by a number of independent straps and buckles or other equivalent 10 fastenings, so that any one of them can be tightened where required. I also make the front portion of the belt of considerable depth as compared with the back and side portion, which is made as narrow as may be, whereas the old belts are of nearly equal width or depth at back and front. 16 Another important feature of my Invention consists in so constructing the front portion of the belt that it wiU conform perfectly to the figure by giving less room at the centre of .the front part and greater fullness towards the sides, so that a perfect fitting belt is produced and the liability of the belt riding up is greatly obviated. Small elastic gores may be inserted in the back part if necessary. LONDON; Printed by Geokge Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1875.