Improvements in Hat Supporters.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 10th May, 1893
:
Complete Specification Left, 29th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 3rd Mar., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hat Supporters.
I, HUGH JONES TOLEMAN, of No. 75, Hannah Street, Porth, Glamorganshire,
Ironmongers Assistant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in hat supporters and the object of it is to
provide a device by means of which a hat or any head covering that has a brim
can be suspended from the underside of a horizontal surface e.g., a seat or a shelf
or a ceiling, instead of being hung on a hat hook or placed on the floor.
It is obvious that one of the utilities of the present invention is the freeing of the
space in pews at present frequently devoted to the projection of hat pegs and the
superposition of hats thereupon, and another, that of supporting hats away from
the risk of being knocked down ruffled or trodden upon.
In carrying it into effect, I provide a pair of bars or rods. These are fixed
underneath the surface above mentioned at a suitable vertical distance therefrom,
not parallel with each other, but with their rear ends converging. The vertical
distance provides room for the curl of the hat brim, and the convergence of the rods
for the hat being received and supported by them.
Further the rear ends of the
rods are freed at a greater distance below the surface than the front ones so as to
provide for the hat sliding down them.
The rods may be of any suitable material and be fixed by any suitable means.
Each supporter may be in two rods, or in one piece, or they may be fixed in series.
Dated this 10th day of May 1893.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hat Supporters.
I, HUGH JONES TOLEMAN, of 75 Hannah Street, Porth, Glamorganshire, 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:
My invention consists in a new form of hat suspender, whereby hats may readily
be placed out of the way in churches, chapels, and other public places. According
to my invention, I fix underneath the seats of churches and the like, or in other
places where required, a frame, preferably of metal, in which frame the hat may be
hung and left suspended with the crown downwards.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 shews a perspective view of my invention in use, the hat being shewn in
dotted lines.
Fig. 2 shews an inverted plan view of the rigid frame forming the hat supporter.
Fig. 3 shews a side elevation of Fig. 2, the seat c being shewn in section.
a is the rigid frame or holder; b b are screws to uphold same; c is the seat,
from the underside of which the holder a depends; d is the hat.
In using the suspender, the brim of the hat is put into the frame at the wide end
thereof, and slidden along towards the narrow end until it is tightly held, when
there is no liability of its falling out.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
A frame for suspending hats under seats and the like, substantially as herein
described and set forth:
1001
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, London, E.C., Agent for Applicant.