Improved Combined Note Plate and Covering for the Head.
Year: 1890

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Combined Note Plate and Covering for the Head.
I, HEINRICH SCHNEIDER, of the Town of Oberhausen, in the German Empire,
Machine Maker, do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 relates to an improved combined note plate and covering for the
head and consists of a light writing or note sheet or plate, which is fixed in the roof of
the said covering for the head, so that when the same is gently touched with the
hand, or by removing the hat or the like from the peg, the plate will be automatically
released, will flap down and render the note or other matter inscribed on the plate
visible. The object of allowing the note plate to flap down is to compel the wearer
of the hat to read the note or such like inscribed on the said plate.
In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a section of a hat with the note plate,
slab or sheet and the hook for holding the same in side view.
Figure 2 is a side view of the note sheet or plate B and the hook A partly in
section.
Figure 3 is a view of the under side of the sheet or plate, and
Figure 4 a side view of the hook.
The hook A for holding the plate B is movably fixed to an angle of sheet
metal c, to which the spring F is fixed, as represented in Figures 2 and 4. In
the one position in which the hook A is in gear with the plate B the spring lies
against the shoulder a, so that the hook A is pressed forward by the spring F
pressing against the nose b. Above the nose to the hook A, which receives the
edge of the plate B, the body of the hook is made on an incline, so that when
the plate B is pressed upwards the hook will be moved to the rear until the said
book snaps into the second position shown in dotted lines in Figure 2.
The plate B is now released from the hook A, and can fall down around its
hinge, as represented in Figures 1 and 2. When the hat is hung on the hat peg,
the latter will press against the note plate and release the same from its hook, so
that when the wearer takes his hat from the hook, his attention will be called to
the note made on the table or sheet.
It will be evident from the foregoing that the form and also the method of
attachment can be varied in many ways without departing from the nature of my
said invention, and I also desire it to be understood that I do not confine myself
to the application of my improved note plate or slab to hats, as the same
also be applied to caps, bonnets and the like to the same advantage.
can
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 :-
1: The application of a clap down note sheet, plate or slab to the roof of
coverings for the head, substantially as set forth and shown.
2: A note sheet or plate B attached to the roof of a hat or the like and being
held by a movable hook A, which is operated on by a leaf spring F so as to
retain the hook in two positions until a pressure exerted on the plate B releases
the latter from the hook and allows the plate to flap down, substantially in the
manner as described in the foregoing specification, and illustrated in the accom-
panying drawings.
Dated this 19th day of February 1890.