Improvements in Hat Bands and in the Method of Attaching them to Hats.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 6th July, 1839-Accepted, 10th Aug., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hat Bands and in the Method of Attaching them
to Hats.
JOSEPH HEWETT Hatter etc. Winchester Street Basingstoke Hants do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The band is already made before putting on Hats & consists of one end of the band
(the right hand side) being attached by sewing or otherwise to the under part of the
cross piece of bow inside, the band is carried round the hat & thro the cross piece
of bow (from left to right) the end coming through right hand side of cross piece
forms the tail of bow, allowing it to be drawn tightly to desired size, & fixed
by a spiked metal plate (with one or more spikes) inside bow or by sewing or
otherwise.
The metal plate is kept in position by spiked ends top & bottom, the bottom spike
being so contrived to be brought through under part of bow, to act as a catch to keep
the band in position when adjusted. The said band may be instantly adjusted to Hat
or removed at will.
Dated
this 18th day of October 1866.
JOSEPH HEWETT.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hat Bands and in the Method of Attaching them
to Hats.
1, JOSEPH HEWETT of Winchester Street Basingstoke Hampshire, Hatter etc. 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:-
This invention has reference to the manufacture of a hat band, which I call a self
adjusting hat band: It comprises an arrangement- by which a bow (containing a
metal plate) is affixed to one end of the band, and being so contrived that the other
end of band is drawn through the bow and fixed by means of the metal plate to size
required. The said metal plate is also arranged with a catch to keep the band in
position when adjusted to size required.
The band is so made that it may be instantly adjusted upon the hat or
removed at will, and adapts itself to any size hat from the smallest to the largest.
Fig. 1 represents the bow partly made up and open to illustrate my invention.
Fig. 2 is an outside elevation of the band when made up.
Fig. 3 is a complete section in plan of the hat band.
Fig. 4 is a cross section of the bow.
Fig. 5 is an inside elevation of the bow.
:
In Fig. 1 A represents a metal plate with spikes A1 (one or more) which are used
for fixing the band when adjusted B is the crosspiece, C is the loop of bow. D is
the band. a and all are the spikes which attach the plate to the underpart of the
crosspiece, a' being made sufficiently long to admit of end of the same being turned
outwards to act as a catch to press upwards against hat to hold band in position:
all are the spikes (or spike) by which band is fixed when adjusted.
F3 A is the metal plate, B, and B¹ the crosspiece, C the loop, D the band, D' is
that portion of the band fixed over cross piece B¹, the band D is carried round the
hat and brought through the bow between the metal plate and the outside portion
of cross piece, thus allowing the band to be adjusted for example by taking loop C
in left hand and end of band D" in right hand (after going through bow) and pulling
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page_text: right and left, the band may be brought to size required, and when drawn tight may
be fixed by forcing the points A through end of band 'D", and the surplus of band
(if any) cut off to make bow uniform.
Fig. 4 A represents metal plate, the point a¹ bent outwards, and B represents
the cross piece of bow.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner it is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is-
My hat band substantially as hereinabove described with reference to the drawings.
Dated this Fourth day of July 1889.