Improvements in Fasteners for Ladies' Hats and Bonnets.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd June, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Mar., 1595-Accepted, 27th Apr.,
1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fasteners for Ladies' Hats and Bonnets.
I CHARLES MERINGTON of Chipping Hill Essex, of no occupation do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A ring or loop or crook or other suitable device-one or more-is attached to
the hat or bonnet for the purpose of giving a hold to a hairpin or other suitable
pin which is passed into the hair and so fixes the hat. Ordinarily the invention
takes the form of a loose ring on an eyed pin which is passed through the material
of the hat or bonnet and then fixed with a stud on the other side.
Dated this 22nd day of June 1894
CHARLES MERINGTON.
Improvements in Fasteners for Ladies' Hats and Bonnets.
1, CHARLES MERINGTON, formerly of Chipping Hill, Essex, and now of
18, Avington Grove, Penge, 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 for object to provide a simple and easily applied means of
fastening a lady's hat or bonnet to the head, and particularly to obviate on the
one hand the necessity for stitching in order to perinauently attach the fastener to
the hat or bonnet and to avoid on the other the injury to the hat or bonnet, and to
the trimmings thereof, consequent on the frequent insertion in different places of a
hat or bonnet pin.
The invention is illustrated, on a magnified scale, in the accompanying drawing,
forming part of this Specification, wherein a is a short pin pointed at one end to
enable it to he easily driven through the material of the hat or bonnet (indicated
by the dotted lines at by this pin having near its pointed end a transverse eye or
slit through which is passed an easily bent wire tange attached to a knob or bead d.
This wire is inserted through the cross eye, after the pin has been driven through
the side crown of the hat or bonnet, close to the brim, and the wire is then bent up
so as to remain in engagement with the pin, the knob or bead ensuring the secure
and permanent connection with the hat or bonnet. The bead or knob may be of
any ornamental character and may have an aperture at its under side in which the
point of the pin a is received, as shewn. The other end of the pin a also has a
cross eye in which is secured the end ring or link of a light chain whose other
end is connected to a hairpin which is to be passed into the hair, in order to
secure the hat to the head of the wearer. The hairpin is so connected with the
chain that only a short chain is needed, the hairpin being for this purpose left free
to slide through the end link of the chain for a certain distance to facilitate the
insertion of the hairpin in the hair.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
The herein described fastener for a lady's hat or bonnet, consisting of an eyed
or slit pin adapted to be driven through the material of the hat or bonnet, in 5
combination with a knob or bend having an attached wire staple for connection to
the pin and with a hairpin connected to the other end of the pin by a chain, as
described.
Dated this 23rd day of March 1895.
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.