Improvements in Caps.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 31st Oct., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Caps.
I, HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert Haddan & Co., of
18 Buckingham Street, Strand, London, Patent Agents do hereby declare the
nature of this invention a communication to me from abroad by Isaac Pachner of
48 West Third Street, New York City, State of New York, in the United
States of America, Manufacturer of Caps, and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
In such head gear as bicycle or outing or other caps it is at times customary to
have the cap front lowered down on top of the vizor or raised from the latter.
Fastenings are frequently used for holding the cap front drawn down to the
vizor; but such fastenings are objectionable, as among other things they involve
an unfastening or fastening operation as the cap front is to be raised or to be-
secured in drawn down position.
The object of this invention is to provide means for readily securing the cap.
front in lowered as also in raised position without any hooking or fastening
or detaching operations being required, and the invention resides in the following.
specification and claim, and illustrated in the annexed drawings in which :
Fig. 1 is a sectional side elevation of a cap with its front drawn down.
Fig. 2 is a like view showing the cap front raised.
Fig. 3 is a section along a Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is a section along y y Fig. 2.
Fig. 5 is a detail view of the holder.
In order to enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will
now describe the same in detail, referring to the drawings, wherein :-
The numeral 1 indicates the flexible crown of a cap; 2 a lining; 3, a sweat-band,.
and 4 a vizor. 5 the upper covering of the latter and 6 its under covering.
The crown of the cap may be made of cloth, or any other flexible fabric
ordinarily used in the manufacture of caps having flexible crowns. The front
portion of the flexible crown is provided with a holding-flap 7, which is
approximately crescent-shaped, as shown in Fig. 5, and has its concaved edge
Bewed, stitched or otherwise attached to the crown in juxtaposition to the inner
edge of the vizor. This holding flap is designed to be folded upon the upper
side of the vizor to hold the front flexible portion of the crown in the depressed
position shown in Fig..1. The holding-flap is also designed to be turned to an
approximately perpendicular position to hold the flexible front portion of the
crown in an approximately perpendicular position, as shown in Fig. 2. The
holding-flap is flexible and preferably elastic. It may be composed of buckram
or cardboard; and the connection of the concaved edge of the holding-flap with
the crown is preferably secured through the medium of a strip of muslin, or
similar material, as at 8. It will be obvious, however, that the concaved edge of
the holding-flap can be otherwise secured. The holding-flap is located between
the fabric composing the flexible crown and the fabric composing the lining 2;
but of course the lining is not indispensable.
The connection of the concaved edge of the holding-flap with the crown must
be such that the holding-flap can be folded or turned down upon the upper side of
the vizor, as in Fig. 1, or be turned to an approximately perpendicular position, as
in Fig. 2. When the holding-flap is folded or turned down upon the upper side

page_text: of the vizor, the flap, owing to its flexibility or elasticity, will conform to the
curvature of the upper side of the vizor, while when the holding-tongue is raised
it will snap or bend into a reversed curved line.
The holding-flap, arranged in the manner described and shown, provides a very
simple device for holding the front portion of the flexible crown either raised or
lowered, and the flap also serves to give a proper shape or rounding form to the
cap when its front portion is lowered, as well as when it is raised.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A cap having a vizor, and a flexible crown provided at its front portion with a
flexible crescent-shaped holding-flap, the concaved edge. of which is attached to
the crown in juxtaposition to the inner edge of the vizor, said flap being foldable
down upon the vizor or to an approximately perpendicular position for holding the
front portion of the crown lowered or raised, substantially as described.
Dated this 10th day of August 1896.
H. J. HADDAN.