Veil Fasteners.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application; 31st Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Oct., 1897-Accepted, 27th. Nov., 1897
Veil Fasteners.
I ELLEN. GORDON, of. 5 Lydford Road, St. Peter's Park, W., Dressmaker, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Attachments to hats and bonnets for securing the onds of veils in place of pinning
or tying as is the present, custom. To be made in every material used for bonnet
and hat trimmings and ornaments, all material used for millinery purposes
and of gold, silver, jet, steel; tin; aluminium, jewels; paste and the like. The
designs to be of infinite variety ornamental and plain.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings shews one form of attachment according
to my invention, open, Figure 2 shews it. closed. Figure 3 shews a modified
form in front view and Figure 4 shows a back view. Figure 5 shews another
modification open, and Figure 6 shews it closed.
The attachment consists of a base plate A to which are hinged two blades B
and C which can be folded down holding the end of a veil on the like between them.
The base may be perforated as shown in Figure 1 so as to be sewn to a hat or bonnet
or as shewn in Figures 3 and 4 it may be held by a pin D in the manner of a
brooch or safety pin; or it may have simply a pin E as shewn in Figures 5 and 6.
As shewn in Figures 1 to 4 inclusive the hinges of the blades B and C are made
with squared or flattened parts and the base A is slit. so as to form springs which
bear against the flat parts keeping the blades closed like the blades of a pen-knife.
As shewn in Figures 6 and 6 the one blade B3 has a blade pin and the other has
a hole which springs over the heal of 6 when it is closed down.
Dated this 31st day of December 1897.
ABEL & IMRAY
Agents for the Applicant.
Veil Fasteners.
I ELLEN GORDON, of 5 Lydford Road, St. Peter's Park, W., Dressmaker, 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 relates to the construction of fasteners for securing the ends of
veils to hats or bonnets, as I shall describe referring to the drawings accompanying
my Provisional Specification and a drawing Fig. 7 filed herewith. Fig. 1 is a
perspective view of one form of veil fastener according to my invention shewing
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page_text: it open. Fig. 2 shews the same closed. Fig. 3 shews a modified form in front
view, Fig. 4 showing a back view of the same. Figs. 5 and 6 shew another form
of fastener open and closed respectively. Fig. 7 is a side view of a fastener having
a single folding blade. In all the fasteners shewn in Figs. 1 to 6 inclusive there
is a base plate A having two blades B and C hinged to it, one at each end of the
base, so that when they are folded down, the veil is held between the base and
the lower of the two blades, and it may be also between the two blades. The
fastener shewn in Fig. 7 has only one blade B hinged to one end of the base A.
The base in all cases is secured to a hat or bonnet by a pin D preferably made and
acting as a safety pin. In order to hold the blade or blades down when they are
folded over the veil, the base A as shewn in Figs. 1, 3 and 7 is slit so that its middle
part forms a spring and the hinge of the blade is made of such a shape that it presses
out the spring in the manner of a pen-knife blade, except when it is in its open
or its closed position, in which positions the spring holds it. Both blades may be
thus arranged as shewn in Fig. 1. The fixing of the outer blade in Fig. 5 is
effected by a hole in the one blade C snapping over a stud 6 on the other blade B.
The fasteners may obviously be variously shaped and ornamented, and serrated
or otherwise roughened so as to hold the fabric with some degree of friction.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim
is:-
. A veil fastener consisting of a base plate with pin adapted to be attached to
a hat or bonnet, and of a blade or blades hinged to the base, adapted to be folded
down so as to hold the veil, substantially as 'described:
Dated this 92nd der of October 1897
ABEL & IMRAY
Agents for the Applicant.