CERTAIN IM- PROVEMENTS IN HATS APPLICABLE FOR LADIES' OR GENTLEMEN ́S WEAR
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick William Paul, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Hatter, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IM-
PROVEMENTS IN HATS APPLICABLE FOR LADIES' OR GENTLEMEN´S WEAR,"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick William
Paul at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 6th November 1874.
I, FREDERICK WILLIAM PAUL, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Hatter, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention
for “CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN HATS APPLICABLE FOR LADIES' OR GENTLEMEN'S
WEAR," to be as follows (that is to say) :—
.
My Invention has for its object the shaping or addapting the internal
back part of hat bodies in such a way that may fit and assimulate
in the back part or lining to the shape of the back part of the head of
the wearer. This I effect by forming or applying to the interior back
part of hat bodies au inper rim curving upwards concentrically towards

page_text: the crown, so that the back part of hats so constructed shall fit the
wearer's head like a hunting cap, and as a consequence afford comfort
and safety to the wearer in windy weather or riding exercise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frederick William Paul in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 6th May 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
WILLIAM PAUL, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Hatter,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Frederick William Paul,
Her special license that I, the said Frederick William Paul, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Frederick William Paul, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN HATS APPLICABLE FOR
LADIES' OR GENTLEMEN'S WEAR,” upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Frederick William Paul, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under 'my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Frederick William Paul, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and asecrtained
in and by the following statement (that is to say):-

page_text: My Invention has for its object the shaping or adapting the internal
back part of hat bodies in such a way that they may fit and assimulate
in the back part or lining to the shape of the back part of the head of
the wearer.
This I effect by forming or applying to the interior back
part of hat bodies an inner rim curving upwards concentrically towards
the crown, so that the back part of hat bodies so constructed shall fit
the wearer's head like a hunting cap, and as a consequence afford comfort
and safety to the wearer in windy weather or riding exercise.
But with a view of being clearly understood as to the nature of my
improved addition to hats for the description of wear herein-before
named, or even for ordinary wear when an easy sympathising fit is
required, and which is afforded from the inner back or new part of the
hat assimulating to the form of the back part of the head of the wearer,
I will describe the same by aid of the Drawings hereunto annexed

page_text: which hat bodies are or may be composed, I wish it understood that
what I claim as of my Invention under these my in part recited Letters
Patent is, the application to the inner back part of hats of the part
marked A without limiting myself to any extent or domed curvature of
such part, as the same may be varied to suit the ease or comfort of
different wearers.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick William Paul, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Third day of May, in
the year of our Lord] One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
FREDERICK WILLIAM PAUL. (L.S.)
Witness,
JAMES S. COCKINGS,
Pataent Agent,
Birmingham.