CERTAIN APPARATUSES OR CONTRIVA NARS PROAL FOR HOLDING HATS IN CHURCHES, CHAPELS, AND OTHER PUBLIC ASSEMBLIES
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edmund Eaborn, and Matthew, Robinson, trading,
under the Style or as the Firm of Eaborn and Robinson, Engineers, and
John Kendrick, Accountant Clerk, all of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, for the Invention of "CERTAIN APPARATUSES OR CONTRIVA NARS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edmund Eaborn, Matthew
Robinson, and John Kendrick at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 23rd November 1854.
We, EDMUND EABORN and MATTHEW ROBINSON, (trading under the Style or
as the Firm of Eaborn and Robinson,) Engineers, and JOHN KENDRICK,"
Accountant Clerk, all of Birmingham, in the County.of Warwick, do hereby
declare the nature of our Invention for "CERTAIN APPARATUSES OR CONTRIVANCES
FOR HOLDING HATS IN CHURCHES, CHAPELS, AND OTHER PUBLIC ASSEMBLIES," to be
as follows:-
1st, our Invention consists in attaching arms of iron, wood, or other suitable
material underneath the seats or pews, or to the back or front rails-of-stalls-or
forms usually used in public buildings or places of worship. These arms may
be fixed singly or in a continuous row under the seat, as may be desired, and
may-be-made fixtures, or so constructed that they may be attached at pleasure.
These arms may be so disposed that the hat may be placed by the owner under
his own seat or under that immediately before him.

page_text: 2ndly, in stretching from the back to the front of such seats and underneath
them an elastic or other cord or cords, arranged in pairs, about seven inches
apart, which would serve for the general sizes of hats, so that they may rest by
their rims on such cords, in manner similar as they would rest on the arms
before described.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edmund Eaborn, Matthew Robinson, and John Kendrick in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd May 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, EDMUND
EABORN and MATTHEW ROBINSON, trading as the Firm of Eaborn & Robinson,
Engineers, and JOHN KENDRICK, Accountant Clerk, all of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Edmund -Eaborn, Matthew Robinson, and John Kendrick, Her special
license that we, the said Edmund Eaborn, Matthew Robinson, and John
Kendrick, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we,
the said Edmund Eaborn, Matthew Robinson, and John Kendrick, our execu-
tors, 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 Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle
.of Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN APPARATUSES OR CONTRIVANCES FOR HOLDING
HATS IN CHURCHES, CHAPELS, AND OTHER PUBLIC-ASSEMBLIES," upon the con-
-dition (amongst others) that we, the said Edmund Eaborn, Matthew-Robin-
son and John Kendrick, by an instrument in writing under our hand
and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of our 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 we, the said Edmund Eaborn, Matthew Robinson,
and John Kendrick, do hereby declare-the-nature of our said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement (that is to say):
:-

page_text: Our Invention has for its object the providing of a suitable place where the
male portion of the attendants at places of worship, (public assemblies, or other
places of meeting,) may conveniently place his or their hats for protection and
security while there, and this we propose to do by placing underneath the seat
used in such places, whether pew, stall, or form, a series of iron arms, placed
singly at suitable distances, or made in pairs and screwed at the bowed part,
leaving the arms free for the hat or hats to be placed in such a way that their
rims may rest on them; and it will be easily conceived that such arms may be
secured to the back rail of the seat on which the owner may occupy, allowing
him to put his hat under from the front of his seat, or it may be secured to the
front rail of the, seat, so that when taking his or their seats, the hats may be
passed in underneath the seat before him or them, the hats resting on their
rims, as before described. The shape of the arms may be varied, such as being
straight or curved out in a lateral direction, or any other suitable way; and
such arms may be made singly, and fastened by a screw at the back end, which
would form a centre, on which they may move laterally, as required; if made
in pairs, they would perhaps require two screws; or, again, they may be
attached to the proper position by being so fashioned at the end that they may
be made to slide into a metallic clip or strap, the clip or strap being firmly
secured in the position required for that purpose, and in this case the arms
may be detached or applied at pleasure. Nor are we confined to the use of
iron for this purpose, as they may be made of brass, or brass tubing, or of any
other suitable metal, or of wood, or other suitable material; nor are we con-
fined to the use of projecting arms, for by taking a strip or rod of metal and
bending it into a circular form, allowing the ends to project for securing them
to the seat; and in this case the crown of the hat passes through the metallic
circle, and in this position may securely rest; and where economy is an object,
we provide suitable hooks, that may be placed each end of a seat (if not very
long), and strong cords may be fastened from end to end, about seven inches
apart, so that the hat may be readily put in underneath, bringing the cords
underneath the brim of the hat or hats; and as a further modification of this
plan, a strip of wood or rod of iron or brass may be substituted for one of the
cords, as it would be more rigid, and be preferred, to the use of two cords.
And further, we will observe, that suitable pins, hooks, or rings, may be placed
along the front and back rails of such-seats,-pews, or stalls, and elastic or non-
elastic cords streching from each, such cords. being secured to the rings or
hooks, before named; or strong elastic rings or bands may be used, by strech-
ing them over the hooks or fastenings opposite each other
And in order that-our-Invention may be most fully understood and readily

page_text: Tibe the Drawing nereunto annexed,
in the various Figures of which the same letters are used to indicate the same
parts as they occur in the various. Figures.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING.
a, a, Fig. 1, represents a pair of iron arms, forged or formed out of one
piece of iron, to be secured to the under side of seats, pews, or stalls, singly or
in rows, as required; c is a section of the arms, taken through d and d¹.
E, E, Figure 2, are arms, forged in such a way that they may be applied
or secured by a metal clip, as at F; G being a section of the same, taken
through / and h¹².
"
I, I, Fig. 3, represent wooden arms, for the same purpose, and such
arms may be secured to the back or front rail of such seats by screws, as at
J, J; or they may be attached to a separate piece of wood, which wood may
be suitably fastened to the seat, and instead of such arms being fastened with
screws, as at I, I, they may be provided with pins, and fastened as represented-
at k, k, Figure 4. At Figure 5 I have exhibited a circular hat-rest, made
simply of a strip of flat or oval iron, flattened at each end and pierced with
holes for receiving the screws 1, 1, by which it may be fastened to the seat,
Figure 6 being simply a top view of the same; and at Figure 7 I have repre-
sented another circular hat-rest, made of a strip of brass, iron, or other metal,
thinner and broader than the one exhibited at Figure 5; and in this Figure
I have shewn it halved together, where the metal meets at m, best seen in
the top view at Figure 8; and this hat-rest may be fastened on with screws, as
shewn, or any other suitable means.
Fig. 9 represents a front view of a seat, such as are used in places of public
assembly; and in this Figure I have represented the front rail n, n, broken off,
for the purpose of exhibiting a front view of the hat-rests, fixed in such a
manner that the hat may be applied from the front of the seat; O being a
representation of Figure 7 applied to the seat, the hat being represented.in
dotted lines; and P,P,-in-the-same-Figure, represents a hat-rest, as exhibited
at Figure 1, the hat being drawn in dotted. Hnes-suspended between the arms
resting on its rim; Q, Q, represents the application of the wooden arms,
exhibited at Figure 4, the hat, as in the other instances, being shewn in
dotted lines.
Fig. 10 is a section of the last Figure, taken through r,r, shewing a side
view of the arms P and the hat, as before exhibited.
Figure 11 is a sectional top view of a stall or seat, as exhibited-at-Figures
9-and-10,-taken through the dotted line S, S; and in this Figure I have shewn

page_text: in dotted lines the hat-rest, as exhibited at Figure 1, but applied in such a
manner that the hat may be put in on the arms from the back of the seat by
the
person occupying the seat immediately behind it.
Figure 12 also represents a sectional top view of a stall or seat, identical
with Figure 11, but with the seat broken, for the purpose of exhibiting the
application of a cord, elastic or otherwise, as at t, t, secured to hooks, as also
an india-rubber ring or band u, u, likewise secured or stretched over hooks, as
before described, the dotted lines representing the hat resting on them. The
hat-rest, exhibited at Figure 1, I have also shewn in dotted lines (in this
Figure), placed in the reversed position to that shewn at Figure 11.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention, and various ways in
which the same may be carried into effect, we wish it understood that we do
not confine ourselves to the exact detail as here represented; but what we
do claim as our Invention is, the application to forms, stalls, or pews of a suit-
able means whereby the male occupants of such seats may be provided with
a rest for his or their hats.
In witness whereof, we, the said Edmund Eaborn, Matthew Robinson, and
John Kendrick, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-
second day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-five.
EDMUND EABORN. (L.S.)
MATTHEW ROBINSON. (L.S.)
Signed by Matthew Robinson for self and
John Kendrick.