An Improved Ladies'. Hat Pin.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 11th July, 1898-Accepted, 13th Aug., 1898
CUALE UMIE DIECIFICATION.
An Improved Ladies'. Hat Pin.
I, OTTO MARTINENGO, of 28, Rue de l'Ecole, Uccle, near Brussels, Belgium,
Manufacturer, 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:-
The object of the present invention is to provide a pin for ladies hats, intended
to be applied in duplicate and to remain secure in place in the hat, ensuring the
fixing of the latter upon the head without in any instance wounding the scalp,
and avoiding injury to the hat and its trimmings.
The annexed drawing, given by way of example, represents two of these pins
employed for fixing a hat.
This fixation is ensured by two pins, one at each side of the hat. Each of the
pins consists of a wire bent substantially into the shape of a hair pin composed
of any suitable metal, bent at its centre 6 and by that reason presenting two
branches, arms or prongs c, c, of equal length, which latter may be such as may be
found desirable. The end of each of these branches is pointed and screw threaded
for a certain length, so as to admit of a sphere or ball a, or any other ornamental
object of any desirable form, and of any suitable material being screwed thereon.
In order to place the pins in position in a hat, the spheres or balls a, a, or the
other objects by which the latter may be replaced, are unscrewed, each pin is in-
serted from the interior of the hat, the ends of the branches being passed through
the wall of the hat so that the said ends will be found to project on the exterior,
when the spheres or balls a, a, or their equivalents are again screwed in position
thereon. The pins thus placed in position in the hat, cannot again become
detached therefrom, by which means their loss is rendered impossible. Moreover
the pins no longer present any pointed parts and cannot therefore wound the hands
during the operation of fixing the hat in position upon the head. To fix the hat in
position, the pins being drawn more or less towards the exterior by means of the
spheres or balls a, a, the said hat is placed upon the head and the two pins are
pushed in, the ends of each of which latter opposite the spheres or balls presenting
4 rounded or blunt surface cannot in any way wound the scalp.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. A hat pin substantially as described and represented in the annexed drawing.
2. A hat pin adapted to be placed in pairs, and to remain fixed in place in the
hats, consisting of a stem of any suitable material bent at its centre to form two
branches or prongs, the pointed ends of which are adapted to receive a ball or

page_text: sphere, or any other ornamental object when the said pins have been placed in
position in the hat, in such a manner as to admit of the said pins being operated
from the exterior of the hat to push their central bent ends into the hair.
Dated this 11th day of July 1898.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, I.ondon, W., Agent for the Applicant.