New or Improved Ear Protector or Warmer.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Aug., 1898-Accepted, 29th Oct.,
1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Ear Protector or Warmer.
I, PETER HEINRICH FRIEDRICH BUCHHOLZ, of 187, Grosse Schmiedestrasse, Stade,
in the German Empire, Furrier, 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:-
This invention relates to an ear protector or warmer which can be readily
adjusted to suit any size of head, and when not in use can be readily taken apart or
folded up to facilitate its use under various circumstances. Its transmission from
place to place when packed together can be effected without any inconvenience
whatever.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which
Figure 1 is a front view, partly in section, of an ear protector or warmer made
in accordance with the invention, Figure 2 a side view and Figure 3 a detail view
of part of same.
According to this invention a small cap bis employed for each ear, which cap
consists essentially of a wire frame a covered with suitable porous material, and
provided with a soft lining of wool, fur, felt or the like. A keeper c of suitable
width is arranged at the upper edge of the wire frame a and is formed with
a small catch d.
For carrying the ear protector or warmer, and for fastening the same to the head,
an elastic band e is employed, which consists of two narrow steel bands el e² 80
connected together at their overlapping ends of that they can be adjusted and
lengthened or shortened longitudinally at pleasure.
As shown in Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings, the free ends of the steel band
are bent round at g so as to act as springs, or have correspondingly elastic additions
rivetted to them. These springs terminate in buttons or thumb-pieces h and are
perforated with several holes the size of which corresponds to that of the catches d
on the frame a.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-
When the protector or warmer is not in use, both caps b are taken off the
carrying band e, the parts of the latter are slid one over the other so as to reduce the
band to its smallest possible length, and the parts are in that condition carried in
the pocket or otherwise disposed of. When the apparatus is to be used, the two
caps are connected to the band by simply pushing the ends g of the latter in
between the part c and the frame a and the catches immediately take into the
holes i of the elastic part g of the band, and thereby an automatic locking of
the parts together is effected.
The length of the band is then adjusted to suit the size of the head, and the
ear caps are placed over the ears. When the hat is placed on the head the
is nearly covered thereby and is thus rendered almost invisible.
band
The perforations in the ends g of the band allow of the position of the ear caps b
being altered a little on the band without removing the hat,

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
An ear protector or warmer consisting of two ear caps, and a steel band made in
two overlapping parts so connected together that they can be adjusted longitudinally
with reference to one another, the said parts being provided at their free ends with
perforated springs adapted to engage with and secure the ear caps to the ends of the
said band, substantially as described.
OCOT as any TO Con es
P. H. F. BUCHHOLZ.
Per. W. H. Beck,
Agent, 115, Cannon Street, London.