Improved Means for Attaching Hat Leathers, applicable also as a Ventilator.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 21st July, 1891-Accepted, 22nd Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Attaching Hat Leathers, applicable also as a
Ventilator.
I SAMUEL MARSHALL of Stockport Road Denton in the County of Lancaster
Hat Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows
The principal object of this invention is to afford means for permanently attaching
bat leathers or t sweat bands to the insides of felt or silk hats and other similar
head coverings without the necessity for sewing the same to the body thereof, such
means, when desirable, serving also as a means for ventilating the said hat or head
covering.
The hat leather or "sweat band" may be made in any suitable manner, but I
prefer to make it of a plain strip of leather of suitable form with the edges simply
doubled over at top and bottom and pasted in the well known manner but if
required one or both edges may be left plain or they may be edged and finished in
any other known way.
Instead of stitching this "leather" into the brow of the hat as usual I fasten it
thereto by punching holes through the body of the hat and through the leather,
and attaching the two permanently together at suitable intervals by means of
eyelets, rivets or other equivalent metallic fasteners, such eyelets or other metallic
fasteners being inserted at such a distance from the edge as not to come in contact
with the forehead but at the same time to be covered and concealed from sight
externally by the band.
When it is desired that the leather fastenings shall also act as ventilators I use
for the purpose of fastening the leather ventilating eyelets such as are now used for
ventilation only.
By these means the stitching of the hat leather is dispensed with, and the absence
of such stitching leaves the edge of the leather free and less rigid than usual and
consequently promotes ease and comfort in wear and the same means serve both for
attaching the hat leather to the body of the hat or other head covering and also for
ventilating the same, an exit opening or openings being also made in the upper
part of the crown in the usual manner.
Dated this 30th day of January 1891
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Attaching Hat Leathers, applicable also as a
Ventilator.
1 SAMUEL MARSHALL of Stockport Road Denton in the County of Lancaster
Hat 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 principal object of this invention is to afford means for permanently attaching
hat leathers or sweat bands "* to the insides of felt or silk hats and other similar
head coverings without the necessity for sewing the same to the body thereof, such
means, when desirable serving also as a means for ventilating the said hat or head
covering.
The nature of my said invention will be readily understood on reference to the
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page_text: drawing hereunto annexed which represents a transverse section of a felt hat with
my invention shown as applied thereto.
a is the body of the hat and the hat leather.
The hat leather or "sweat band" may be made in any suitable manner but I
prefer to make it of a plain strip of leather of suitable form with the edges simply
doubled over at top and bottom and pasted in the well known manner but if required
one or both edges may be left plain, or they may be edged' and finished in any other
known way.
Instead of stitching this "leather" into the "brow "of the hat as usual I fasten
it thereto by punching holes through the body of the hat and through the leather
and attaching the two permanently together at suitable intervals by means of
eyelets rivets or other equivalent metallic fasteners c such eyelets or other metallic
fasteners being inserted at such a distance from the edge as not to come in contact
with the forehead, but at the same time to be covered and concealed from sight
externally by the band d. A small piece of linen cloth is cemented to the back of
the leather to strengthen the same where each eyelet is fixed.
When it is desired that the leather fastenings shall also act as ventilators use
for the purpose of fastening the leather ventilating eyelets such as are now used.for
ventilation only.
By these means the stitching of the hat leather is dispensed with and the
absence of such stitching leaves the edge of the leather free and less rigid than
usual and consequently promotes ease and comfort in wear, and the same means
serve both for attaching the hat leather to the body a of the hat or other head
covering and also for ventilating the same, an exit opening or openings being also
made in the upper part of the crown at e in the usual manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improved means for attaching hat leathers, consisting in the punching of
corresponding holes through the body of the hat and through the leather or sweat-
band and attaching the two permanently together by means of eyelets rivets or
other equivalent metallic fasteners passed through such holes, and applicable also
as ventilators.
Dated this 18th day of July 1891.
GEORGE DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.