A NEW HAT SHAPE OR HEAD-DRESS FOR LADIES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexandre Henry and Gustave Henry, of
Paris, for the Invention of "A NEW HAT SHAPE OR HEAD-DRESS FOR
LADIES."
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Alexandre Henry and
Gustavo Henry at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition and Declaration, on the 17th October 1871,
pursuant to the 9th Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act,
1852.
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ALEX-
ANDRE HENRY and GUSTAVE HENRY, both of Paris, France, send
greeting.
WHEREAS we are in possession of an Invention for “▲ New Hat
SHAPE OR HEAD-DRESS FOR LADIES," and have petitioned Her Majesty
to grant unto us, our executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal
Letters Patent for the same, and have made solemn Declaration that
we verily believe ourselves to be the true and first Inventors thereof.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Alexandre Henry and Gustave
Henry, do hereby declare that the following Complete Specification,
under our hands and seals, fully describes and ascertains the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, in and by the following statement :—
This Invention consists in manufacturing hats, shapes, or head-dresses
for ladies of metals directly galvanized, or the application of metals
upon the galvano-plactic process. The application of galvanism to the
manufacture of the said hats, shapes, or head-dresses, as well as the
use of metals for that purpose, forming the essential feature of novelty
of our said Invention.
Our metallic hat is made as follows:-1st, we take a plato of gold,
silver, copper, or other metal, stamped cither with open work or with
or without cutting out, according to the shape of the head; 2nd, we
employ a material which we call " venusienne;" this material, of what-
ever kind it may be, will be cut out according to taste and the required
shapo of the hat; this material wo border with gold or silver fringes,
or any other kind of border, and with or without precious or imitation
stones; 3rd, we make a cap of copper or any other metal or material
to which we adapt or not a galvanized comb, either stamped or cut
out or impressed; 4th, wo make a string or lappet and edge it with
stuff, lace, or gold and silver fringe like the "venusienne;" 5th, wo
mako trimming of stuffs, laces, feathers, and filligrees.
The hat is mounted in the following mannor-1st, the crown is formed
with a hinge; 2nd, the crown is covered with the "venusienne" accord-
ing to its shapo so that the hinge which is on the said crown goos into
an aperture already prepared for that purpose in the "venusienne;" 3rd,
to this we add a plato or stamped form which its by two other little
hinges complimental to the one on the crown, and the whole is to be
-fastened with a pin (either jewelled or plain) which causes the hat
thus formed to open and shut like a box; at the extremity of the part
which can be opened there is another little hinged hook or catch, which,
when the hat is completed (independent of the trimmings), must be
closed, to prevent its lifting up by the wind or other causes.
Our Invention has a double advantage, in the first place an industrial
and commercial advantage, and in the second place a hygenic and
medical advantage. From an industrial and commercial point of view
it presents a new or improved article of produce, which opens a wide

page_text: field to the jewellery and goldsmith's trade. On the other hand science
has established the fact that metals applied to the body are hygienic and
medical. We are therefore convinced that we do a real and important
service in giving a larger scope to industry, and offering to ladies a
head-dress not only graceful and handsome, not only new and entirely
unknown up to the present time, but also invested with hygienic
properties.
We claim as our Invention the application of simple or compound
metals to the manufacture of bonnets or head-dresses, substantially as
described and for the purposes specified.
In witness whereof, we, the said Alexandre Henry and Gustave
Henry, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Thirteenth
day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one.
ALEXANDRE HENRY. (L.S.)
GUSTAVE HENRY.
(L.S.)