IMPROVEMENTS IN COVERINGS FOR THE HEAD
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and Foreign
Patent Offices, 24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France,
and 38, Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN COVERINGS FOR THE
HEAD." A communication from Alfred Apard,, residing at Rue de
Rambuteau. Paris, in the Empire of France aforesaid.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 29th November 1865.
I, HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices,
24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France, and 38, Porchester.
Terrace, Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN COVERINGS
FOR THE HEAD," communicated to me by Alfred Apard, a person residing at
Rue de Rambuteau, Paris, in the Empire of France aforesaid; to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to an improved construction of coverings for the
head, by means of which the rim or border may be employed or not, as the
different circumstances in which the wearer is placed may suggest. It
consists in forming an ordinary hat body of any suitable form and material

page_text: provided inside with rings, hooks, or other means of rapid attachment. This
body is then connected with a hinged or flexible rim turned up vertically at
the inner circumferences, and provided at suitable distances around this
circumference with elastic or other cords or strings to be passed through or
otherwise connected with the rings above mentioned as existing in the body
or upper part of the hat. In this way the rim may be easily detached and
placed in the pocket when travelling, and as easily applied when required.
The hinged construction of the rim will also render the hat much more
portable in cases where the body is sewn or gummed to the rim.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 24th May 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 24, Rue du
Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France, and 38, Porchester Terrace,
Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, Her special licence that I, the said Henri
Adrien Bonneville, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should in 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN COVERINGS FOR THE HEAD," communicated to me by
Alfied Apard, a person residing at Rue de Rambuteau, Paris, in the
Empire of France aforesaid, upon the condition, amongst others) that I,
the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
aud immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, do hereby
declare the nature of the said 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 improved construction of coverings for the
head, by means of which the rim or border may be employed or not, as the
different circumstances in which the wearer is placed may suggest. It
consists in forming an ordinary hat body of any suitable form and material
provided with rings, hooks, or other means of rapid attachment. This body
is then connected with a hinged or flexible rim turned up vertically at the
inner circumference, and provided at suitable distances around this circum-
ference with elastic or other cords or strings to be passed through or other-
wise connected with the rings above mentioned as existing in the body or
upper part of the hat.
In this way the rim may be easily detached and
placed in the pocket when travelling, and as easily applied when required.
The hinged construction of the rim will also render the hat much more
portable in cases where the body is sewn or gummed to the rim.
And in order to more fully explain the construction and operation of the
said improvements, I will now prooceed to describe the same with reference
to the accompanying Drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a vertical section of the
hat; Fig. 2 a plan view of the brim of the hat in two parts connected by
hinges; this brim may also be made without hinges and be sewn or glued
to the body as in Fig. 4; Fig. 3 is a section of the brim folded, the body
of the hat being removed.
a, brim of the hat made in two parts folding in their largest diameter;
this brim is provided with a vertical projection inside to receive the body;
b, b, hinges connecting the two parts of the brim; c, body of the hat provided
inside with four rings c¹, c¹, c¹, c¹; d, d, india-rubber bands attached to the
brim a of the hat in the line of the largest diameter, they may be either
single or forked; d', d', single bands of india-rubber fixed to the brim a in
the line of the smallest diameter; these bands are provided at their upper
ends with a hook dwhich may be hooked in the rings c, c, c, c. This
system of hat is applicable to all forms; the brim and the body may be of felt
covered with any kind of stuff, and trimmed with lining and leather like
ordinary hats. The body, instead of being fixed to the brim by hooks, may
be sewn or glued in cases where supple materials are used, and be folded
between the brims as shown in Fig. 4. In all cases the brim of the bat
should be stiff.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and in what

page_text: above described, and particularly,
1stly, the hinged brim.
And, 2ndly, the moveable body.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
H. BONNEVILLE. (L.S.).