IMPROVEMENTS IN OR CONNECTED WITH LININGS FOR HATS
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Oct., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 24th July, 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 7th Sept., 1888
I, CLEMENS MÜLLER, Manufacturer, of Leipzig, Germany, do hereby declare the
nature of my said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN OR CONNECTED WITH LININGS FOR
HATS, to be as follows:-
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My invention has for its object to make hat linings in such a manner, that they can
be easily taken out of the hat and used as a cap, which is frequently desirable to
travellers.
The lining has preferably the shape of a jockey cap, with the peak turned upward
until it rests against the body of the cap, and in order that the peak may be thus
folded up and subsequently again extended without losing the desired rigidity, the
peak is made in a peculiar manner.
The core or rigid part of the peak may be composed of a series of segments or
plates adapted to telescope into each other by providing adjoining segments with a
kind of expansible groove and tongue joint. In this manner, the peak is allowed to
contract, so as to form a shorter are when the peak is being folded up, but to expand
again and form a longer are when the peak is again extended.
The segments forming the grooves are composed of a short core plate and two
parallel slightly elastic cover plates, projecting over the core-plate. The tongues have
on each face a slight projection or ridge which abuts against the edge of the elastic
cover plates, when the peak is in its extended position. When the person wears the
hat, with the cap in it, the peak of the latter fits tightly against the inside of the hat,
without producing any inconvenience.
As a modification the peak may be formed by a series of rigid segments or plates
each of which is connected with the adjoining section by a short piece of cloth or
other flexible material. In the extended position of the peak the said pieces of cloth

page_text: are stretched, and in the folded position they are folded so that adjoining sections
nearly touch each other.
The necessary rigidity of the peak may be obtained by means of grooved levers of
metal or other rigid material hinged to the sections near the outer edge, so that each
lever may either be placed across the joint of two sections, the edge of a section
entering the longitudinal groove of the lever, or that it may be turned back into a
position parallel with the joint of the adjoining sections.
Dated this 25th day of October 1887
FAIRFAX & WETTER,
433, Strand, London,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Connected with Linings for Hats.
I, CLEMENS MÜLLER, Manufacturer, of 23, Katharinen Strasse, Leipzig in the
German empire, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner
the same may be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
My invention has for its object to make hat linings in such a manner, that they can
be easily taken out of the hat and used as a cap, which is frequently desirable to
travellers.
As illustrated by the accompanying drawings, Figs. 1 to 16, the lining has prefer-
ably the shape of a jockey cap F, with the poak A turned upward until it rests against
the body of the cap, and in order that the poak may be thus folded up and subsequently
again extended without losing the desired rigidity, the peak is made in a peculiar
manner.
The core or rigid part of the peak consists of a series of segments a and b movable
towards and from each other, so that when folded the peak occupies a smaller space
or forms a shorter arc, and when expanded it remains rigid and occupies a larger
space, or forms a longer arc.
The clements or pieces a and b of the peak may be adapted to telescope into each
other when the peak is being folded, for which purpose the rigid segments are
composed of two slightly elastic plates d and e, as shown by Figs. 3 to 5, between
which the segments a may be introduced.
The segments or tongues a have on each face a slight ridge which abuts against
the edge of tho elastic cover plate when the peak is being extended into the position
represented by Fig. 4. The peak thus acquires sufficient rigidity, but a slight pressure
is sufficient to telescope the segments a and b again into each other, which pressure is
produced by folding the peak upward. In the folded position, the peak rests smoothly
against the inside of the hat without molesting the wearer of the hat.
Figs. 6-10 represent a modification of the peak, in which the segments g of the
same are connected by strips of cloth / adapted to produce folds, as shown in Fig. 8.
For increasing the rigidity of the peak in its extended position, the contiguous
segments may be connected with each other by grooved strips or flaps of sheet
metal pivoted to one of the two segments, as illustrated by Fig, 12. The outer edge
of each flap k is bent round, so as to form a groove fitting over the edge of the peak,
as shown by Figs. 11 and 12. For contracting or folding up the peak, the flaps /
are turned over the face of the peak into the position represented by Fig. 13.
Fig. 14 is an elevation of a peak in which the grooved flaps are replaced by flat
levers & pivoted to the segments at thoir inner face.
Fig. 15 is a section of the same.
Fig. 16 represents a travelling cap, partly in section and partly in front elevation,
with contracted peak and flat levers without rim or groove. For stiffening the
peak, the flaps or levers are turned across the joint of the contiguous segments, as
shown by Fig. 14.

page_text: The hat lining and the peak A, may, however, have a variety of shapes different
from that shown in the drawings.
Having now particularly described the nature of my invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare, that I claim :
1. A removable hat lining having the shape of a cap provided with a peak adapted
to be folded or turned up in such a nanner, that it forms a smooth surface without
losing the capacity of resuming its original shape, substantially as described.
2. A removable hat lining having the shape of a cap and provided with a peak
rendered capable of contraction; this capacity for contraction being obtained by
means of rigid telescopic segments a and, of which the parts are formed of two
elastic plates, while the parts a are provided with ridges serving as abutments or
.stops for b, the whole substantially as described and for the purpose specified.
3. The means for keeping rigid the peak specified by claim 2, consisting of grooved
pivotal flaps, or of flat levers 1, substantially as described.
4. The modified construction of peak, in which the telescopic cores or segments are
replaced by rigid plates g Figs. 6 to 10 connected by flexible cloth strips h and
adapted to fold, substantially as described and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 24th day of July 1888.
CLEMENS MÜLLER.
By Fairfax & Wetter,
433, Strand, London,
Agents.
CLEMENS MÜLLER.
By Fairfax & Wetter,
433, Strand, London,
Agents.