An Improved Device or Means for Attaching Feathers, Plumes, or Trimmings to Hats and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Jan., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 13th Oct., 1898-Accepted, 19th Nov., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device or Means for Attaching Feathers, Plumes, or
Trimmings to Hats and the like.
I, GEORGE WILLIAM SHAILER, Secondia Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North,
Wellington, New Zealand, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows::
This invention consists of an improved device or means for attaching feathers,
plumes, or other trimmings to hats and the like, the object being to enable
feathers, plumes, and other trimmings to be readily removed from hats and the
like when required without the necessity of sewing or permanently attaching them
to the hat. In carrying out this object I employ a fastener or holder consisting
of two parts: one part is secured to the hat by any convenient means, such as
sewing or by prongs, and the other part is attached to the feather, plume, or
trimming by any convenient means, such as sewing and the like. When it is
desired to wear the feather, plume, or trimming the part carrying same is caused
to engage in the part of the fastener attached to the hat or the like. The connec-
tion between the two parts may be of any suitable form such as a spring catch.
It will be seen that when packing a hat the plume may be readily removed, thus
preventing damage to same, as in the case of a hat in which the feather is sewn
or permanently attached it cannot be readily removed; whereas by my invention
the feather, plume, or trimming can be readily removed from the hat or placed in
position as required.
Dated this 13th day of January 1898
An Improved Device or Means for Attaching Feathers, Plumes, or
Trimmings to Hats and the like.
I, GEORGE WILLIAM SHAILER, Secondia Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North,
Wellington, New Zealand, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion 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 device or means for attaching feathers,
plumes, or other trimmings to hats and the like, the object being to enable feathers,
lumes and other trimmings to be readily removed from hats and the like when
required without the necessity of sewing or permanently attaching them to the hat.
[Price 8d1

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Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the course of the
subjoined description..
In order to effect the objects above referred to, the invention consists in certain
novel features of construction and arrangement and combination of parts, all as
hereinafter pointed out in the specification, illustrated in the drawings, and finally
embodied in the claims.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings, Fig. 1, is an elevation view
of the attaching device shewn applied to a ladies' hat for the purpose of attaching
plumes thereto.
Fig. 2, being a perspective view, taken from the rear of the casing of the device,
while,
Fig. 3, is a similar view of the interior or detachable portion of the device.
Referring to the invention wherein like letters of reference indicate corre-
sponding parts throughout the several figures, a represents a metal or other case,
having a rim b extending around three of its sides such rim being flanged at b¹
to form guides or grooves. Prongs, hooks or projections e are provided upon the
back of the said casing a, for the purpose of attaching the device to the hat or the
like. These prongs, hooks or projections c may be conveniently formed by means
of incisions made in the back of the casing a, and by bending up the parts
between such incisions. If, however, it is found in practice to be more convenient,
may attach suitable hooks or other fasteners to the back of the casing a, by
means of solder, rivets, or other suitable means.
Sliding within this casing a is a plated having a raised rim d' extending around
one of its ends and a portion of its sides, such rim terminating at each end in a
diverging spring e, each of which is formed with an outward projection e', designed
to take into slots f in the sides or rim 6 of the casing a, as hereinafter described.
A flexible wire or other stalk or projection g is fixed to the end of the plate d
for the purpose of attaching the plumes g¹ or the like to, in lieu of the arrange-
ment described in the Provisional Specification.
In operation, the casing a is attached to the hat h for instance, (Fig. 1,) by
means of the prongs hooks or projections c. The plumes g or the like having
been attached to the flexible stalk or projection 9 in any suitable manner, the
plate d is slid into such casing a, the flanges b1 serving to act as guides or grooves
and also as a means for helping to retain such plate din position. When the
plate d is being placed within the casing a, the diverging springs e are com-
pressed toward one another by the finger and thumb so as to cause the projections e¹
to pass the edges of the raised rim ¹, such springs being released when the said
projections & are opposite the slots f, whereupon such projections e¹ spring outward
and project through the said slots and thereby in conjunction with the flanged
rim 6 retain the plate d in position within the casing a.
The said plate d is removed from the casing a by compressing the diverging
springs e until the projections el are clear of the slots f, and then withdrawing
the said plate from the flanged rim b.
It will be readily gathered from the foregoing description that plumes, feathers
and trimmings may be readily and quickly attached to a hat or the like, and as
readily removed therefrom, thus allowing of the plumes, feathers or trimmings of
hat, for instance, being quickly interchanged at will, or removed for packing
and similar purposes. The flexible stalk or projection g allows of the plumes or
the like attached to same, being inclined in any desired direction.
a
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

page_text: extending around three of its sides, the two parallel portions of which are flanged
at b¹, and provided with slots or openings f, substantially as described and illus-
trated.
2. In a device or means for attaching feathers, plumes, or trimmings to hats
and the like, the casing provided with attaching prongs, hooks or projections and
a raised rim flanged upon two of its parallel sides, and having slots or openings
opposite one another in combination with a plate d having a raised rim & extend-
ing around one end and partly along the sides, and diverging springs e having pro-
jections e, together with means for attaching the plumes or the like to such plate,
all arranged, combined and operating, substantially as described, and as illustrated
by the drawings.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for Applicant.