AN IMPROVED HAT COVER
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Gedge, of the Firm of John
Gedge and Son, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED HAT
COVER." A communication from abroad by Auguste Brunier, of No. 15,
Passage des Petites Ecuries, Paris, in the Empire of France, Merchant.
Sealed the 24th April 1868, and dated the 2nd November 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Gedge
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 2nd November 1867.
I WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of
No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
HAT COVER," a communication to me from abroad by Auguste Brunier, of
No. 15, Passage des Petites Ecuries, Paris, in the Empire of France,
Merchant, to be as follows:-
Hat covers have hitherto been made of oilskin, glazed taffeta, and other
non-elastic materials, such covers being made in more than one piece, and
each cover being suitable for only one shape or size of hat over which it is
placed, and from which it is removed with difficulty.

page_text: The improved hat cover, the subject of this Invention, is made from sheet
india-rubber, and in one piece, and by adopting this material and manufacture
a hat cover is obtained not only waterproof, light, portable in a very small
compass, of any desired color, and economical in manufacture (being of one
piece), but also possessing an elasticity which will permit it to adapt itself to
hats varying in size and shape, thus obviating the necessity of a particular
cover to each different hat.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Edward Gedge in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 30th April 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of No. 11, Wellington
Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting..
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of November, in the year of our Lord'
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of
Her reign did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William Edward Gedge, Her special licence that I, the said
William Edward Gedge, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at 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 "AN IMPROVED HAT COVER," a communication to me from abroad
by Auguste Brunier, of 15, Passage des Petites Ecuries, Paris, in the
Empire of France, Merchant, upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to
be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Gedge, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-

page_text: Hat covers bave hitherto been made of oilskin, glazed taffeta, and other
non-elastic materials, such covers being made in more than one piece, and
each cover being suitable for only one shape or size of hat over which it is
placed, and from which it is removed with difficulty.
The improved hat cover, the subject of this Invention, is made from sheet
india-rubber, and in one piece, and by adopting this material a hat cover is
obtained not only waterproof, light, portable in a very small compass, of any
desired colour, and economical in manufacture (being of one piece), but also
possessing an elasticity which will permit it to adapt itself to hats varying in
size and shape, thus obviating the necessity of a particular cover to each
different hat.
In witness, I, the said William Edward Gedge, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of April, (in the year of our Lord)
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
W. E. GEDGE.
(L.S.)