Improved Appliance for Supporting and Holding Hats and such like Articles upon Show Stands or Supports.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 2nd May, 1895-Accepted, 29th June, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Appliance for Supporting and Holding Hats and such like
Articles upon Show Stands or Supports.
1 EDWIN MARTIN FULLER of 3 Gloucester Terrace, Kings Road, Southsea in
the County of Hampshire, Draper, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to means for supporting hats, caps, bonnets, and such like
articles upon show stands or other supports with the object of securely holding and
displaying same in any desired positions and at the most advantageous angles and
preventing displacement of or damage to the articles.
To this end I provide an appliance consisting of a head piece adapted to be
fixed or applied to the stand bracket or other support; this comprises a plate, bar
or block of metal, wood or other material and of suitable shape and configuration
and of convenient size for fitting within any hat or other article, to which block is
secured by rivetting, solder, or otherwise a spring clip device of suitable strength
or resiliency. The form or shape of the latter follows more or less that of the
interior or part thereof of any hat or other article for which it is intended and it
may be in one or more parts. In use the free ends of the spring or springs are to
be pressed together so as to admit of the hat or other article being placed upon the
appliance in desired position, then on being released the springs will engage the
interior of the said article and hold same firmly at any desired angle.
Kemoval is effected by simply lifting the article off or pressing together the ends
of the springs.
Dead: Dock Manah 1805
J. C. CHAPMAN,
Agent.
Improved Appliance for Supporting and Holding Hats and such like
Articles upon Show Stands or Supports.
1, EDWIN MARTIN FULLER, of 3, Gloucester Terrace, King's Road, Southsea,
in the County of Hampshire, Draper, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to means for supporting hats, caps, bonnets, and such like
articles upon show stands or other supports with the object of securely holding,
adjusting, and displaying saine in any desired positions and at the most advantageous
angles, and preventing displacement of or damage to the articles.
In describing my invention 1 will refer to the accompanying drawings in which
Figs. 1 to 9 are plans illustrating various alternative forms and arrangements of
my invention, and Fig. 10 is a view showing Fig. 1 in use.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.
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The appliance consists of a head piece a adapted to be applied and fixed by a
screw, socket, or in any convenient way to the window, stand, bracket, or other
sunport d. Fig. 6-

page_text: To this head piece a is secured by rivetting, solder, or otherwise, a spring clip
device of suitable resilie cy and strength for its purpose. The form or shape of
this device follows more or less that of the interior or a part thereof of any hat or
other article for which it is intended, and it may be in one or more parts. It is
obvious that this spring device may be arranged in many ways with equivalent
effect, some of which I have illustrated.
Fig. 1 shows the spring device in one piece of metal fixed to the head plate a
at cc at either side. Fig. 2 shows the clip formed of two separate springs each
fixed to plate a at c c. These may be of curved form as shown to the left of the
figure, or straight as shown to the right. In these cases the free ends of the spring
clip device are curved inwardly as at to prevent injury to the linings. Fig. 3
shows the spring clip formed of a continuous band or ribbon of metal 6 fixed to
the block a at the four points c c c c. Fig. 4 shows another arrangement of
continuous spring clip fixed at three points ccc to the block a. Fig. 5 shows the
spring 6 fixed to block a at one or two points c, and its ends bear against two
curved bars e e pivotted to the block a at ee¹. Equivalent alternative arrange-
ments are shown in Figs. 6 and 7; in Fig. 6 a spiral spring connects two ends of
the curved bars e e, which are pivotted at ee to the block a; in Fig. 7 two such
spiral springs bb are shown as arranged to operate similarly.
In use the free ends or outer bends of the spring or springs 6 or bars e above
described are to be pressed together to about the positions shown dotted so as to
admit of the hat or other article being placed upon the appliance in desired
position, then, on being released, the spring device will tend to return to normal
positions and engage the interior of the said article, and hold same firmly, and it
may be adjusted to any desired angle as shown for example in Fig. 10. Removal
is effected by simply lifting the article off or pressing together the ends of the
spring or springs.
The spring clip device may if desired be arranged in combination with the head
block or plate a as shown in Figs. 8 and 9, wherein instead of applying the spring
device exteriorly to the block or plate a as above described, it is arranged in the
form of a spring or springs bb fixed to the head plate a and placed between two
separate side bars e e which are curved as shown to suit the interior of any hat or
the like. The plate a may be in one as in Fig. 8, or arranged as shown for
example in Fig. 9, or otherwise with equivalent effect. In this case in order to
secure and adjust the article the two side bars e e are simply pressed towards each
other compressing the spring or springs b, and on release the outward spring
pressure acts as above described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In an appliance for supporting and holding hats and such like articles, the use
of a spring device b such as is above described and illustrated, in combination with
a supportable bead plate or block a, all arranged or adapted to operate substantially
as above set forth.
2. In combination, the supportable head plate a, side bars e, and the spring
device b adapted to act on both said bars e, substantially as and for the purpose
above set forth.
3. The several arrangements of my improved appliance shown respectively in
the figures.
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