Improvements in Hat Boxes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Improvements in Hat Boxes.
I FRITZ STEINBART of Rathhausstrasse Hamburg in the Empire of Germany,
Merchant, 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 :-
This invention for improvements in hat boxes has for its object to provide means
in the hat box for securing the hat to the cover of the box.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings:-
Figs. 1 and 2 are central vertical section through and inverted plan of the cover
or lid of a hat box showing one arrangement according to this invention and
Figs. 3 and 4 are similar views of a modified construction.
Referring to Figs. 1 and 2 two semi-circular plates bare arranged in the centre of
the lid D and are adjustable relatively to one another. The upper and lower edges
of the plates are provided centrally with longitudinal bars s whose extremities
overlap one another, and which can be slid on guides along the cover of the hat
box and be fixed in position by the thumb screws m and r. The plates can thus
be adjusted at different distances from one another according to the width of the
hat and so that the hat will be retained centrally on the cover. The slots limit
the motion of the plates s.
Referring to Figs. 3 and 4, two curved and toothed bars a connected to the
plates and guided by tlie guides o, are actuated by a small toothed wheel =
imounted on the axis of the knob and serve to adjust the plates b.
b
In both modifications, the semi-circular plates are chiefly used to prevent the
hat from moving laterally and for keeping it in the centre of the box. The hat is
fixed to the inner surface of the lid by means of hinged plates p arranged at
opposite sides of the lid and firmly fixed in the desired position by pins t. The
plates are first folded upwards to allow the brim of the hat to be placed below the
plates which are provided with leather felt or other soft material on their lower
surfaces. The plates are then turned down to hold the hat and are fixed over the
brim of the hat by sliding the pins t in guides over the hinges of the plates p and
partly over the part e fixed to the box cover and to which the plates are hinged.
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
claim is :-
1. Fixing a hat upon the inner surface of the cover or lid of a hat box by means
of plates which can be adjusted on the said cover by means of longitudinal slotted
bars s fixed to the plates and sliding in guides and fixed in position by the thumb
screws 1, m, substantially as described.
2. Fixing a hat upon the inner surface of the cover or lid of a hat box by means
of plates b which can be adjusted on the said cover by means of curved toothed
bars fixed to the said plates and operated by a toothed wheel actuated from outside
the cover, substantially as described.
3. Fixing a hat to the inner surface of the cover or lid of a hat box by means of
hinged plates p turned over the brim of a hat to secure it to the cover of the box
and fixed in position by pins t slid in guides u over the plates e, substantially as
described.

page_text: 4. The improvements in hat boxes substantially as described with reference to
the drawings.
Dated this 17th day of November 1891.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, Agents.