APPLIANCES FOR PROTECTING HATS WHEN "NESTED
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I WILLIAM THOMAS BROOKS of Wellington Road Stockport in the County of
Chester Hatter's 'Warehouseman do hereby declare the nature of the said 'Invention
for " “APPLIANCES FOR PROTECTING HATS WHEN "NESTED" to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to appliances for protecting felt bats when "nested."
In the manufacture of these hats they have to be moved from one part of the
works to another and at times have to be stored for periods. To facilitate the
transport and storage of the hats it is usual to "nest" them that is to say to put
a number together one hat being inserted into another so as to form a pile. This
'nesting" has a tendency to mark and damage the hats owing to the pressure of
the inner margin of the rim of one hat upon the body of another hat and to obviate
this frames to receive the hats have been devised but such frames are bulky and
expensive and are not convenient to carry about According to my Invention
I insert each hat into a shell or shield which is made of an oval and taper form to
suit the size of the hats. When the hats are "nested" the smaller end of the
shell of one hat enters the body of another hat and receives the pressure so that
the hats are not damaged by the "nesting" together I' make the shells of any
suitable material and in any suitable manner. Å shell which is cheaply produced
and which I consider to be suitable consists of a piece of pasteboard or very strong
paper bent into an oval form and having the ends united together with: a joint
covering of cloth or material the said pièce being cut to such a form as that the
completed shell shall be smaller at one end than the other and shall at-the larger
end fit to the rim of the hat in a suitable degree.

page_text: I WILLIAM THOMAS BROOKS of Wellington Road Stockport in the County of
Chester, Hatters Warehouseman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "APPLIANCES FOR PROTECTING HATS WHEN NESTED" and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement and accompanying Drawings that is to say :—
My Invention relates to appliances for protecting felt hats from damage when
nested. In the course of manufacturing these hats they have to be transferred
from place to place and at times have to be stored for periods. To facilitate the
transport and storage of the hats it is usual to "nest" them that is to say to put
a number together one hat being inserted into another so as to form a pile. This
nesting has a tendency to damage or mark the hats owing to the pressure of the
inner margin of the rim of one hat upon the body of another hat.
According to my Invention I obviate this disadvantage by inserting each hat
into a shell or shield which is made of an oval and taper form to suit the size of
the hats. When the hats are nested the smaller end of the shell of one hat enters 1
the body of another hat and receives the pressure so that the hats are not damaged
by the nesting together.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood I will now
proceed more particularly to describe the same reference being had to the annexed
Sheet of Drawings and to the letters and figures marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a full size side view and Fig. 2 a plan of the hat nesting appliance
constituting my Invention: It consists as shewn of a hollow frustrum of a cone
and may be made of any suitably light and thin material such as pasteboard or
strong paper or stiffened calico. The appliances may be made of the proper shape
directly from the material in the course of manufacture or they may be made from
strips of the material bent to an oval shape and united at the ends by a joint
covering strip of cloth or other material the piece being cut to such a form as that
the completed shell shall be the frustrum of a cone as shown.
Fig. 3 shows the application of the said shells in the nesting of 'hats, the hats
being marked a¹, a³, a³, aª, and aº³, and the shells b¹, b³, b³ and bª. It will be seen 3
that by placing a shell b¹ over the crown of the hat a¹ the latter can be inserted
into the hat a without coming into direct contact therewith and without danger of
being crushed or marked. A similar shell 6 can then be placed over the hat a
which is inserted into the hat a³ and so on until the pile of hats is complete.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said S
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I. claim is :-
The appliance for use in nesting and packing hats consisting of a tapered oval
shell or shield made of any suitably light, and thin, material and in the form of a
frustrated cone or any mere modification of such appliance, substantially as described 4
and 'shewn.