IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF HATS CAPS AND OTHER COVERINGS FOR THE HEAD
Year: 1884

page_text: I GEORGE FERRIS POWELL of 8 Union Street, Bath in the County of Somerset,
Auctioneer, do hereby declare the nature of said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE CONSTRUCTION OF HATS CAPS AND OTHER COVERINGS FOR THE HEAD to be
as follows:-
"
This invention consists in providing hats, caps and other coverings for the head
with an air chamber whereby increased protection is afforded to the head against
the effects of concussion caused by blows received on the said air chamber, or from
other cause, and whereby, further, a cushion is formed which is designed to
intervene between the head and any place against or upon which the head may
repose, as for instance, the back or division of a railway carriage while travelling.
The air chamber, which may or may not be made up of compartments communi-
cating with each other, is fitted to the exterior or interior of the hat, cap or other
covering for the head and is intended to be inflated either with air or any desired
gases or gas and exhausted in a manner similar to that in which ordinary air
cushions are inflated and exhausted, or it may be inflated and closed before being
fitted in place and so be designed to remain permanently inflated.
For purposes of ventilation the air cushion may be made up of a series of
chambers so disposed around the hat, cap, or other covering for the head as to leave
intervening spaces as ventilating channels, the said head covering having an orifice
at the top or side to induce a current of air through the said channela.
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham,
Applicant's Agent.

page_text: COATEELE
I, GEORGE FERRIS POWELL of 8, Union Street, Bath, in the County of Somerset,
Auctioneer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for “IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF HATS, CAPS AND OTHER COVERINGS FOR THE HEAD,"
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My said invention consists in providing hats, caps and other coverings for the
head with a chamber or series of chambers inflated by air or suitable gas and fitted
either to the exterior or interior of such head coverings and designed to afford
a means of protection against the effects of concussion caused by blows received on
the chamber or chambers, which blows would otherwise be received directly on the
hat, cap or other head covering and would be more severely felt by or bo more
injurious in effect on the wearer.
The inflated chamber or chambers constitute also a cushion to intervene between
the head of the wearer of a hat, cap or other head covering fitted therewith and
any place upon or against which the hoad may rest or repose; for instance, the
chamber or chambers may be made to intervene between the head of the wearer
and the end or division wall of a compartment of a railway carriage in which the
wearer may be travelling.
The chamber may, if desired, be composed of a series of compartments which may
communicate, or not, with each other. It may be inflated either with air or with
any suitable gas and be exhausted in a manner analogous to that in which air
cushions are ordinarily inflated and exhausted. The chamber or chambers may be
inflated and closed before being fitted in place on the hat, cap or other head
covering and be designed to remain permanently inflated.
For purposes of ventilation a series of chambers constituting the cushion may be
conveniently disposed around the hat, cap or other head covering, the spaces
intervening between the chambers serving as channels for the passage of currents
of air to induce which the head covering may have an orifice at the top.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
- Providing hats, caps and other coverings for the head with a chamber or series of
chambers designed to be inflated by air or suitable gas, which chamber or chambers
may be formed in one with a hat, cap or other covering for the head or be made
separately therefrom and thereafter be attached thereto, substantially as herein-
before described and for the purposes specified.