Improved Means for Packing Hats.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Apr., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 28th Jan., 1891-Accepted, 14th Mar., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Packing Hats.
1, JAMES PENNEY, of Grove House, London Road, Hazel Grove, in the County
of Chester, Warehouseman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improved means for packing hard felt hats for convey-
ance by railway or otherwise, the object being to enclose several hats in one box and
at the same time to hold them firmly in place and prevent them from becoming
rubbed or damaged in transit.
For this purpose I employ supports or rests made of millboard or cardboard.
The lowest support is made of two curved pieces of millboard of a depth sufficient
to raise the crown of the lowest hat off the bottom of the box and arched so that
their upper edges do not bear against the brim. This support is provided at the top
with two other horizontal curved pieces, the outer edges of which are bound with
moleskin or other soft material and in this binding is held a curved piece of cane or
other suitable material which is passed under the curl of the brim of the hat and
thus holds the bottom hat in position without rubbing the surface in any way.
Each hat above the lowest one is supported by somewhat similar but shallower
rests each composed of two pieces of millboard or cardboard attached together by
passing two projecting parts of one through two corresponding slits in the other,
the upper edge of the vertical portion being similarly bound and provided with
curved pieces of cane or other suitable material to pass under the curls of the brim
of the hat.
Dated this 50th day of Anvil 1800
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Packing Hats.
1, JAMES PENNEY, of Grove House, London Road, Haselgrove, in the County of
Chester, Warehouseman, 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 relates to improved means for packing hard felt hats in boxes for
conveyance by railway or otherwise, the object being to enclose several hats in one
box, and at the same time to hold them firmly in place and prevent them from
becoming rubbed or damaged in transit.
The nature of my said invention and the manner in which the same is to be per-
formed or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference to the
sheet of drawings hereunto annexed and the following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1. is a side elevation shewing three hats packed together according to my
invention ready to be placed in a hat box, the hats being drawn in dotted lines.
Fig. 2. shews front and plan views of detached portions hereinafter referred to,
and Fig. 3. is an end view of a modification thereof.
For the purposes of my invention I employ supports or rests made principally of
millboard or cardboard.
The lowest support is made of two pieces a of millboard joined together end to
end and curved so as to make an oval form in plan view, and of a depth sufficient to
raise the crown of the lowest hat off the bottom of the box (as seen at Fig. 1.) and
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page_text: the upper edge may be either straight (as shown) or arched, so as not to bear
against the brim.
This support a is provided at the top with two raised curved pieces the upper
edges of which are bound with a piece c of moleskin or other soft material and in
this binding is held a curved piece of cane or other suitable material d which is
passed under the curl or brim of the hat and thus holds the bottom hat in position
without rubbing the surface in any way.
Each hat above the lowest one is supported by somewhat similar rests which
may be composed (as shown at Fig. 2) of two pieces of millboard or cardboard b
and attached together by passing the two projecting parts at the lower end
afthrough two corresponding slits in the piece which latter then projects
mwards in a horizontal position so as to support the front and back of the brim of
the hat next above but I prefer to dispense with the pieces and to attach all the
pieces to the lower supports a by means of two uprights e which are connected to
the pieces a and respectively by means of thin wire staples y as shown at Fig. 3.
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:
The improved means for packing hard felt hats constructed and arranged sub-
stantially as herembefore described and illustrated by the drawings annexed.
Dated this 27th day of January 1891.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.