Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Nov., 1886.
Complete Left, 6th Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 13th Sept., 1887.
I MARY TOWLER of No. 8 Canonbury Square Islington in the County of Middlesex
Spinster do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention the Leather-lined Hood or Bonnet is a covering for womens heads
after the manner of a hood or bonnet or both lined with chamois leather wash leather
or any other suitable leather perforated or solid and made especially for women's wear
in inclement weather and for female invalids as a protection from cold and wind and
from the unpleasant and dangerous consequences arising from exposure thereto.
My invention the Leather-lined Hood or Bonnet for which protection is prayed is
a Hood or Bonnet or both, lined with chamois leather, wash leather or other suitable
leather perforated with holes in such a manner as to be sufficiently ventilated to be
healthy to the wearer or with solid leather when it may be so required.
My Leather-lined Hood or Bonnet is lined throughout with leather and the leather
is made to reach to the front edge of the Hood or Bonnet so that by means of the
proper strings attached thereto, the Leather-lined Hood or Bonnet with the lining of
leather can be drawn closely around the face of the wearer and thus completely
protecting the head and face and throat of the wearer from wind and cold. The
Leather-lined Hood or Bonnet when thus lined throughout being intended for the use
of persons suffering from want of warmth and protection generally about the head and
face and throat. The Leather-lined Hood or Bonnet is also made partly lined with
leather and is then intended for the use of persons who are affected and suffering
only locally that is to say affected and suffering in any particular part of the head or
face or throat.
My Leather-lined Hood or Bonnet is made with suitable drawing ribbons or
strings with which it can be drawn around the face and throat and with which it
can be easily loosened and more or less withdrawn from the face and throat as the
wearer may desire. The outside of the Leather-lined Hood or Bonnet is made of
velvet silk satin or other suitable material.

page_text: I claim that my invention "The Leather-lined Hood or Bonnet" lined with leather
as hereinbefore explained is much needed by women as a better protection to the head
and face and throat when travelling by road or railway and more particularly during
voyages by sea.
I claim further that my invention the Leather-lined Hood or Bonnet lined with
leather in the manner hereinbefore explained is much needed and would be of great
service advantage and comfort to women who are invalids suffering from neuralgia
face and ear-ache bronchitis sore throat and the many other affections arising from
the want of warmer and more complete and perfect protection to the head and face
and throat.
My invention the Leather-lined Hood or Bonnet is an article that is a Hood or
Bonnet at the will of the wearer lined throughout or partly lined with chamois
leather wash leather or other suitable leather perforated or solid and is made for the
use of women who require more warmth and protection to the head or face or throat
or all or any of them either in the condition of invalids at home or when travelling.
The words the Leather-lined Hood or Bonnet in the foregoing provisional Speci-
fication shall be taken to mean the Leather-lined Hoods or Bonnets in each and
every case where the plural number is necessary to make perfect sense besides their
meaning in the singular as the title of my invention.
Drawing "No. 1" shews the outside of the Hood or Bonnet.
Drawing "No. 2" shews the inside of Hood or Bonnet with the perforated leather
lining at b. a. Strings or ribbons for drawing Hood or Bonnet around the face.-
c. Outside of the Hood or Bonnet made of silk satin velvet or other material.
d. Lining of silk or Satin to prevent leather lining being seen at face. l. Ribbon as
trimming to tie close round throat.
. Dated this Tonth do of Nowamber 1000

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Leather-lined Hood or Bonnet.
I, MARY TOWLER of No. 8 Canonbury Square Islington London in the County of
Middlesex Spinster 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 a Leather-lined Hood or Bonnet is a covering for women's heads
after the manner of a hood or bonnet or both and is lined with chamois leather wash
leather or other suitable leather perforated or solid that is to say not perforated and
made especially for women's wear in inclement weather and for female invalids as a
protection from the unpleasant and dangerous consequences arising from exposure
thereto.
"
My invention a Leather-lined Hood or Bonnet for which protection is prayed is a
hood or bonnet or both lined with chamois leather wash leather or other suitable
leather perforated with holes in such a manner as to be sufficiently ventilated to be
healthy to the wearer or with solid leather that is to say not perforated when it may
be so required.
My invention a Leather-lined Hood or Bonnet is lined throughout with leather and
the leather is made to reach to the front edge of the hood or bonnet so that by means
of the proper strings attached thereto the hood or bonnet with the lining of leather
can be drawn closely around the face of the wearer and thus protecting the head and
face and throat of the wearer from wind and cold. My Leather-lined Hood or
Bonnet when thus lined throughout being intended for the use of women suffering
from want of warmth and want of protection generally about the head and face and
throat.
My invention a Leather-lined Hood or Bonnet is also made partly lined with
leather and is then intended for the use of women who are affected and suffering
only locally that is to say affected and suffering in any particular part of the head or
face or throat.
My invention a Leather-lined Hood or Bonnet is made with suitable drawing
ribbons or strings with which it can be drawn around the face and throat of the
wearer and with which it can be easily loosened and more or less withdrawn from
the face and throat as the wearer may desire.
The outside of my invention a Leather-lined Hood or Bonnet is made of velvet
silk satin or other suitable material.
My invention a hood or bonnet lined with leather as hereinbefore explained by
virtue of its lining of leather which protects the head and face and throat of the
wearer from cold and which leather is ventilated as may be necessary or as may be
desired is much needed and would be of great service advantage and comfort to
women who are suffering from neauralgia face-ache and ear-ache bronchitis sore-throat
and other affections arising from the want of warmer and more complete and perfect
protection to the head and face and throat.

page_text: My invention a hood or bonnet lined with leather as hereinbefore explained is much
needed by women as a better protection to the head and face and throat when
travelling by road or rail also and more particularly during voyages by sea.
The drawings accompanying the provisional specification shew the character and
style of my invention. The drawing No. 1 shews the exterior of my Hood or
Bonnet, the front of which is made with two channels each formed with two rows
of stitching, one channel at the edge and the other at a short distance from the edge
in both of which are put drawing strings. The outer or edge channel crosses with
its drawing string to the second or inner channel as shewn at a and the string then
proceeds in the second or inner channel with the string of the second or inner
channel to the top of the Hood or Bonnet where the two strings are tied after the
front of the Hood or Bonnet has been drawn up in the manner desired by the
wearer. A shews a bow of ribbon or other material at the top of the Hood or
Bonnet which forms the principal trimming of the article and also serves to cover
and hide the knot of the two front drawing strings. The letter c shews the outside
of the body of the Hood or Bonnet which may be made of silk satin cloth or any
other suitable material. The letter e shews a ribbon put down the back of the Hood
or Bonnet as a trimming terminated at the bottom with a bow which covers or bides
the knot of a drawing string which runs in a channel round the bottom of the article
as indicated in the drawing and which serves to draw up the bottom of the Hood or
Bonnet as may be desired. The drawing No. 2 shews the inside of my Hood or
Bonnet. The letter a shews the channels in which the front drawing strings are
placed and how the front or outer drawing string crosses to the second or inner
channel as in drawing No. 1 and proceeds with the second or inner string to the top
of the Hood or Bonnet there to be tied on the outside under the principal bow of
trimming B. The letter b shews the lining of the Hood or Bonnet made of chamois
leather wash leather or other leather and which is the principle of my invention.
The letter e shews the outside of the Hood or Bonnet as in drawing No. 1. The
letter d shews the lining of the front or full edge and which may be made of the
same material and of the same color as or of a different material and color from the
outside or body of the Hood or Bonnet c.
с
The words a Leather-lined Hood or Bonnet in this complete specification shall be
taken to mean leather lined Hoods or Bonnets in each and every case where the
plural number is necessary to make perfect sense besides their meaning in the
singular as the style and title of my invention.
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
That my invention is a hood or bonnet for women's wear lined with leather be it
wash leather chamois leather or other leather and I pray for the sole right of making
and selling a hood or bonnet for women's use lined with leather.
Dated this Sixth day of August 1887