Improvements in and relating to Hat Fasteners.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 25th Jan., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Hat Fasteners.
We, HULDA VOLCKART, Married Woman, and PAUL UTHкE, Watchmaker,.
both of Bütow in the District Cöslin, Pomerania, Germany, 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:-
The object of this invention is a hat fastener intended for use in replacement
of the hat pins now generally used by women. It is composed of two plates which
are fixed by a particular mechanism on the two opposite sides of the interior edge.
of the hat. These plates are guides for hat-pins which are provided at one end
with flatly rounded points and at the other with a point about which a screw-thread
The con-
is cut upon which a cap, provided with a female screw, is screwed on.
struction described prevents loss of the hat-pins which remain in the hat and avoids
the danger of wounding other persons by projecting points.
To illustrate this we annex a drawing, in which
Fig. 1 shows how to fix the hat fastener;
Fig. 2 shows a detail view and Figs. 3 to 5 show different views of the guide-
plates.
In the interior of the hat A are fixed two plates B which may be made of metal,.
wood, rubber, celluloid, or the like. They are provided with points b, guide-
holes and lugs 2 for the fixing cramp 4 which terminates at one end in a
hook 3. The pins C terminate at one end in flatly rounded points D, and at the
other end in points provided with a screw thread E to be screwed in the caps F.
The fixing of the hat-fastener is effected as follows;-Before the caps F are
screwed on the pins the guide-plates B are fixed in the interior of the hat on the
two opposite sides the fixing cramp & being first turned in the position shown in
Fig. 5; then the points bare pressed into the inner lining of the hat and the
cramp is pressed downward so that the hook 63 also enters the lining of the hat.
and the guide plate B is thus firmly fixed in the hat A. After having fixed these
plates, the pin C is passed from inside through one of the guide-holes b¹ and the
cap F is screwed on to the point E. When the hat is to be fixed on the bead the
pins are pulled outwards until the flat ends D reach the guide plates B, the hat
is then put on and the pins pressed inwards again so that they pass into the hair
without piercing the other side of the hat. The most suitable position of the pins.
is that shown in Fig. 1. The flat point of the pin should be large enough to
prevent the pulling of the pin out of the guide holes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is ;-
A hat fastener composed of two pins terminating at one end in flatly rounded
ends and at the other threaded to screw into caps and two plates provided with
guide holes for the pins, which plates are adapted to be fixed in the inside of the
hat by points, and a hooked cramp thereon substantially as set forth.
Dated this 5th day of December 1895.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.,
Agents to the Applicants.