AN IMPROVED FORM OR CONSTRUCTION OF HAT. CAP, OR COVERING FOR THE HEAD
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Mollady, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Hat Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED FORM
OR CONSTRUCTION OF HAT. CAP, OR COVERING FOR THE HEAD."
Sealed the 31st January 1860, and dated the 1st August 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Mollady at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 1st
August 1859.
I, JOHN MOLLADY, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Hat Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IM-
PROVED FORM OR CONSTRUCTION OF HAT, CAP, OR COVERING FOR THE HEAD," to
be as follows:-
This improved form or construction of hat or cap is designed principally for
the use or wear of rifleman, or in place of the "chaco" for military men, but
it may be slightly modifild for the use of civilians.
The Invention consists in the combination of the peculiar form of the "Scotch
cap" or Highland bonnet," with a brim as of an ordinary hat, only slightly
different in form. This description of hat or cap is ventilated by a series of
apertures placed below the overhanging front or projecting crown of the
"bonnet" through which the air passes, and out at the top, by which means
thorough ventilation is obtained, and the head of the wearer is protected from
the sun and rain by the combination of the projecting front and crown, and the
brim of the improved hat or cap.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Mollady in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st
February 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
MOLLADY, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Hat Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Mollady, Her special license that I, the said John Mollady,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
Mollady, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED FORM OR CON-
STRUCTION OF HAT, CAP, OR COVERING FOR THE HEAD," upon the condition,
amongst others, that I, the said John Mollady, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the dato of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Mollady, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying Drawings, that is to say:-
This improved form or construction of hat or cap is designed principally for
the use or wear of riflemen, or in place of the "shako" for military men, but
it may be slightly modified for the use of civilians.
The Invention consists in the combination of the peculiar form of the "Scotch
cap" or Highland bonnet" with the brim as of an ordinary hat, only slightly
different in form, or with a front "peak" only. This description of hat or
cap is ventilated by a series of apertures placed below the overhanging front
or projecting crown of the "bonnet" through which the air passes in and out
at the top by which means thorough ventilation is effected, and the head of the

page_text: wearer is protected from the sun and rain by the combination of the pro-
jecting front and crown, and the brim or peak of the improved hat or cap.
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in
detail I have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings illustrative of the same
made about full size, the improvements being shewn in example as adapted,
to a cap peak: Fig 1 is a perspecting view of the improved hat or cap, a being
the overhanging crown in form like the "Scotch bonnet," and 6 the ordinary
cap peak applied and adapted thereto, c, c, being the apertures formed in
the overhanging crown for ventilation.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly
understood that I claim the combination of a brim or peak with the peculiar
form of the "Scotch cap" or "Highland bonnet" as herein-before described,
set forth, and fully exhibited in the Drawings attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Mollady, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of January, in the year of our Lord
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
J. MULLADY. (L.S.)