Improvements in Hats, Caps, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 5th Feb., 1895-Accepted, 9th Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hats, Caps, and the like.
I, JAMES JENKINS, of 32 Ryder Street, Cardiff, in the County of Glamorgan,
Hatter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention of improvements in hats, caps or the like (hereinafter referred
to as caps) is designed to provide a cap adapted to protect the eyes of the wearer
against wind, dust, sun or rain without materially interfering with his vision, and
also to provide for the efficient ventilation of caps. To protect the eyes, the cap
is provided at its front side with a strip of transparent sheet material, as for example
xylonite horn or mica of suitable size and shape, arranged to serve as a transparent
peak which may be provided in lieu of or in addition to the ordinary peak which
is usually made of the same material as that of which the body of the cap is
formed. When the ordinary peak is also provided, means are or may be provided
for holding it up and from in front of the transparent peak, when the latter is to
be used alone as a protection to the eyes.
To provide for ventilation of the cap I provide the crown or upper part thereof
with a lining consisting of a piece of porous material such as a piece of loofah
pressed flat, suitably secured in position, and in the top of the cap I form an air hole or
holes that is or are protected by suitable means such for example as a dome shaped
piece of india rubber notched or perforated at its edge and suitably secured to the
top of the cap.
As will be obvious either of my improvements can be used without the other
though they may advantageously be used together.
Dated this 5th day of April 1894.
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION
Improvements in Hats, Caps, and the like.
1, JAMES JENKINS, late of 32 Ryder Street, Cardiff, but now of Simne Hir,
Marlborough Road, Swansea, in the County of Glamorgan, Hatter, 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 of improvements in hats, caps or the like (hereinafter referred
to as caps) is designed to provide a cap adapted to protect the eyes of the wearer
against wind, dust, sun or rain without materially interfering with his vision, and
also to provide for the efficient ventilation of caps.
To protect the eyes, the cap is provided at its front side with a strip of
transparent sheet material, as for example xylonite, horn or mica of suitable size
and shape, arranged to serve as a transparent peak which may be provided in
lieu of or in addition to the ordinary peak which is usually made of the same
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page_text: material as that of which the body of the cap is formed. When the ordinary
peak is also provided, means are or may be provided for holding it up from
in front of the transparent peak, when the latter is to be used alone as
protection to the eyes.
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To provide for ventilation of the cap I provide the crown or upper part thereof
with a porous lining consisting of a piece of loofah pressed flat, suitably secured
in position, and in the top of the cap I form an air hole or holes that is or are
protected by suitable means such for example as a dome shaped piece of india
rubber notched or perforated at its edge and suitably secured to the top of
the cap.
As will be obvious either of my improvements can be used without the other
though they may advantageously be used together.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 shows partly in elevation and partly in section a cap provided with
transparent and non-transparent peaks and ventilated crown according to this
invention the non-transparent peak being shown held up above the transparent
one.
Fig. 2 is an elevation of the cap but with the non-transparent peak held down
over the transparent one.
Figs. 3 and 4 show the front portion of the cap with the two peaks in cross
section, the non-transparent peak being represented respectively in the positions
shown in Figs. 1 and 2.
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1 is a strip of transparent sheet material sewn to the front portion of the cap
between the outer portion 2 thereof and the ordinary lining 3 so as to form a
transparent peak of ordinary shape as shown. The material I prefer to use for
this purpose is xylonite, made as transparent as possible and moulded to the
ordinary curved form of a cap peak so that when sewn in place it will naturally
retain the form shown without putting any strain on the material of the cap.
the example shown, the cap is also provided with an ordinary peak 4 of the same
material as the outer portion 2 of the cap, but unprovided with any lining or
stiffening material. It is secured in the ordinary way to the front of the cap to
which it may also be connected by an eyelet, hook and eye, stitches or equivalent
means at the point 4°, and is provided with a tubular free edge 4 of braid fitted
internally with a strip 4° of elastic material whereby the said peak 4 can be readily
engaged with the free edge of the transparent peak 1 as shown in Figs. 2 and 4
when it is desired to use both peaks together, and whereby also the non-transparent
peak 4 will be held up above the transparent one when disengaged from the free
edge of the latter, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, so as to permit of the said transparent
peak being used alone.
5 is a flat or nearly flat centre crown piece of loofah sewn to the lining 3 and to
the crown or upper part of the outer portion 2 of the cap below a hole 6 in the
latter so as to permit of effective ventilation of the cap. 7 is a dome shaped cover
of suitable material such as india rubber sewn to the top of the cap above the hole 6
and formed with notches 8 in its edge to permit of the free passage of air, whilst at
the same time effectually excluding rain.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. A hat, cap or the like provided with a peak formed wholly of transparent
material substantially as described and shown for the purposes specified.
2. A hat, cap or the like having the crown or upper part thereof formed with
one or more air holes and provided with a centre crown piece or lining formed of
loofah secured below the said air hole or holes and a perforated or notched cover
piece secured above the said hole or holes substantially as herein described for the
purposes specified.

page_text: 3. The improved cap with transparent and non-transparent peaks and ventilated
crown substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 5th day of February 1895.
W. Lloyd Wise,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.