Improvements in connection with Boxes and Baskets for Lady's Hats and Bonnets.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 29th May, 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with Boxes and Baskets for Lady's
Hats and Bonnets.
I, WILLIAM HENRY PAGE of 149 Albion Road, Stoke Newington, London N.,
in the County of Middlesex Trunk, etc. Manufacturer 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 relates to such boxes or baskets as are provided for ladies when
travelling or otherwise, for containing their hats and bonnets, in which means are
provided for suspending each hat and bonnet without being in touch with each
other, and my said invention consists of improvements in devices for effecting the
suspension of such articles of dress, and has for its object a method of constructing
such devices, whereby a hat or bonnet placed in position thereon may remain in
such position, and cannot spontaneously be removed therefrom, notwithstanding that
the said box, case, or basket may be subjected to rough usage, or placed in other than
an upright position.
In order that my said invention and the several ways in which I purpose
constructing and fixing the same in position in such boxes, cases or baskets may be
fully understood, I have hereunto appended a sheet of drawings of which
Figs. 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 are side and front elevations respectively of the two
disconnected parts of one device forming the subject of my invention, the latter
illustrating the manner in which the portion Fig. 2 grasps the hat or bonnet pin
when this has been passed through the hat or bonnet as at Fig. 5.
Fig. 6 is a smaller view illustrating the junction of Fig. 2 with Fig. 1, the
fixation of the former upon the inner surface of a side, the lid or bottom of such a
box, case or basket, and the manner in which the pin of the hat or bonnet Fig. 5
engages with the portion Fig. 2.
Figs. 7, 8 and 9 are views illustrating alternative methods of constructing my
said device as hereinafter explained.
Fig. 10 is a vertical section of such a box, case or basket illustrating the positions
in which either of the said devices may be fixed for the purposes stated.
Referring to the device illustrated by Figs. 1 to 4, I construct of any suitable
metal or other material a plate such as A, having upon its front face a raised
portion B, which may be cast integrally with or pressed up from the portion A,
and in the hollow back of B I fix a suitable spring C. The portion Figs. 2 and 4
consists of a pair of parallel plates D and D', connected to, or formed integrally
with a plate E, having upon its back face an extended or projecting surface F
adapted to slide down into the portion B of A, the said portion B having a slot G
which receives the neck piece joining E with F. The spring C, has a hole H, and
with this engages a stud or projection a on F when the latter is placed in B as at
Fig. 6. The plates D and D¹ carry pivotally a rod K, to which is connected the
back end of a frame or plate L the free end of which is turned upwardly in
contradistinction to that of the plates D and D', and has upon its back or pivoted
end a depending heel M, against which impinges a spring N fixed upon Ę the
tension of which serves to keep L in the position shewn by full lines in Fig. 2, but
permits this to be raised as shewn by the dotted outline in the same figure. The
plates D and D¹ have upon their upper surfaces teeth, notches or serrations bin

page_text: either of which may be placed crosswise the hat or bonnet pin O, after this has
been passed through the hat or bonnet as at Fig. 5, the raising of the plate L
permitting the insertion of this, and the pressure of L upon O by the tension of the
spring N serving to retain O in this position as at Fig. 2 or Fig. 6 or in any of the
intermediate teeth or the like b.
The plate A is provided with holes c by means of which the said plate may be
screwed or rivetted to and upon the inner surface of the lid, sides or bottom of the
leather, wood, basketwork or other box or case P as at Fig. 10, and by reason of
the two surfaces of D and D', and the plate or frame L, the position of the pin O
as first placed between these is permanently retained whatever may be the position
of the case, box or basket P, and should the box or the like at any time be required
for another purpose, the pressing back of the spring C permits the portion Fig. 2
to be easily removed from the portion Fig. 1.
In Figs. 7, 8 and 9 I illustrate other devices which I may employ for the same
purpose in lieu of that previously described.
The first of these, Fig. 7, consists of a shell or mantle R, which may be made
of satin, silk, cloth, calico or other woven fabric, and may be stuffed or padded
with horse hair, wool, flocks, feathers or other material S adapted to permit the
pin O to be easily passe.) therethrough. Or the said shell or mantle R may be of
thick felt, or a double or three ply thickness of cloth or other material which in
itself may be of such rigidity as to hold the pin O without the need of the filling S
as at Fig. 8. Or I may form the said shell or mantle R of buckram or other
stiffened woven material as at Fig. 9, which may be used with or without a filling
such as S, or I may provide the equivalent of R and its filling by the use of a tied
bundle of white fibre or grass or a variety of materials may be employed. of which
the said portion R, S, can be formed, but of whatever material or combination of
material the pad or stuffing R may be formed, I mount and fix the same by any
suitable means upon a wooden, bone, vulcanite metal or other plate T, which may
be adapted to make permanent contact with a metallic or other plate V by
screwing thereinto as at Fig. 7, or by the means of a bayonet joint as at Fig. 8, or
by the means of pegs or studs & upon T engaging with like holes in V as at Fig. 9,
or any other suitable means by which T may easily be fixed to and upon V, the
portion V in all cases being screwed rivetted or otherwise fixed upon any of the
surfaces of the box, case or basket P as at Fig. 10, the hat or bonnet being fixed
in position by being first placed upon R, and the pin O passed through this and
the substance of R as suggested by Figs. 5, 7, 8 and 9.
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.
1st. In combination with a box, case or basket for containing hats and bonnets,
the construction use and application of the herein described devices for suspending
and holding rigidly the said hats and bonnets thereon, substantially as set forth and
shewn.
2nd. In a box, case or basket for containing hats and bonuets, the combination
of a compound plate and spring such as A, B, C, screwed or otherwise fixed in
any desired position therein, and adapted to receive and hold the extension F of a
plate E, connecting a pair of parallel plates such as D and D', having serrations,
teeth or notches such as b, and pivotally carrying between them a plate or frame
such as L, the portions L and D D' being adapted to rigidly retain between them,
by the tension of a spring such as N, a pin such as O, passed through the crown
or other part of a hat or bonnet, substantially as and for the purposes herein
described and shewn by Figs. 1 to 6 and 9 of the accompanying drawings.
3rd. In a box, case or basket for containing hats and bonnets, the combination
of a plate such as V, screwed or otherwise fixed in any desired position therein,
and adapted to receive and hold a plate such as T, screwed or otherwise connected
thereto, the said plate T being attached to a pad or stuffed or hollow mantle such

page_text: as R, adapted to have passed therethrough the said pin O, for connecting a hat or
bonnet thereto, substantially as herein described and shewn by Figs. 5, 7, 8, 9.
and 10 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 20th dor of Anril 1807.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1 Broad Street Buildings, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.