Improvements in Means for Securing Hats, Bonnets, and the like to the Head.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Securing Hats, Bonnets, and the like to
the Head.
I, WILLIAM JAMES TRANTER, of Workhouse Lane, Tipton, in the County of
Stafford, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to a device for securing hats, bonnets, or the like to
the head by means of the hair.
It consists of a plate of frame which may be corrugated and of any suitable
desirable material, such as metal, celluloid, tortoise shell &c. I now form one
or more what I may term bridge or cross pieces having a series of holes or notches
upon their undersides through which the ordinary long hat pins may pass.
The plate or frame is placed beneath the hair, that is, the hair is brought
over it, and preferably this is placed when the hair is being dressed, and is
situated at the upper part of the head. The device may be ornamented by
brilliants or other desired materials, and by reason of its position it, affords.great
security to such, when of an expensive character.
When the hat &c. is placed upon the head, and the pin passed through as
usual, the point is passed across such plate and through one or more of the holes
according to number of bridge pieces, and thus the pin is secure and thereby
the hat, &c, while there is no possibility of sticking the pin into the head.
Dated this 31st day of January 1898.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent.
Improvements in Means for Securing Hats, Bonnets, and the like to
the Head.
I, WILLIAM JAMES TRANTER, late of Workhouse Lane, but now of Priory
Cottage, Castle Road, Tipton, in the County of Stafford, Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This invention relates to a device for securing hats, bonnets, or the like to
the head by means of the hair.
It consists of a plate or frame of any suitable desirable material, such as metal,

page_text: celluloid, tortoise shell &c. I now form one or more what I may term bridge
or cross pieces having a series of holes or notches upon their undersides through
which the ordinary long hat pins may pass.
In order to more clearly explain this my invention I have appended hereunto
an illustrative drawing, upon which are figures and numbers of reference.
Fig. 1, is an end view, and Fig. 2, a side view of this my invention.
Fig. 3, shows my invention in which the retaining plate is modified as a comb.
5, is the plate, upon which is secured the bridge piece 6, in which are holes 7,
or their equivalents, into or through or under which the usual long hat pins
may pass. One or more of such bridge pieces may be used. It will be readily
seen that this plate may be varied in shape as seen for instance in Fig. 3, where
it is made in the form of a comb.
Now when made in the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the mode of attachment
would be somewhat as follows:-The plate 5, is placed beneath the hair, that
is, the hair is brought over it in such a way that the hair holds it in position.
This may with advantage be done when the lair is being dressed, and of course
in a suitable position at the upper part of the head, so that the bridge part 6.
may more or less stand above the hair. When used in the comb form as shown
in Fig. 3, the said comb may be either passed into the under hair (which may
be then covered with other hair) or it may be passed into the outer surface hair
so long as sufficient retaining hold is obtained.
The device may be ornamented by brilliants or other desired materials, and
by reason of its position it affords great security to such, when of an expensive
character.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my
said invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that
what 1 claim is:-
1. The combination with a plate or frame such as 5, which is secured in the
hair, of a bridge or bridges 6 having holes 7, or their like, substantially as set
forth and shown and for the purposes specified.
Doted this 21st dow of Octaban 1800
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent,
12, Cherry Street, Birmingham.