Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Aug., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 1st May, 1897-Accepted, 5th June, 1897
I, JOSEPH TAYLOR, of The Hat Manufacturers Supply Co., Ltd., of Coblen
Place, Wellington Street, Stockport in the County of Chester, Managing Director,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide a band for the interior of hats which
will have a neater appearance and a superior finish than those at present more
generally in use.
It consists essentially in applying to a hat a sweat baud made of felt or felted
material upon the surface of which is raised or embossed an ornamental pattern of
any design.
In carrying out the invention I take a felted cloth of suitable thickness and pass
it between engraved rollers to which very considerable pressure is applied. The
rollers are engraved with any desired pattern and as the felt is passed through the
pattern on the rollers is embossed thereon or caused to stand out in relief or if
desired the pattern may be impressed in the felt. The felt is then cut up into
strips of the desired width and stitched at one or both edges as found desirable and
inserted in the interior of the hat in the ordinary way.
The band thus prepared gives a much neater appearance and a superior finish to
the hat.
Dated this 7th dex of Angust 1896
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.
I, JOSEPH TAYLOR, of The Hat Manufacturers Supply Co., Ltd., of Cobden
Place, Wellington Street, Stockport, in the County of Chester, Managing
Director, 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 to provide a band for the interior of hats which
will have a neater appearance and a superior finish than those at present more
generally in use.
It consists essentially in applying to a hat a sweat band made of felt or felted
material upon the surface of which is raised or embossed an ornamental pattern of
any design.
It will be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings in
which as examples two forms or patterns are illustrated. The pattern may be of
ane design

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one pattern.
Fig. 2 illustrates another pattern.
In carrying out the invention I take a felted cloth of suitable thickness and pass
it between engraved rollers to which very considerable pressure is applied. The
rollers are engraved with any desired pattern and as the felt is passed through the
.pattern on the rollers is embossed thereon or caused to stand out in relief or if
desired the pattern may be impressed in the felt. The felt is then cut up into
strips A of the desired width and stitched at one or both edges as found desirable
and inserted in the interior of the hat in the ordinary way.
The band thus prepared gives a much neater appearance and a superior finish to
the hat.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be perforined I declare that what I
claim is :-
The manufacture and use of sweat bands for hats comprising a strip of felt
having a pattern of any desired design embossed in relief thereon substantially as
described.
Dated this ond day of T1007
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool, and London, Patent Agents.