A New or Improved Device for Suspending or Supporting Hats, Caps, and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Oct., 1898-Accepted, 19th Nov.,
1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Device for Suspending or Supporting Hats, Caps,
and the like.
I, EMIL SCHWEIZER, of 2, Rue d'Asfeld, St. Malo, France, Gentleman, 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 relates to a new or improved device for suspending or supporting
hats, caps and the like, the object of this invention being to provide a simple con-
trivance designed to be permanently secured to the hat and by means of which it
may be readily suspended, when not being worn, from the button-hole, pocket or
the like of the wearer's coat or waistcoat or from any small nail or the like that may
project from a convenient wall or place.
This method of supporting or suspending a hat or the like will be found particu-
larly useful in churches, theatres, and other public places, and will obviate the
necessity of placing the hat upon the ground which is now frequently done often
resulting in the hat being damaged.
In order that my invention may be fully understood I will now proceed to
describe same with reference to the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 is
an elevation of the device drawn to an enlarged scale and not attached to a hat.
Fig. 2 is a view at right angles to Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 shows the prongs of the attachment pressed through a thickness of
material which may represent the side of a hat, and
Fig. 4 is a similar view with the prongs bent out.
Fig. 5 being an underside plan of same."
Fig. 6 is a cross section through a hat showing the method of securing the
device in position.
My new or improved device for suspending hats, caps or the like, comprises
a strip of ribbon or other suitable material a of a convenient length furnished
at one extremity with the attachment b by means of which the device is secured
in position upon a hat, cap or the like, and at the other with an attachment e by
means of which it may be suspended from a button-hole, or the pocket of the
wearer's coat, or from a nail or other small projection from the wall.
The securing device is preferably stamped out of sheet metal and furnished with
downwardly projecting prongs cc, dd, which are pressed through the side of the
hat and bent down as shown (Figs. 3 to 6) the device, in the case of a hat as shown
at Fig. 6, being placed inside the sweat band f, the prongs being forced
through the side of the hat to the outside where they are bent down and covered
by the outside band or ribbon g.
The attachment is preferably constructed out of a length of wire bent to the
shape shown in the drawing, the hent over or hooked portion taking into the
button-hole or over the top of a pocket in such a manner as to support or suspend
the hat, while the circular open portions (Fig. 1) are formed to allow of the hat
being suspended from a nail or other small projection.

page_text: When the device is not being employed for supporting a hat, cap or the like it
is turned up inside the hat and the attachment e hooked on to the top of the sweat
band in such a manner that it is wholly contained within the hat, and not visible
from the outside.
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: -
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1/. The new or improved device for suspending or supporting hats, caps and the
like, comprising a suitable flexible strip a furnished at one extremity with the
attachment device provided with prongs cc, dd, and at the other extremity with
the attachment or suspender e preferably constructed of wire, and of the shape
shown, substantially as herein described and shown with reference to the accom-
panying drawings, and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 19th day
F. G. CASSELL
(Of Cassell & Co.),
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W.,
Agent for the Applicant.