Improvements in Hat Boxes Made of Straw or Wood Board, Scale (Thin Wood) Board, or analogous Materials.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 4th July, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Apr., 1895-Accepted, 4th May, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hat Boxes Made of Straw or Wood Board, Scale
(Thin Wood) Board, or analogous Materials.
We, HUGH STEVENSON and ALBERT HUGH STEVENSON, both of Silver
Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Box Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in those boxes made of straw board, wood
board, scale (thin wood) board or analogous materials, in which silk, felt and other
hats are packed and our improvements consist in providing such boxes with a
simple device by which the hats can be suspended or supported by their brims.
For example we run a cord or equivalent through holes in the sides of the box
from end to end so as to form a support for the brim of the hat on each side or it
may be at each end of the brim, or another simple mode of carrying our invention
into effect is to glue or otherwise attach strips of straw or other board or wood
or other material in suitable positions inside the box for the support of the hat by
its brim.
Dated this 3rd day of July 1894.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants.
Improvements in Hat Boxes Made of Straw or Wood Board, Scale
(Thin Wood) Board, or analogous Materials.
We, HUGH STEVENSON and ALBERT HUGH STEVENSON, both of Silver
Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Box Manufacturers, 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:-
Our invention relates to improvements in those boxes made of straw board, wood
board, scale (thin wood) board or analogous materials, in which silk, felt and other
hats are packed and our improvements consist in providing such boxes with a
simple device by which the hats can be suspended or supported by their brims.
For example we run a cord or equivalent through holes in the sides of the box
from end to end so as to form a support for the brim of the hat on each side or it
may be at each end of the brim.
And in order that our invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect we will describe the accompanying sheet of drawings reference being had to
the figures and letters marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a side view in section, and Fig. 2 a plan view with the cover removed
of a hat box to which our improvements are applied.
In these views,-a designates the body of the hat box which is of the kind
commonly called a band box, and may be square or other suitable shape, b the
cover and c a cord or other suitable material threaded through eyeletted holes
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page_text: in the sides of the box as clearly indicated by the drawings, so as to form a
support on which the hat is suspended and supported as indicated by dotted lines
in Fig. 1.
In this manner and by this mode of supporting the hat it will not be so liable to
injury when the hat box is carried or moved from place to place.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is:-
In a hat box made of straw or wood board, scale (thin wood) board or analogous
materials-
The arrangement use and application of a cord or its equivalent threaded
through the sides of the box for the purpose of supporting a hat by its brim
substantially as and for the purposes described.
Dated this 1st day of April 1895.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for Applicants.