Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Aug., 1886.
Complete Left, 28th Apr., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 31st May, 1887.
I GEORGE FREDERICK REDFERN, of the General Patent Office, No. 4, South Street
Finsbury, in the county of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to the manufacture of a hat leather or sweat band which will
indicate the head measurement of the hat to which it is applied.
Hitherto it has been the practice to employ hat leathers having no indications of
size or head measurement, the size or measure being taken by means of special
devices such as by sliding rules. These means of obtaining the head measurement of
a hat occupy comparatively speaking a long time particularly in the case of factories
where a large number of hats have to be measured or sized, and when the measurement
has been taken it is necessary to indicate it by means of a ticket which is pasted on
the hat leather.
According to this invention, the hat leather is divided into centimètres, inches or
other suitable measure in such a manner that the mere placing into a hat of a leather
so divided will give the exact head measurement of the hat and such measurement
will be clearly indicated on the hat leather.

page_text: UT Dwodu вада.
I, GEORGE FREDERICK REDFERN, of the General Patent Office, No. 4 South Street,
Finsbury, in the county of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention (a communication from abroad by Joseph Burthoul of Brussels,
in the Kingdom of Belgium) 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 the manufacture of a hat leather or sweat band which will
indicate the head measurement of the hat to which it is applied.
Hitherto it has been the practice to employ hat leathers having no indications of
size or head measurement, the size or measure being taken by means of special
devices such as by sliding rules. These means of obtaining the head measurement of
a hat occupy comparatively speaking a long time particularly in the case of factories
where a large number of hats have to be measured or sized, and when the measurement
has been taken it is necessary to indicate it by means of a ticket which is pasted on
the hat leather.
According to this invention, the hat leather is divided into centimetres, inches or
other suitable measure in such a manner that the mere placing into a hat of a leather
so divided will give the exact head measurement of the hat and such measurement
will be clearly indicated on the hat leather.
In order to enable the invention to be fully understood I will describe how it can
be carried into practice by reference to the accompanying drawing in which figures I
and I represent elevations of hat leathers or sweat bands made according to this
invention; figures II and III represent perspective views of the improved bands with
their ends connected together so as to indicate the measurement of the hats to which
they are to be applied; figure IV is a perspective view shewing a hat provided with
one of the improved hat leathers or sweat bands.
In figure I the band is shewn marked in the middle with the figure 50 which is
taken as a basis for indicating the head measurement by means of the divisions and
figures at the ends of the band, the said divisions and figures representing centimetres,
inches, or the like and it is obvious that these divisions may be sub-divided.
To make use of this improved band it is applied to the interior of a hat and its two
ends meeting will bring together the figures with their divisions and by then cutting
the band to the required size as indicated in figure III the divisions of each end will
be cut through so that 6 and 6, or 6 and 5, or 5 and 5, or other figures will bo
brought along-side each other and the distances from the figure 1 will be relatively
greater or smaller. By adding 6 and 6 for example (if these be the figures which
are thus brought together) a result is obtained of 12 + 50 (the latter figure being
that in the middle of the band) and this equals 62 and a head measurement of
62 centimetres will thus be exactly indicated; the leather or band is then secured to
the interior of the hat. The 'cutting of the band might take place through one of the

page_text: sub-divisions when for example 6 might be placed at the side of 6 but the sub-division
would make the measurement 5 + 6 = 111 which added to 50 will make 61↓ giving
a measurement of 61 centimetres.
Figure II shews a band which has been cut to indicate a measurement of
4+37 +50
=
57.
Instead of making the divisions only at the extremities of the hat leathers or sweat
bands the divisions and sub-divisions can be extended throughout the entire length of
the band as shewn in figure I", the figure 1 being placed in the centre of the band.
Figure III shews a band indicating a measurement of 57 and figure IV shows a
hat measuring 56 and provided with a hat leather or sweat band indicating such
measurement.
The improved bands may be made of any suitable material and the divisions may
be marked with figures letters or other signs stamped, printed, or otherwise marked
on the hat leather or sweat band.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
The manufacture and use of the herein described hat leather or sweat band provided
with divisions and figures representing centimetres, inches, or other measurement so
that the said leather shall serve as a measure and also as a sweat band for the hat
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 28th day of Anril 1887