Improvements in Ladies' Hat and Bonnet Holder for Travelling Trunks, Boxes, and like purposes.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ladies' Hat and Bonnet Holder for Travelling
Trunks, Boxes, and like purposes.
ROBERT MURRAY, Engraver on Wood, East Temple Chambers, Whitefriars
Street, London, ROBERT PATERSON, Engraver on Wood, East Temple Chambers,
Whitefriars Street, London, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
The invention consists of a compressible spring (spiral) covered with any flex-
ible material to yield with the spring. The construction is as follows:-We fix
a spiral spring to a metal base or other suitable material-also a piece of metal
on the top of spring. By pressing down the spring the top and base come
together and are held by a button or other catch to allow the box or trunk to be
used for other purposes without removing the holder. The hat or bonnet is
secured to the holder by an ordinary hat-pin being passed through it.
The holder is fixed to trunk or box by ordinary screws or rivets.
ROBERT MURRAY,
ROB. PATERSON.
Improvements in Ladies' Hat and Bonnet Holder for Travelling
Trunks, Boxes, and like purposes.
We, ROBERT MURRAY and ROBERT PATERSON, both of East Temple Chambers,
Whitefriars Street, in the City of London, Engravers-on-Wood, 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 improvements in ladies' hat and bonnet holders, for
travelling trunks boxes, wardrobes and like purposes and has for object to pro-
vide a hat or bonnet holder capable of easy attachment to the interiors of travel-

page_text: ling trunks, boxes, wardrobes and similar articles, which may be compressed
when not in use and the space ordinarily occupied by such holders rendered
available for other purposes.
Heretofore great difficulty has been experienced in making the holders, whether
pads, gauze cones, or wicker frames, capable of removal when it has been desired
to use the trunk or box for other purposes than holding hats or bonnets and
frequent loss of fittings takes place when they have been removed from the trunk
or box. Apparatus such as hereinafter described effectually prevents such loss
and renders the trunk or box capable of use for ordinary purposes without
liability of injury to the articles placed therein.
The construction is a follows:-
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A spiral spring is fixed to a base of metal or other suitable material. We also
use a piece of metal on the top of the spring so that by pressing down the spring
the top and bottom come together and are held by a button or catch to allow of
the box or trunk being used for other purposes without removing the hat holder.
The hat or bonnet is secured to the holder by an ordinary hat pin. The holder
may be fixed to the trunk or box by rivets or screws passing through holes in
the metal or other base.
In the accompanying two sheets of illustrative drawings: Fig. 1 is a plan of
one form of holder having a cross bar at the top of a spiral spring for securing
the holder in the closed position as shewn.
Fig. 2 is a side view thereof with the spring in the open position.
Fig. is a plan of a modification in which the top of the spiral spring is covered
by a disc or plate having a slot in the centre thereof.
Fig. 4 is a side view of Fig. 3.
Similar letters of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
A is a spiral spring having a cross bar B at its uppermost end. the hook
or catch on the base plate 1 for engaging the cross bar B when the spring is com-
pressed thus securing it in the closed position. D the base plate for attachment
to the trunk box or wardrobe. E are holes in the base plate to enable the holder
to be fastened by screws or rivets in any desired position.
In the arrangement shewn in Figs. 3 and 4 a disc or plate F of metal or other
suitable material is substituted for the cross bar B. G is a swivel stud or eye
fastened to the base plate D and passes through the slot H in disc F when the
spring is compressed and being then partially turned acts as a catch retaining
the holder in the closed position.
The apparatus as above is then covered with a suitable material, which will
collapse and extend with the spring, such as velvet, silk, gauze or the like,
through which and the hat or bonnet the usual hat pin is passed when it is desired
to secure either to the holder.
When it is desired to use the trunk box or other articles to which the holders
are affixed, for other purposes, the holders are compressed and secured in that
position and the space hitherto occupied by them rendered available without
it being necessary to remove the holders from the trunks boxes et cetera as here-
tofore.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:
1. A hat or bonnet holder composed of a spiral spring, capable of being secured
in its compressed position substantially as shewn and described.
2. The improved hat or bonnet holder comprising the spiral spring A, cross
bar B, retaining hook (and base plate D), substantially as shown in and described
with reference to Figs. 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings.
3. The improved hat or bonnet holder comprising the spiral spring A, disc
or plate having an opening or slot H and base plate I) with swivel stud or

page_text: eye G, substantially as shewn in and described with reference to Figs. 3 and 4 of
the accompanying drawings.
1099.
ROBERT MURRAY,
ROB. PATERSON,
James G. Stokes,
4, Dane's Inn, Strand, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicants.
ROBERT MURRAY,
ROB. PATERSON,
James G. Stokes,
4, Dane's Inn, Strand, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicants.