Improvements in Eye Protectors for Cyclists and others.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Aug., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 6th June, 1898-Accepted, 6th Aug., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Eye Protectors for Cyclists and others.
I, EDWARD SWAIN, of the Manor House, Fordwich, in the County of Kent,
Etcher, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for the "Improvements in
eye protectors for cyclists and others" to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a protector for the eyes from dust, flies or the like its
chief object being to obviate the use of a veil by cyclists or riders upon horseback
or open vehicles.
According to my invention the protector is formed of a light rigid framework
which acts as a support for a light fabric such as gauze which may be easily
attached or detached from the hat or cap of a rider.
The framework is so formed that it can be extended or closed at the will of the
user. One method of carrying this into effect is to provide the hat or cap with
metallic studs or buttons to which the framework can be attached either by means
of a hook or other device so that the rigid frame which supports the gauze or fabric
can be readily opened or closed.
The method of securing the framework to the hat or cap may be varied in
such a way that the device can either be a permanent fixture or easily removeable.
Dated the Sixth day of August 1897.
AUBREY
RICHARDSON,
Agent for the Applicant, 49A, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.
I, EDWARD SWAIN, of the Manor House, Fordwich, in the County of Kent,
Etcher, 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:-
My invention relates to a veil or protector for the eyes from dust flies or the
like which may be readily attached and detached from a cap or hat.
The eye protector is formed of gauze fine netting or other suitable material sup-
ported by a light rigid frame or it may be made of a material sufficiently stiff to
require no frame and cut to a shape so that it has two ends "B" (Figures 3 and 4
in the accompanying drawings) narrow or pointed, the middle between the ends
being of sufficient width to lay on a cap peak and hang down ("N" Figure 1 in
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page_text: the accompanying drawings) sufficiently to completely screen the eyes of the
wearer.
The methods of holding the gauze in a suitable position are by means of a frame
having a coiled spring, or a frame and an elastic band or cord so as to cause the
gauze to be stretched and held down when set free from the brim of the hat or the
peak of the cap, to which it may be attached, and the method of attachment is by
one of the following means.
The edges of the gauze may be folded or doubled, and fixed by a thread or a fine
wire, in such a manner that they will hold round the frame A; the ends of the
gauze and the thread of wire may be tied to the frame, or they may be held to it,
in place, by a folded plate "D" Figure "7.”
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The frame "A" A¹" Figure 3 may be made of suitable wire having both
rigidity and spring sufficient to hold the fine gauze in place without tearing it.
The wire may be round, flat, V, or other suitable shape.
When the frame "A" is made of a V shaped wire the gauze edges may be placed
within the "V" wire, and the V closed upon the gauze until it holds it securely.
When the frame A" is made of a round, flat, or other suitable shaped wire,
the frame may be placed within the folded edges of the gauze.
To insure the gauze being held down when in use, the frame may be provided
with a spring.
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One method of forming the spring is to coil the wire forming the frame "A"
at the gauze ends "B" Figures 3 & 4; in this case the wire is brought along the
top of the gauze to the centre, forming the top of the frame A" Figures 3 & 4,
and may be attached to the gauze by short coils of wire or other suitable means.
This form of frame, Figures 3 and 4 may be attached to the cap just above where
the peak is fixed, by sewing the wire frame to the cap, or by running the wire
through the cap, to the centre of the cap, just above the peak.
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A second method is by forming a sufficiently large loop upwards, by coiling the
frame A at the gauze ends B" Figures 5 and 6 as above described, but the
frame end "F" is brought down below the frame "A," where it may form a hook,
Figures 5, 6, & 7, or loop, Figures 11, 12, & 13. An elastic band or cord "C"
Figures 5 and 6 of suitable material, may be fixed to the coiled upward loop and
passed through the upper folded edge of the gauze Figures 5 & 6.
By a third method, instead of making a coil on the frame at the gauze ends "B"
the same result may be obtained by using a plate "D" Figures 7, 8, 9 & 16; this
plate may be made wider at one end "G." than the other end, forming a blunt
triangle; it may have three holes Figure 8; or four holes Figure 16 at its wide
end; in Figure 7 the frame end "F" is put through the centre hole of the three
holes, and the frame is bent down on to the plate, and the plate folded up in such
a manner that it holds the frame end, the gauze end, and the elastic band or cord
which passes through the two holes "GG" which are opposite to one another when
the plate is folded."
This plate D may be used in each and every case to hold the ends of the gauze
in place or for other purposes.
These two forms of frame Figures 5, 6 & 7, may be attached to the cap by the
end "F" being pushed into the cap material in the form of a hook, or may he
sewn on in the form of a loop; the elastic band or cord being drawn close to the
cap, pulls on the loop at "B" Fig. 5, or on the plate at "D" at "G" Fig. 7, to
whichever it may be attached. The loop or plate with the frame "A" forms a
lever the fulcrum being the point of attachment of the frame end "F" the pull
of the elastic band or cord forcing the frame "A" down.
One method of closing the protector and raising it up on to the peak of a cap
or the brim of a hat or of expanding the protector and lowering it down to screen
the eves is by means of a spring sewn or otherwise attached to the cap and made
with a point "I" Figs. 10 and 11 at the open end and with a loop at the other
end, the open end of the spring having a notch or hook "H" Fig. 10. The looped
end "F" of the frame "A" is shown in dotted lines Fig. 11.

page_text: To close the protector the looped end "F" is drawn back and held in the notch
or hook "H."
To expand the protector the looped end "F" is released from the notch or hook "H"
and drawn forward to the other end of the spring. Or a similar spring may be
attached by a safety or nursery pin having the catch end of the wire of which the
pin is made bent back along the side of the safety pin to the coil or spring end
and having a notch or catch to receive the frame end as described above.
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A second method of closing or expanding the protector is by means of a stud "K
constructed with a flat disc fixed to a pin "M" which pin passes through a small
knob at K Fig. 15. The plate "O" Fig. 14 is constructed with a long slotted hole
which makes a turn at one end and returns sufficiently to make a hook in the
plate, the ends of the plate are formed into two sharp points projecting in opposite
ways from the slotted hole this part of the plate forms the outer side, the other side
a similar shaped part but without the slotted hole or the points, is folded to form
the back so that it leaves a space sufficient for the stud base to move in Fig. 15.
The plate may be constructed in one or more pieces.
The stud pin passes through the slotted hole and carries a small washer the frame
end and has the knob on the outer end at K.
To close the protector the stud "K," is drawn back in the slotted hole and held
by the hook in the slotted plate.
To expand the protector the stud "K" is released from the hook and drawn for-
ward.
A third method of closing and expanding the protector is by means of spring
clips which may be used to attach the protector to the brim of a hat or the peak
of a cap, the protector is closed by pushing the springs back on the peak of the
cap, or the brim of the hat and it is expanded by pushing them forward on the
peak or brim.
The spring clips may be constructed of wire by coiling the wire in the centre
and bringing the ends together, the ends may be formed into loops the frame
end "F" Figs. 12 & 13 may he looped or hooked into the coil.
Fig. 1 on the accompanying drawings shows a side view of the veil or protector
as fitted to the peak of a cap and lowered.
Fig. 2 a front view as fitted to the brim of a hat and lowered.
Fig. 3 is a side view and Figure 4 a front view showing the frame "A" along
the lower edge of the gauze or other material coiled at the point B, so as to make
a spring to lower or raise the veil or protector the frame "A" being brought for-
ward along the top of the gauze to the centre "E."
Fig. 5 is a side view and Fig. 6 a front view showing the frame" A." formed
into an elongated loop at the end "B" the end "F" of the frame being con-
tinued downwards to form a hook an elastic band or cord "C" taking the place of
the end of the framework "A" Figs. 3 and 4 attached to the frame loops at "B."
Fig. 7 represents a side view of the frame "A" with the end "F" passed through
a plate "D" and is fitted round the frame "A" and used to hold the ends of the
gauze or other material and the elastic band or cord.
Fig. 8 represents the plate "D" flattened out.
Fig. 9 represents the plate "D" edge ways and folded to fit the frame.
Figs. 10 and 11 give two views of a spring.
Figs. 12 and 13 represent spring clips for attaching the frame to hat or cap.
Fig. 14 represents the slotted plate "O" before folding.
Fig. 15 shews a section of the stud "K" in a folded plate "O."
Fig. 16 represents a folded plate "D" with a hole "L" for the stud pin "M."
Having now particularly described the nature of my invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The general arrangement construction and combination of the parts com-
posing the improved eye protector for cyclists and others substantially as herein
described and as shown on the accompanying drawings.

page_text: 2. In combination with a hat or cap the spring and frame arrangements of
suitable wire and materials for holding the fine gauze firmly in place just clear
of the face of the user.
3. In combination plate D and the frame A, Fig. 7.
4. In combination the slotted plate "O" the stud "K" the plate "D" the 5
elastic band or cord "C" and the frame "A" Figs. 14, 15, and 16.
Dated this 6th day of Inne 1898
AUBREY RICHARDSON,
Agent for the Applicant, 49A, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.