IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR VEEGULLATING HAMS OR COPPRINGS PAD MUR DADATS COVER
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Smith, of Bristol, Hair Seating Manufacturer
and Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OR VEEGULLATING HAMS OR COPPRINGS PAD MUR DAD"
ME
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Smith at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 23rd
June 1864.
I, JAMES SMITH, of Bristol, Hair Seating Manufacturer and Merchant,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF VENTILATING HATS OR COVERINGS FOR THE HEAD," to be as
follows:-
I make the brims and bands or bodies (exclusive of the crowns) of hats or
coverings for the head with one, two, or more thicknesses of jaconet, calico,
swan's down, cork, felt, willow, or other materials, treated with spirit varnish,
shellac, and other gums and varnishes as now practised in hat making; but
instead of making the tip or crown as usual, I use a fabric having a warp of
linen, of cotton, of silk, of worsted, or of other fibre, the weft of which is
composed of horsehair or equivalent substance. When the hat or covering
for the head is made up, the brim and band or body (exclusive of the crown)
is covered with hatters' silk, merino, lustre, or any other material adopted for
the purpose,
but the tip or crown should be uncovered for the purpose of

page_text: ventilation. If desired I could introduce the same fabric (as that of which
the crown is made) into the band or body for the purpose of further insuring
complete ventilation.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Smith in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd
December 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
SMITH, of Bristol, Hair Seating Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said James Smith, Her special licence that I, the said James Smith,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James
Smith, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFAC
TURE OF VENTILATING HATS OR COVERINGS FOR THE HEAD," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said James Smith, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Smith, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in manufacturing hats or coverings for the head as
follows: I make the brims and bands or bodies, exclusive of the crowns, of
hats or coverings for the head with one, two, or more thicknesses of jaconet,
calico, swans' down, cork, felt, willow, or other materials, treated with spirit
varnish, shellac, and other gums and varnishes, as now usually practised in
hat making. But instead of making the tip or crown according to the ordinary

page_text: practice I use a fabric having a warp of linen, of cotton, of silk, of worsted,
or of other fibre with the weft composed of horsehair or other substance
possessing similar qualities as regards power of repelling water, and allowing
similar extent of air openings. When the hat or covering for the head is
made up, the brim and band or body prepared and made as above described,
exclusive of the crown, is covered with hatters' silk, merino, lustre, or any
other material suitable for the purpose; but this covering should not be
carried over the tip or crown, in order more effectually to provide for venti-
lation. If desired I could introduce the same fabric as that of which the
crown is made into the band or into the body for the purpose of further
insuring complete ventilation.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, I hereby declare
that I claim the improvements in the manufacture of ventilating hats or
coverings for the head, herein-before set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Smith, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of December, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-four.
0 Signed and sealed in the
presence of
G. E. FEAR,
72, Castle Street,
Bristol.
JAMES SMITH. (L.S.)