Improvements in or applicable to Hats, Caps, and other like Head Coverings.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Mar., 1893-Accepted, 22nd Apr., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or applicable to Hats, Caps, and other like Head
Coverings.
I, SALOMON FRIEZER of 49 Tenter Street South, Goodmans Fields, in the
County of London, Hat and Cap Manufacturer, 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 applicable to hats, caps and like head
coverings the object of the invention being to provide improved means for efficiently
ventilating the same.
For this purpose I form the centre or middle part of the sweat band or leather
and preferably throughout its whole length of a strip of muslin, canvas or other
fabric having an open texture or mesh and between the said sweat band or leather
and the body of the hat or cap I place a strip of suitable corrugated light material
such as cork.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same
by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which
Figure 1 is an exterior view partly in section of a cap provided with my
improvements.
Figure 2 is an interior view of the same.
Figures 3, 4 and 5 are respectively a section, a view of the underside and an
elevation of a portion of the cap drawn to an enlarged scale clearly showing the
improvements.
a represents the cap which is made of cloth or other suitable material as usual;
b represents the sweat band or hat leather the outer or edge portions of which are
formed of the usual material, such as leather, the centre or middle portion c of the
sweat band being formed of muslin, canvas or like material as clearly shewn at
Figure 5, the said material being advantageously connected to the parts b, b by
being stitched thereto as shewn; or it may be connected by means of suitable
cement. d represents the strip of corrugated light material such as cork which I
place between my sweat band and the body of the hat or cap, the parts being
stitched together as clearly shewn in Figures 1 and 3. e represents the usual
lining of the cap and are ordinary ventilating eyelets in the top of the cap.
By this arrangement it will be obvious that by means of the open-work part of
the band and the spaces left between the band and the body of the cap by the
corrugations in the cork strip d a very efficient ventilation will be obtained.
In the drawing I have shewn the strip of corrugated cork as extending all round
the cap but it will be obvious that it may extend only partly round. Also that the
openwork part of the band may in some cases extend only partially around the
band.
I have shewn and described my invention as applied to a cap; the improvements
are, however, equally applicable to hats and other similar head coverings.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
(1.) A sweat band or leather for hats, caps and like head coverings having the
centre or middle part formed of open-work material substantially as and for the
purpose hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figure 5 of the accompanying
drawing.
(2.) The combination with the improved sweat band or leather hereinbefore
described of a strip of corrugated cork placed between the band and the body of

page_text: the head covering substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawing.
(3.) A cap, hat or like head covering having a sweat band or leather of the kind
herein before described in combination with a strip of corrugated light material
such as cork placed between the band and the body of the head covering 5
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawing.
Dated the 15th day of March 1893.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.