Improvements connected with Hatpins.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Nov., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 30th June, 1900-Accepted, 4th Aug., 1900
Improvements connected with Hatpins.
We, KATHARINE FRANCES POWELL, Spinster, and JAMES POWELL, Esquire, both
of 222, Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park, in the County of London, do hereby de-
clare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to hatpins, and it has been designed to overcome the
risk of injury which is frequently caused by the articles in question. This, as
is well known amounts to a positive danger, serious injury having been fre-
quently caused by the projecting point of the pin in a person's hat entering the
eye of an acquaintance.
According to our invention we employ in conjunction with a hatpin a cap or
cover adapted to fit over the point of the pin. This cap or cover may be made
of any suitable material such for example as glass or metal, and of any desired
ornamental appearance, and it may be filled or lined with cork or rubber or the
like to receive and retain the point of the pin after this has been inserted in
position. Or the cap may be threaded internally and a corresponding thread
provided on the pin at a suitable distance behind the point, so that after the pin
has been passed through the hat it may be screwed into the cap. Or, as will be
well understood, we may employ any other suitable means of securing the cap
in position upon the point of the pin.
In order to avoid the risk of the cap being lost or mislaid, it may be attached
to the hat or to the head of the pin. We prefer to so secure it by a chain or cord
or other suitable means. The pin, after having been passed through the hat may
thus be readily inserted in the cap.
Dotad this 10th day of Nuuuuamihan 1000
We, KATHARINE FRANCES POWELL, Spinster, and JAMES POWELL, Esquire, both
of 222, Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park, in the County of London, do hereby de-
clare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
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This invention relates to hatpins, and it has been designed to overcome the
risk of injury which is frequently caused by the articles in question. This, as
is well known amounts to a positive danger, serious injury having been fre-
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page_text: quently caused by the projecting point of the pin in a person's hat entering the
eye of an acquaintance.
According to our invention we employ in conjunction with a hatpin A a cap
or cover B adapted to fit over the point of the pin. This cap or cover B may be
made of any suitable material such for example as glass or metal, and of any
desired ornamental appearance, and it may be filled or lined with cork or rubber U
or the like to receive and retain the point of the pin after this has been inserted
in position. Or the cap may be threaded internally and a corresponding thread
provided on the pin at a suitable distance behind the point, so that after the
pin has been passed through the hat it may be screwed into the cap. Or, as will
be well understood, we may employ any other suitable means of securing the cap
in position upon the point of the pin."
In order to avoid the risk of the cap being lost or mislaid, it may be attached
to the hat or to the head of the pin. We prefer to so secure it by a chain or cord
or other suitable means. The pin, after having been passed through the hat may
thus he readily inserted in the cap.
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. Hatpins provided with caps to protect the point, said caps being filled with
cork, or rubber, to receive and retain the point.
2. Hatpins having internally threaded caps to screw on the point of the pin
and having also a corresponding thread provided on the pin at a suitable dis-
tance behind the point.
3. Hatpins having their pins screw-threaded at a suitable distance behind the
point and having also internally threaded caps to screw on the said points, sub-
stantially as described.
Dated this 30th day of June 1900.
J. C. MEWBURN & ELLIS,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.