Year: 1886

page_text: I JAMES WILLIAMS of 1 Castle Ditch, Carnarvon in the County of Carnarvon,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its principal object an apparatus for holding the hat or
helmet on against a high wind without having to jam it hard down onto the head.
It consists essentially.
1st. In two or more spring clips attached to the hat which clip the head on
each side like the clips or legs of spectacles, but placed perpendicularly instead of
horizontally.
2nd. In arranging these spring clips, so that they can either lie flat unobserved
inside the hat, or helmet, or be drawn out at will so as to clip the sides of the head
behind or above the ears as required.
3rd. In so fastening the socket or attachment of these spring clips as that it
shall be covered by the hat band.
4th. In details of construction as follows; I prefer to form the spring clips of
steel wire arranged T or U shaped or in other manner, so that there will be a long
approximately horizontal part pressing against the head.
The shank or shanks are curved, and slide in brackets attached to the body of
the hat, they can be a tube or a bent plate, with shanks passing through the body,
and clenched on the outside under the hat band or other construction as desired.
The shanks are bent or knobbed at the end to prevent them being pulled out of
their sockets. These sockets are placed under the lining and the clip passes
through the lining, lying close against it on the outside when not in action.
tube can be made to act as a ventilator, and if desired two wedge shaped pieces of
cork or other material can be inserted one on each side of the tube or attachment,
so as to prevent the latter feeling like a protuberance. The hole in the lining that
the shank comes through can be guarded, gilded, or ornamented in any suitable
manner.
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WM P. THOMPSON & Co.,
323, High Holborn, London,
Patent Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: the Head or for Ventilating.
I, JAMES WILLIAMS, of 1 Castle Ditch, Carnarvon, in the County of Carnarvon,
Engineer 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 has for its object a pair of clips attached to hats, caps, helmets, or
like head coverings that in windy weather can be drawn down, and clip the head
on each side, and thus assist in holding the hat or cap on.
It is best described by aid of the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a
front view of the clip and attachment, Figure 2 side view of same, and Figure 3
hat partly in section showing the clip in place ready for use. When in use it is in
the position shown in dotted lines.,
In these A is a spring clip having a rounded blade or turn B to clip the side of
the head, and one or preferably two shanks C, C, passing up into the hat. These
shanks are held to the body of the hat by a flat plate D either sewn on, or as I
prefer clipped on by four or more projecting fangs E, E, passing through the body
of the hat and being laid down or clenched under the band. To use the apparatus
with effect the spring shanks are normally curved as shown so as to force the blade
or loop B against the head with some pressure. In calm weather it is slid up inside
the hat, in windy weather it is drawn down till it clips the side of the head bebind
the ears or other convenient part. The two shanks being normally further apart
than the width of the plate D, and having hooked or projecting ends F will only
be drawn out from the hat to such extent as shall bring the ends F against the clip
when these prevent it going further. By forcibly pressing the two shanks together
however, the ends will pass within the space between fangs E, and so be capable of
being withdrawn and again inserted. The tube or socket D can be made to act as
a ventilator, by simply withdrawing the sliding part-or making it wider than
that sliding part so that there be space up which air can ascend-as indeed it can
in fig. 1 between the two wires, and if desired two wedge shaped pieces of cork or
other material can be inserted one on each side of the tube or attachment, so as to
prevent the latter feeling like a protuberance. The hole in the lining that the
shank comes through can be guarded, gilded, or ornamented in any suitable
manner. To prevent the blade B hurting the side of the head, I prefer to
cement or sew a covering of velvet or the like over it, so that a flat surface of
velvet only shall bear against the side of the head.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1st. In combination with a hat, a spring clip held with sliding adjustment in
attachments in a hat in such manner that it can be drawn down and clip the
side of the head, substantially as described.

page_text: 2nd. In combination with a hat a spring clip having a shank or shanks C sliding
in guiding piece D in the body of the hat, and a clipping blade or lateral extension B
below offering a wide surface to the head.
3rd. The combination for the purposes described of a plate D having fangs E
attaching it to the body of the hat, and a hat holding device A having freedom to
slide between D and the body of the hat, substantially as described.
4th. The appliances, attachments or mechanism applicable for hats or helmets
for holding them safely on the head or for ventilating, constructed and arranged
substantially as described.