Improved Means for Ventilating Hats, Caps, Helmets, and other Head Coverings.
Year: 1895

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Ventilating Hats, Caps, Helmets, and other
Head Coverings.
I FREDERICK WILLIAM TORKINGTON, Salesman to the Firm of Sutton and
Torkington, Hat Manufacturers, Lord Street, Stockport, in the County of
Chester, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :--
My said invention relates to improved means for ventilating hats, caps, helmets
and other head coverings.
The invention consists mainly in making the ventilating aperture or apertures
in a hat or bead covering, capable of being closed or opened or adjusted
by the wearer to suit his own comfort or convenience. For example in
applying my invention to the front of a felt or silk hat I might form
apertures in the hat beneath or over the band, but so as to be easily reached
by the air. Opposite to this perforated portion of the hat I might similarly
perforate the leather lining or band within the hat. In conjunction with these
perforations in the inner lining I also employ a sliding band or tougue of celluloid
or other material not liable to be affected by perspiration, and connected by
loops to the lining band and formed with stops so as to limit the movement in
either direction.
This sliding band or tongue has also perforations which can be moved opposite
to the holes in the hat body and in the lining band, so as to allow access of air to
the interior of the hat, or the band may be pulled to one side or the other so as to
shut off the passage of air.
The perforations.in the leather band may be of any shape and design and the
sliding tongue may be of an ornamental nature or appearance. I do not limit
myself to the specific place or mode of application of the described adjustable
ventilating appliance.
For example it might be applied in the top, side, or crown of the bat
or head covering and instead of the sliding tongue hereinbefore described I
might use a revolvable or other adjunct for opening and closing the ventilating
apertures.
By means of my invention not only can the ventilating holes be fully opened or
closed but the supply of air can be adjusted to suit the comfort or requirements of
the wearer.
DL: 4th Joh 100

page_text: Improved Means for Ventilating Hats, Caps, Helmets, and other
Head Coverings.
:
I FREDERICK WILLIAM TORKINGTON, Salesman to the Firm of Sutton and
Torkington, Hat Manufacturers, Lord Street, Stockport, in the County of
Chester, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
Rame is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement and accompanying drawings :—
My said invention relates to improved means for ventilating hats, caps, helmets
and other head coverings.
The invention consists mainly in making the ventilating aperture or apertures in
a hat or head covering, capable of being closed or opened or adjusted by the
wearer to suit his own comfort or convenience.
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The accompanying sheet of drawings illustrates my invention.
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the interior of a hat to which my invention is
shown applied.
Fig. 2 shows a portion of the hat leather carrying the invention, the ventilator
holes being shown open.
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Fig. 3 is a section showing the air passages to the interior of the hat.
Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 2 with the ventilator shown closed.
In applying my invention to the front of a felt hat a I form apertures 6 in the
hat beneath or over the band (see Fig. 3) but so as to be easily reached by the
air. Opposite to this perforated portion of the hat I similarly perforate the leather
lining or band within the hat. In conjunction with these perforations in the
inuer lining 1 also employ a sliding band or tongue d of celluloid or other
material not liable to be affected by perspiration, and connected by loops c³ to the
lining band c and formed with stops d' at each end so as to limit the movement in
either direction.
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This sliding band or tongue d has also perforations which can be moved opposite
to the holes 6 in the hat body and in the lining band, so as to allow access of air to
the interior of the hat. As an alternative the band o may be pulled to one side or
the other so as to shut off the passage of air.
In Fig. 2 I have shown the tongue & pulled to the right hand so as to leave the
apertures open, while in Fig. 4 the tongue is shown pulled to the left so as to close
the ventilating apertures.
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The perforations in the leather band may be of any shape and design and the
sliding tongue d may be of an ornamental nature or appearance. I do not limit
myself to the specific place or mode of application of the described adjustable
ventilating appliance.
For example it might be applied in the top, aide, or crown of the hat or
head covering and instead of the sliding tongue hereinbefore described I might
use a revolvable or other adjunct for opening and closing the ventilating apertures.
By means of my invention not only can the ventilating holes be fully opened or
closed but the supply of air can be adjusted to suit the comfort or requirements of
the wearer.
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.. The improved means for ventilating hats and the like substantially as

page_text: 2. As means for facilitating the ventilation of the interior of a hat or head
covering, a sliding or revolving or movable strip or part having holes capable of
being brought opposite to ventilating holes in the hat body communicating with
the atmosphere, or of being placed out of communication therewith, substantially
as described and illustrated.
3. As means for facilitating the ventilation of a hat interior the sliding tongue
or strip d of celluloid or other material not liable to be affected by perspiration,
carried in loops in the leather band or lining and having holes which by sliding
the tongue can be placed in or out of communication with holes in the hat body
which communicate with the atmosphere, substantially as described and shown.
Dated the 29th day of November 1895.
Dated the 29th day of November 1895.
For the Applicant,
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5 John Dalton Street, Manchester, Chartered Patent Agents.