Improvements in Leathers or Sweat Bands for Hats.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Mar., 1895
*Complete Specification Left, 9th Dec.. 1895-Accepted, 18th Jan., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Leathers or Sweat Bands for Hats.
I, JOSEPH TAYLOR, of Adswood Lane East, Stockport, in the County of
Chester, Printer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention is designed to provide an improved method of attaching hat
leathers or bands to the interior of hats or other head coverings.
It is applicable to bauds made of leather felt-pads or other material of any
ordinary or suitable construction either formed of a plain leather or band or with
the edge turned down over a spring wire or cane cord or the like and secured
with cement or with the edge whipped or stitched to a textile band or tape with or
without the insertion of a spring wire or with the edge merely stitched over in
imitation of hand sewing or formed in any other way.
It consists essentially in constructing or forming the band or leather with a
number of tabs or a strip of material attached to the back and coated with gum
cement or adhesive material whereby the band can be secured to the interior of
the hat without any stitching or sewing whatever.
In carrying out the invention I attach to the back of the hat leather or band a
number of tabs placed at intervals or a strip of material extending round the
back of the band. These are attached by one edge to the outer edge of the
leather or band by being stitched or cemented or otherwise caused to adhere
thereto. I at present prefer to attach them by whatever process is employed for
forming or finishing the edge of the band. The tabs or strips are coated on their
inner side with a coating of gum cemert or other adhesive material by which to
secure the leather or band to the body of the hat and I thus avoid the work
entailed by sewing or stitching the leathers into position in the hat.
Dated this 14th day of March 1895.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Leathers or Sweat Bands for Hats.
I, JOSEPH TAYLOR, of Adswood Lane East, Stockport, in the County of
Chester, Printer, 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 is designed to provide an improved method of attaching ha
leathers or sweat bands to the interior of hats or other head coverings.
It is applicable to sweat bands made of leather felt pads or other material of
any ordinary or suitable construction either formed of a plain leather or band or
with the edges turned down over a spring wire or cane or cord or the like and
secured with cement or with the edge whipped or stitched to a textile band or
tape with or without the insertion of a spring of wire cane or other material or
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page_text: with the edge merely stitched over in imitation of hand sewing or formed in any
other way.
It consists essentially in constructing or forming the band or leather with a
number of tabs attached to the back and or to be coated with gum cement or
adhesive material whereby the band can be secured to the interior of the hat
without any stitching or sewing whatever.
It will be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings in which
several forms of sweat bands are illustrated to which the invention can be
applied.
Fig. 1. is an extended plan of one form of sweat band.
Fig. 2. is an end view of same.
Figs. 3 to 6 transverse sections of several forms of sweat bands with my invention
applied thereto.
The sweat band A is formed in any of the ways illustrated in the drawings or
in any other ordinary way with any convenient construction of edge.
To the back of any sweat band A I secure a number of tabs B placed at
intervals. These tabs are attached by one edge only to the outer edge a of the
sweat band by being stitched or cemented or otherwise caused to adhere thereto.
I at present prefer to attach them by whatever process is employed for forming
or finishing the edge of the band, the tab or strip being caught in with the
stitching, sewing or cementing by which the turned down edge or the fabric
attached to the edge is secured. c is the spring inserted in the edge of the sweat
band.
The tabs B are coated on their outer side with a coating of gum cement or
other adhesive material by which to secure the leather or band to the body of the.
hat and thus avoid the work entailed by sewing or stitching the leathers into
position in the hat.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
A sweat band for hats caps or the like comprising a band A. with tabs B
attached thereto at the back by the lower edge only and otherwise free or loose
therefrom and coated with an adhesive material on the outerside to adhere to the
interior of the hat by which the sweat band is secured in position without
stitching in the interior of the hat, substantially as described.
Dated this 7th day of December 1895
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool, and London, Patent Agents.