AN IMPROVED MATERIAL AND ITS APPLICATION FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF HATS, BONNETS, CAPS, OR OTHER SIMILAR COVERINGS FOR THE HEAD
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George White, of 68, Queen Street, Cheapside,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED MATERIAL AND ITS APPLICATION FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF HATS,
BONNETS, CAPS, OR OTHER SIMILAR COVERINGS FOR THE HEAD."-A com-
munication from abroad by Messieurs Durst-Wild, frères, Hat
Manufacturers, of Paris, France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George White at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th June 1872.
I, GEORGE WHITE, of 68, Queen Street, Cheapside, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED MATERIAL AND ITS APPLICATION FOR THE MANU-
FACTURE OF HATS, BONNETS, CAPS, OR OTHER SIMILAR COVERINGS FOR THE HEAD,"
a communication to me from abroad by Messieurs Durst-Wild, frères,
Hat Manufacturers, of Paris, France, to be as follows:-
The Invention relates, lly, to an improved material which is obtained
by covering straw or other suitable plait with silk or other suitable

page_text: thread, chenille, or other suitable ornamental material, and 2ly to the
application of the said covered plait for the manufacture of what is
known as sewn plaited hats, bonnets, caps, or other similar coverings for
the head.
Plait made of wheat, rice, or other suitiable straw, of horsehair or other
suitable material, which allows of the plait being sewn together into
hats or bonnets may be made use of, and the silk or other suitable
thread, chenille or other suitable ornamental material may be laid round
or wound on the plait either by hand or by any suitable mechanical
means, and the said ornamental covering of the plait be of any suitable
colour or colours, either plain, speckled, or otherwise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George White in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 13th December 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
WHITE, of 68, Queen Street, Cheapside, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors give
and grant unto me, the said George White, Her special licence that I,
the said George White, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said George White, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, usc, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED MATERIAL AND ITS APPLICATION FOR THE
MANUFACTURE OF HATS, BONNETS, CAPS, OR OTHER SIMILAR COVERINGS FOR THE
HEAD," a commmunication to me from abroad by Messieurs Durst-Wild,
frères, Hat Manufacturers, of Paris, France, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said George White, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the

page_text: said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George White, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to bo
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
The Invention relates to an improved material for and its application
to the manufacture of sewn or plaited hats, bonnets, caps, or other
similar coverings for the head. This improved material is obtained by
covering in any suitable manner straw or other suitable plait with silk,
woollen, worsted, or other suitable thread, yarn, chenille, or other
suitable material, and so as to form an either entirely or partly covered
plait of a flat, round, or other suitable shape, and which is to be made
use of instead of ordinary straw or other plait for the manufacture of
what is called sewn plaited hats, bonnets, caps, or other similar coverings
for the head.
The plait which is to form the core or interior of the covered plait
may be made in any suitable manner by means of wheat, rice, or other
suitable straw, horsehair or other suitable material, which allows of the
covered plait being sewn into the required shape for forming a hat,
bonnet, or other similar head covering; the material with which this
core or inner plait is to be covered may consist of silk, woollen, worsted,
or other suitable thread, yarn, chenille, or other suitable ornamental
material, and this latter may be round, twisted, plaited, or laid in the
outside of the said core or plait in any suitable manner, viz., by hand
or by any suitable mechanical means, and so as either entirely or partly
cover the said outside, and the said ornamental covering may be further
of any suitable colour or colours, either plain, speckled, or otherwise.
The material thus obtained presents an ornamental outside, whilst at the
same time the plait which forms the inside or core of it allows of the
material being sewn up into the shape of a hat, bonnet, cap, or other
suitable head covering.
Having thus described and particularly ascertained the nature of the
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be executed and
applied, I wish to add that I do not intend to restrict or restrain myself

page_text: to the precise details of the Invention here above described, as many
variations may be made therefrom without departing from the principle
or main features of the Invention; but what I consider to be new and
original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the manufacture of straw
or other suitable plait covered in any suitable manner with silk or other
suitable ornamental material, and so as to allow of making use of the
said covered plait for the manufacture of sewn plaited hats, bonnets,
caps, or other similar coverings for the head.
In witness whereof, I, the said George White, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.