IMPROVEMENTS IN FITTINGS FOR SUSPENDING OR OTHERWISE SUPPORTING HATS WHEN NOT IN USE
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Walter Payton, of 9, Bedford Place, Commercial
Road, London, E., and John Stanley, of 244, Whitechapel Road, London,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FITTINGS FOR SUSPENDING OR
OTHERWISE SUPPORTING HATS WHEN NOT IN USE."
Sealed the 27th January 1865, and dated the 30th July 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Walter Payton and John,
Stanley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 30th July 1864.
We, WALTER PAYTON, of 9, Bedford Place, Commercial Road, London, E.,
and John Stanley, of 244, Whitechapel Road, London, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FITTINGS FOR SUSPENDING OR
OTHERWISE SUPPORTING HATS WHEN NOT IN USE," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in improvements in fittings constructed of metal,
wood, or any other suitable material, shaped in the form of a bow, or in any
other suitable manner, having one open side, and so arranged as to admit of
being screwed or otherwise fastened to the under side of seats, tables, or

page_text: shelves, to vertical surfaces, and in other suitable places, their purpose being
that when a hat is passed within such open side, it may be suspended or
otherwise supported by means of its brim or crown.
We likewise propose to make fittings for the above-mentioned purpose of
two or more pieces not made into a bow; and for vertical surfaces we prefer
to combine with such fittings any suitable form of hook upon which to hang
coats or such like articles.
As another modification of such fittings, we propose in lieu of fixing them
entirely, to make them of a suitably shaped frame, and so arranged that they
may be drawn in and out of any suitably shaped slides, or turn upon a vertical
axis carried upon one of their sides.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Walter Payton and John Stanley in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 30th January 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WALTER
PAYTON, of 9, Bedford Place, Commercial Road, London, and JOHN STANLEY,
of 244, Whitechapel Road, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said Walter Payton and John Stanley, Her special licence that we,
the said Walter Payton and John Stanley, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Walter Payton and John Stanley,
our 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, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN. FITTINGS FOR
SUSPENDING OR OTHERWISE SUPPORTING HATS WHEN NOT IN USE," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Walter Payton and John
Stanley, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to. be filed in the Great Seal Patent

page_text: Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Walter Payton and John Stanley,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say:-
This Invention consists in improvements in fittings constructed of metal,
wood, or any other suitable material, shaped in the form of a bow, or in any
other suitable manner, having one open side, and so arranged as to admit of
being screwed or otherwise fastened to the under side of seats, tables, or
shelves, to vertical surfaces, and in other suitable places, their purposes being
that when a hat is passed between such open side, it may be suspended or
otherwise supported by means of its brim.
We likewise propose to make fittings for the above-mentioned purpose of
two or more pieces not made into a bow; and for vertical surfaces we prefer
to combine with such fitting and suitable form of book upon which to hang
coats and such like articles.
As another modification of such fittings, we propose in lieu of fixing them
entirely, to make them of suitable shaped frames, and so arranged that they
may be drawr tin and out of any suitably shaped slides, or turn upon a vertical
axis carried upon on of their sides.
The accompanying Drawings and following references thereunto further
explain our intention, and to show the general arrangement of this Invention,
the dotted lines indicate the position of the hats when in this way held or
suspended. The letters refer alike to all the Drawings.
Figures 1, 2, 3, & 4 show one modification in one piece of cast metal of a
bow shape, for fixing under seats or such like places, to which form we give
the preference.
Figs. 5, 6, 7 show another modification of the bow shape in malleable
iron or other metal.
Figs. 8, 9, 10 show one modification suitable for fixing upon walls or other
verticle surfaces.
Fig. 11 shows two modifications of the application of wood as the material
in two separate parts.
Fig. 12 shows two similar modifications of the application of metal in two
parts.
A, plan; B, section at B", B", on plan; C, wall or other vertical fixing

page_text: surfaces; D, side elevation; E, seat or other horizontal fixing surfaces;
F, front elevation; G, section at h, h, on plan.
In witness whereof, we, the said Walter Payton and John Stanley,
have hereunto set our hand and seal, this 30th day of January,
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
WALTER PAYTON. (L.S.)
JOHN STANLEY.
(L.8.)
Witness,
JOHN SWINBURNE.
WALTER PAYTON. (LS.)
JOHN STANLEY.
(L.B.)