Improvements in Means for Ventilating Hats and other Head Coverings.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd June, 1891-Accepted, 22nd Aug., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Ventilating Hats and other Head
Coverings.
I, EDWARD JOHN SHARP, of Southlands, Beech Road, Call Green, Stockport,
in the County of Chester, Helmet Manufacturer's Manager, 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 relates to improvements in means for ventilating hats and other
head coverings, such as helmets and the like, and in particular to an invention for
which Letters Patent No. 5309 dated 8th day of April, 1890, were granted to me.
In the said invention a spring band is used partly secured to the hat body and
partly to the head band and adapted to conform with the shape of the head and
leave spaces between the hat body and the head band, for the purpose of permitting
the air to play freely and directly onto the forehead of the wearer.
The object of my present invention is to improve the construction of the said
spring band so that it can be adjusted to the size of head of the wearer and more
readily fitted into the hat.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to
be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures.
Fig. 1 is a sectional side view of the portion of a hat to which the spring band
is attached and
Fig. 2 a plan thereof.
Fig. 3 is a front view of the middle portion and
Fig. 4 a plan of the end portion of the spring band enlarged.
In carrying out my improvements and referring to the figures generally, I form
the spring banda, with a supporting band ax, preferably stamped out of thin sheet
metal in one piece. The bands a, ax in or about the middle are formed with a
flexible connection or connections 6 and the ends of the spring band a made
adjustable in the ends of the supporting band ax, by such device as a metal clip. c,
or other convenient form of fastening, and slots c¹ formed in the supporting band a*.
The supporting band ax is fixed to the hat body also by means of metal clips c³,
positioned near each side of the flexible connection, whilst the spring band a is
suitably attached to the lower part of the head band d, the upper part d' thereof
being attached to the hat body.
It will thus be understood that by adjusting, forwards or backwards, the ends of
the spring band a on the end of the supporting band a*, the air spaces a' between
the hat body and the head band d can be enlarged or reduced at will and thus
compensate for the different sizes and shapes of heads.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim, is.
"In means for ventilating hats and other head coverings."
1st. The spring band a formed with a supporting band u*, the end of the former
being adjustable on the ends of the latter, substantially as and for the purpose set
forth.
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page_text: attached to the hat body and the part a to the head band d, substantially as and for
the purpose set forth.
Dated this 20th day of June 1891.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.