Improvements in Point-protectors for Hat-pins.
Year: 1899

page_text: Cate of Application, 8th Nov., 1899-Accepted, 9th Dec., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Point-protectors for Hat-pins.
I, EMMELINE SARAI PRIEST, of Harrow Weald, in the County of Middlesex,
Married Lady, do hereby 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 point-protectors for hat pins, and
has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient protecting device
for the points of hat-pins, such protecting device being applicable to all kinds
of hat-pins which are possessed of sharp points.
In order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect, reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet
of illustrative drawings, wherein :-
Fig. 1, is a sectional elevation of one form of my protecting device, shewn in
position upon the pointed end of a hat-pin.
Fig. 2, being a similar view of the protecting device, with a slightly modified
arrangement for attaching same to a hat, while,
Fig. 3, is an elevational view of a hat-pin with my protecting device applied
thereto, an arrangement being shewn for permanently securing the device to the
shank of the hat-pin in lieu of to the hat.
In carrying this my said invention into practical effect, I fashion the protecting
device in the form of a spherical or globular shield a of hollow construction,
Auch shield having a projecting bell-mouthed opening a¹ therein for the reception
if the pin-point 6, the said bell-mouth tapering sufficiently toward the junction
thereof with the shield a, as to provide for the hat-pin fitting snugly within
same in order that the said shield may be held securely upon the pointed end of
the said hat-pin.
An eye is provided on the globular shield, to which eve one end of a
chain for its equivalent is secured, the other end being provided with a safety
ping (Fig. 1) for the attachment of the device to a felt or other hat, or such
chain or its equivalent may have a ring h at its free end (Fig. 2), which is sewn
under the ribbon band, in the case of a straw or similar hat, for the same purpose.
If desirable, the shield a may be connected by means of a longer chain or cord
than those illustrated in the foregoing examples, with the shank of the hat-pin
itself, (Fig. 3), an eye 71 being provided on the said shank b, near the head
thereof, for the fixing of the free end of the said chain or its equivalent thereto.
The protecting shield a may be either of plain form, or be chased, engraved,
stamped or provided with any desirable ornamentation.
My invention is applicable to bonnets, and to ladies', nurses' and servants'
caps, as well as to the various kinds of hats.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
The improvements in point-protectors for hat-pins. consisting in a hollow
spherical or other shield having a projecting bell-mouth, the opening in which
diminishes toward the shield. so that when the hat-nin is inserted therein said.

page_text: hat-pin will fit securely within the said shield; and an eye on said shield to
which one end of a flexible chain or its equivalent is secured the other end being
provided with means of attachment to a hat or to the shank of the hat-pin itself,
substantially as herein before described, and as illustrated by the drawings.
Dated this 8th day of November 1899.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for Applicant.