Improvements relating to Hats and other Head Coverings for Ventilating and other Purposes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Aug., 1893-Accepted, 23rd Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Hats and other Head Coverings for
Ventilating and other Purposes..
WILLIAM SUMMERSKILL, Physician and Surgeon 10 Leopold Street Leeds
Yorkshire, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in hats & other head coverings & consists
of an improved band or leather attached to the interior of the hat and bearing on
the head of the wearer.
This band is formed with a number of inwardly projecting pads arranged at
suitable distances apart and formed of springs or soft resilient material, so that the
hat bears on the head only at these points. The pads are situated so that they miss
the main blood vessels passing to the scalp, which thus are left completely free,
allowing the blood to flow as readily as when the hat is off. The hair will thus be
less liable to fall off as the compression of the blood vessels by hats as ordinarily
worn considerably increases the tendency to baldness. Thorough ventilation to the
interior of the hat is also secured by this means.
Dated this 5th day of November 1892.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Hats and other Head Coverings for
Ventilating and other Purposes.
I, WILLIAM SUMMERSKILL, 10 Leopold Street, Leeds, Physician, 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 consists of an improved band or leather attached to the interior of
the hat and bearing on the head of the wearer.
This band is formed with a number of inwardly projecting pads arranged at
suitable distances apart and formed of springs or soft resilient material, so that the
hat bears on the head only at these points. The pads are situated so as to miss the
main blood vessels and nerves under the scalp, which are thus left completely free,
allowing the blood to flow as readily as when the hat is off.
The hair will thus be less liable to fall off as the compression of the blood vessels
by hats as ordinarily worn, considerably increases the tendency to baldness.
Thorough ventilation to the interior of the hat is also secured by this means.
In order that the invention may be more clearly understood, reference is had to
had to the accompanying drawings in which
Fig. 1 is a perspective view and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section of a hat fitted with
my improved band and Fig. 3 a plan of the said band.
A is the hat, in the interior of which at the part bearing on the head is fixed the
band B of leather or other suitable material. On this band at suitable points the
pads C, C C C³ are fixed, a suitable material for these pads being amadou, which
is light and pleasant to the touch. As shown, seven pads are used, three on each
side, and one at the middle of the forehead. Between the centre pad C and the
adjacent ones c¹ an interval is left for the frontal artery and supraorbital nerve;
between the next pads c¹ and c³ will lie the temporal artery and its branches and
between the pads c and c³ the occipital artery.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is ;-
(1.) A hat leather or band having a number of pads around its interior the
said pads bearing on the head and supporting the hat, substantially as and for the
purposes specified.
(2.) The improved hat leather or band formed and used substantially as described
and shown and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 18th day of July 1893.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.