A Novel Manufacture of Travelling or like Caps from Paper, Coarse Linen, or other Cheap Fabrio.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 7th May, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 7th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 16th Mar., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Novel Manufacture of Travelling or like Caps from Paper, Coarse
Linen, or other Cheap Fabrio.
We CEOIL HENRY FITZMAURICE of 53 Sigden Road, Middlesex, Engineer, and
WILLIAM HENRY BUCK of 7 The Lawn, Balham Park Road, Surrey, Agent, do
hereby declare the nature of our said invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to manufacture Caps suitable for travelling and other
purposes from paper, fabric, or other very cheap material so that they can be used tem-
porarilly on a journey and when soiled thrown away or destroyed.
For the purpose of this invention we preferably stamp out blanks from common
paper such as straw glazed or other or canvas with a crown and star or other like pro-
jections also bands or half bands, one or the other being provided with slits for the
reception of the star or other like projections to bind one part to the other by means
of gum or an adhesive so as, to constitute a cap when made up.
The cap may be made from a combination of paper and canvas or other chea
material and instead of the gum or the like being used to make the article up into
cap form the parts may be eyeletted together.
Many shapes of blanks can be made for the purpose of this invention and any
amount of ornamentation can be affixed to the band or other part to make the cap
readily saleable at a very low price.

page_text: Linen, or other Cheap Fabric.
We, CEOIL HENRY FITZMAURICE, of 53 Sigden Road, Middlesex, Engineer and
WILLIAM HENRY BUOK, of 7 The Lawn, Balham Park Road, Surrey, Agent, 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:
The object of this invention is to manufacture caps suitable for travelling and other
purposes from paper, fabric, or other very cheap material, so that they can be used
temporarilly on a journey and when soiled thrown away or destroyed.
For the purpose of this invention, we preferably stamp out blanks from common
paper, such as straw, glazed, or other, or canvas with a crown and star, or other like
projections, also bands, or half bands, one or the other being provided with slits for
the reception of the star, or other like projections to bind one part to the other by
means of gum, or an adhesive, so as to constitute a cap when made up.
The cap may be made from a combination of paper, canvas, or other cheap material
and instead of gum, or the like being used to make the article up into cap form the
parts may be eyeletted together.
Many shapes of blanks can be made for the purpose of this invention and any
amount of ornamentation can be affixed to the band, or other part to make the cap
readily saleable at a very low price.
Two examples of my invention are shown in the annexed drawings.
Figure 1 is a view of a piece of paper, linen, or other fabric cut or shaped for the
formation of a skull cap. A, A, are two wings which serve as the band to go round
the head.. B is the portion forming the top or crown. C, C, are lips or extensions
and having a gummed face, so that when passed through the slits D¹, D¹, and pasted
down and the lips C₁ C also gummed or pasted down upon the band A the cap is
made. The distance, the lip or extension C, is put through the slit D, governs the fit
to the wearer's head.
Figure 2 shows a blank with duplicate wings A, A, A1, A¹, the gummed lips.or.pro-
jections C, C, of A¹ A', are passed through the slits D D in A Å and pressed into
contact. The other lips or projections CC, which are also gummed are, after being
wetted, and passed through D D, pressed down upon the crown B, the lips E E
being also gummed, and pressed down on the wings A A' to form a Muffin, or Porkpie
сар.
Other shapes of caps can be made, if desired, it being only necessary to shape the
blanks by stamping or otherwise to suit the purpose.

page_text: The colours may vary and in some cases the cap blanks may have stripes or stars
printed on them like ordinary cloth, or flannel Cricketting, Lawn Tennis, Boating and
Foot Ball caps.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we claim is :—
The manufacture of travelling or like cap blanks, stamped from paper, linen, or
other fabric and the method of connecting the parts together to form caps as described
and substantially as shown by the annexed drawings.
The 7th day of February 1889.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said C. H. Fitzmaurice
and W. H. Buck.