US112661A - Improvement in hats - Google Patents

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" n UNITED' STATES i PATENT OFFICE.n l

`ljMPRovEn/llaN-r IN HATS.

i Speciiicationfforming part of Letters Patent No. 112,661, dated March 14, 1871.

Y Be it `known that I, \WII,.LIAM H. WHITE, of Baltimore, in i the f county of Baltimore and Stateof Maryland, have invented a new and `ImprovedMMethod` of Constructing Mens and Ladies Hats5and I do hereby declare that the following is aY full and exact description f thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon. n

The object of myinvention is to improve the constructioniof `mens and ladies hats i which employ a `detachable framein-combination with such hats or other articles of headdress. f`

The nature of my improvement consists in iixing appliances tosuch detachable frames for the purpose of determining the proper position of said frames in said hats, and for fastening thestretching-strings thereto; also,

in effecting a peculiar junction ofthe head or sweatv band (or'body of the hat); with the brims thereof, so that a draw-string may be used about the head to the best advantage.

j. To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will fully describe it byreference tothe accompanying drawings.

Figure Irepresents a detachable frame, used as an active spring, to distend and hold in shape the brim of said hats. It is a hoop7 made of any suitable material. furnished at one e"n`d with the hook D andsliding loop B,

.i'or the double purpose of determi'ningits proper position in the hat and for attaching n the stretching-string thereto.

Fig. III represents the brim of a hat having its outer edge hemmedt to form a casing, into which casing a string is run, entering it at C, and, passing more than once'around the brim, comes out at D, thereby crossing the string in thecasing for a short distance, which creates `friction and assists the process of tying. The end of the string coming out at D is provided with a loop and shortstring, which latter is `fastened tothe brim near the point D and the sweat-band A to the brim B.

prevents the string beingpulled too far out of the casing. To complete the brim, a combination is effected with a detachable frame similar toiFig. 2 bypassing the looped end of the string over the hook on the frame and tying the other end of the string to a short string fastened to the frame through the loop B.

Fig. IV represents by the dotted line the rst row-of sewing in my method of joining It should be sewed one-sixteenth of an inch inside of the inner edge of the brim and about the middle of the sweat-band.

Figure V represents the 4brim B lapped on itself and felled down to the sweat-band A, as per dotted line.

` Fig; VI represents the sweat-band A lapped on itself and sewed, as per dotted line, which formsa casing to receive a draw-string about the head.

Fig. VII represents a cross-section, showing, by the lines Nos. l 2 3, the seams which hold the body or sweat band B B B to the brim A A A. No. 4 shows the casing, and black dot the draw-string. No. l is the first seam made; No. 2, the second seam, and No. 3 the third seam, passing through the body r sweat after it has been lapped or folded `n itself to form the casing No. 4, to hold the draw-string, represented by the black dot.

I am aware that my invention is susceptible of many little variations, but without departing from the general features herein described.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Appliances on. a detachable hat brim frame and hat -brim by which the two are held together at desired points, for the purpose substantially as shown and described.

2. Appliances on a detachable hat brim frame to which can be fastened the drawstrings run into the fabric-brims for the purpose of holding the desired tension, substantially as shown and described. v

3. The method of joining the brimand sweat band or body of a hat by the use of three seams, as and for the purpose set forth.

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