US1150757A - Hat. - Google Patents

Description

H. GREENBERG.

HAT.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 4, I915.

Patented Aug. 17, 1915.

l/VVE/VTOR Henry Greenber B A TTORNEYS COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH C0,. WASHINGTON, n. c.

HENRY onnnivnnncg' on NEW YORK, n. Y., ASSIGNOR 'ro GREENBERG & LAVE, on NEW York, N. Y., A CORPORATION on NEW YonK.

HAT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 17, 1915..

Application filed February 4, 1915. Serial No. 6,036.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY Gnnnnnnnc, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Hat, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved hat more especially designed for the use of women and arranged to closely resemble in flexibility, firmness and durability the soft, flexible and very expensive hats formed of Milan straw braid.

In order to accomplish the desired result, use is made of a spirally wound textile braid having, at least, three convolutions overlapping one the other and a corresponding number of rows of stitches connecting the convolutions at their overlapping portions.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is an enlarged plan view of the textile braid used for making the hat; Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective View of a portion of the crown and brim of the hat; Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same; and Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional side elevation of a portion of the hat.

In the manufacture of the so-called Ajour hats from Ajour braid, the latter is spirally arranged with adjacent convolutions overlapping and sewed together. The Ajour braid is made of cotton threads woven to provide an open mesh body and side selvages, and hence when the convolutions are overlapped but once and sewed together the open mesh braid body remains visible and the hat lacks the desired firmness and flexibility. In the hat presently described in detail these serious defects are overcome and a hat is produced which closely resembles in flexibility, firmness and durability the well known Milan hats made from narrow straw braids.

The hat shown in Figs. 2 and 3 consists of a crown A and rim B provided at its inner end with an upwardly extending flange B sewed or otherwise fastened to the lower end of the crown A so as to connect the crown and rim together. The crown A and the rim Bare each made of a braid C formed of threads woven together to provide an open mesh body G and side selvages C The braid C is formed into a spiral with, at least, three convolutions or layers overlapping each other, as plainly indicated in Figs. 2, 3 and i, and the convolutions are fastened together by rows of stitches D passing through the open mesh body G adjacent to the corresponding selvages C Thus each convolution receives three rows of stitches, one at the middle and two adjacent the side selvages, as plainly indicated in Fig. 4. By this arrangement the neat, rounded-off side selvages only are visible from the outside together with the rows of stitches D as the open mesh fabric C of each convolution is overlaid by the side selvages C of the adjacent convolutions together with the stitches D. By this arrangement a neat finish is given to the hat and at the same time the desired flexibility, firmness and durability is produced to prevent the hat from losing its shape after the same is once produced through the usual shaping processes, that is, after the convolutions are sewed together as above described.

In order to hide the open mesh fabric of the last and outer convolution and to reinforce the edge of the hat, use is made of closely woven binding braid E overlying the last convolution and being secured thereto by the last row of stitches D, as plainly indicated in Figs. 2, 3 and 4.

It will be noticed that in order to form a hat by overlapping the braid C in the manner described and sewing the convolutions together great care and skill is required on the part of the operator.

It is expressly understood that by sewing the convolutions together along the soft open mesh body portions C of the braid C, the desired flexibility is obtained, while the stiffer, nicely rounded-off selvages C provide firmness and insure long life to the hat and at the same time furnish the desired neat-looking, rounded-off edge on the surface of the hat.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A hat, comprising a spirally wound textile braid having an open mesh flexible body and side selvages, the braid being and rows of stitches connecting the convolu-- tions with each other solely at the braid body intermediate the selvages to assist the selvages to close the open mesh body and to render the hat soft and flexible. I

2A hat, comprising a spirally wound textile braid having an open mesh body and side selvages, the braid being spirally laid with at least three convolutions overlapping one the other and with the selvages overlying the open mesh body, rows of stitches connecting the convolutions with each other solely at the braid body to assist the selvages to close the open mesh body and to render the hat soft and flexible, and a closely woven binding braid overlying the last convolution and being stitched thereto.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for 3. A hat, comprising a spirally wound textile braid having an open mesh, flexible body and side 'selvages, the braid being spirallylaid with three convolutions overlapping one the other with the selvages overlying the open mesh body, and rows of stitches connecting the convolntions with 7 each other, each stitch passing through the open mesh body of three convolutions and adjacent the selvages of the upper and lower convolutions and at the middle of the intermediate one of the said three convolufive cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. v

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