US1283720A

US1283720A - Hat-cord holder.

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Publication number: US1283720A
Application number: US21699218A
Authority: US
Inventors: Luther C Gage
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1918-02-13
Filing date: 1918-02-13
Publication date: 1918-11-05
Anticipated expiration: 1935-11-05

Description

L. C. E.

HAT CORD R.

APPLICATION FILED 3. 1918.

1,283,720. Patented Nov. 5,1918.

IZ MIHWWNA LUTHER C. GAGE, 0F COOPERSTOWN, NEW YORK.

HAT-CORD HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented NOV. 5, 1918.

Applicationnled FebruarylS, 1918. Serial No. 216,992.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LUTHER O. GAGE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cooperstown, in the county of Otsego and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hat-Cord Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to means for holding in place the cord such as is commonly used upon a hat like the service hatof the U. S. Army; and has for its object to produce a device of this kind that will securely hold a plurality of convolutions of the cord in proper place with relation to each other and to the hat body, that may be easily applied to the hat, either during the course of its manufacture or thereafter by the user, that is inconspicuous when applied, and that can be manufactured at small cost.

In the accompanying drawings Figure l is a side view of a hat to which my invention has been applied.

Fig. 2 i a vertical sectional view through the holder the parts being very much enlarged.

Fig. 3 is a side or face view of the holder on the same scale as is Fig. 2.

Fig. l is a vertical sectional view showing a different form of the invention from that illustrated in the views already described.

In the drawings, A represents a hat having a brim a. To the hat body is applied a cord B that takes the place of the usual hat band, the cord being passed a plurality of times around the hat body-twice in those representations of the invention appearing in the drawings. It is held in place by one or more of the holders that consititute my invention, as many of these to each hat being used as may be found necessary. In practice, not over two, one on each side, will ordinarily be required. In the form of invention shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the holder consists of a central post or stem 2 and two arms 33 branching from the outer end thereof. The stem is passed between two convolutions of the cord and through the material of the hat body as represented in Fig. 2, and is screw-threaded at its end, as at 4:. The arms 33 engage with and hold in place the convolutions of the cord inthe desired relation to each other, and are preferably curved on their inner sides to the better engage therewith. The outer exposed surfaces of the arms may be formed and place lies fiat against the inner face of the vertical portion of the hat body, and between the part of the hat body with which it engages and the sweat band C. The nut 5 when screwed into place draws the arms 3 into close engagement with the convolutions of the cord, securely holding them in place.

In that form of my invention shown in Fig. 4c the stem or post 2 of the holder is hollow and internally screw-threaded and with this engages the screw-threaded shank 6 of the clamping nut 5'. In the use of this form of the invention the shank 6 passes through the hat body to engage with the post or stem 2. The end ofthe stem 2. may be shaped to pass through or partly through the body of the hat, or it may be shaped so as to have a face between which and nut 5 the hat body is clamped. The shape of the clamping nut 5 or 5 is not material to my invention, although I prefer that it should be circular in outline. It is quite important that it should be thin so that, when lying between the sweat band C and the hat body, its presence will scarcely be detected.

What I claim is:

1. A holder for a hat cord having means for engaging with and holding in placethe convolutions of the cord in the positions they are desired to occupy on the hat body, and a standard piece carrying the said cordholding means and adapted to pass through the hat body and to be clamped thereto.

2. A holder for a hat cord having a stem that is adapted to pass between the convolutions of the cord, through the material of the hat body and to be clamped to the latter, and diverging arms carried by the outer end of the stem and shapedto engage with the separate convolutions of the cord and to hold them in place close against the hat body in the desired relation to each other.

3. A holder for a hat cord having a screwthreaded stem portion adapted to pass through the body of the hat, arms carried by the said stem and adapted to engage with and hold in place in proper relation to each other the convolutions of the hat cord, and a thin nut engaging with the stem of the holder and adapted to occupy a position between the sweat band and the body of the hat pierced by the stem.

i. A holder for a hat cord inning means for 5 engaging with and holding in place the convolutions of the cord in the positions they are to occupy, such means being shaped on their inner sides to conform to the shape of the cord, and on their outer sides to simulate the appearance of the cord, and means for securing the said cord-holding means to the hat body.

LUTHER C. GAGE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, I). G.