US2122561A - Hat - Google Patents

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July 5, 1938.

H. DOLAN HAT Filed April 17, 1936 m T N E V m ATTORNEY.

Patented July 5, 1938 UNITED STATES HAT Harry DolanyWeehawken, N. 'J., assignor to United States Rubber'Products, Inc., New York, N. Y., a corporation of Delaware 'Application'April 17, 1936, Serial No. 74,823

1 Claim.

This invention relates to hats of the type having a crown and brim and more particularly to improved means for yieldingly urging the'sweat band inwardly away from the inner walls of the hat to yieldingly engage the head of the wearer.

Felt and other hats having a crown and brim are commonly provided with a leather sweat band adapted to engage the head of the wearer.

It has been proposed heretofore to provide an elastic member such as an elastic cord within a hat about the sweat band to draw the latter inwardly away from the walls of the hat to cause the sweat band to yieldingly engage the head.

These elastic members, however, have not been extensively used due largely to the fact that difficulty has been experienced heretofore in developing a satisfactory construction for movably retaining the elastic members in place between the inner wall of the hat and sweat band.

The present invention contemplates an extremely simple but satisfactory construction for yieldingly urging the sweat band inwardly away from the walls of the hat to cause it comfortably to embrace the head of the wearer, and resides in a length of elastic webbing which is secured in a hat about the sweatband and. has one longitudinal edge secured to the inner wall of the hat in .a tensioned condition while its other edge is drawn inwardly by the tension of the webbing against the sweat band to exert a yielding inward pressure against the latter.

Another feature of the present invention resides in the construction and arrangement whereby the elastic webbing takes the place of the reed which is commonly placed in hats between the crown and sweat band, and also whereby this webbing may serve to form the finishing edge or head which is frequently provided between the lower edge of the sweat band and hat.

The various features of the invention will be more fully understood from the following description when read in connection with the accompanying drawing illustrating good practical 7 'Fig. 4 is a sectional view through a hat showing a modified construction.

The construction of the present invention while shown in connection with a felt hat of the fedora type, may be used in straw hats, derbys and 5 other types of hats having a crown and brim.

The hat shown has a crown l and brim 2 and the sweat band 3 may be constructed as usual except that it preferably has been subjected to a thrumming operation to give it a permanent set or radius adjacent the point where it is sewed in the hat.

The means of the present invention for yieldingly urging the sweat band 3 inwardly away from the walls of the hat is best shown in Fig. 3 l5 and comprises a length of elastic webbing of the desired width and degree of strength. This length of webbing is secured in the hat in a tensioned condition between the walls of the hat and the sweat band by sewing one longitudinal edge of the webbing to the hat as at 5 while its opposite edge is drawn inwardly by the tension of the elastic to cause the free edge of the webbing to exert a yielding inward pressure upon the sweat band. As a result of this construction the webbing 4 when secured in the hat assumes the frusto conical construction best shown in Fi 3.

The ends of the length of webbing 4 are preferably, but not necessarily, sewed together as at 6 before the webbing is secured in the hat, andin this case the diameter of the elastic band or ring shown in Fig. 3 should be considerably less than the diameter of the sweat band so that the webbing will be secured. to the walls of the hat under tension. As a result of this arrangement the row of stitches 5 serves firmly to secure the lower edge of the webbing in place so that it can not shift its position bodily in the hat, while the upper edge of the webbing is free to move inwardly and outwardly to accommodate the configuration and size of the head of the person wearing the hat.

The sweat band 3 may be secured to the hat at the juncture of the brim and crown by the usual stitching l, and the elastic webbing in addition to performing its primary function of yieldingly urging the sweat band inwardly, may serve also to replace the 'narrow strip of material known as a reed which is frequently provided in 5 hats between the lower portion of the sweat band and wall of the hat. It will, therefore, be seen that this elastic webbing eliminates the use of the usual reed.

In manufacturing hats a bead or finishing strip has frequently been provided heretofore between the lower edge of the sweat band and hat to provide an ornamental line at this point. The elastic webbing 4 employed in accordance with the present invention may be arranged to form an ornamental finishing strip at the lower 1 edge of the sweat band as will be apparent from the modified construction of Fig. 4, wherein it will be seen that the elastic 4 is secured to the hat by a row of stitches 8 so that its lower edge will be exposed at a point slightly below the edge of the sweat band which is sewed to the hat by stitches 9 extending through the elastic and to form an ornamental edging or bead at the lower edge of the sweat band.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

In a hat having a crown and brim that encircle the head opening, a sweat band secured at its lower edge to said hat to extend upwardly in the hat opening, and means surrounding the sweat band and located between the inner wall of the hat and sweat band and adapted to exert a yielding inward pressure around the sweat band at a point well above its lower edge, said means comprisingv a length of elastic'webbing having its ends united to form a ring that is considerably smaller'than the periphery of said head opening and having its lower edge secured to the inner wall of the hat near the lower edge of the sweat band in a tensioned condition while its upper edge is held spaced therefrom by the width of the webbing and contracts about an intermediate portion of said sweat band to press this intermediate portion of the sweat band inwardly.

HARRY DOLAN.

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