US2478550A - Head protector for hats - Google Patents

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Aug. 9, 1949. s. SMITH HEAD PROTECTOR-FOR HATS Filed jNov. 14, 1946 {UNITEo STATE latentecl ug. 9,1949

PATENT ortica HEAD PROTECTOR FOR HATS Lloyd S. Smith, Philadelphia, Pa. Application November 14, 1946, Serial No. 709,839

1 claim. l

My invention relates to a new and useful head protector for hats to be used by men, women and children and is particularly valuable in the prevention of the spreading of contagious or communicable disease and vermin from one person to another.

An object of the invention is to provide a protector or shield to be included as a temporary part of a hat and discarded after use thereof by one person or owned by an individual for his or her personal use in connection with his or her individual hat or hats or with hats to be temporarily placed upon the head, as when trying on hats for size and style.

Another object of this invention is to provide a protector of the kind mentioned including a base member of relatively stiff solidified viscose or other suitable material shaped to generally coincide with the inside of a hat, in the region of the sweat band, and the brim thereof, and a crown member of more pliable solidified viscose or other material which can be wrinkled or folded to assume a position within the hat crown and cover the wearers head.

With the Iabove and other objects in view this invention consists of the details of construction and combination of elements hereinafter set forth and then designated by the claims.

In order that those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains may understand how to make and use the same I will describe its construction in detail referring by numerals to the accompanying drawing forming a part hereof, in which:

Fig. l is a sectional view of the head protector constructed in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view of one style or type of hat with the head protector therein.

Fig. 3 is a similar view of another style or type of hat with the protector shown in position.

In carrying out the invention as herein embodied 5 represents one type or style of hat, such as a felt fedora and 6 is another type or style of hat, such as a straw sailor. These are merely illustrative and might be considered as mens hats but it is to be understood that the protector is applicable to womens and childrens hats as well as mens and of any style, type or shape of hat.

As herein shown, each hat includes a brim 'I, crown 8, sweat band 9,A an ornamental outside ribbon band I0, and a, lining II.

To keep the hat, including its crown, the lining, brim and sweat band, from touching the head of a person trying on said hat, a protector I2 is provided of a size to match the size of the hat in which it is placed or of a size to i'it a persons head. In other words the head protectors are made in all of the various sizes in which hats are usually manufactured.

Each protector consists of a base member I3 of relative stiff solidified viscose or other suitable material, preferably transparent, and a crown member I4 of thinner and pliable solidied viscose or other desirable material. The base member is permanently shaped to include a generally tubular sleeve portion I5 of a height substantially that of the sweat band, and a brim portion I6 projecting outwardly all around the lower end of said sleeve portion. The crown member is generally dome shaped and its lower edge overlaps the upper edge of the sleeve portion of the base member and is Xed thereto in any suitable manner, as by the use of an adhesive I1.

In practice, when a, person is going to try on a hat for size, style or appearance in a store, a protector of the proper size for the customer is slipped into any hat before being placed upon the head. If the protector belongs to the store owner it can be destroyed or presented to the customer but if the customer is the owner of the protector he can remove it and put it away. In either instance, after the desired hat is decided upon the protector is withdrawn and the hat worn in the usual and regular way.

In addition to using the protector for trying on hats it can also be used by individuals, particularly school children, to prevent germs which might be deposited on a hat hanger or hook from coming in Contact with the inside of the hat while the latter is hanging on the supporting device.

When the protector is placed in a hat, the crown portion of said protector will assume the general formation of the inside of the hat crown because of folds, wrinkles or puckers and therefore does not interfere with the proper placing of the hat on the head.

Of course I do not wish to be limited to the exact details of construction herein shown and described as these may be varied within the scope of the appended claim without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having described the invention what I claim Ias new and useful is:

A head protector for hats comprising a base member of stiff solidified viscose fashioned to provide a circumferentially solid sleeve portion of a size to iit within a predetermined size hat and a circumferentially solid brim portion projecting outwardly from the s1eeve portion au REFERENCES CITED around the same Aand adapted to be disposed over a large area of the underside of the hat brim, mgref vlvllferences are of record in the a separate integral crown member of generally dome formation produced from thin, pliable 5 UNITED STATES PATENTS 'sl'olidied viscose so as to be wrinkled, puckered or -folded into the general shape of the inside of a Iuggeggg Cohlggme Apr Dltelgl' hat crown, and means to jointhe edge of the 1,247,319 Ott n' u NovI 20 1917 crown member of the protector to the upper edge 1558142 Brenner n" Oct' 20 1925 of the sleeve portion of the base member of said 10 Y 129062,99 McGill Ma'y 2 1933 Pfotecwf' mt@ a un'tly Strufre" Y 2,1%11o6 -Timmorrs--l-. v. 21', 1939 LLOYD s SMITH I Y ,2,344,927 Weikl't Mal'. 21, 1944

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