US2517228A - Hat fastener - Google Patents

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A 1950 o. H. OLSON ETAL 2,517,228

HAT FASTENER Filed April 5, 1947 Wuffw Patented Aug. 1, 1950 HAT FASTENER Obert Henry Olson and Alice May Olson, Madison, Wis.

Application April 5, 1947, Serial No. 739,526

1 Claim.

This invention relates to hat fasteners to be used within the crown of a hat to secure the same on the head of the wearer.

An object of the invention is to provide a hat fastener which may be easily installed in any hat without unsightly mounting reinforcements which cannot be later removed as desired and without defacing the hat.

Another object of the invention is to provide spring means which will positively and effectively operate to secure the fastener when set into locked position and when released from locked position.

Another object is to provide a hat fastener of improved and less expensive construction.

These and other objects and advantages of the invention will be described more fully hereinafter in the following description of the invention as illustrated in the accompanying drawing.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the invention to show the details thereof;

Fig. 2 is a view showing the device as mounted within the crown of a hat;

3 is a view showing the device in an engaged position;

Fig. 4 is a cross-section through the center line of the accessory button; and

5 is a detailed view of the spring clip.

The hat fastener comprises, in general, a 1ongitudina-l member or shaft I adapted to be mounted at one end within the crown of a hat and with the opposite end extending through a small hole to the outside of the hat.

A series of curved teeth 2 extend from shaft I in close parallel alignment, and which are adapted to engage the hair of the wearer of the hat when adjusted, as will be described, and to thereby firmly secure the hat on the individuals head.

Shaft I and teeth 2 are preferably stamped integrally of a single piece of fiat metal. The end of shaft I to be secured within the hat has a small enlargement 3 formed therewith. The opposite end 4 of shaft I is pointed and is provided with one or more indentations or notches 5 near the pointed end to be engaged by an ornamentation, to be described.

The end of shaft I having enlargement 3 is mounted in a clip 6 which is suitably secured within the hat I by pinning or by stitches extending through holes 8 spaced at either end of the clip.

The clip 6 preferably comprises a single rectangular piece or spring metal with the center portion out to provide a tongue 9. Flat shaft I is passed beneath the tongue 9 of the spring and over the side strips thereof, and is thereby held between the same, a substantially flat engagement with the shaft I lying in the plane of the clip.

Spring 9 thus operates to bias shaft I against rotation when either side of shaft I is in flat engagement in the clip in either of two rotational positions.

The accessory button II] of ornamental plastic or other suitable material has a hole in one end to allow the button to be slipped over the pointed end of shaft I projecting from the hat. Button Iii serves to secure the shaft I and provides a knob whereby the stay may be manipulated.

An annular groove II is out within and near the mouth of the hole in button II] and a spring I2 is fitted within the groove to engage the indentations 5 on shaft I to secure the knob on the shaft.

The fastener may be mounted in a hat in any position desired. The fastener may be placed in the upper part of the crown with the teeth disposed to move downwardly to engage the hair or near the lower crown band with the teeth disposed to move upwardly to engage the hair.

The fastener or stay may be easily removed from the hat as desired by removing the decorative button and withdrawing the main part of the stay from the hat, leaving the clip within the hat where it will not be noticed.

The position of the clip in the hat may be changed at will. For this purpose the clip 6 may have the holes 8 therein providing for fastening it in place by threads, or it may have a pin and pin fastener secured to its back side for pinning the clip in any suitable position in the hat.

The stay may be transferred from hat to hat and used in various ways.

The invention may have various embodiments within the scope of the accompanying claim.

We claim:

In combination with a, hat, a hat stay for holding the hat on the head of a wearer, which comprises a longitudinally extending shaft sharpened at one end for insertion through the crown from the inside to the outside of the hat and. being generally flat-sided at the other end thereof, a series of curved comb teeth integrally formed with the body portion of the shaft and extending therefrom in close parallel arrangement into engagement with the hair of the hat wearer, a clip secured inside said hat and providing at the center portion thereof an elongated member secured at one end to the clip but otherwise freely springing outwardly of the clip, and the flat por- REFERENCES CITED tion of the shaft extending transversely across The following references are of record i th the face of the clip between the body and central m of thi atent: spring member with the clip supporting the shaft UNITED STATES PATENTS and biasing the teeth thereon into engagement 5 with the hair of the wearer and limiting the hat Number Name Date stay unit to a length substantially less than the 543470 Carpenter 2 g diameter of ,the crownof the hat with which it 954,078 Daboul is employed 1,037,808 Thornton Sept. 3, 1912 OBERT HENRY OLSON. ALICE MAY OLSON.

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