US34538A - Improvement in military hats - Google Patents

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" UNITED STATES... PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM F. WARBURTON, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT MILITARY HATS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 34,538, dated February 25, 1862.

To all whom, it may concern.'

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. WARBUR- TON, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Military Hats 5 and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention consists of a cape and movable sweat-band, so combined and so arranged within a hat or cap that the sweat-band shall serve to retain the cape in an elevated position, and when moved shall permit the cape to fall when it is required to protect the neck and face from the effects ofthe sun, storms, dac.

The main object of my invention has been to provide military hats with a permanent cape or curtain without disiiguring the exterior and without the necessity of departing from the ordinary regulation patterns.

In order to enable others to -make and use y my invention, I will now proceed to describe the manner in which it is constructed and applied.

On reference to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figures l and 2 are sectional views of a military hat of the regulation pattern with my improvement.l Figs. 3 and 4 are sectional views-of a fatigue cap with a modification of my improvement, and Fig. 5 an inverted plan View of Fig. l.

Onreference to Figs. l and 2, A represents the body, and B the rim, of the hat, C being the sweat-band, about one-half of which is secured in the usual manner to the interior of the hat, the rear half being disconnected therefrom, so that it can be drawn forward away from the interior of the body, as best observed on reference to the plan View, Fig. 5.

To the inside ofthe hat, between the body of the same and the sweat-band, is secured a curtain or cape D, which when not required for use may be packed away in the interior of the body, as shown in Fig. 1. When the curtain has to be used, however, the rear of the sweat-band C is drawn forward, so that the curtain can fall to the position shown in Fig. 2, after which the sweat-band, which is made of a material somewhat elastic, is allowed to recover its former position against the interior of the hat. The upperend of the curtain D extends throughout and is attached to about one-half of the circumference of the hat, and is extensive enough to cover the back of the head and neck, as well as the opposite sides of the face of the wearer, the cape or curtain being furnished with projecting ends dd, having any suitable appliances for connecting one end to the other under the chin.

In order that the loose rear of the sweatband may be retained in its proper vertical position, it may be connected by means of a band or tape E to the interior of the hat, this tape being so situated that it permits the sweat-band to be brought forward when the curtain has to be withdrawn from the interior the wearers head.

It will be evident that while the curtain D affords the desired protection to the neck and face of the wearer, its adoption involves no necessity for changing the form of the hat from the usual regulation pattern.

In Figs. 3 and 4 the cape is made of a somewhat stiffer material than that referred to above, and is formed to fit snugly to the interior of the hat or cap, the upper end of the curtain being in this instance connected to the top of the interior of the hat by a piece F of muslin or other suitable material. The sweat-band O extends throughout a portion only of the circumference of the hat, the rear portion of the sweat-band being form ed either by lining that portion of the interior of the cape D which bears against the head with material of which sweat-bands are usually composed, or 'by making the entire cape of that material. When the curtain is not required for use, it occupies the position shown in Fig. 3 in the interior of the hat, and is held in that position by the sweat-band C. On folding the latter down, however, the curtain will at once fall to the position shown in Fig. 4, after which the sweat-band may be again turned up.

I do not desire to claim, broadly, so attachof the body, but so as not to interfere with ing a cape or curtain tothe interior of a hat or permit the cape to fall, as herein set forth, for cap that it may be packed away in the same the purpose specified. or be Withdrawn at pleasure; but In testimony whereof I have signed my I claim as my invention and desire to sename to this specification in the presence of cure by Letters Patenttwo subscribing witnesses.

The cape or curtain D and movable sweat- WM. F. WARBURTON. band C, when so combined and arranged that- Witnesses: the sweat-band shall serve to retain the cape HENRY HOWSON,

in an elevated position, and when moved shall l JOHN WHITE.

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