US478952A

US478952A - Samuel cohen

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Publication number: US478952A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-07-12
Anticipated expiration: 1909-07-12

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HAT.

Nog 478,952. Patented July 12, 1892.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL COHEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 478,952, dated July 12, 1892.

Application iiled April 23, 1892. Serial No. 430,347. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL COHEN, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Hat, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved hat more especially designed for use of hunters and other persons and arranged with a sufciently sti brim to form a protection to the wearer against the suns rays, rain, &c., the hat being adapted to be readily folded up for conveniently carrying it in the pocket, valise, or other receptacle.

The invention consists of certain parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter, and then pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specication, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improvement. Fig. 2 is a like View of the same folded up. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the brim on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 11 is a perspective view ot' a part of one of the brim-sections.

The improved hat is provided with the usual crown A, made of canvas or other suitable material, which can be readily folded up. The canvas is connected by the seam-band B, with the brim C extending downward and outward to conform to the shape usually given to hats for hunters use. The brim C is made in sections D, D, D2, and D3, each being provided with a stiffening-plate E,made of card-board, canvas, rubber, leather, sheet metal, or other suitable material, the plate being cut to conform to the shape of the section, as will be readily understood by reference to Fig. 4.

The plates E are covered on the outsideby a covering material F, preferably of the same kind of material as the crown A, this covering material being united at the lower end to the lining G and at the upper end with the lining to the seam-band B, It is understood that thecovering material F, as well as the lining G, passes over the several plate-sections E, and a row of stitches H unites the covering material of the brim with the lining G between the adjacent ends of successive section-plates E, so as to form a crease or joint to permit the several sections to fold one upon the other. (See Fig. 2.) The several plates E may be secured in place between the covering material F and the lining G by rows of stitches I, so as to prevent displacement of the said plates.

As shown in Fig. 3, two plates E are used for each section; but I do not limit myself to the number of plates or the material of which they are made so long as the said plates are sufciently stiif to form a comparatively sti brim, at the same time being sufciently elastic to permit of conveniently folding the sections upon one another, as shown in Fig. l2.

It is understood that each plate E extends throughout the width of the brim, so that the brim formed by the several sections is sufiiciently stiff to project from the crown, as before described, so as to protect the wearer from the suns rays, rain, dac.

I am aware that brims have been made with stifEening-wires at the outer edge of the canvas part of the brim, as is shown in the patent'to Robert Plato, May 31, 1887, No. 364,129, and I do not claim such construction.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A hat provided with a brim made in sections adapted to fold one upon the other and comprising' a covering material, alining, stiftening-plates filling the space between the ysaid covering and lining, and joints formed by the covering material and lining at the ends of adjacent plates, substantially as shown and described.

SAMUEL COHEN. Witnesses:

THEO. G. Hos'rER, E. M. CLARK.