US48867A

US48867A - Improvement in ladies hoods

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Publication number: US48867A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1865-07-18
Anticipated expiration: 1882-07-18

Description

E. HZYZ Bomm fnywziar UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMMA HILL, 0E PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOE To THOMAS DoLAN, or SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN LADIES HOODS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 48,867, dated July 18, 1865.

delphia, Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in Ladies7 Hoods; and I do hereby declare the following to be a t'ull, clear, and eX- act description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention consists of alady's hood composed of four pieces of knitted or woven fabric formed, arranged, and stitched together, substantially as described hereinafter, so that the hood may be more full at the rear, require less waste of material in cutting, and present a neater appearance than ordinary hoods.

In order to enable others to make my invention. I will now proceed to describe the manner of constructing the same.

On reference to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side view of my improved hood; Fig. 2, a rear view, and Figs. 3 and 4 diagrams illustrating my invention.

Similarletters referto similar parts throughout the several views.

The body of my improved hood is made of four pieces, A, B, B', and C, of knitted or woven fabric, and of the form, or approximating to the form, represented in Fig. 4. The two pieces'B and B' are, in the rst instance, stitched to the piece A, the edge b of the latter piece being stitched to the edge a, rounded portion y, and edge a' of the piece B, so that the corner :v of the last-named piece shall coincide with the corner of the piece A, the piece B' being stitched to the piece A in a similar manner, when the three pieces will have assumed a shape adapted to that of the wearers head. The lower edges of the pieces A, B, and B' are now stitched to the upper edge of the piece O, which is puckered, and which, forming the cape, completes the body of the hood. A fancy border, e, of any desired pattern is now stitched to the front edges of the hood and to the edge of the cape, and any suitable ornamental trimming, f, may be stitched over the line of junction ot' the pieces A, B, and B', the hood being complete after the addition of suitable strings and .tassels and such other ornaments as the taste of the designer mayr suggest.

Hoods manufactured in accordance with the above-described mode require less waste in cutting the fabric, present a neater appearance than ordinary hoods, and being more full at the back than the latter more readily accommodate themselves to the masses or folds of hair usually worn by ladies.

I desire it to be understoodthat I do not claim a mere arbitrary arrangement of the lines or pattern on account of the economy of material, for I am aware that it is a common right to utilize the material to the best advantage by such means; but, having i, combined with Such economical arrangement a principle of construction by means of which the most advantageous and graceful form has been attained,

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A ladys hood composed of the four pieces A,B, B', and C, formed, arranged, and stitched together substantially in the manner described.

In testimony whereofI have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EMMA HILL.

Witnesses:

HENRY HowSoN, W. J. R. DELANY.