US494599A - Securing attachment for ladies hats - Google Patents

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H. F. SOHADE. SECURING ATTACHMENT FOR LADIES HATS.

Patented Apr. 4, 1893;

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UNITED STATES P TENT OFFICE.

HENRY FRANK SCI-IADE, OF MILWAUKEE, VVISOONSIN.

SECURING ATTACHMENT FOR LADIES HATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 494,599, dated April 4, 1893.

Application filed May 26, 1892.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY FRANK SOHADE, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Visconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Securing Attachments for Ladies Hats, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are a part of this specification.

My invention has relation to improvements in securing attachments adapted for retaining ladies head-gear in place and designed particularly to supersede the hat pins now ordinarily employed for the purpose. Its object is to provide a simple and permanent attachment for the hat, readily adjustable, and securely retaining the hat in place, without the necessity of puncturing the same, as is now the case in using the hat pins above referred to.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1, illustrates a ladys hat with myimprovement in place, the view showing only one end of the attachment. Fig. 2, is an inverted plan with the attachment properly adjusted. Fig. 3, is a view looking upon one side of the attachments, a portion of the hat being illustrated by dotted lines, in order to show the position of the device with relation thereto. Fig. 4, is an inverted plan showing two of my attachments applied to a hat of the leghorn type wherein it is desirable to secure both at the front and rear, and Fig. 5, is a View looking upon the side of one of these attachments, a portion of the hat being shown by dotted lines.

Like letters of reference designate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings, the letter A indicates a hat to which my improved attachment, B, is applied. This device consists of an oval-shaped portion, 19, conforming to the contour of the head opening of the hat, and two integral prongs or pins, b, extending inwardly from opposite sides at approximate right angles to said sides. The oval portion is provided with a series of eyes or perforations, b whereby the device may be conveniently stitched to the sides of the head opening, preferably at an incline, so that the rear ends carrying the pins will extend down slightly below the junction of the brim and Serial No. 434,431. (No model.)

- crown, and the fore portion will be slightly above the angle of the brim and crown. It will thus be seen that the ends which project below the brim, as clearly shown in Fig. 3, are free, so that no impediment is offered to the spring movement of the pin to engage the hair of the wearer.

In adjusting the hat to place upon the head, the free outer ends carrying the pins are forced outwardly, and when the hat is arranged upon the head in proper position, these ends are released, and the pins permitted to spring inwardly and engage the hair, thus forming a most secure and safe means for retaining the hat firmly in position.

In Figs. 4 and 5, I have illustrated the pre ferred manner of securing the larger sizes of hats, such as the leghorn type, in place. In such styles it'is desirable to provide means for securing the hat at the front as well as the rear. To meet this need, therefore, I secure two of the attachments to each hat upon opposite sides of the crown.

The main portion of the device is curved upwardly, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 5, and secured to the sides by means of threads passing through the eyes or apertures, 19 while the opposite ends of each device are inclined or curved downwardly below the brim, the extremities also provided with the inwardlyextending pinsb, designed to engage the hair. Inasmuch as it is not necessary that the fore part of the hat should be held in place as securely as the rear, the forward pins may, if desired, be made somewhat shorter than the rear pins, as shown in Fig. 4:- In adjusting the hat in place upon the head as in the other case, the ends of the attachment are pulled outwardly so as to permit the hat to be properly adjusted, and said ends are then allowed to spring inwardly and engage thehair.

This attachment I prefer to make of very thin flat spring metal, the pin portion, however, being preferably rounded. If desired, also, the metal may be made ornamental so as not to detract in the least from the appearance of the hat.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. Ina securing attachment for ladies hats,

the combination, with a hat, of a wire body ing down below the brim and angularly bent bent to conform to the shape of the crown of to form lateral inwardly extending pins, and the hat and having a portion thereof extendtheir medial portions curved upwardly above I 5 ing above the brim and secured to the crown, the brim to form means for securing to the 5 and the ends extending below the brim and crown, substantially as set forth.

angularly bent to form lateral inwardly ex- In testimony whereof I affix my signature in tending pins adapted to spring into and enpresence of two Witnesses. gage the hair, substantially as set forth. HENRY FRANK SCHADE 2. In a securing attachment for-ladies hats, 1c the combination, with a hat, of wire bodies \Vitnesses:

arranged upon opposite sides of the crown of ARTHUR L. MORSELL, the hat, said wires having their ends extend- ANNA V. FAUST.

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