US560598A - Hat-hanger - Google Patents

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T. T. PEARSON. HAT HANGER.

No. 560,598. Patented May 19, 1896.

AN DREW 8.6RAHAM, PNUTO-LITNQWASHINGTUM D,C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS T. PEARSON, OF SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO EDlVARD D. GIBBS, OF SAME PLACE, AND JOSEPH F. STODDARD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

HAT-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 560,598, dated May 19, 1896.

Application filed June 13, 1895. Serial No. 552,737. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS T. PEARSON, of Somerville, in thecounty of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hat-hangers designed to afford a convenient means for hanging a hat on any projection or in any convenient place, theobject of the invention being to provide a simple device which may be secured in and detached from a hat of any kind, whether soft or stiff, and by means of which the hat may be securely suspended either from a nail or hook, the side of a chair, a projection on the wall, or from a coat or other article of wearing apparel, and also to so simplify the construction of the same that it may be manufactured easily and cheaply and may be folded in the hat when not in use, so that the latter may be worn without detaching it.

With these ends in view I have devised a simple and novel hat-hanger embodying my invention, which I will now proceed to describe with particularity, and set forth in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the annexed drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, forming a part of this specification, the same letters designating the same parts or features, as the case may be, wherever they occur.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows a hat partially in section with my improved hat-hanger applied, the latter being sprung up in its normal position in the hat. Fig. 2. is a side view of the hanger detached from the hat. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 4: shows in detail the holder to which the spring-strip is secured. Fig. 5 shows in detail a slightly modified form of holder. Figs. 6 and 7 show a modified form of attaching plate and holder.

I have shown my invention as applied to a stiff hat; butit will be understood that it may be also employed for suspending a soft or felt hat as well.

a designates the attachingplate, which is slightly curved to conform to the shape of the hat and is placed between the sweat-band and the body of the hat. It is provided with a laterally extending holder for the hanger proper, the holder consisting of a wire I), bent to have two legs If, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, and having the ends of its legs soldered to the said plate a. Said holder has an end bar 12 and a cross-piece b soldered or otherwise secured thereto, which form an aperture 19 the purpose of all of which will hereinafter be described.

0 indicates a long flexible steel strip to which the suspending device is pivoted. It has its inner end curved into an eye 0, which passes around the cross-piece b, the strip then passing through the aperture b around the end bar 17 back between the two legs I), and then forward. By this bending of the end of the strip a coiled spring is formed, which holds the remainder thereof normally close against the body of the hat, as shown in Fig. 1. The outer end of the strip is bent to form a hook cl, which is concavo-convex at the bend, as at cl, so that when the strip is bent, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, the hook may be slipped over the edge of the hatbrim and will not wear the binding thereon.

6 indicates as a whole the suspending device, which is pivotally secured to the strip byaband f. Said suspending device consists of a wire bent intoa straight movable arm 6', a spring 6 a rigid arm 6 and acurved hook portion a, having a pointed end (2 passing through an eye 6 on the spring-arm 6, there being a stop e on the hook portion to limit the movement of the said spring-arm.

Vhen the hanger is not required for use, it is allowed to spring up into the hat, as shown in full lines in Fig. 1, but when it is to be used the outer end is grasped and pulled down until the hook d slips over the brim, which holds the end down, so that the suspending device will be practically rigid with the hat. This is an important feature of my invention, as will be readily understood, as it prevents any tendency of the attaching-plate to slip out of its place.

The suspending device lies normally in a plane parallel with the plane of the flat strip, so that it may be hung upon a nail or hook like an ordinary hanger and thereby prevent the hat from being worn or abraded by direct contact with the hook or nail. When no nails are handy, the hat may be readily hung up by twisting the suspending device into the position shown in Fig. 2 and passing the hook over the rung or arm of a chair or back of a settle, or resting the point 6 upon a projection from a wall or the woodwork thereon. If the nail or hook is entirely taken up with an overcoat, the hook of the suspending device may be slipped into abutton hole thereof or the point 6 may be caught into the fabric. By providing the stop 6 against which the eye a on the spring-arm e abuts, there is no danger of the hook 6 being bent outof shape so as to allow the hat to drop, as might be the case were the stop not provided. The device will not injure the hat in any way or tend to wear or abrade it, the'concavo-convex portion cl of the hook d preventing the edges of the strip from touching the hat and presenting a rounded smooth surface against the hat, which will not injure it.

In Fig. 5 I show in the small views a slightlymodified form of holder for the spring-strip. In this case the cross-bar is omitted and the wire has the legs Z9 Z9 bent into a loop, as shown at b. The strip 0 has at its end a cross-bar 0 which is slipped into the loops, and the strip is bent around the end bar 19 to form a spring. If it is found that the spring thus formed has not sufficient strength, another half-turn may be given to it by turning the cross-bar upside down, as will be readily understood.

Instead of forming the attaching-plate of a metallic strip and soldering the holder thereto, I may form the two of a single wire, as shown in Fig. 6, this being my preferred form. In thiscase the wire may be bent so as to have a long side a and two shortsides a a parallel thereto, the ends a being bent at right angles thereto, so as .to form the holder for the spring-strip.

b is a cross-barwhieh may be adjusted 011 the holder to suit the particular hat with which the hanger is used. The bar 17 is provided with pins 19 which may be thrust into the fabric of a soft hat to securely fasten the fastener and holder in place.

Having thus explained the nature of-the invention and described a way of construct ing and using the same, though without attempting to set forth all of the forms in which it may be made or all of the modes of its use, it is declared that what is claimed is- 1. A hat-hanger comprising in its construction, a flexible metallic strip, means for detachably securing its end to the hat, said strip having its other end free to be bent around the brim, and having a hook rigidly formed thereon to slip over the edge of the brim and a hook swiveled to said free end.

2. A hat-hanger, comprising in its construction, an attaching plate, a holder secured thereto and formed of wires bent to have two legs and an end bar, a flexible strip having one end bent around said end bar to form a spring and having its other end formed into a hook adapted to engage the hat-brim, and a suspending device secured to said strip, substantially as described.

3. A hat-hanger, comprising in its construction, an attaching-plate, a flexible metallic strip bent into a spring at one end and secured thereto, and bent into a hook at the other end adapted to engage the hat-brim, and a suspending device pivoted thereto, and consisting of a wire bent to form a hook with a pointed end, and amovable spring-arm having an eye at its end through which said hook passes.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 28th day of May, A. D. 1895.

THOMAS T. PEARSON.

Witnesses:

EDWARD D. GrBBs, J OSEPH F. STODDARD.

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