US593805A - Hat-holder - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

' i W. JOHNSTON, Jr.

HAT HOLDER Patented Nov. '16, 1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT. Fries.

YVILLIAM JOHNSTON, J R., OF SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

HAT-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 593,805, dated November 16, 1897.

Application filed August 20, 1896. Serial N-' 603,365. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known'that LWILLIAM JOHNSTON, Jr. of Somerville, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in I-Iat-Holders, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains or with which it is most nearly connected to make and use the same;

This invention has relation to means for supporting or holding hats beneath the pews or seats in churches,.halls, and other places, so that the hats so held shall be out of the way and out of danger of being damaged.

It is the objectof'the invention to provide a hat-holder for use in the places mentioned which may be manipulated so as to be readily accessible, which shall hold the hat without injury out of the way, and which shall normally support the hat in exactly the desired position.

To these ends the invention consists of'a hat-holder pivoted in position beneath a pew or seat, so that it may be swung out from position beneath the seat, receive the hat placed therein, and be retracted or drawn back again .and held beneath the seat by means of a spring, all as I will now proceed to describe in detail and then point out with particularity in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the annexed drawings, and to the letters 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.

Of the drawings, Figure l is a front view of a part or section of a pew or seat with my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same, looking from the left as the invention is seen in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the main parts of the device detached from the pew or seat.

In carrying out my invention I take a length of sufficiently stout wire and bend the same into aloop or ring a of a diameter large enough to receive therethrough the crown of a largesized hat and sufficiently small to engage the rim of the hat to support the same thereby. I form the ends of the wire into or connect them with a shank b, which is in turn connected with or made a part of a standard 0,

which is journaledat its upper and lower ends in a bracket 61, constituting a pivot for the support a. The bracket is formed of metal or other suitable material in such a manner as to adapt it to be screwed or otherwise secured to the under surface of a pew, seat, or bench e in such position as that when the holding-loop is moved outward it may be entirely drawn from under the pew or bench and forward of the front edge thereof, and when it is folded back it will be wholly beneath the same.

To'keep the holder normally in retracted position, so that it may hold a hat which may be placed therein entirely under the seat and out of the way at all times when not wanted for use, I coil a spring f about the standard 0, securing one end thereto and the other end to the bracket or other stationary part in such manner that the spring will retract the holder. An arm 9 is connected with the standard, and with its free end there is connected a cord h, which extends through a guide-eye on the front edge of the pew and is provided on its outer end with a knob j, so that by taking hold of the knob and drawing on the cord the holder may be swung out to receive a hat or have a hat taken therefrom, and when the knob is released the holder will be retracted to normal position, the rear part of the bracket acting as a stop for the arm to limit the extent of the inward movement of the holder. Any other suitable stop may, however, be provided for the purpose.

It will be noted that the standard 0 is inthis construction and arrangement being for the purpose of utilizing the gravity of the loop or holder or when weighted with a hat or with its own weight to swing or fold it back under the seat, and insome instances I may dispense with the spring and utilize-the gravity of the holder alone for the purpose of securing its retraction or folding to back position.

I have proposed to secure the improvement to other things than the bottom of the pew or seat 6. Hence I do not limit myself to the precise arrangement of the parts shown, nor do I confine myself to the exact form and construction shown, since it is obvious that they may be varied within the limits of mechanclined or canted backward in the bracket (1,

vided with the holder-loop a, its shank b, and the arm g; a spring f coiled about the standard and having one end secured thereto and the other end secured to a fixed part; the guide-eye z; and cord h, secured at one end to the arm and extending through the guideeye, as set forth.

2. A hat-holder comprising in its construction the bracket d, adapted to be secured to the under side of a seat; combined with the standard 0, j ournaled in the bracket and provided with the holder-loop a, its shank I), and the arm g; the said standard being set on an incline in the bracket, whereby the holdingloop and its shank will normally, by their own gravity, be swung under the seat, the guideeye 1; and cord h secured at one end to the arm 9 and extending through the guide-eye, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 18th day of August, A. D. 1896.

WVILLIAM JOHNSTON, JR.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR W. CROSSLEY, JOHN M. C011.

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