US796104A - Hat-holder. - Google Patents

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- No. 796,104. l

PATENTBD AUG. 1, 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HAT-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 1, 1905.

Application led July Il, 1904;.V Serial No. 216,016.

To LZ/Z whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES ELLIOT BAKER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Holders, of which the following is a specication.

The object of my invention is to provide means for holding hats in hat-boxes in such a manner that they will not come in contact with the interior of the box during shipment and will not be marred or rubbed by the holder or by the box; and to this end my invention consists mainly in combining with a Spanner adapted to engage with the edges ot' the hat-box a hat-holding device adapted to suspend the hat inside of the box from the said spanner.

The invention also consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, all asl hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, to which reference is made and which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a plan view of my invention applied to a hat-box, the cover of the box being removed. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the same on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation on line 3 3 of Fig. l, and Fig. l is a plan view ofthe hat-holder proper detached from the box-brace.

In the drawings, A designates a Spanner and brace for the hat-box, and B designates the hat-holding deviceproper, which is attached to and suspended in the hat-box from the said spanner. l

The box-Spanner is composed, by preference, of the strips or plates a a, each formed with flanges a a at the ends adapted to embrace the edges of the hat-box D on opposite diameters, as shown clearly in Fig. l. rlhe strips or plates a a are crossed in the center,

and at this point each is formed with a depression a2, and in said depression the plates are secured by a bolt d and nut c. One of the plates, the lowermost one, is formed or provided with stops or lugs ff, which serve to prevent the hat-holder B from revolving upon the bolt d. Any suitable :t'ormoic stop may be employed in place of the said lugs.

The hat-holder B is composed of the two frames or members Z2 b', (see Fig. 1h) which are clamped together by the bolt d andthe nut d', which latter works on the said bolt between the Spanner and the members of the hat-holder, as shown clearly in Figs. 2 and 3. The member of the hat-holder is formed with a main body-plate t, two lateral angle-arms It le', which are bent downward to form legs 71,2 7a2 and thenupward to form the keepers 7a3 7b3, which are adapted to receive the sweat-band of the hat to suspend it thereby, as shown in dotted lines in Figs. l, 2, and 3. The said body member /L is formed with a slot and with the lip if, which acts as a guide and stop in the slot of the other member b of the hatholder.

The member b of the hat-holder is formed with the main body-plate m, through which the bolt CZ passes and in which it is held. It

is slotted, as shown at m', to receive the lip h5 of the member o, as shown clearly in Fig. 3, and it is formed with a lip m2, which works in the slot it* of the member b, so that by loosening the nut OZ the two members may be adjusted out and in according to the size of the hat to be held. Otherwise the member is in all respects like the member b-that is to say, it is formed with the lateral anglearms m3 m3 and the legs m4 m4, which are bent back to form the keepers m5 m5.

In use the hat-holder proper, B, is detached Jfrom the box-Spanner by removing the nut o from the bolt d. The nut ci. is then loosened and the members adjusted to the size of vthe hat and the sweat-band placed in the keepers 7a3 and m5. sion is put in the keepers k3 m5, so that they will press outwardly against the body of the hat, thus holding it rmly in place. The nut d is then screwed down tightly, and then thespanner is placed upon the bolt d and the nut c screwed down, when the whole is ready to be placed upon the edge of the hat-box D, as shown in Figs. l, 2, and 3.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

' l. A hat-holder comprising two main members united at the center, each composedof a main central body and formed with lateral arms, each arm being formed with a downwardly-projecting leg and each leg with an upwardly-projecting spring-keeper which presses against the body of the hat and holds the sweat-band between it and the downwardlyprojecting leg, substantially as described.

2. A hat-holder formed with lateral arms bent downward to form legs and each leg bent upward to form keeper for holding the hat, and a bolt at the center of .the hat-holder, in

In this adjustment a spring tencombination with a Spanner adapted to be applied to the edge of the hat-box and to the center of which the hat-holder is detachably connected by said bolt, substantially as described.

3. A Spanner for a hat-box, comprising two centrally-crossed plates, each formed with an apertured depression at the center,and formed with downwardly-projecting end flanges to embrace the edge of the hat-box, in combination with a hat-holder having a central screwbolt inserted in the apertures in said plates and a nut on said screw-bolt, substantially as and for the purpose described.

4. A hat-holder composed ot' two separate members, one of which is slotted, the other provided with a screw-bolt, each member being formed with lateral arms bent downward to form legs, a nut upon said bolt for clamping the two members together, in combination with a Spanner for the hat-box formed with apertures to receive said bolt and a nut on the outer end of said bolt, substantially as described.

JAMEb ELLIOT BAKER. Titnessesz H. ALBERTIS WEs'r, E. GEISMAR.

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