US875337A - Catcher's mask. - Google Patents

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No. 875,837. PATENTED DEC. 31, 1907. A. '0. PERRY.

GATCHERS MASK.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 20, 1907.

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CATCI' IERS MASK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 31,1907.

Application filed July 20. 1907- Serial No. 384,735-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR C. FERRY, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Chicopee Falls, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improve- .ments in Catchers Masks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The present invention relates to the construction of the face pad of a eatchers mask, and to the particular means for detachably holding it 'on the wire frame or cage.

The object of the invention is to construct the face-pad, provided at each side of the cage whereby the curled hair, or other filling thereof, may be amplified at one placeand lessened at another, the same to be readily performed by the individual user of the mask, so that the face pads at the opposite inner sides of the mask may be nicely conformed to the contour of the face for the greatest possible comfort and satisfaction to the baseball player. And another object is to provide fastenings for detachably securing the pad on the wire frame or case which are not only greatly'eheaper, but are susceptible of much more convenient and speedy manipulation than the detachable fastenings here'- tofore used in the corresponding situation in protective masks.

The invention consists in the particular combination and arrangement of parts, and

- the construction of certain of the parts, comprised in a catchers mask, as hereinafter described in conjunction With the accompanying drawings and set forth in the claims.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a side view of the mask showing the face pad made, and secured on the wire frame or cage according to this invention. Fig. 2 is a partial cross sectional view on a large scale as taken on line 22,Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an edge view of one of the face pads.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the views.

In the drawings A represents the frame or cage, constructed of heavy wire, as commonly and extensively made, such frame comprising at each side, approximately ver tical, separated, wire members 10 10, supporting in inwardly facing arrangement, the face-pad, one of a pair of such pads being represented by the letter B.

The mask is made, as usual, with a forewith a chin piece orwide strap E at its middle lower portion.

Each face pad B which is to afford a yielding rest for the side of the face,-to have bearing from the temple drawn to the side of the chin,'consists of a long leather case or pouch made with a slitted opening 12, preferably along a longitudinal edge thereof, with rows of eyeleted holes 13 at its mar ginal portions adjacent said slitted opening, and is provided with a cord 14, engaged through said double row of holes for lacing, and closing temper'arily or detachably, the opening, said case having a filling of curled hair or like yielding stuffing material.

The side face pad has at'its outer side, towards its upper and lower ends, two armed metallic bars or buttons 15 each intermediately pivotally supported by and engaged with the leather of the pad casing, and adapted on being swung to the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2 to engage over and across the separated wire members 1010 of the skeleton mask, holding the pad firmly in place, (more or less elasticity or springing of the parts assuring a satisfactory degree of tension) and on being swung to the position represented in Fig. 3, the pad is free to be removed from the cage.

The pad freed from the cage, maybe opened by unlacing the cord, and the filling may be displaced from one part to another, more filling may be added at some place or places, or some thereof may be taken out, to make the pad conform to the contour of'a given ball players face.

The pad being laced and thereby closed, it may most readily be brought to its place at the inner portion of the cage side and secured by forcing the double armed buttons to their crosswise engagement over the wire members 10, 10.

The double membered buttons are struck up from sheet metal, centrally perforated, and the arms thereof are somewhat bowed,

or inclined relatively to the central portion;

head pad D at its middleupper portion, and -required duty.

I buttons, intermediately pivotally supported 1. In a catchers mask, the combination by and engaged with the pad, and adapted to with the cage or frame, of a side face pad havdetachably engage the said separated wire ing a longitudinal slit-like opening and means members.

I claim 2-- 5 for detachably closing the same, and means, Signed by me at Springfield, Mass. in pres- 15 i for removably securing the pad to the cage. ence of two subscribing witnesses.

2. In a catchers mask the combination of ARTHUR C. FERRY. the cage or frame comprising at the side or- Witnesses:

tion separated wire membersof a side ace WM. S. BELLOWS, 10 pad having a plurality of two armed metallic H. L. SPRAGUE.

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