US926360A - Lady's hat-frame. - Google Patents

Description

H. H. SGHOLL.

LADYS HAT FRAME.

APPLIOATION FILED THE. 3, 1909.

926,360. Patented June 29, 1909.

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HENRY II. SGIIOLL, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

LADYS HAT-FRAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 29, 1909.

Application filed February 3, 1909. Serial No. 475,854.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY II. SorroLL, citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ladies HatFrames, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention has relation to improvements in ladies-hat frames; and it consists in the novel details of construction more fully set forth in the specification and point ed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a modern hat frame showing my invention applied thereto; Fig. 2 is an enlarged section on line 22 of Fig. 1 Fig. 3 is a projection of Fig. 2 Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 2 but showing the ends of the tie wire or loop in overlapped relation; Fig. 5 is a projection of Fig. 4f Fig. 6 is an enlarged section on the diagonal line 66 of Fig. 1, looking squarely a ainst the tie loop; and Fig. 7 is a sectiona View showing the prevailing method of tying the cross wires on hat frames.

The object of my invention is to so unite the intersecting wire members of a ladieshat frame that no sharp points or barbs will project to injure the hands of the trimmer by whom the frame is covered, the object sought being to produce a joint which shall be perfectly smooth, thereby enhancing the value of the frame, and permitting a more rapid handling thereof The advantages of the invention will be better apparent from a detailed description thereof which is as follows:

Referring to the drawings, F represents a conventional hat-frame of the kind referred to, and C the detachable crown, constituting a supplemental frame which is secured by the trimmer to the main frame by stitches or any other convenient manner known to the trade. Both the main frame and the crown are composed of intersecting wires a and b respectively, the ends of the wires a being looped about the terminal wires 1) as shown, each of the wires 1) overlapping at their ends 1 which are tied either by a thread wrapped about such overlapped ends, or they may be secured by the wire loop forming the subject matter of the present invention as presently I to be described.

Throughout the body of the frame at points where the wires a and b intersect, it has been customary to tie the points of intersection or joints by means of a short piece of wire looped across the joint, the ends of the wire being brought together, and then twisted, the twisted ends however pointing outwardly from the frame so that they scratch the hands of the trimmer. An example of this prevailing method is illustrated in Fig. 7 where t represents the tie wire looped across the joint or intersection of the wires 0 and b, the twisted ends pointing outwardly from the body of the frame.

My invention contemplates the elimination of the sharp points of the fastening or tie wire and this I accomplish by the construc tion shown in Figs. 1 to 6 inclusive. As stated above, the wires to and b intersect along the body of the frame. At each point of intersection or joint I wrap or loop a fastening or tie wire a with the ends of the fastener pointing inwardly, whereupon the loop is clenched about the wires a, Z), the ends being either in abutting relation as shown in Figs. 1 to 3 and 6 or in overlap ed relation as shown in Figs. 1 and 5, ut always forming a closed ring with the ends of the curve assumed by the fastening wire or tie loop and never protruding beyond the general curvature of such wire, and thereby forming no projections. In this way no sharp points protrude from the body of the frame to injure the hands of the trimmer.

In my improvement the ends of the tie loop e are generally on the inside of the frame, instead of on the outside as is the case with the prevailing method of tying shown in Fig. 7.

Having claim is:-

1. A hat frame composed of intersecting 1 wires, and a wire tie loop wrapped diagonally described my invention what I ring always well within the boundaries of the about the point of intersection, with ends clenched to the Wires and overlapping one another, and confined to the general curvature of the loop.

2. A hat frame composed of intersecting wires, and a wire tie loop wrapped diagonally about the point of intersection, with ends on the inside of the frame clenched to the wires and overlapping one another, and confined to the general curvature of the loop.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY H. SOHOLL.

"Witnesses:

EMIL STAREK, FANNIE E. WEBER.

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