US964780A - Hat-fastening. - Google Patents

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T. L. HOLLAND & W. H. GURTIN.

HAT FASTENING. APPLiOATION FILE-D SEPT. 21, 1909.

Patented July 19,1910.

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HAT-FASTENING.

Specification of Letters 'Patent.

Application filed September 27, 1909.

Patented July 19, 1910. Serial No. 519,723.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, TIMOTHY L. HOL- LAND and WILLIAM H. CURTIN, each a citi' zen of the United States, residing at Schenectady, county of Schenectady, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Fastenings, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to such improvements and consists of the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and subsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings, and the reference characters marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar characters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

Figure l of the drawings is a central vertical section of our improved hat-pin guide attached to a hat. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the conical guide with its smaller end uppermost. Flg. 3 is a plan view of the attaching base for the conical guide.

The drawings illustrate the device on an exaggerated scale.

The principal object of the invention is to facilitate mounting upon a ladys hat a conical guide for a hat-pin. It is desirable to attach a hat-pin guide to the hat by sewing the two together. As the conical guide lies quite close to the attaching surface on the inner side of the hat, it is found difficult to make the necessary connection by sewing to the hat an attaching base for the guide if the guide is permanently mounted upon said base, unless the body of the attaching base be a plate of such large dimensions as to be cumbersome. In carrying out our invention we employ an attaching base-plate of considerably smaller diameter than the conical guide, and mount the guide upon said base-plate after the latter has been sewed to the hat.

Referring to the drawing wherein the invention is shown in preferred form, 1, is the conical guide and, 2, the attaching base therefor, both preferably formed of resilient sheet-metal. The conical guide terminates at its smaller end in a split sleeve, 3, the members of which have outwardly bent catches, 4, formed thereon. At the center of the base-plate the base is made tubular as shown at, 5, said tubular portion being adapted to tightly receive the split sleeve, 3, of the guide; and said tubular portion is provided with apertures, 6, adapted to receive the catches, 4., which enter said apertures with a snap action, when brought opposite thereto. When thus interlocked the parts are locked together with substantial permanency, although, if necessary, they can be separated by compressing the split sleeve 3.

In attaching the guide, the attaching base separated from the conical guide is sewed to the hat by stitches passing through the thread-receiving apertures, 7 in the baseplate 2. After the attachment of the baseplate has been accomplished in this manner the split sleeve, 3, is forced within the tubular portion, 5, of the base until the catches, 4, are brought opposite the apertures, 6, which they respectively enter with a snap action. The base-plate, 2, can thus be made of a considerably less diameter than the conical guide, 1, and yet be sewed to the hat conveniently. The hat-pin is directed toward the conical guide by means of a split guide-tube, 8 sewed to the interior of the hat opposite the conical guide 1.

By compressing the members of the split tube, 8, said tube can be adapted to fit and guide pins of smaller diameter than the normal diameter of said tube.

The hat-pin is indicated by dotted lines, 10, and broken-away portions of the hat are shown at 9.

What we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- 1. In a device of the class described, and in combination, a conical guide for a pinpoint and an attaching base therefor of less diameter than said guide, and provided with thread-receiving apertures whereby it can be sewed to a hat, said guide and base having one a socket and the other a resilient catch adapted to interlock with said socket.

2. In a device of the class described, and in combination, a conical guide of resilient sheet-metal terminating at its smaller end in a split sleeve, members of which have outwardly bent catches formed thereon, and

an attaching base of smaller diameter than said guide provided with thread-receiving set our hands this 13th day of September, apertures whereby it can be attached to a 1909. hat, and having a tubular portion adapted to receive said split sleeve and provided with 5 apertures adapted to receive said catches whereby said guide and base are interlocked together.

In testimony whereof, we have hereunto TIMOTHY L. HOLLAND. WILLIAM H. CURTIN.

Witnesses:

ROBERT DONLAN, THOMAS H. WELGH.

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