US972199A - Hat-pin holder. - Google Patents

Description

E. A. KOGHERSPBRGER.

HAT PIN HOLDER.

.AYPLIOATION FILED DEC 4, 1909.

972,1 99. Patented Oct. 11, 1910.

aux 15m? UNITED STATES ,PATENT OFFICE.

ELSIE A. KOCHERSPERGER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

HAT-PIN HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Oct. 11, 1910.

Application filed December 4, 1909.

Serial No. 531,340.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELSIE A. Kooirnnsrnncnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Pin Holders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invent-ion relates to hat-pin holders.

The object of the invention is the production of a device of the character named which is adapted to be arranged in hats worn by women to protect said hats against injury by hat pins used in the same.

A further object of the invention resides in the production of a device of the char acter named which may be easily and readily secured in the ordinary hat and when so secured will enable the hat pin to always be inserted in the same place and thus avoid injury and disfigurement of the hat as a result of constant puncturing of same with a pin.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists in the details of construction and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully described and set forth in the claim.

In describing the invention in detail reference will be had to the accompanying drawings in which like characters of reference denote corresponding parts in the several views; and in which,

Figure 1 is a vertical section of a hat provided with the invention; Fig. 2, a detail perspective view of the eyelet of the device, the tongues formed by slitting the tubular body thereof longitudinally being shown bent outwardly in dotted lines; Fig. 3, a detail view of a fragment of the hat showing the manner of connecting the tongues of the eyelet thereto; and, Fig. 4, a detail view showing a fragment of the hat and the receiving element in front elevation.

Referring to the drawings A represents generally a hat of ordinary construction provided with a crown B. The invention as ap plied to a hat comprises an eyelet which is adapted to penetrate the crown to form a fixed passage therethrough to the interior, l

and a pin receiving element mounted on the interior surface of the crown opposite to the eyelet. Said eyelet is shown as comprising a tubular member 8, the large end of which is flared outwardly as at 9 and has its small end provided with a plurality of longitudinally disposed slits 10 forming the tongues 11. The eyelet is secured to the hat by inserting the small end thereof through the side of the crown and then bending the tongues 11 outwardly with respect to the body of the eyelet so as to be disposed against the inner face of said crown. Said tongues are then suitably stitched or otherwise secured to the hat to permanently hold the eyelet in place. The receiving element of the device comprises a plate 12 of rubber or other resilient material which is secured in asuitable manner to the inner face of the side of the crown at a point opposite the eyelet. Secured upon the plate 12 is a convexly disposed sheet of wire gauze 13 which is adapted to receive between the strands constituting the same the point end of the hat pin. The mesh of wire gauze 13 is of a size slightly less than the diameter of the hat pin in use but of sufficient flexibility to be moved outwardly by the force exerted upon the pin and permit the entrance of the latter, the friction between the pin and the strands of the gauze being sufficient to hold the pin against displacement.

The rubber base plate 12 serves to prevent the penetration of the pin through the hat and at the same time readily yields to any distortion of the crown.

What is claimed is:

The combination with a hat having at one side an eyelet to receive a hat pin, and a pin receiving element mounted on the inner face of said hat opposite the eyelet comprising a rubber base plate secured to the hat and a perforated member supported by said base plate in spaced relation thereto so as to engage and support a hat pin projecting through a perforation thereof at a point inward of the engaging end of said pin.

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

ELSIE A. KOGHERSP'ERGER.

\Vitnesses THoMAs K. WEST, EFFIE C. AMERU.

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