US1212132A - Hat. - Google Patents

Description

HAT.

APPLICATION FILED FEB- 15, I916.

Patented Jan. 9,1917.

INVEN To'R WITNESS arromvsvs FDS ATES PAT oron.

' WILLIAM comma. or PHILADELP IA, PENNSYLVANIA.

' HAT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 1c, 1916. Serial No. 78,568. 1

'hat;, to provide means whereby a hat may be made substantially self-conforming, thus avoiding, except. in extreme cases, the necessity of shaping or blocking the hat in order to adapt it to individual peculiarities in the form or configuration of the head of the person by whom it is intended to be worn, and to provide cushioning means which shall be efi'ective during the life of the hat and which will not become inoperative through age or constant usage, so that the sweat band shall always present a soft and yielding surface to the head of the wearer when the hat is in use.

Further objects of my invention are to provide cushioning means havingthe foregoing characteristics, which shall not add materially to the cost of manufacture of the hat; which shall not detract from the appearance of the finished hat,- and which maybe. readily embodied in any desired type or style of hat.

- My invention further includes all of theother various novel objects and features of construction and arrangement hereinafter more definitely specified and described.

In tion of ordinary form, although it will be understood that the hats, Figure 1. being a central vertical, longitudinal section through the hat, showing a preferred embodiment of the invention,

a portion of the sweat band of the hat being broken away and turned down for the sake of clearness; Fig. 2. an enlarged, fragmentary, vertical, longitudinal central sec tionthe. parts being shown in operative position, andFig. 3, a similar view with certain of the parts turned down to more readily illustrate the construction. Fig. 4.

is an enlarged,

the accompanying. drawing the inven-' is shown as embodied in a Derby hat invention is equally body adapted for use in other types or styles of of the hat and adjacent fragmentary view similar to.

Fig. 2. illustrating a slightly modified form of the invention.

Patented Jan. 9, 1917.

Referring now to that form of the invention illustrated in Figs. 1-3 inclusive, the

same is shown in a Derby hat of. ordinary form having the usual body 1, brim 2, and sweat band 3. For the purpose of securing the sweat band within the hat, a strip of oiled silk or other material 4, which is preferably of relatively less thickness than as shown in the drawing, is folded over a suitable wire or cord 6 and secured adjacent the inner periphery of the hat body by suitable.

stitches 8 extending through the material .2

adjacent the wire andinto the hat-body in the usual manner, the free ends 9 of the materlal projecting upwardly for a short distance into the hat. The lower edge 12 of the sweat band is adapted to be secured to the material 4 by suitable stitching 13 in such manner that the sweat band when in operative position will extend upwardly into the body of the but as .shown in Fig. 1. in the ordinary way. Instead, however, of utilizing a sweat band stantially equal to length of the interior of the hat body 1 adjacent the wire 6, a sweat band ofv somewhat shorter length is employed, and durhaving a len h sub- .the circum erential mg the operationof attaching it to the mathe sweat'band in the finished hat to stand out from the interior of the hat, leaving a space 14 between the band and the hat body. In the preferred embodiment of my invention,'I so proportion the length of the sweat band to the length of the wire'or cord 6. which interior circumferential length of the hat adjacent its lower edge, that the band may be drummed for about one half of the distance from, the front of the hat to the rear thereof on either side of the median Hence in the finished hat the space 14. will extend for a. substantially similar distance, while in the. rear portion of the hat the p the interior of the body as shown in Fig. 1. Between the sweat. band 3 and the body 1 the front thereof, is directed toward (which in the drawing the sheet, and exthe right hand edge of tending rearwardly on in practice is'substantially that of the either si e of the 185 sweat band will lie closely adjacent median line, is positioned a'suitable strip or band of resilient material 15 hereinafter referred to as the pad and which in the finished hat is designed to lie within the a relatively non-stretchable band or strip 16 of cloth or other suitable material secured thereto in any suitable and convenient manner, as by means ofsuitable stitches 18, extending through the cloth and through the pad. In practice, this strip 16 is of rela .tively less thickness than. as shown in the drawing, where the proportions are exa gerated for the sake of clearness. Instea however, ofa merely sewing. or otherwise uniting the strip 16 to the pad when the latter is in normal condition and before securing it in the hat as hereinafter described, the strip is preferably sewed to the pad. when the latter is under a considerable longitudinal strain or tension, whereby it is somewhat elongated. For example, when the pad has a normal len h of say six inches, it is preferably stretc ed to a length of approximately eight inches before the strip 15 secured thereto. Of course, after this operation is accomplished and the tension upon the pad is released, the latter will resume its normal length, I in consequence fulling or pnckering up the strip 16, but

when the latter issecured in the hat, as

hereinafter described, the'strip is stretched sufliciently to do away with this puckering orfulling.

While the strip and the resilient pad may be madeof any' desired length, in practice it is considered desirable to have them ex-,

tend in the finished hat for about one-half of the distance from the front of the hat to the rear and on either side of the median line; that is, for about the same distance or 1 a little less than the drumming preferably extends, although if desired, the sweatband can be drummed for the full length of the a .7 ljacent, the ii;

wire and the padland its adjacent striparranged to extend for the whole distance around the interior of thehat, or any desired fraction thereof. I

,The process of assembling a hat embodythe invention is substantially similar to.

that atpresent employed in hats of the usual type, and may consist in suitably se- .curing the oiled silk or other material 4 which has been folded overthe wire 6, to the interior of the hat, with the wire ad-' thereof by stitchin 8 in such manner t the free'ends 9 of t e material extend normally upward into the body pad 15 may be secured to the free upwardly projecting portions of the material 4 inclosing the wire 6, preferably by means of suitable stitches 20 extending through the strip 16, the pad inclosed by it, and the free ends of the material 4, the edges of the pad covered by the strip 16 extending upwardly within the hat and substantially parallel with the free ends 9 of the material 4. It will be understood that during this operation the strip 16 is extended to substantially its normal length so that after itis secured in place the rubber or other resilient mate rial forming the body of the pad will be constantly subjected to a considerable longitudinal tension. The various parts having been assembled, the sweat band may be turned up into the hat to assume its normal "operative position, which operation will serve to turn the pad over; upon itself to assume the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2,

in which it will rest between the sweat band and the body of the hat in space 14.

It will thus be seen that a soft resilient cushion is provided preferably in the front part of the hat and at that portion thereof which normally engages the forehead and temples of the wearer, and that this cushion will not mat down and become useless after the hat has been worn for some time owing to the resiliency of the pad and its constant tendency to force the sweat band away from the interior wall-of the hat body, whereby the band is prevented from stretching and its spaced relation with the body of the hat adjacent the forehead and temples of the wearer continually preserved.

, In Fig. 4, is shown a slightly modified form of the invention, in which the pad 25, is formed of a single sheet-of rubber or other suitable material, instead of a folded sheet as in the form of the invention heretofore described, this sheet being united to the strip or binding 16 while under tension, and

the whole secured to the material 4 inclosing wire 6 during the-operation of assembling the hat in a-manner similar to that heretofore described, the operation of the pad'in the finished hat in this form of the invention being substantially similar to that of the pad 15 in the preferred form of the invention. p

In order to clearly illustrate the details While I have herein illustrated and de-' scribed certain embodiments of my invention with considerable particularity, I do not thereby intend or desire to limit myself specifically thereto, as it will be evident that various changes'and modifications may be made in the details of construction and arrangement of the various parts of the invention and that the various elements comprising the finished hat may be assembled in any desired or convenient way other than that herein described, and that other suitable changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent of the United-States:

body, of a, sweat band,- and tensioned resilient material disposed between said band' and said body independent of said band and extending partially around the periphery thereof.

disposed in the space between said body and 2. In a hat, the combination with a hat body, of a sweat band spaced from the interior of said body, and resilient material under tension unconnected'to said band and said band operative to-maintain said band in its spaced relation with said body for a portion of its length.

3. In a hat, thecombination with a hatbody, of a sweat band spaced for a portion of its length from the interior of said hat body, and resilient material under longitudinal tension disposed in' the space 'betweensaid body and said band andindependent thereof operative to v maintain said band in its spaced relation with said body.

4. In a hat, the combination with a hat body, of a sweat band spaced from the interior of said body for a portion of its length and resting closely ad acent said hat within said hat body body for the balance of its length, and resilient means normally under longitudinal tension disposed between the hat body and that portion-of the sweat band spaced therefrom and independent of said band operative to maintain said portion of said sweat band in spaced relation with said body.

5. A hat comprising a hat body, a sweat band, means to secure said sweat band in operative relation with said body, said sweat band being initially arranged in spaced relation with the interior of said body, and longitudinally tensioned resilient means secured to said first mentioned means and normally disposed between said sweat band and said body independent of said band and extending partially around the periphery thereof operative to maintain the initial spaced relation of said sweat band and said body when said hat is in use.

6. A hat comprising a hatbody, a sweat band, means to secure said sweat band'in operative relation with said body, said sweat band being initially arranged in spaced relation-with the interior of said body for a.

portion of its length, and tensioned resilient means secured to said first mentioned means and normally disposed between and freely movable with respect to said sweat band and band which is spaced from said hat body,

y said body adj aoent that portion ofthe sweat; 1. In a hat, the combination with a hat said resilient means being operative to maintain the initially spaced \relation of said sweat band and said body when said'hat is.

in use.

7. In a hat, thecombination with a hat body, of av sweat band, means for securing said band tofsaid body, and a piece of resilient material under longitudinal tension and having an edge bound with relatively non-stretchable material secured within said hat body 8. In a hat, the combination with a hat body, of a sweat band, means for securing said band in said body, and a piece of tenbetween said sweat band and said I body.

sioned folded resilient material doubled upon itself and having an edge bound with relatively non-stretchable material attached to said band-securing means and disposed between saidband and said body.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set -my hand this 15th day of February, D.

WILLIAM CONNER.

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