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HAT GUARD.

No. 552,243. Patented Dec. 31, 1895.

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MICHAEL B. FEENEY AND ALPHONSE L. FOY, OF NEW YORK, Y.

HAT-G UARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 552,243, dated December 31, 1895.

Application filed July'9, 1895. Serial No. 5,388. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, MICHAEL E. FEENEY and ALPHONsE L. FOY, citizens of the United States, and residents of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Hat- Guard, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to an improved hatguard; and it consists, generally stated, in a compact, inexpensive, and efiective device adapted to be attached to any suitable part of a hat or head-covering, and so constructed that the cord of the guard will be, by the operation of a suitable spring, coiled up within a casing when not in use. The device is also provided with means whereby the spring-tension upon the cord is controlled when in use. The parts comprise an inner and an outer shell, which are adapted to be inexpensively struck up from thin sheet metal, a cord-wheel peculiarly constructed from a single disk of metal, as hereinafter explained, a spring and a central axis, which serve also as the means for attaching the device to the hat. The inner and outer casings have openings in them, which register with one another, and the outer casing is provided with a finger having slight lateral projection therefrom, which serves as the means for holding the cord against the stress of the spring.

In the drawings hereof, Figure 1 illustrates a perspective of a hat having the hat-guard attached to its brim. Fig. 2 illustrates a perspective of the outer shell of the casing. Fig. 3 illustrates a perspective of the inner shell of the casing with the cord-wheel in position therein. Fig. at illustrates a central section of the cord-wheel. Fig. 5 illustrates a plan view of the cord-wheel prior to bending the longer flanged sections. Fig. 6 illustrates a vertical section of the guard when all parts are in position.

A illustrates a hat. Any other head-covering may be substituted for it. B is the hatguard fastened to the rim thereof.

0 is the outer shell of the casing. It is struck up from thin metal into the form of a shallow cup, as shown.

D is an opening made in the side of the shell, which is preferably punched out while the metal is yet flat.

E is a finger left integral with the disk of metal, which is, when completed, given a slight lateral extension, so that the cord of the guard may be drawn between it and the metal adjacent to it.

F is the inner shell of the casing. It is likewise stamped out from flat metal, all in one piece, and an opening Gis cut in its side, which registers with the opening D in the easing 0.

H is the cord-wheel. it is a flat disk of metal, as seen in Fig. 5, and when it is stamped out the dies are so made as to out long sections I and shorter sections J. The short sections J remain preferably in the same plane as the body portion of the wheel. The long sections I, on the contrary, are bent in a suitable die or by other means so as to have rectangular projections and also a radial projection, as shown in Fig. 4:, thus forming, as it were, a broken trough or channel around the wheel, constituting a groove within which the cord of the guard rests.

K K K are holes punched centrally through the cord-wheel and the outer and inner casings, respectively, through which the axis L (see Figs. 1 and 6) passe This axis is in the form of a little stud headed at one end-and screw-threaded at the other and provided with a suitable nut, cross-pin, or other similar device M, (see Fig. 6,) whereby the guard is fastened to any desired part of the hat,

there being a small hole made in it throughwhich the axis L passes, the material of the hat being clamped between the nut or like device M and the bottom of the inner casing F, whereby the device is held firmly in place.

N (see Figs. 3 and 6) is a spring the inner end of which is fastened to a hub 0, (see Fig. 6,) which is struck up from the inner casing during its manufacture, and the outer end of the spring engages, as at P, (see Fig. 6,) with one of the laterally-offset flanged sections I. Any suit-able means of making these connections between the spring and the inner casing and the cord-wheel may be employed. Several ways of so doing will suggest them selves to those skilled in the art.

Q is the cord of the hat-guard, preferably having a button, bar, or similar device It on the end to prevent the spring from drawing the cord entirely within the casing. If a but- In the first instance ton be used it will approximately close the opening D in the outer casing, thus excluding dust and other obstructive matter from the interior of the device, and is in this respect beneficial. Sometimes it is preferred to use a little disk of leather or a tassel, bunch of silk, chamois, kid, or the like, the better to close this opening. Any suitable material may, however, be used.

From the above description it will be seen that all the parts of the device are exceedingly simple in construction and inexpensive to make and that they are each made of a single piece and most of them adapted to being struck up from sheet metal in a speedy, effective and exact manner, as is well known in the stamping art.

The operation is as follows: Allthe parts of the device being assembled, as shown in Fig. 6, an opening is made through the desired part of the hat, cap or other head-covering, and the guard is then fastened at such place either on the outside of the hat on-its brim or on the inside of the crown of the hat, if preferred, where it will be out of sight, and if desired another hole, which may be eyeletted or otherwise reinforced at its edges, may be made in the hat, through which the cord of the guard maypass. This construction will sometimes be desirable, especially if end of the cord will be held against the opening in the side of the casing or against the eyeletted hole in the hat, as the ease maybe, leaving it in a condition substantially the same as though no guard were present. \Vhen it is desired to use the guard the cord is pulled out the desired distance and is then passed around the finger E on the outer ease. The

elasticity of this finger will bind thecord, so

as to hold it against the stress of the spring at whatever place it may be fastened. The end of the cord is then attached to any suitable part of the wearers garments in the usual manner.

The invention is not limited to the details of construction shown and described, excepting as hereinafter specifically claimed, because it will be evident to those who are familiar with this art that modifications may be made therein and still the essentials thereof be employed.

The invention having been described, what is claimed is- 1. In a hat guard, the combination of an inner and outercase,-a cord wheelmade from a single piece of metal, andhaving'a groove on its periphery, composed of radial sections ofthe wheel fashionedinto the desired shape, a spring and means to attach the device toa hat or similar head covering, for the purposes set forth.

2. A cord wheel for hat guards and similar devices, comprising a disk of metal cut on its edges into-radial sections ofdifferentlengths, the long ones being bent to form the bottom and one side of a groove or channel-for the cord, for the purposes set forth.

A cord wheel for a hat guard having upon its edge a groove for the reception of the cord, one side of said groove being composed of radiating pieces in substantially the plane of the body of the wheel, and the bottom and other side whereof are composed of other sections bent to form the said bottom and side, for the purposes set forth.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 2d day of July, A. D. 1895.

MICHAEL E. .FEENE Y. ALPHONSE L. FOY. \Vitnesses JAMES C. BRADY, Enw. F. KIRBY.

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