US1073507A - Hat-fastener. - Google Patents

Description

E. T. MILLER.

HAT PASTBNER.

APPLIOATION FILED SBPT.1, 1011.

1 073 501 Patented Sept. 16, 1913.

WITNESSES INVEIVTOR 5w TMALER 7 ATTORNEYS COLUMBIA vuwoalurn co., WASHINGTON, D. c.

EMMA T. MILLER, OF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.

HAT-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 16, 1913.

Application filed September 1, 1911. Serial No. 647,139.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, EMMA T. TVIILLER, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of San Antonio, in the county of Bexar and State of Texas, have invented a new and Improved Hat-Fastener, o f which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to hat fasteners, and it consists 1n the combinations, constructions and arrangements herein described and claimed.

An object of my invention is to provide a simple device by means of which a hat may be securely held to the head of the wearer,

and which may be readily removed from the head without cntangling with the hair.

A further object of my invention is to provide a device of the character described which will securely rctaln the hat in position, and which will be removed from sight.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings forming partof this application in which similar reference char showing the fastening means; F 1g. 3 is a view of the pin and sheath, a portion of the latter being shown in section; Fig. 4

is a section along the line .l.- l of Fig. 3; Flg. 5 1s a perspective vlew of the slotted plate or eyelet; Fig. 6 shows a modified form of sprang; and Flg. 7 shows the normal shape of the pin before it is placed in the sheath.

Referring now to the drawings, I have shown therein a hat 1 having a brim 2. On each side of the crown is an opening or slot 3 above which is a plate 4 having an opening 4 which registers with the opening 3 in the brim. One form of the plate or eyelet 4: is shown in Fig. 5, and is provided with prongs at which may be passed through the brim and turned under so as to secure the plate in position.

The pin or main retaining member is shown in Figs. 3 and 4. As will be seen from the drawings, it consists of a thin, :llat elastic spring body portion 5 having at one end a slight enlargement 5 terminating in a point 5 The enlargement 5 is rounded at 5 to prevent entanglement with the hair. The opposite end of the pin is bent at 5 (see Fig. 1), and is provided with a head 6. The pin thus described is normally bent in the manner shown in Fig. 7, the lower end of the device being straight.

The guide sheath for the pin is shown in Figs. 1, 3 and 4. It consists of a slightly curved tube 7 of rectangular shape shown in Fig. 4. The curvature of the sheath is designed to permit the sheath to lit closely to the head of the wearer. One end of the sheath is provided with a flange 7, and the opposite end is slightly reduced so as to prevent the withdrawal of the pin -from the sheath by the engagement of the enlarged portion 5 with the end of the sheath, the idea being to use the sheath and the pin together.

A spiral spring 8 is secured to the pin near the bend 5. The purpose of the spring will be explained later.

From the foregoing description of the various parts of the device, the operation thereof may "be readily understood. After the hat is placed on the head, the guide sheath 7 bearing'thc pin 5 is inserted in the slot and passed downwardly through the brim in a backward direction around the head under the hair, care being taken to keep the pin well applied to the scalp. This can be regulated by pushing in both pin and sheath together and then pushing the pin tl'irough the sheath after the sheath has passed about hall of its length through the slot until the pin curves around the back part of the head, and then pushing in the remainder of the sheath and the pin. The sheath and the pin will take the positions indicated in l ig. 2, the pin lying close to .the head underneath the hair. The spring 8 is designed to take up any slack in the pin.

It will be soon that the two pins automatb cally clasp the head, and this is why my invention dill'crs from most of the hat tastencrs which engage merely the hair and not the head.

In Fig. (3 I have shown a modified form of the spring. This consists of a bow or leaf spring 8, the portion of the spring extending toward the front being shorter than that extending toward the back, in order to give the pin a rearward inclination. Those s irings 8 and S are more necessary in hats that are soft than in straw hats. In the former, it there is any give to the hat, the slack is taken up by the spring, as explained, so as to hold the pin close to the head. In unfastening the hat, the pin and its sheath may be removed simultaneously when the lower part of the pin will again resume the curved condition shown in Fig. 7 It will be apparent that it is this tendency to curve which keeps the pin 5 close to the head of the wearer.

I claim 1. The combination with a hat, hafiig a brim, of a curved elongated guide sheath passing through the brim on the side of the crown, an elastic spring pin comprising a fiat curved band having an enlargement at one end and a head at the other, said spring pin passing through the sheath and adapted to automatically clasp the head 01 the wearer of the hat. 7 V

2. The combination with a hat, having a brim, of a curved elongated guide sheath passing through the brim on the .side of the crown downwardly and rearwardly close to the head of the wearer, an elastic spring pin comprising a fiat curved band having an enlargement at one end and a head at the other, said spring pin passing through the sheath and adapted to automatically clasp the head of the wearer of the hat, and means carried by the spring pin for'taking up the slack in the spring pin.

3. The combination with a hat of a slightly curved elongated guide sheath, passing through a portion of the hat downwardly and rearwardly close to the head of the wearer, an elastic spring pin comprising a flat, curved band, having an enlargement at the lower end, and a head at the'upper end, said elastic spring pin being slidably and unremovably mounted in sheath, and adapted to automatically clasp the head o1 the wearer of the hat.

4. The combination with a hat, of a slightly curved elongated guide sheath passing through a portion of the hat downwardly and rearwardly in contact with the head of the wearer, an elastic spring pin comprising a fiat curved band having an enlargement at the lower end, and a head at the other, said elastic spring pin being slidably and unremovably mounted in the said sheath, and adapted to automatically clasp the head the said of the wearer of the hat, and spring means carried by the elastic spring pin for taking up the slack in the elastic spring pin.

The combination with a hat of a slightly curved sheath, passing through a portion of the hat, an elastic spring pin comprising a flat curved band having an enlargement at the lower end, and a head at the other end, said elastic spring pin being slidably and unremovably mounted in the said sheath, and adapted to automatically clasp the head. of they wearer of the hat, and a coiled spring carried by the elastiespring pin for taking up the slack in the elastic spring pin, and a slotted plate or eyelet fastened at the portion of the hat through which the pin is to pass, and adapted to removably receive the said sheathed elastic spring pin.

6. The combination with a hat having an eyelet, 01"? a curved sheath arranged to pass through said eyelet downwardly and rearwardly close to the head of the wearer,

a spring pin comprisinga flat curved band arranged to slidexthrough said sheath and adapted to automatically'clasp the head of the wearer of'the hat, and means carried by the spring pin for preventing the with drawal of the pin from the sheath. V

7. The combination with a hat'having an eyelet, of a curved sheath arranged to pass through said eyelet downwardly and rearwardly close to the head of the'wearer,

said sheath iaving a flange at its upper end, a spring pin comprising a flat curved band arranged to slide, through said sheath and adapted to automatically clasp the head of the wearer'of the hat,'means carried by the spring pin for preventing the withdrawal of the pin from the sheath, said means comprising an integral enlargement of the pin at one end ofthe latter, and a spiral spring carried by the pin andarranged to bear against the 'flangeon said 1 sheath. 7 r V EMMA '1. MILLER.

Witnesses CHAs. M. DICKSON, FRANK HIoKs.

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