US1003731A - Hat-holding device. - Google Patents

Description

G. PROEHLICH.

HAT HOLDING DEVICE.

APPLIOATION I'ILED rmm, 1911.

1,003,731. Patented Se t. 19,1911.

CHARLES FROEHLICH, 0F, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

HAT-HOLDING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 19, 1911.

Application filed February 7, 1911. Serial No. 607,200.

To? all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES FRonHLIcH, a citizen of the Empire of Germany, and a resident of the borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Holding Devices, of which "the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a womans hat holding device, which, dispensing with the ordinary hat pin, becomes a permanent attachment to the hat, is practically out of sight when in use and can be easily manipulated to engage or release the hair.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a perspective view of a hat in use with my improved hat. holding device applied thereto, Fig. 2 is a vertical, longitudinal, sectional view of the hat holding device, Figs. 3, a and 5 show sectional views taken respectively on the lines H, 55, and 6-6 of Fig. 3, and Fig. 6 is a transverse section on line 6-6 of Fig. 2 of the connection between the slide plate and its actuating rod. Fig. 7 represents a plan of the flat side or cover plate of the tubular casing, showing the attaching prongs before being bent out.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the drawings.

In the form of embodiment shown in the drawings this hat holding device comprises a tubular casing 10, preferably in the form of a longitudinal flattened hollow cylinder having a fiat cover plate 11 along one side thereof. This cover plate is provided with means for securing the device to the hat, the means shown for this purpose being bendable prongs 11 struck from the body of said plate; these prongs being adapted to be passed through and clenched over the body 30 of the hat or hat band. The tube 10 is provided at intervals along one of its rounded sides with slots 16 preferably disposed in alinement, and above said slots respectively with crossbars 15 fixed at their opposite ends to the walls of the casing. The casing is closed at its opposite ends and one of its closed ends is provided with an elongated slot 20.

The means shown for penetrating or grasping the hair to cause the hat to stay on the. head comprises fingers 14 pivoted within the tube 10 on the crossbars 15 or otherwise and projecting outward through said slots 16. These fingers are provided with shanks the eye at the inner end of said bar.

which extend into the tubular casing beyond said crossbar-s, and they are preferably constructed of wire in the form of U-shaped loops, whereof the ends 25 and 26 of each loop constitutes the inwardly extending shank thereof.

A sliding bar 13 is disposed in the casing 10 and provided at one end with an eye 27 and at the other end with a socket 17. A contractile spring 12 is also disposed in the casing 10 and connected at one end wiltlh T e bar has a pivotal connection with the shanks of the hair grasping fingers 14. The bar is preferably constructed in the form of a plate and provided with slots as 28 and 29 disposed in pairs side by side and the shanks 25 and 26 of the fingers 14 extend into said slots as shown in Fig. 4, and form a loose connection with the plate. The socket 17 may be formed by a downwardly bent flange 17 having an upturned lip 17*. The flange 17 is provided with a perforation 17.

An actuating rod 18 extends through the slot 20 at one end of the case 10 and is provided at its inner end with a head 19 and at its outer end with a button 01' ball 21 preferably of an ornamental character resembling the head of an ordinary hat pin. The pin extends through the perforation 17 and the head thereof engages the socket of the bar 13. A locking device in the form of a rectangular lug 22 is fixed on the rod 18 and adapted to slide in the slot 20 when the rod is turned to bring said lug into register with said slot. This lug serves as a locking device to hold the actuating rod in outward position. When said rod is drawn outward against the tension of the spring 12 sufficient to carry said lug outside the case 10 the rod is turned and the lug brought into position crosswise of the slot 20, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3 where it forms a lock against the end of the case and the tension of the spring tends to hold it in that position.

These devices are usually used in pairs secured to the hat at opposite sides thereof. The case 10 is secured to the body or inner band or bandeau of the hat 30 by clenching the prongs 11 through said body or band, the actuating rod 18 extending outward through a hole 24 in the body of the hat. When the hat is put on the head the fingers 14 are in their outward position as shown in Fig. 2, being held in that position by the action of thes'pring 12 on the bar 13. In

placing the hat on the head the fingers en gage the hair. Then the button 21 is grasped and the rod 18 pulled outward against the tension of the spring causing the fingers 1a to swing toward the case 10 and graspthe hair. Then the button is turned and the rod locked in outward position by the lock 22. When it is desired to remove the hat the ball 21 is turned until the lug 22 registers with the slot 20 and the actuating rod 18 is then pushed or drawn inward and the fingers 14 spring into open position. The hat may then be lifted from the head, the fingers 14: in their open position being freely withdrawn from the hair.

Any desired number of the devices and arrangement thereof may be used, two of them being illustrated as arranged to point in opposite directions on opposite sides of the hat.

Advantages of the invention are the doing away with hat pins and the dangerous points thereof.

It is particularly understood that the details of construction of this hat holding device may be greatly varied without departing from the spirit and scope of the claims.

I claim as my invention:

1. A hat holding device comprising a casing, swinging hair grasping fingers hinged to said casing, a sliding bar disposed within said casing and loosely connected with the shanks of said fingers, a contractile spring normally operative to draw saidbar inward and swing said fingers into open position, an actuating rod connected with said bar and operating on its outward pull to close said fingers, and a locking device operative to hold said rod in outward position against the tension of said spring.

2. A hat holding device comprising a casing, a straight sliding bar in the form of a slotted plate inclosed within said casing, swinging hair grasping fingers hinged to said casing and provided with shanks engaging the slots of said plate, and means for shifting said bar for actuating saidfingers to grasp or release the hair.

3. A. hat holding device comprising a cylindrical casing provided with slots and crossbars, swinging hair grasping fingers in the form of wire loops pivoted on said crossbars and projecting through said slots, said fingers having inwardly projecting shanks, a slotted bar slidable in said casing and engaging said shanks, and means for shifting said bar to swing said fingers into open or closed positions.

4. A hat holding device comprising a cylindrical casing, a cover plate secured thereto and having bars for securing the same within a hat, fingers projecting from the casing and fulcrumed thereto, said fingers having inwardly extending shanks, a sliding bar slidable within the casing and to which said shanks are pivoted, said sliding bar being provided with an up-turned perforated lug at one end, a spring at the other end of the sliding plate and tending to draw the same toward one limit of movement, a manipulating rod swiveled in said perforation and extending outwardly through the end of the casing, the casing being provided I presence of two subscribingwitnesses.

CHARLES FROEHLICH. Witnesses:

J OHN MURTAGI-I, L. J. MURPHY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

' Washington, D. C.

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