US1341858A - Hatpin attachment - Google Patents

Description

J. B. MASERANG.

HATPIN ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED QCT. 1a. 1919.

Patented June 1, 1 920.

UNIE STT 1.1;. OFFiCE.

HATPIN ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June. 1', 1920.

Application filed October 16, 1919. Serial No. 330,951.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN B. MASERANG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Belleville, in the county of Saint Clair, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hatpin Attachments; 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 whichit appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to pin fasteners, and more especially to the sliding guards therefor; and the object of the same is to produce an attachment for hats and hat p ns whereby the latter will be held in place with the point protected, and the band of the attachment will constitute an ornament for the hat.

Specifically the invention covers novel means for connecting the ends of the pin with the end of the hand, through the use of metallic terminals which are both ornamental and serviceable. Details are set forth below and shown in the drawings wherein': Figure 1 is a perspective view of a hat with this attachment applied.

Fig. 2- is an enlarged plan View of the pin and the metal parts at both ends thereof, the band being indicated in dotted lines.

Fig. 3 is a still further enlarged sectional detail through the guard for the tip of the pin, and a perspective detail of the terminal for this end of the band.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the terminal for the other end of the band before it is bent.

In Fig. 1 is shown a ladies hat through which is passed a pin P having a sharp point S at one end and a head H fast on the other. These pins are usually inserted through the crown of a hat and the hair, leaving the point projecting dangerously if it be not guarded. Broadly speaking, I propose to apply a guard to said point and draw the guard onto the point by an elastic band B which connects this guard with the head. Said band may be of almost any variety of ornamentation according to the wearers fancy, but in all probability it will be a piece of elastic webbing to which is stitched a fulled or shirred ornamental facing so that the latter may expand as the former stretches. It is quite possible for the wearer to have several such ornamental bands for use interchangeabl with the hat pin.

Attached to or orming part of the head of two leaves 2 and 3 having about four perforations 4: through them as shown, and a reduced neck 5 connecting the leaves and having through it a pair of eyes 6 as shown,

and when the metal plate is folded on a transverse line between said eyes they come into register and may be engaged with the hook 1 while the leaves come against opposite sides of one end of the band B and are attached thereto by rivets or stitches passing through the registering perforations and the interposed band.

The guard best seen in detail in Fig. 8 comprises a tubular body closed at one end by an enlarged head or button 10, flared at its other open end to produce a mouth 11, and reduced between said ends to constitute a neck 12. Inclosing the neck are two U- bolts or clips 13. The terminal for this end of the band consists of a metal strip bent transversely at its midlength into a narrow leaf 14 and a wide leaf 15, both pierced with perforations 16 adapted to register, and the other end of the band B is inserted between these leaves as will be clear. The clips are passed around the neck of the guard, and rivets 17 are passed through the clips and perforations in the terminal and through the band which intervenes between its leaves. In a normal or contracted condition the band should be shorter than the pin P.

Then the eye of the upper terminal is engaged with a hook and the latter closed, the lower terminal carrying the guard hangs free. The pin can then be passed through the hat and the hair as usual, its point protruding beyond the hat crown as well known. The band is now stretched and passed over the crown or around the side of it as seen in Fig. 1, and the guard is slipped over the tip or points of the pin, being drawn onto the same and strained against one side of it by' the band which is deflected out of a straight line by'reason of its passage around the crown. Thus the elastic band holds the guard on the pin, and the guard prevents the pin from becoming lost. Also the other end of the band draws on the head of the pin, and especially if the latter is passed through the hat crown at one side-o-fthehead rather than diametrically through the hat, the tension of the band Will be exerted to hold bothen'ds of the pin and prevent itsaccidental displacement.

What is claimed is: V A hat pin attachment comprising an elastic band adapted to be connected at one end sisting of a metal plate folded across its mid-length to form leaves lying against opposite sides of the band, and rivets engaging 15 the clips and passing through both leaves of the terminal and the interposed band and holding the latter alongside said guard.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature, in the presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN BARTHOLOMEW MASERANG. Witnesses: SAMUEL C. CROUCH, F. W. PUDERER.

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