US1784470A - Hat - Google Patents

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Dec. 9, 1930.

c. STEINBERG HAT Filed July 26, 1950 INVENTOR BY Carl Stainfi r Ratented Dee. 9', 1930 PATENT OFFICE CARL STEINBERG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HAT

Application filed July 26,

My present invention relates generally to hats and more particularlyto hats manufactured from a braided material.

One of the objects of my invention is the production of a hat which combines selected characteristics of both the well known felt hat and the well known panama straw hat now in common use. I

My invention generally involves the employment for hat manufacturing purposes of a braided material, the yarn of which is formed by spinning together filler threads which are fibrous and fluffy in character with stiffening threads which'are of a-woody type and which are relatively highly resilient.

From another aspect my invention relates to a hat made from such a braid and to which a felted characteristic is given by the fluffy component of the yarn employed in making 29 the braid and to which is given the form retaining characteristic by a woody component of such yarn.

My invention further relates to the arrangement by which a braid of this character is spiralled continuously from the top of the crown to the extreme end of the brim and the successive spiral sections joined edge to edge so as to give a hat structure in which the lines along which the spiral sections contact are emphasized to give somewhat the appearance of a straw hat.

My invention generally relates to a hat combining the appearance and characteristics of both a felt and a straw hat.

For the attainment of these objects and such other objects as may hereinafter appear or be poined out, I have illustrated one embodiment of my invention in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Fig. 1 is a perspective View of a hat cmbodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical fragmentary section taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary view of a section of the hat with braided yarns partly unraveled.

Before proceeding to describe my invention, 1 will premise that in accordance with my inventiomthe hat is made from a flat braided material somewhat as is the conventional 1930. Serial No. 470,848.

straw hat and in Figure 3, I show in an enlarged way, two adjacent braid sections 10 and the manner in which they are united.

The braid of which two sections are represented invFigure 3, is made from a yarn 11 which is formed by spinning together a fibrous material 12 with strands of a. woody material shown at 13;

The fibrous material 12 should be fiufi'y in character and should not be form retaining. vVooland cotton fiber are examples of the materials to serve this purpose. The woody strands 13 on the other hand are highly resilient and form retaining. They. possess the characteristic that while they can be bent from the normal, they will normally return to their original form. They should furthermore be capable of being molded by pressure 111 the presence of steam in whichevent their normal will be that form to which it has been molded. Hemp is'a good example of strands answering to the required characteristics of the strands which I have numbered 13. Horse hair, jute, and the like also possess in a general way, the characteristics of the strands 13,17equisite for the attainment of the purposes of my invention.

The yarn 11 spun of the materials 12 and 13 as above set forth is braided in any preferred or desired manner soas to produce a flat braid of the proper dimensions for the manufacture of any particular desired hat.

The hat in Figure 1 may be manufactured from the braid 10 by spiralling the braid fiat? wise beginning with what corresponds to the apex of the crown. In this operation the successive spiral sections. are laid edge to edge as shown in Fi 3 and are then joined edge to edge by an overthrowstitch as shown at let in this figure. The thread forming the seam '14 is preferably but not necessarily made of silk; I j p The blank is then finished off by being molded by pressure in the presence of steam to shape for example to that shown in Figpire l'and then is treated with a water proof ller.

Due to the components employed in making the yarn and the s'pinning'together of these components, the braid made therefrom return to its normal length upon hat.

will stretch considerably, but will always addition, it is highly flexible and therefore easily workable, and will always return to its normal setposition when'permitted to do so. The fibrous component of the'yarn will give tothe h at made from braid formed of such yarn, the fiufly fibrous characteristic of a felt The resilient woody component will tend it is molded and will permit the hat to readily return to that shape whenever the hat has been crushed or otherwise distorted.

Upon viewing Figure 3 of the drawing, it will be observed that the braid is loosely woven so that the hat of Figure 1 formed therefrom not only haslittle weight but permits also of the free circulation of air through a the interstices resulting from the manner of l to the

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to keep the hat in the shape into which been set, the yarn being loosely interlocked to formthe braid so as to provide interstices whereby a free circulation and the hathas the pellucid, translucent characteristic'of a panama hat. 7 I

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 25th day of J uly, 1930.

it formation of the braid of Figure 3. In this respect, it will have the characteristics of a pearance of astraw hat because ofthe man- -ner of its formation and this'will be assisted A considerably by the fact that the seam 14 will produce cent spiral sections contact so as to em hasize aridge at the joints where the adj a- "the fact that thehatis made of a material 1 a a i Q j lieipresenceofthe fibrous'comp'onent in raided to t e hat thetranslucent and pellucid effect generally present in straw'hats such as the i type known as panamas, Infact', thehat possesses in" appearance very many of the characteristics of this typeof hat. I

the yarn of which this braid is made, will give p My experience with this hat indicates that in giving it' the waterproof filler treatment,

hat'canbe made stifi'er than is necessary because itseems to become more m'ellow and softer as-it is sub ected to climatic action.

i This I attribute to the presence" in thehat of the fibrous component. i

' Having thus descri -1'.' Afhat comprising a crown and a brim bed my invention and illustrated,tsuse, what I claim as new and 1 desire to secure by Letters Patent is "andxniade 'of a fiat braid, the braid being Iv I formed "of a yarn composed of a fiufiy fibrous material and a resilient woody material spun together, the resilient woody material being "ofa character'that it will normally retain *the formlintodwhich it has been set and to l readily return'to saidsetting when distorted ""therefromflvhereby astraw hat effect is'pro ducedthe form of which is maintained by ,thenresilientwoody component of the yarn, Y i a and as'felt hat'efiect will be produced by the QJAYhat made of a'braid, the yarn thereof Tfibr'ouscomponent gives a felted efiect to the hatan'd the resilient woodymaterial tends J to keep the hat in the shape to which it has CARL STEINBERG.

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