US831985A - Hat-hanger. - Google Patents

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'No. 831,985. PATENTED SEPT 25, 1906. G. F. PETTINGELL. HAT HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED HAY23. 1905.

W[TNESSE 'INVENTOR 6% WI a mime I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

CHARLES F. PETTINGELL, OF AMESBURY, MASSACHUSETTS,ASSIGNOR OF ONEHALF TO WILBUR H. TAYLOR, OF AMESBURY, MASSAOHUSETTSLj HAT-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 25, 1906.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. PETTIN- GELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Amesbury, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hat-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a hat-hanger designed especially for use with stiff hats, such as derbies and silk hats; but the device of course is not limited to use with any particu lar form of hat.

The object of the invention is a hanger which will provide a suitable support for the crown of the hat and also provide a guard overhanging the support and adapted to engage the hat-brim and prevent the hat from slipping from the support.

The invention consists of a metal hanger adapted to be secured to a wall or other suitable place and having a practical horizontal but slightly-curved supporting frame or platform and a standard to the rear of said platform from which depends a guard adapted to rest against the outer face of the hat-brim.

The device also consists of the novel features of construction herein described, pointed out in the claims, and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the hanger. Fig. 2 is a front elevation. Fig. 3 is a side elevation. Fig. 4 is an outlined perspective view showing the hanger in combination with a hook for supporting a coat.

In illustrating my invention I have shown the same formed of one piece of wire but it will be obvious that the device may be formed of any suitable metal and may also be farmed by other means than twisting it into p ace.

In the drawings, A represents a straight shank having a tapering threaded end A, adapted to be screwed into a suitable support. The shank A terminates or carries at its front end a frame or platform B, which is preferably rectangular in outline and rests at substantially a right angle to the shank A. This platform is slightly curved to correspond to the curvature of the front of a hat. Rising from the shank A at a point to the rear of the platform B is a standard 0, which is curved or bent upon itself, as shown at C, and terminates in a depending guard G which I have shown as being ring-like in form; but it will be understood that the guard may be angular in shape.

In Fig. 4 I have shown a form in which a standard D is connected to the shank A intermediate the ends of the standard extending both above and below it. The part of the standard D extending above the shank A terminates in a guard D and is similar to the standard 0 and the guard C That portion of the standard D depending downward below the shank A has its lower end portion curved upwardly, as shown at D and thereby forms a hook upon which a coat may be hung. In the form shown by me the hathanger is composed of one piece of wire, the shank A being bent at its outer end to form the rectangular frame or platform B, and the wire is then carried back parallel to the shank A and twisted around the same and carried upwardly to form the standard O, being then bent over to form the depending portion C and then bent in the circular form, as shown at 0 but it will be obvious that practically the same form of the article can be made in brass or cast-iron castings, and I do not, therefore, desire to be limited to a wire construction.

In use the brim of the hat is slipped over the platform B and under the guard C the hat being held in substantially a hoirzontal position. The hat is then permitted to fall into a vertical position and the crown of the hat will rest upon the curved platform B, while the brim will project upwardly between the standard C and the guard C, which will prevent the hat from slipping from the platform B.

It will be noted from Figs. 3 and 4 especially that the guard lies in a vertical plane to the rear of the platform B.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A device of the kind described comprising a platform, said platform consisting of an open rectangular wire frame, the side members of the said frame being curved, an integral shank portion carried by one side of said frame and extending rearwardly therethe portion of the shank between the standfilomi ran inttegral portion of the samel side of ard and the said'frame. t e ame ein bent arallel to t 1e said shank to aipoint interme iiate the ends of the CHARLES E PETTINGELL' 5 shank and then coiled about the shank to Witnesses:

form a standard, and a depending guard car- JACOB T. CHOATE, ried by the said standard and overhanging WILBUR H. TAYLOR.

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