US2056276A - Headwear - Google Patents

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oct. 6, 1936.` W. KATZ 2,056,276

HEADWEAR Filed Sept. 20,l 1955 vl/Enron; WML/AM KATz.

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Application September 20, 1935,:Seral No. 41,348

` olaims. (01.25133) The object of my invention is to make improved head wear. As is well known thereare six or more different stock sizes for mens hats. This requires that the manufacturer must make at least sixA sizes, involving the purchase andi..

maintenance of dies, etc. In order for the manu.- facturer to manufacture a co-mplete line of mens hats, it becomes necessary to have a large investment in stock and material, owing to the necessary different sizes. This same situation is true in the instance of the retailer, who must at all times maintain hats of all sizes on hand. Furthermore if the person who desires to purchase a hat has a head size, which is intermediate the standard sizes, he is unable to secure a perfect fit. I-Ie must either take a larger size, which will be too large and t poorly, or he must take the smaller size and expect to stretch the hat on his head. The conventional hat has no elasticity at the jointure between the crown and the rim. Owing to this lack of elasticity, it is not possible to properly stretch the hat on the head without great inconvenience, or without forcing the material of which the hat is made to such an extent that it will be torn or injured.

The specific object of my invention is to produce a resilient or elastic jointure between the crown and the brim of the hat. Sulcient elasticity is produced by the invention herein disclosed, so that the number of sizes of hats that must be made by the manufacturer and stocked by the retailer is cut in half. In other words by the use of the invention herein disclosed, it is only necessary to manufacture or stock three hat sizes. Furthermore perfect fits may be obtained by al1 who wear the hats.

The structure, herein described, may be easily and simply made at low cost, without marring the appearance of the hat and without affecting its wearing qualities.

With these and other objects in view, my invention has relation to certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the hat made in accordance with the invention herein described.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmental plan View of the front portion of the hat before shaping and with the hat band removed.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged inverted fragmental plan view of the front portion of the hat before shaping, with the sweat band removed; that is Fig. 3 is a bottom view of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmental sectional elevationtaken-on the' line lll-4 of Fig. 2, showing the jointurev between the crown and brim of the hat .a 1

Fig. 5. is an .enlarged Yfragmental vertical sectional elevation .through the front portion of the finished hat, showing the elastic hat band on the outside of the crown and the elastic sweat band on the inner side of the crown.

Numeral 6 designates a hat made of any of the conventional hat materials, such as felt, cloth, straw, paper, wool, paper toyo, paper toyo bangkok, hemp, cotton tape braid sewed into a body, wool cloth strips sewed into a body and all other braids that can be sewed into a body. The invention herein described, while not finding a utility as great as in mens hats, may be applied to ladies hats.

Numeral l designates the crown and numeral 8 the brim, numeral El an outer elastic band, usually briefly referred to as the hat band, and numeral I8 an inner elastic band, usually referred to as a sweat band. The elements, so far referred to herein, are of conventional form, with the exception that the hat band and sweat band are made of elastic or resilient material.

The invention pertains specifically to a method and means of making the lower portion of the hat crown and the inner portions of the brim elastic or resilient. This means that the jointure between the brim 8 and the crown l are made so as to be elastic or resilient. With these parts made resilient, the lower portion of the crown 1 and the inner portion of the brim 8 may be stretched sufciently to change the size of the hat, at least o-ne size; that is if the original size were 6 and the hat can be easily stretched by the purchaser to become a size 7 hat. This operation of stretching is one that is so simple and so slight that the purchaser will not be aware of the fact that he has to any extent distended the crown or brim. 'Ihis ability to stretch or to become distended or of elasticity or of resilience, is caused by the following structural modification of the crown 'l and the brim 8. In the jointure of the crown l and brim 8, in both the crown 1 and brim 8 are formed corrugations, which are continuous between the cro-wn l and brim 8. These corrugations extend upwardly in the crown 'l about one-half inch and radially in the brim 8 about the same distance. These corrugations are spaced about one-eighth of an inch apart throughout the periphery of the crown l and brim 8. These perforations or protuberances in the crown l are covered by the elastic band 9, so that they will not be externally visible. They are covered on the inside of the brim by the elastic sweat band I0. The corrugations in the crown may be indicated by the numeral II and the corrugations in the brim by the numeral I2. The corrugations II and I2 are formed with a die of the crown and brim. In the preferred form the corrugations extend upwardly from the brim and outwardly from the crown. The specic shape of the corrugations I I is not material since, as has been indicated, they are covered by the elastic band 9. The shape of the corrugations I2, since they are visible on both the top and bottom of the brim, are preferably formed in a spear or triangular shape, the point of the spear or triangle graduating into the brim proper radially outwardly from the jointure between the crown and brim.

The appearance of the crrugations on the top of the brim will be that of protuberances and the appearance from the underside of the brim will be that of depressions. Obviously the depth of the depressions of the protuberances and their number, together with the material of which the hat is made, will determine the limitations within which the size of the hat may be changed. Obviously the hat band and the sweat band of both the brim and the crown would not affect the size diierence in the hat.

What I claim is:

1. A hat comprising a crown and a brim, the latter secured to the former, corrugations formed in both the crown and brim and an elastic hat band secured to the crown.

2. A hat comprising a crown and a brim, the latter secured to the former, corrugations formed in both the crown and brim, lsaid corrugations communicating with each other and an elastic hat band secured to the crown.

3. A hat comprising a crown and brim, the latter formed integrally with the former, small corrugat'ions formed in both the crown and brimJ said corrugations communicating with each other and extending upwardly from the brim and outwardly vfrom the crown, the corrugations on the brim graduating into the brim and having a spear shape, said corrugations communicating with each other and extending completely around the crown and brim, leaving substantially no space between said corrugations, an elastic hat band secured to the crown, so as to produce an elastic .jointure between-said crown and brim.

` WILLIAM KATZ.

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