US870350A - Hat-ventilator. - Google Patents

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PATENTED NOV. 5, 1907.

A. L. ELIEL.

HAT VENTILATOR.

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ALBERT L. ELIEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HAT-VENTILATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 5, 1907.

Application filed December 13, 1906, Serial No. 347,614.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ALBERT L. ELIEL, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hat-Ventilators, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a ventilating device for hats which will be simple and cheap in construction, can readily be applied to the hat without skill or the use of tools, will not injure the hat when applied and will be capable of regulating the amount of air which will be admitted.

In the drawing, Figure l is an elevation of a hat with my ventilator applied thereto; Fig. 2 is a view from the inner side of the hat showing the way of securing the ventilator in place; Fig. 3 is a section on line 3, 3 Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the inner side of the ventilating device prior to its attachment.

The ventilating device consists of a thin disk 5, preferably of metal, having its edge 6, projecting outwardly from the face of the disk, leaving a depressed face for receiving and protecting the damper about to be de scribed. Through the face of the disk on opposite sides of its center are formed two circular holes 7, 8, and pivoted to the center of the disk between these holes is a thin dumbbell shaped damper 9 which is secured to the disk by a rivet 10 upon which the damper turns. This damper may be readily turned so as to cover the openings 7. 8 to any desired extent, the rivet 10 holding the damper in frictional engagement with the depressed face of the disk so that the damper will remain in any position to which it is turned. The damper is made of such thin material that it does not project beyond the raised edge 6 so that it is protected by such edge from injury or displacement. The disk 5 has projecting from its back a number of pins 11 of small diameter and made of soft, readily pliable metal. In securing the ventilating device to the hat these pins 11 are forced through the body of the hat from the outside. which can be readily done by pressure without injuring the hat fabric. The pins are then bent outwardly on the inside of the hat as shown in Fig. 2, securing the disk firmly in place. By means of a sharp penknife holes are then cut through the hat body in line with the holes 7, 8 of the ventilating device. The ventilating device can be attached to the hat body at any suitable point and one or a number of these devices can be attached to a single hat according to the amount of ventilation the wearer desires. The damper 9 allows the ventilation to be regulated to suit conditions of temperature, wind etc.

\Vhat I claim is:

As a new article of manufacture, a hat ventilator, adapted to be secured to the outer surface of a hat body, comprising a disk having a depressed outer face, ventilating openings through said face, an exposed thin damper pivoted on the depresscdface of the disk and protected by the projecting edge of the disk and pliable pins projecting from the back of the disk for securing the disk upon the hat body, substantially as set forth.

This specification signed and witnessed this twelfth day of December, 1906.

ALBERT L. ELIEL.

Witnesses JNO. ROBT. TAYLOR, JOHN L. LoTscH.

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