US982264A - Hat-fastener. - Google Patents

Description

"L. FORESTER. HAT EASTENER. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 17, 1910.

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LEONARD FORESTER, OF STEUBEN'VILLE, OHIO.

HAT-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. March 17, 1910.

Patented Jan. 24, 1911.

Serial No. 549,953.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEONARD FORESTER, a citizen of the United. States, residing at Steubenville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hat fasteners and has for its object the provision of a comparatively simple and thoroughly efficient device of this character, capable of being readily attached to ladies hats or bonnets and by means of which the hat may be retained in position on the head of the wearer without the employment of the usual hat pins and without piercing or otherwise injuring the body of the hat.

A further object is to provide a hat fastener including a casing having a spiral spring or helix normally housed within the same and provided with a projecting portion or shank adapted to be rotated so as to cause one or more whirls of the spring to engage the hair and thus prevent accidental displacement of the hat.

A still further object of the invention is generally to improve this class of devices so as to increase their utility, durability, and efliciency, as well as to reduce the cost of manufacture.

Further objects and advantages will ap pear in the following description, it being understood that various changes in form, proportions and minor details of construction may be resorted to within the scope of the appended claims.

For a full understanding of the invention and the merits thereof, reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a hat provided with a fastener constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the retaining member or spring removed from the casing; Fig. 3 is a front elevation partly in section of the casing showing the spiral spring housed within the same; Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view showing the fastener in position on a hat; Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the sections comprising the casing detached.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The improved fastener forming the subject matter of the present invention is principally designed for attachment to ladies hats or bonnets and by way of illustration is shown in connection with a hat of the ordinary construction in which 5 designates the body of the hat and 6 the hat band.

The device comprises a casing preferably formed in two sections 7 and 8, one of which is provided with laterally extending ears 9 adapted to be bent into engagement with the outer face of the adjacent section, thus to retain the sections in assembled position. The metal constituting the section 7 is pressed laterally to form a chamber 10 adapted to receive a spiral spring or helix 11, the latter being normally housed within the casing so as not to ofler any obstruction when placing the hat upon the head. The wire constituting one end of the spiral spring or helix 11 is extended longitudinally in a straight line to form a shank 12, the end of which is threaded at 13 for engagement with a correspondingly threaded knob or head 14. The inner section 7 is provided with a peripheral flange 15 having a plurality of openings 16 formed therein, which latter register with corresponding openings formed in the mating section 8 so as to permit the casing to be secured to the hat band 6 by passing stitches through said openings. If desired however, the casing may be retained in position on the hat band by means of eyelets or similar fastening devices. Formed in the inner section 7 and communicating with the interior of the chamber 10, is a slot 17 to permit the passage of the whirls of the spring 11 when the shank 12 is rotated so as to cause said whirls to engage the hair and thus prevent accidental displacement of the hat. Under normal conditions, the spiral spring or helix is entirely housed within the casing. When an initial rotary movement is imparted to the ornamental head 14, the free end of the lower convolution or whirl of the spring 11 will be projected through the opening 17 in the casing and a further rotary movement imparted to said head 14c will cause the convolutions or whirls to suecessively engage the hair and thus hold the hat on the head without the employment of the usual hat pins, and without puncturing or otherwise injuring the body of the hat. In some cases an ornamental plate 18 may be attached to the exterior wall of the hat to form a bearing for the shank of the attaching member. When the auxiliary plate 18 is used in connection with the fastener, said plate may be attached to the hat by passing the securing stitches ofthe fastener through suitable openings in the auxiliary plate, as shown.

It will of course be understood that the fasteners may be positioned on one or both sides of a hat and that the head 14: may be provided with any suitable surface ornamentation so as to give the device an attractive appearance. The head 14 not only serves as a means for rotating the shank 12 to eflect the projection of the spring through the inner casing section, but also forms a rounded terminal for the end of the shank 12.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. The combination with a hat, of a casing secured to the inner wall of the hat and formed of mating sections, one of which is provided with an opening and the other with a depression defining a circumferential flange, there being perforations in the flange and the adjacent section, means extending through said perforations and engaging the hat for retaining the casing in position thereon, there being an arcuate slot formed in the depressed casing section, a spiral spring normally housed within the casing and provided with a shank extending through the opening in the adjacent casing section and provided with a finger piece, the lower whirl of the spring being movable through the slot into engagement with the hair when the finger piece is rotated.

2. A hat fastener comprising a casing formed of mating sections, one of which is provided with a depressed port-ion defininga circumferential flange, the periphery of which is formed with spaced lugs adapted to be bent into engagement with the mating casing section, there being a slot formed in the depressed casing section, and a spiral spring normally housed within the casing and provided with a shank extending through one of said casing sections, the lower whirl of the spring being movable to operative position through the slot when the shank is rotated.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LEONARD FORESTER. [n s1 Witnesses:

CHARLES YOUNG, FRED A. STONE.

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