US2255611A - Hat fastener - Google Patents

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Sept. 9, 1941. J. H. BROWN HAT FASTENER Filed June 18, 1941 I v 14) c-vvtm Jwqak EZmwn/ Vi i emu-

Patented Sept. 9, 1941 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HAT FASTENER Joseph H. Brown, Brooklyn, N. Y. Application lane 18, 1941, Serial No. 398,687

(or 1s2 e1) Claims.

The invention concerns a hat fastener adapted to be secured to a part of the hat, preferably one at each side thereof, and slidable relative to the means which holds it in place, so that it may be thrust inwardly to engage the hair or retracted in order to remove the hat.

The invention is shown in the accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 is a view showing the device applied to a hat.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view on a larger scale of the device.

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view (through the curved plate) on line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a plan View of the device with the parts in the position of Fig. 2.

In the drawing I indicates a two pronged hair pin with a connection between the prongs at one end, this connection consisting of a handle or finger portion 2 at one end in the form of an enlarged loop.

The prongs of this fastener are slidable through guides 3 struck up from a sheet metal member 4. These guides are in the form of small loops, two in number, one for each tine or prong of the hair pin proper. The prongs or tines of the hair pin are under tension, causing them to be urged apart. This tendency is derived from the character of the wire of which the pin is made and the integral loop connection between them acting in the nature of a spring stressing the tines to have a normal tendency to separate. The sheet metal plate 4 has means for fastening it to the sweat band of the hat or to the hat itself, said means consisting of projections or tongues 5 integral with the plate and pointed so that the device can be attached by forcing these projections through the hat band or other part of the hat adapted to receive them when adequate Pressure is applied. The projections when on sale or before the device is attached to a hat lie substantially in the same plane in which the plate 4 lies so that the fastener can be packed flat. When the device is to be attached to the hat, however, the prongs 5 are thrust through the hat band after they have been bent in positions substantially at right angles to the plate 4 which carries them. The prongs are readily bendable and are of a form which will insure their bending at the right point, said form involving the recesses 0r bends at 6 where said projections join the ends of the plate 4.

The plate 4 with its guide eyes or loops and with its pointed projections may be struck up from sheet metal stock into the desired shape ready for attachment to the hat by simply bringing the pointed projections into the right angular positions, above mentioned. The main plate 4 is curved longitudinally to conform to the shape of the side of the head of the wearer so that a comfortable snug fit is obtained.

As above intimated the tines of the hat pin have a normal tendency to spring away from each other and this causes frictional pressure between said tines and the guide loops or eyes of the main plate and by reason of this pressure the hat pin will be held against dropping away from.

the positions to which it has been adjusted, and therefore the hat will remain, under ordinary circumstances, in the position to which it has been adjusted. V

The tendency of the tines 0f the fastener to spread apart is utilized not only to tend to hold the pin per se in the adjusted relation to the plate 4 when fastened to the hat, but it also causes the tines to spread when thrust upwardly into the hair of the wearer, and thus assume an upwardly and outwardly adjusted position which will tend to hold the hat in its intended position of adjustment. The ends of the tines are enlarged as shown at 1 to act as stops to prevent the tines from passing through the guide eyes or loops and thus separating from the plate 4.

The device is intended to be used, one at each side of the head.

The pointed prongs after being forced through the hat band are preferably turned inwardly towards each other and thus occupy space opposite and on the outer face of the main plate.

Furthermore, the pointed prongs or tongues of the main plate are so bent at their points of juncture with the main plate that the direction in which they are intended to be bent is in dicated by the location of the notch or recess 6 in its side.

By thus making the tongues to indicate by their form the direction in which their bending should take place in order to properly mount them in the hat, the devices can be conveniently stored fiatwise and conveniently exhibited on sale in said substantially flat form, the tongues or pointed projections remaining in substantially the same plane in which the main part of the plate lies.

While I have described the main plate with its projecting tongues as being flexible, I wish it understood that said plate with its integrally connected tongues will stay in the position in which they are bent with sufiicient strength and firmness to perform their intended function of holding the device in place.

Thus when the bendable tongues are bent into position substantially at right angles to their initial positions, they will maintain their new positions with sufficient firmness in order that they may be thrust through the hat band, and when bent against the said band to clasp the same between themselves and the main body of the plate, they will maintain this new position to'hold the device securely in place. The tongues 5 atthe ends of the plate are of reduced width relative'to the plate 4 from which they project,

I the width being that dimension measured from 1 the upper to the lower edge as viewed in Fig. 2.

I claim: I 1. A hat fastener comprising a sheet metal 1 plate having a projection extending from each I end thereof, said projections being of reduced width relative to the width of the plate, said projections'being adapted to be thrust through a part of the hat and-being bendable to' clasp said hat part, loops integral with the plate and ex- 2.. A hatfastener according to claim 1 in which I the bendable tongues at the ends of the sheet metal plate initially lie in substantially the same plane with the plate. r

3. A hat fastener according to claim 1 in which the tongues projecting from the ends of the plate are connected to the said ends of the plate by a bent portion presenting a recess on the side face of said tongue where it joins the said plate.

4. A hat fastener having a sheet metal plate slightly curved from end to end, tongues integrally connected with and projecting from the ends of said plate and lying in substantially the' plate having on its concave face loops project-' ing therefrom and a hair pin located on the concave face of said plate and having its tines guided in said loops, substantially as described.

JOSEPH H. BROWN.

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