US877029A - Sunbonnet. - Google Patents

Description

No. 877,029. PATBNTED JAN. 21, 1908.

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SUN BONNET.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 7. 1907.

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CHARLES E. YOUNT, SR.,-OF HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

SUNBONNET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 21, 1908.

Application filed November 7.1907v Serial No. 401.143.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES E. YoUNT, Sr. a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Harrisburg, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sunbonnets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is additional to the improvement in sunbonnets set forth and claimed in my specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 833,950 dated October 23, 1906, and the present invention consists in \a certain novel combination of peculiarly constructed parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In common with said patented improvement the leading objects of the present in vention are to adapt the sunbonnet to be effectively laundered before and after use; to adapt the same to be packed flat for storage and shipment whereby a great saving in paper boxes,'wooden packing cases, freight and carta'ge is effected to adapt the sunbonnet to be held in the shape in which it is worn by a single draw string occupying a straight pocket in the puff portion of the article; to wholly dispense with detachable parts and open seams with their fastenings, and especlally with hooks and eyes and the like, so as to avoid the production of rust spots; and to obviate the employment of elastics, which are liable to become permanently inoperative, and are objectionable because of their pressure upon the head.

The leading object which distinguishes the present invention is to provide for securing the advantages above stated in a sunbonnet, the crown portion of which has a straight rear edge instead of the concave rear edge of the crescent-shaped crown portion which is the leading feature of the patented improvement.

I am thus enabled to make a sunbonnet ada ted to be readily laundered, to be pac ed flat, etc. and which at the same time when drawn to shape by its single draw 7 string more closely embraces the face so as to afford better protection against the sun, the top of the crown portion when bent into shape being horizontal, and its rear edge vertical as compared with the oblique lines of the patented sunbonnet.

Other objects will be set forth in the general description which follows.

Two sheets of drawings accompany this specification as part thereof.

Figure 1 is a front view of the sunbonnet as flattened and folded in packing the same for shipment or for storage; Fig. 2 is a back view of the same in its flattened condition but unfolded Fig. 3 is a side view of the sunbonnet in the shape in which it is worn; and Figs. 4 and 5 represent the patterns of the crown portion and puff portion respectively.

Like reference characters refer to like parts in all the figures.

The improved sunbonnet includes a relatively stiff or stiifenable crown portion, a, that has a straight rear edge, a, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4, and may otherwise be of any knownor improved shape. The other principal part of the sunbonnet is a puff portion, I), having a relatively long convex edge, I), which is shortened by gathers to the length of said straight edge, and is then securely sewed to said straight edge at all points; the gathers serving to produce the required fullness of the puff portion, indicated in Figs. 2 and 3. A cape portion, 0, may be and preferably is formed in one part with said puff portion 1) as heretofore. Said convex edge I) is of the extent indicated by the notches 1 and 2 in the pattern, Fig. 5. Sufficient material in line with said notches 1 and 2 is doubled upon itself to form a drawing string pocket, d, within which a drawing string dis secured at one end, said pocket extending from one lateral extremity of the crown portion a to the other as indicated in Fig. 1. By further confining the gathers to a portion of the convex edge, I), as indicated by the other pair of notches shown at 3 and 4 in Fig. 5, more fullness may be located in the top of the puff, leaving portions at the sides of the puff plain. The only other characteristic of the crown portion 1) which needs to be pointed out is that it corresponds in width with the length of the crown portion a from one lateral extremity to the other.

The crown portion a is intended to be made with or without a ruffle, c. When there is a ruffle, as in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the puff portion tor its cape end, at least, is preferably and conveniently made wide enough to extend to the lateral extremities of the rufile, as 1n Fig. 2.

A pair of strings, f and g, securely fastened at the lateral edges of the crown portion a as in Fig. 1, provide for tying the bonnet under the chin, and a second pair of strings, h and t, securely fastened in the seam that unites the crown and puff portions, a and b, on the outer side of the bonnet, asin Fig. 2, are preferably addedto be tied between the puff and the cape after the bonnet is drawn into shape for the 'head as in Fig. 3.

, Either or both pairs of the strings, f, g and 71 i, may be omitted; and other like modifications in details and in shape will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art-r Having thus described said improvement, I claim as my invention and desire to patent under this specification:

A launderable sunbonnet including a stiff crown portion having a straight rear edge, a relatively soft puff portion having a relatively long convex edge which is shortened bygathers to fit said strai ht edge and to give the puff the required fullness, and is insepsmear;

arably attached at all points to said straight edge, said pufl portion being further provided with a draw-strin pocket substantially in line with said straight edge when the bonnet is flattened and folded, and a draw string within said pocket by tightening which the bonnet is drawn into shape, while by loosening the draw string the bonnet is adapted to be readily laundered or to be fiattened and folded within a contracted space for storage and shipment, substantially as hereinbefore specified.

CHARLES E. YOUNT, SR.

Witnesses:

H. H. FREEBURN, GEO. L. WINGEARD.

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