Opera hat which means hat, and "claque", which means "tap" or "click". The "chapeau claque" is thus a hat that folds with a click, and unfolds likewise. In English the hat model is usually referred to as a "collapsible top-hat", "gibus" or more often "opera hat"- The construction may originally have been inspired by an historical hat model called "chapeau bras" ("arm hat"), made as bicorne or tricorne to be carried folded under the arm On May 5, 1812, a London hatter called Thomas Francis Dollman patented a design for "an elastic round hat" supported by ribs and springs. His patent was
Top Hat Willy Top Hat Willy Top Hat Willy is a platform computer game created by Tero Heikkinen for the Commodore Amiga and was released in 1994. The objective of the game is to collect 160 pieces of trash that are scattered around the 100 room gameplay area. The rooms are set up in a 10 × 10 grid, each room connecting to its four surrounding rooms. The player has 9 lives. The game is based on the ZX Spectrum game "Jet Set Willy". Willy arrives at his mansion after a party and has to pick up all of the pieces of trash.