Patent GB-190714284-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Hat Smoothing Machine.
Inventor: HEINZE MORITZ
Filed: 1907-06-20
Granted: 1908-06-11
Abstract: 14,284. Heinze, M. June 20. Ironing.-A hat-smoothing and rubbing machine, comprises a hat block caused to rotate about both horizontal and vertical axes, and a rubber adapted to reciprocate. The rotation of the block about the horizontal axis is produced by means of belts from one of the main shafts, and the motion is compensated for the oval shape of the hat by means of an oval cam which oscillates the shaft carrying the block. The block is mounted upon a head which imparts to it the rotation about the vertical axis, the arrangement being such that when a certain movement of the head has been produced, the gearing is set free and the head is returned to its initial position by springs ; at the same time, the driving-shaft is stopped and the rubbing-pads are hinged back from the hat so that it may easily be removed. A shaft d, Figs. 2 and 6, is driven by a belt passing over one of the fast and loose pulleys e, e<1> and drives through bevel-gearing the shaft h upon which are mounted a pulley i and gear-wheel w, which engages a gear-wheel x and rotates the subsidiary shaft y. The shaft y is provided with a gear-wheel 1, which is connected to the shaft by a clutch z, and engages with a toothed segment upon the head c and slowly rotates it. The hat block n rotates upon an horizontal shaft m held by the links p, which are capable of oscillatory movement upon the shaft q which is secured to and rotates with the head c. The shaft m is driven from the pulley i by a belt passing over the guide-pulleys k, and the elliptica shape of the hat is compensated for by working the shaft m; a spring-pressed rollers bears upon an elliptical cam o on the shaft for this purpose. The rubbing-pads are mounted upon a hinged arm 17, Fig. 1, and are reciprocated by a lever 23 in connexion with an eccentric 22 upon the wheel 21 driven through other wheels from the main shaft. An adjustable pressure of the rubbing- pads upon the hat is secured by an adjustable spring, Fig. 6, contained in the head c fixed to the shaft h at one end and at the other connected to a ratchet head 30, so that the tension upon it may be adjusted. The ratchet head is connected by a lever to the arm 17 carrying the rubbing-pad so that the pad is pressed upon the bat. Upon depressing the pedal 7, Fig. 2, the driving-belt is moved on to the driving-pulley, and the lever 10 is drawn down. By this movement, the left-hand end of lever 11, Fig. 4, is depressed, and a contactpiece, which in the non-working position maintained the lever 14, carrying the moving element of the clutch in the raised position, is allowed to fall by its own weight. The mechanism for rotating the head is then thrown into,motion, and the head rotates until a contact-piece 4 upon it encounters and deflects the lever 12, releasing the lever 11 and allowing the lever 10 to rise by virtue of the spring 8 while the driving-belt passes on to the loose pulley. Thereupon a coiled spring 5, Fig. 6, within the head c restores the head, and with it the hat block, to its initial position. In the raised position of the pedal, the hinged carrier for the hat-rubber is drawn away from the hat into the position shown in Fig. 1, so that the hat may easily be removed.