IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO MACHINERY FOR SETTLING AND PLANKING THE BODIES OF FELT HATS
Year: 1884

page_text: INUYIDIONAL
DIECIFICATION.
We JOSEPH OLDHAM and ORLANDO OLDHAM of Denton Iron Works, Hyde
Road Denton in the county of Lancaster Engineers and Machinests do hereby
declare the nature of our invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO
MACHINERY FOR SETTLING AND PLANKING THE BODIES OF FELT HATS to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is the application to machinery for Settling and
planking of rollers of a special construction whereby the settling and planking of
felt hats can be more perfectly performed and so as to approach hand planking
more nearly than has hitherto been practicable, In carrying out our invention we
employ two or more pairs of rollers of different configuration one of each pair being
of the ordinary diagonal or spiral grooved form and the other consisting of a roller
with a right and left screw thread formed upon it and cut away in the centre.
These screw threads being by preference cut out of the solid wooden roller but
which threads might be of other material and affixed upon the surface of the
rollers, The action of these rollers so arranged is to settle and plank the hat more
perfectly and right through if desired instead of submitting them to the action of
twisters or bumpers hitherto necessary to complete the planking operation.
Dated this 28th dow of Fohmiari 1884

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
We JOSEPH OLDHAM and ORLANDO OLDHAM of Denton Iron Works, Hyde
Road, Denton, in the County of Lancaster Engineers and Machinists do hereby
declare the nature of our said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE
TO MACHINERY FOR SETTLING AND PLANKING THE BODIES OF FELT HATS and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:
"
The object of this invention is the application to machinery for settling and
planking of rollers of a special construction whereby the settling and planking of
felt hats can be more perfectly performed and so as to approach hand-planking more
nearly than has hitherto been practicable.
On the accompanying drawing we illustrate a machine for settling and planking
embracing our improved rollers Fig 1 being a front view and Fig 2 a side
sectional view of the same.
In carrying out our invention we employ two or more pairs of rollers of different
configuration one of each pair being of the ordinary diagonal or spiral grooved
form a and the other consisting of a roller b with a right and left screw thread c
formed upon it and by preference cut away in the centre as illustrated-These
screw threads ċ being by preference cut out of the solid wooden roller but which
threads might be of other material and be affixed upon the surface of the
rollers.
We find it also practicable in settling and planking wool bodies to employ both.
the upper and the lower rollers of the spiral screw thread form but for fur bodies wo
either employ rollers as described in reference to Figs 1 and 2 or we use both the
upper and the lower rollers of the diagonal grooved form but with the grooves
arranged in reverse directions, as seen in Fig 3 which represents a front view and
in Fig 4 which is a side sectional view of the front pair of rollers-the back pair
of rollers being of the same description but with the grooves again reversed.
The action of these rollers so arranged is to settle and plank the hats more
perfectly and right through if desired instead of submitting them to the action of
twisters or bumpers as hitherto necessary to complete the planking operation.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of this our, said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim as our improvements in or applicable, to machinery for settling and
planking the bodies of felt hats is
1st The employment of two or more pairs of rollers of different configuration one
of each pair being of the ordinary diagonal or spiral grooved form and the other
.consisting of a roller with a right and left hand screwed thread formed upon it
substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated on the
accompanying drawing.
Dated thin 50th day of Nawamba 1001
JOHN G. WILSON,
Agent for Applicants.