Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Dec., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Sept.. 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 26th Oct., 1888
I, CHARLES VERO, of Atherston, in the County of Warwick, Hat Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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My invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of fur faced plated or
vencered napless hats especially those with felted bodies of wool and fur or mixtures
of the same soft or slightly proofed but is also applicable to semi-proofed or
hard hats.
For plating or veneering according to my invention 1 place the felted bodies
soft or stiffened into a rotating cylinder whose ends are perforated to admit
steam.
The cylinder is fixed inside a steam tight box and revolved from the outside steam
being admitted into the box passing through the perforated ends into the cylinder
softening and heating the hat bodies.
Inside the cylinder there are wooden strips or ledges fastened horizontally and a
suitable aperture is made for introducing the hat bodies and the fur or fur dust.
The wooden ledges distribute the fur dust and aid in revolving the bodies so that all
are quickly and evenly plated by friction and the moist hot vapour.
For dry plating I use a similar cylinder without perforations at the ends but with
an internal cylinder at its centre heated with steam. I also heat its external surface
by gas jets or place a cylinder inside a heated chest or chamber and operate in the same
manner as with steam.
I take out the bodies and straighten and turn through as often as required.
If the bodies are for soft hats when sufficient fur has been plated on 1 give thein
two or more rounds through a planking machine as in felting which effectually secures
the short fur or fur dust to the surface of the bodies.
For proofed or semi-proofed bodies I give them a round in a hand planking kettle
in a hair sticking cloth.

page_text: The hat bodies are then dyed and completed in the usual manner.
The above described improvements are applicable not only when the bodies are
made throughout of one material or mixtures but also when the brim and crown are
of separate materials.
Dated this 23rd day of Douambor 1007
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant:
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
.Improvements in the Manufacture of Felt Hats and Apparatus
Employed in such Manufacture.
I, CHARLES VERO, of Atherston, in the County of Warwick, Hat Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement
My invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of fur faced plated
or veneered napless hats especially those with felted bodies of wool and fur or
mixtures of the same soft or slightly proofed but is also applicable to semi-proofed or
hard hats.
For plating or veneering according to my invention I place the felted bodies
soft or stiffened into a rotating cylinder whose ends are perforated to admit
steam.
The cylinder is fixed inside a steam tight box and revolved from the outside steam
being admitted into the box passing through the perforated ends into the cylinder
softening and heating the hat bodies.
Inside the cylinder there are wooden strips or ledges fastened horizontally and a
suitable aperture is made for introducing the hat bodies and the fur or fur dust.
The wooden ledges distribute the fur dust and aid in revolving the bodies so that all
are quickly and evenly plated by friction and the moist hot vapor.
I take out the bodies and straighten and turn through as often as required.
If the bodies are for soft hats when sufficient fur has been plated on I give them
two or more rounds through a planking machine as in felting which effectually secures
the short fur or fur dust to the surface of the bodies.
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For proofed or semi-proofed bodies I give them a round in a hand planking kettle
in a hair sticking cloth. The hai bodies are then dyed and completed in the usual
manner.

page_text: The above described improvements are applicable not only when the bodies are made
throughout of one material or mixtures but also when the brim and crown are of
separate materials.
Figure 1 is an end view of the apparatus.
Figure 2 is a longitudinal section.
Figure 3 is a transverse section.
Figure 4 is a plan, and
Figures 5 and 6 are side and end views of the cylinder.
In these figures A is a cylinder into which the felted hat bodies are placed, it is
provided on the inside with longitudinal bars B, a door C and perforated euds D, D,
which carry projecting shafts E, E, which form the axis about which the cylinder A
turns. This cylinder is placed within a box F and is driven by a pulley G fixed out-
side the box F on one of the shafts E. The box F has a false bottom H and a steam
pipe leads into the space below this false bottom admitting steam, which, rising up,
enters the cylinder through the perforated ends. A pipe J is provided for the escape
of the condensed water.
For dry plating I use a similar cylinder without perforations at the ends but withı
an internal cylinder at its centre heated with steam. I also heat its external surface
by gas jets or place a cylinder inside a heated chest or chamber and operate in the same
manner as with steam."
Figure 7 is a longitudinal section of this modification and Figure 8 is a transverse
section of the same. A is the rotating cylinder provided as before with longitudinal
bars B, door C, shafts EE and pulley G. Inside the cylinder there is another
cylinder U. One of the shafts E is made hollow as shown and steam is admitted
through it to the cylinder U. L is a gas pipe provided with burners beneath the
cylinder.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The process of manufacturing fur faced plated or veneered napless hats by
agitating the bodies with fur or fur dust in the presence of steam.
2. The rotating cylinder to which steam is admitted with its longitudinal bars inside
for turning over the hats.
3. The combination of a rotating cylinder provided with longitudinal bars inside
and perforated ends with a steam chest in which it is rotated.
4. The modified apparatus shewn in Figures 7 and 8 consisting of a rotating
cylinder with longitudinal bars and a heating cylinder inside and with or without
outside means of heating.
5. The process of manufacturing fur faced plated or veneered napless hats by
agitating the bodies with fur or fur dust in dry heat.
Dated this 21st day of September 1888.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.