Improvements in Machines for Polishing, Veluring, and otherwise Finishing Felt Hats, Caps, and Head Coverings.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Feb., 1887
Complete Left, 25th Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 27th Dec., 1887
Improvements in Machines for Polishing, Veluring, and otherwise
Finishing Felt Hats, Caps, and Head Coverings.
I WILLIAM MORGAN, of 2 Foster Lane, Cheapside in the County of Middlesex
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of said Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINES FOR POLISHING VELURING AND OTHERWISE FINISHING FELT HATS CAPS
AND HEAD COVERINGS to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in machines for grinding polishing veluring
smoothing and otherwise finishing felt hats caps and other felt or imitation felt head
coverings and the principal object of my Invention is to improve the means for apply-
ing to the surface of the hat or other head covering the emery or other rough surface
or brush or pad or other article employed in the finishing operations.
In carrying out my Invention I prefer to employ an ordinary block for the felt or
imitation felt body of the hat or other head covering to be polished velured or other-
wise finished a revolving motion being imparted to this block in the usual way by
means of friction discs or otherwise. The polishing grinding veluring or finishing
agent brush iron pad or other implement is supported in a suitable holder and is
connected to a flexible shaft by which it receives a revolving motion.
The advantage of having the agent or implement employed to polish or otherwise
finish the hat mounted on a flexible shaft is that it not only receives a revolving
motion but it can be readily applied to the side top or any part of the hat body. The
polishing agent or implement can be readily changed for one of another kind when
required.
Where it is not necessary or desirable to revolve the polishing agent or implement
I propose to employ instead of or in combination with the flexible shaft a hand lever
mounted on a ball and socket or universal joint so that by operating the hand lever
the agent or implement secured to it can be guided and applied with the necessary
pressure to any part of the hat body.
The flexible shaft or the lever can be made hollow and gas or steam supplied through
either of them to heat the iron or other polishing implement which can thus be
maintained at the required temperature.
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H. B. BARLOW,
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Polishing, Veluring, and otherwise
Finishing Felt Hats, Caps, and Head Coverings.
I WILLIAM MORGAN of 2 Foster Lane Cheapside in the County of Middlesex
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of said Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINES FOR POLISHING VELURING AND OTHERWISE FINISHING FELT HATS CAPS
AND HEAD COVERINGS 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 machines for grinding polishing veluring
smoothing and otherwise finishing felt hats caps and other felt or imitation felt head
coverings and the principal object of my Invention is to improve the means for apply-
ing to the surface of the hat or other head covering the emery or other rough surface
or brush or pad or other article employed in the finishing operations.
In carrying out my Invention I prefer to employ an ordinary block for the felt or
imitation felt body of the hat or other head covering to be polished velured or other-
wise finished a revolving motion being imparted to this block in the usual way by
means of friction discs or otherwise. "The polishing grinding veluring or finishing
agent, brush iron pad or other implement is supported in a suitable holder and is
connected to a flexible shaft by which it receives a revolving motion.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect. I will describe the accompanying two Sheets of Drawings reference being had
to the figures and letters marked thereon.
Figure is a view illustrating my Improvements as applied to a machine for
polishing veluring and otherwise finishing felt hats caps and other head coverings
and Figure 2 is a similar view of an alternative arrangement according to my
Invention.
Referring first to Figure 1.-a designates part of the frame of the machine, b the
ordinary block for the felt hat or other head covering, c the friction disc gearing for
imparting revolving motion to the block b, and d the treadle for controlling the
revolving motion of the block b.
The above are ordinary parts of a well known machine to which I lay no claim as
any other suitable arrangement of mechanism for imparting a revolving motion to the
revolving block might be employed; the block b also may be of any suitable form
other than that shown.
My improvements consist mainly in the use and application of a flexible shaft e
which is secured at one end to a shaft f which is driven from any convenient part of
the machine the other end of the flexible shaft e having secured to it the spindle g' of
a holder g upon which spindle g¹ is mounted the polishing grinding veluring or
finishing agent which may be an emery or grinding disc has shown in Figure 1 or a
brush, iron, pad, or other suitable implement or article.
The advantage of having the agent or implement employed to polish or otherwise
finish the hat mounted on the flexible shaft e is that it not only receives a revolving

page_text: motion but it can be readily applied to the side top or any part of the hat body as
illustrated in Figure 1 which shows the grinding disch operating upon the hat in
three different positions.
When it is not necessary or desirable to revolve the grinding or polishing agent or
implement I propose to employ instead of or in combination with the flexible shaft e
a hand lever i as shown in Figure 2. This hand lever is mounted on a ball and
socket or universal joint in a stationary bracket so that by operating the hand
lever the agent or implement secured to it can be guided and applied with the
necessary pressure to any part of the hat body on the revolving block b.
Either the flexible shaft e or the lever i or both can be made hollow and gas or
steam supplied through either of them to heat the iron or other polishing implement
which can thus be maintained at the required temperature or fire or any other suitable
means may be used to heat the iron or other implement. In some cases I propose to
use a brush on the flexible shaft e and to supply steam through the said shaft and brush
to the hat on the revolving block b by which means I am enabled to take the curl out
of the fibre and lay it straight and by then changing the brush for a friction bowl or
disc I am able to give additional polish if required; the hat would be subsequently
pressed in a hot dish as usual.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. The combination with the revolving block or its equivalent, of a flexible
shaft to which a revolving motion is imparted and upon which is mounted a disc bowl
brush iron pad or other implement or agent for grinding polishing veluring and other-
wise finishing felt hats caps and other head coverings substantially as and for the
purposes herein described and as illustrated by Figure 1.
2. The combination with the revolving block & or its equivalent, of a hand lever
fulcrumed on a ball and socket or universal joint and carrying a pad iron or other
implement or agent for polishing smoothing veluring or otherwise finishing felt hats
caps and other head coverings substantially as and for the purposes herein described
and as illustrated by Figure 2.
3. The combination with the revolving block or its equivalent, of a flexible
shaft and a hand lever fulcrumed on a universal joint substantially as and for the
purposes herein described with reference to the Drawings annexed.
Dated this 24th day of November 1887.
H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester,
Agent for Applicant.