An Improved Dressing Pad or Reviver for Hats.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd July, 1891-Accepted, 19th Sept., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Dressing Pad or Reviver for Hats.
I DAVID WILLIAM WALL of 2 Camberwell Road, in the County of Surrey,
Hatter, 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 :-
This invention for an improved dressing pad or reviver for hats relates to pads
used for cleaning and smoothing the surface or nap of silk or other hats.
A dressing pad or reviver as ordinarily constructed consists of a velvet cover or
bag stuffed with hair, wool or other elastic substance to form a cushion to accomodate
itself to the surface of the hat to be dressed.
The object of this invention is to provide a portable hat dressing pad or reviver
which shall be more elastic when in use than the pads or revivers as usually con-
structed, and which, when not in use shall occupy a very small space and shall
readily accomodate its form to the surface to which it is applied, and consists
essentially of a bag of india-rubber or other suitable air tight material covered
with cloth or velvet or other suitable rubbing material and provided with an air
tube, and rigid mouthpiece by means of which it is inflated with air so as to form
an elastic cushion when in use, and collapsed so as to occupy a very small compass
when not in use. The tube when the bag is inflated is bent on itself by means
of the mouthpiece and closes the passage in the tube so as to retain the air in
the bag.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings,
Fig. 1 represents a plan of a dressing pad or reviver inflated ready for use, and
Figs. 2 and 3 are magnified sections of the mouthpiece and inflating tube when
open and closed respectively.
The inflating tube a is cemented or otherwise connected to an air tight bag b
preferably covered with velvet, and the mouthpiece consists of a small tube c
inserted into the air tube a its inner end being cut obliquely at d while its outer
end is provided with a lipe which when the bag bis inflated is turned round on
the tube and inserted under and secured by a small band the bending of the air
tube on itself over the oblique end of the said mouthpiece effectually closing the
air passage and preventing the escape from the bag b until the lip is again released
from the band and the tube a straightened. In its collapsed condition the bag
may be folded and conveniently used to brush and smooth the hat brim beneath the
side curls.
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. A collapsible hat dressing pad or reviver capable of being inflated with air
substantially as described.
2. The air inflating and retaining device comprising a small tube c with oblique
end d inserted in the inflating tube a so that when the said tube is bent the escape
of the air is prevented substantially as described.
3. The combination of the air inflated pad 6 with the inflating and retaining
device the whole arranged constructed and operated substantially as described.

page_text: 4. The arrangement and construction of a hat dressing pad or reviver substantially
as described with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 22nd day of July 1891.
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WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, Agents.