AN IMPROVED APPARATUS TO MANUFACTURE THE RIMS OF HATS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and
Foreign Patent Offices, 10, Sackville Street, Piccadilly, in the
County of Middlesex, and 18, Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, in the
Empire of France, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
APPARATUS TO MANUFACTURE THE RIMS OF HATS."-A communication
from Jean Prosper Morlot, residing at 72, Boulevard de Sébastopol,
in Paris, aforesaid.
Sealed the 11th June 1869, and dated the 19th April 1869.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition
and Declaration, on the 19th April 1869, pursuant to the 9th
Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
5 TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 10,
Sackville Street, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, and 18,
Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, in the Empire of France, Patent Agent, send
greeting

page_text: WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "AN IMPROVED
APPARATUS TO MANUFACTURE THE RIMS OF HATS," a communication from
Jean Prosper Morlot, a person resident at 72, Boulevard de Sébastopol,
in Paris, aforesaid, and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto
me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters
Patent for the same, and made solemn Declaration that it is a
communication.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and
seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, that is to say:-
The Invention communicated to me consists in an improved apparatus
for raising and giving any given shape to the rims of hats, and the
following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to
the accompanying Drawings, and to the letters marked thereon, making
a part of this Specification, in which Fig. 1 is a side elevation, Fig. 2 a
front elevation, and Fig. 3 a top view in plane of the said apparatus,
like letters of reference indicating similar parts.
A is a cast-iron table resting upon the frame B. This table carries
the whole mechanism, which is composed as follows:-C, C¹, C", are
three gearings, to which motion is imparted by a crank D; the first
gearing O is shipped upon the arbor E of the crank, and actuates the
two other gearings C¹, C". The object of each of these is to impart
motion in one direction or the other to the levers F by means of the
nuts G and the screws H. The levers oscillate at I. The screws are
wormed, some to the right and the others to the left, in such wise that
by means of their nuts G the levers act simultaneously either in
drawing nearer to or in receding from the centre of the apparatus.
The extremity of each lever is fastened in cylindrical rods J which slide
in guides K fixed upon the table A by means of bolts. The two
guides in which slide the rods corresponding to the rim of the hat in
the direction of its length are disposed in such wise that the bolts which
retain them may have room to play to allow these guides slightly to
oscillate from below upwards under the impulsion imparted on one side
by the springs L and on the other by the matrice M. The jaws or
sectors 6 are disposed in order to turn down the rim of the hat; they
are adjusted with screws so as to allow of substituting others according
to the various shapes to be given to the hats.
A sort of stationary

page_text: mould so as to raise it all round. In this operation not only must the
resistance of the rim be overcome, but also the resistance exerted from
below upwards by the gudgeons Q which run through the stationary
mould and act against the moveable plate e. The four jaws 6 are then
worked by means of the crank D to cause them to draw nearer to the
centre of the apparatus and operate upon the rim edge of the hat by
flattening the part which has risen during the second pressure operated
by the ring upon the matrice. When the jaws have flattened the rim
of the hat they are untightened; the ring is then made to rise, and the
hat, now finished, which has been raised above the stationary mould by
the action of the gudgeons Q pressed by the spring R, is withdrawn.
With this apparatus all sorts of hats, whether of straw, stuff, or other
material, and of any size, may be operated.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the
manner of carrying the same into effect, what I claim is, an apparatus
for operating the rims of hats, substantially as herein-before fully set
forth and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of April,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine.