Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 30th June, 1868
Complete Specification Left, 30th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 11th May, 1889
Employed in the Hat Manufacture.
I ADAM ASHWORTH junr. of Hooley Hill near Manchester, Hat Manufacturer do
hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object a means of heating the hood or hat body and
thereby keeping the same soft and pliable whilst undergoing the stretching process
and consists in forming a passage through the central shaft of the machine terminating
at the top and inside the usual supporting cage in a perforated nozzle and com-
municating at the bottom through a flexible tube with a steam supply. In this
manner I am enabled to introduce a steam jet or jets into the felt hat body and thus
to keep the same properly heated whilst undergoing the tip or brim stretching
operations. The improvements are applicable to tip or brim stretchers to machines
known as "
gapers" and other similar machinery.
Deal his 30th Jan Tana 1000
JOHN G. WILSON,
Patent Office, 55, Market Street, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in or Applicable to Tip or Brim Stretching Machines
Employed in the Hat Manufacture.
I ADAM ASHWORTH Junior of Hooley Hill near Manchester, Hat Manufacturer
do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 has for its object a means of heating the hood or hat body and
theroby keeping the same soft and pliable whilst undergoing the stretching process
by the introduction of a jet or jets of steam into the felt hat body whilst supported
upon the stretching block as hereinafter described.
On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 ropresents a sectional view of the upper part
of the shaft or spindle of a tip or brim stretcher and shewing my improvements
applied thereto.
In accordance with my invention 1 form a passage through the central shaft or
spindle a terminating at the top and inside the usual supporting cage or stretching
block in a perforated nozzle or rose-piece e and which passage at the bottom is
in communication through the branch pipe d and flexible tube e with a steam
supply pipa.
In this manner I am enabled to introduce a steam jet or jets into the folt hat
body and thus to keep the same properly heated whilst undergoing the tip or brim
stretching operations.
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It will be apparent that these improvements are applicable to new or existing tip or
brim stretchors-also to machines known as gapers and to other similar
machinery.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
In tip or brim stretchers used in the hat manufacture the employment of a
perforatol nozzle or rose-piece or its equivalent for introducing a jet or jets of
steam beneath the hood or hat body substantially as and for the purpose herein-
before described.
Datad this Dash - 1000
Dated this 50th day of March 1900.
JOHN G. WILSON,
Patent Office, 55, Market Street, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicant.