AN IMPROVEMENT IN BINDING THE EDGES OF HAT AND BONNET SHAPES OR FOUNDATIONS, AND MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREFOR.
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Redhouse, of Goswell Road, in the County
of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN BINDING
THE EDGES OF HAT AND BONNET SHAPES OR FOUNDATIONS, AND MEANS OR
APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREFOR.
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Redhouse at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 1st April 1875.
I, JOSEPH REDHOUSE, of Goswell Road, in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVE-
MENT IN BINDING THE EDGES OF HAT AND BONNET SHAPES OF FOUNDATIONS, AND
MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREFOR," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to binding the edges of hat and bonnet shapes
or foundations whereby a neater finish is given to the shape and the
binding is more quickly effected than by the ordinary means hitherto
employed. These shapes or foundations are usually made of net or similar

page_text: fabric stiffened by a dressing of glutinous material and by a wire secured
around the edges
According to my Invention I avail myself of the adhesive qualities of
the material with which the fabric is dressed to secure the binding to the
shape without stitching, although it may afterwards be sewn if desired,
and I apply the binding in the following manner.-The ribbon or strip
of material to be used as binding is passed through a tension device and
then through a guide which folds it over the edge, which has been pre-
viously wired, of the shape or foundation. The latter with the binding
applied is then subjected to pressure between a pair of rollers, whereby
the binding which has been previously damped is caused to adhere to the
not or other fabric of which the foundation is composed. The rollers are
grooved in order to avoid pressing on the wire.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Redhouse in the Great Scal Patent Offico
on the 1st October 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPIL
REDHOUSE, of Goswell Road, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of April, in the ycar
of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Redhouse, Her special
licence that I, the said Joseph Redhouse, my executors, administra-
Lors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Redhouse, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, excrcise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ircland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVE-
MENT IN BINDING THE EDGES OF HAT AND BONNET SHAPES OR FOUNDATIONS, AND
MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREFOR," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Joseph Redhouse, my exccutors or admını

page_text: strators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and scals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Redhouse, 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, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings and to the letters and figuies marked thereon, that is to
say:
My Invention relates to binding the edges of hat and bonnet shapes or
foundations, whereby a neater finish is given to the shape, and the binding
is more quickly effected than by the ordinary means hitherto employed.
These shapes or foundations are usually made of net or similar fabric
stiffened by a dressing of glutinous material and by a wire secured around
the edges.
I avail myself of the adhesive qualities of the material with which
the fabric is dressed to secure the binding to the shape without stitching,
although it may afterwards be sewn if desired, and 1 apply the binding
in the following manner.-The ribbon or strip of material to be used
as binding wound upon a reel and controlled by a tension device is passed
through a damper and then through a guide, which folds it over the edge
of the shape or foundation. The latter with the binding applied is then
subjected to pressure between a pair of rollers, whereby the binding is
caused to adhere to the net or other fabric of which the foundation is
composed. The rollers are grooved in order to avoid pressing on the
Wire.

page_text: a is a reel containing the supply of binding material 6 placed on a
spindle mounted adjustably on a rod and stand c, and secured in the
desired position by a set screw; d is a thumbscrew and washer on the
reel spindle by which to control the rotation of the recl, and so regulate
the tension of the binding material. The binding 6 passes from this rcel
over a flannel covered roller f mounted to revolve in a trough g con-
taining water (to which a little spirit is added) for damping the binding
before it is applied to the shape. This damper may likewise be adjusted
to any height on a stand c, to which it is also secured by a set screw.
The damper serves also to regulate the tension of the material which
passes beneath guides near the upper edges of the trough and over the
roller as shown. It is only necessary to fix the roller either higher or
lower than the recl a and the folder or guide to which it is subsequently
led in order to increase or reduce the tension of the binding strip. 2 1s
the folder through which the binding strip then passes. This is more
clearly shown in Figure 3. It has a curved slot m through which the
binding is led, and by which it is folded over the edge of the shape.
There is a small hole q in the end of the folder through which tho
wire may be led and passed within the fold of the binding if it is desired
to attach the wire to the edge of the shape at the same time as the
binding, instead of previously securing the wire by sewing it to the edgo
of the shape. The shape and binding are then passed together through
a pair of metal rollers h, h², pressed together by springs and heated by a
gas flame from a Bunsen burner 2 or otherwise. The lower roller ' has
a circumferential groove to receive the wired edge and avoid pressing
thercon. is an oblique groove leading into the circumferential groovek.
A second oblique groove (not shown) lcads out therefrom to enable the
wired edge of the shape to be introduced between the rolls and removed
therefrom without separating the rolls or even reversing their motion.
The rolls are mounted in bearings in a suitable frame j, and are pressed
together by springs, as before mentioned, regulated by screws n. The
rollers are geared together and rotated by a crank handle on one of their
axes. The folder is attached to the stand by a slotted plate and binding
screws 1, as shown in Figure 1, to admit of the folder being fixed in
any position desired. The folder and plate are omitted in Figure 2.
Laving described the nature of the Invention and the manner of per-
forming the same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be
protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,—

page_text: 1st. The use for securing-the binding to the edges of hat and bonnet
shapes of a pair of heated metal rollers grooved as described.
2nd. The use in combination of the tension and damping device, the
folding device, and a pair of heated metal rollers, as and for the purpose
set forth.
In witness whercof, I, the said Joseph Redhouse, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this First day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-fivc.
2nd. The use in combination of the tension and damping device, the
folding device, and a pair of heated metal rollers, as and for the purpose
set forth.
In witness whercof, I, the said Joseph Redhouse, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this First day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-fivc.
JOSEPH REDHOUSE. (L.s.)