Apparatus to be employed for Paring or Cutting Hat Curls.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 5th July, 1894--Accepted, 29th Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus to be employed for Paring or Cutting Hat Curls.
I WILLIAM BRADLEY of 25 Dundonald Street Buxton Road Stockport in the
County of Chester, Foreman Hat Curler do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to enable a workman who is employed in paring
or cutting hat curls to perform that operation with greater accuracy and rapidity
than has hitherto been possible even by the most skilled hand.
The invention consists of a plate of metal or other suitable material which can
be fixed or held upon a table bench or frame, and is provided with a raised flange
projecting from its surface, and enclosing a space in the form of a half oval, or
rather more than half an oval, of the size and shape of the brim of the hat of which
the curl is to be cut, each flange being specially formed for the required size and
shape of brim.
This flange is undercut and its inner and overhanging edge increases in depth
and width in a perfect curve corresponding to the curl desired; and thus the flange
will serve both as a fence to hold the hat steady, while the curl is being cut, and
also as a template along which a chisel, knife or other cutting tool may be run very
rapidly, one half of the curl being cut at one sweep of the wool; and as both sides will
be cut to the same template the curl will be of exactly the same shape on both sides
of the hat. If desired springs or other clips may be provided to hold the hat down
on the plate while being cut, and a cord or other padding may be inserted inside
the flange so that a narrower curl may be cut if desired.
It will be seen that by the use of my apparatus the long practice, the trained
eye, and the great skill required to cut hat curls accurately will not be requisite.
Dated this 12th day of October 1893.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus to be employed for Paring or Cutting Hat Curls.
I WILLIAM BRADLEY of 25 Dundonald Street Buxton Road Stockport, in the
County of Chester, Foreman Hat Curler, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to enable a workman who is employed in paring
or cutting hat curls to perform that operation with greater accuracy and rapidity
than has hitherto been possible even by the most skilled hand.
My invention will be readily understood from the following description on
reference to the accompanying drawings of which Fig. 1 is a transverse section of
one form of my improved apparatus and Fig. 2 is a similar view of another form
thereof Fig. 3 being a plan view of the latter.
The invention consists of a plate a of metal or other suitable material which may
be solid as seen at Fig. 1 or may have the central part open as seen at Figs. 2
and 3, and which can be fixed or held upon a table bench or frame b, and is
provided with a raised flange a* projecting from its surface, and enclosing a space
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page_text: in the form of a half oval, or rather more than half an oval (as seen by Fig. 3) of
the size and shape of the brim of the hat of which the curl is to be cut.
When the
plate is made of metal cach flange is specially formed for the required size and
shape of brim. I prefer, however, to make the plate of thick india rubber or
similar material which will yield slightly so that more than one size of hat can be
pared on the same plate, the rubber flange being strong enough to resist the
pressure of the cutting tool and not to be cut thereby.
The flange a is undercut and its inner and overhanging edge increases in depth
and width in a perfect curve corresponding to the curl desired, see Fig. 3; and
thus the flange will serve both as a fence to hold the hat steady, while the curl is
being cut, and also as a template along which a chisel, knife or other cutting tool
may be run very rapidly, one half of the curl being cut at one sweep of the tool;
and as both sides will be cut to the same template the curl will be of exactly the
same shape on both sides of the hat. If desired springs or other clips may be
provided to hold the hat down on the plate whilst being cut, and a cord or other
padding may be inserted inside the flange so that a narrower curl may be cut if
desired.
It will be seen that by the use of my apparatus the long practice, the trained
eye, and the great skill required to cut hat curls accurately will not be requisite.
The plate a is held on the bench 6 preferably by a spring clip c capable of
yielding as required in all directions, but kept in place by the sliding bars or
rods c', c, c3 and the fixed sockets or slides b¹, 62, 63.
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 1
claim is :-
A plate to be placed or fixed on a bench, table or other convenient support
provided with an undercut flange so formed as to hold one half or rather more than
one half of the brim of the hat to be pared and thus to form both a fence and a
template.
Dated this F
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.