IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CAPS AND OTHER LIKE COVERINGS FOR THE HEAD
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Michael Myers, of Liverpool, in the County of
"
Lancaster, Cap Manufacturer, for the Invention of IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CAPS AND OTHER LIKE COVERINGS FOR THE HEAD."
Sealed the 26th July 1872, and dated the 29th January 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Michael Myers at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
29th January 1872.
I, MICHAEL MYERS, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Cap
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CAPS AND OTHER LIKE COVERINGS FOR
THE HEAD," to be as follows (that is to say) :-
This Invention relates to improvements chiefly applicable to the
manufacture of the class of goods known as Scotch caps, Glengarry caps,
Scotch bonnets, forage caps, and other such coverings for the head, which
are at present generally knitted and afterwards milled or felted.

page_text: Now this improvement consists in forming these articles from a
woollen fabric woven in the ordinary way, and giving them the required
form by milling, felting, or shrinking.
To manufacture a cap according to this Invention I take a circular or
other suitably shapped piece of cloth, in the case of a round cap, say
about fourteen inches in diameter, and place it on a block of the required
form, and bring it up to the shape by stretching, steaming, ironing,
damping, and heating it, and working it to the required form, then
allowing it to dry on the block, after which the block is removed, thus
producing a cap from one piece of cloth without seam. The lower edge
then can be bound with any suitable material attached thereto by
sewing.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Michael Myers in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 29th July 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MICHAEL
MYERS, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Cap Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS. Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of January, in the
year of our Lord. One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto me, the said Michael Myers, my executors,
administrators, and' assigns, or such others as I, the said Michael Myers,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should' at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time' and at all times hereafter during the term
herein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CAPS AND OTHER LIKE COVERINGS FOR THE HEAD,"
.

page_text: condition.(amongst others that 1, the said Michael Myers,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said. Michael Myers, 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 my said Invention relates to improvements applicable to the
manufacture of the class of goods, known as Scotch caps, Glengarry caps,
Scotch bonnets, forage caps, and such other coverings for the head, which
are at present generally knitted and afterwards milled or felted. :
Now this my said improvement consists in forming these articles from
woollen fabric woven in the ordinary way, and felted, then giving them
the required form by milling, felting, or shrinking. "
To manufacture a cap according to this my said Invention I take a
circular or other suitably shaped piece of cloth, in the case of a round
cap, say about fourteen inches in diameter, and place it on a block of
the required form and bring it up to the shape by stretching, steaming,
ironing, damping, and heating it, and thus working it to the required
form, then allowing it to dry on the block; after which I remove it
therefrom, thus producing a cap from one piece of cloth without seam or
pucker. The lower edge then can be bound with any suitable material
attached thereto by sewing or otherwise.
In some cases to make the most of my cloth, that is to say; where
there are remnents which are not large enough to make the whole of the
crown and band of the cap; I attach a plain strap of cloth to form a zone
round the cap to give the required depth to the band, and which may
completely concealed by the trimming or binding.
be
By these means I am enabled to produce a cap equal if not superior
in appearance to those which are knitted, and at a less cost.
To enable this my Invention the more readily to be carried into
practical effect by those acquainted with the art, I have hereunto

page_text: annexed Drawings of two forms of cap, with plans showing the forms of
the flat pieces of cloth from which they are made.
Figure 1 is a side view of a Scotch cap or bonnet of the Balmoral or
Glengarry class, and Figure 2 is a plan showing the shape of the piece
of cloth from which it was formed.
Figure 3 is a side view of another form of Scotch cap with the crown,
band, and top of the peak in one piece; and Figure 4 is a plan of the
plain piece of flat woven cloth from which it was formed.
Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of this my said
Invention, and the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect, I wish it to be clearly understood that I
do not confine myself to any precise size or form of the pieces of cloth
from which the head coverings are formed, as they can and will be varied
to adapt them to the various forms of cap or bonnet of the peculiar
shape into which they are to be converted; but what I claim as new
and my Invention is, the production of seamless and puckerless caps
or other like coverings for the head, made substantially in the manner
.herein-before described and set forth as a new manufacture.
In witness whereof, I, the said Michael Myers, have hereunto set
MICHAEL (L.S.) MYERS.
Witness,
PHILIP ROCHE,
Secretary to
William Walker,
of 44, Castle Street,
Liverpool.