Holes through the Crowns or Sides of Hats.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Jan., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 18th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 23rd Nov., 188
Holes through the Crowns or Sides of Hats.
I, JOSEPH HENRY PICKLES, of 54, Market Street, Colne, in the County of
Lancaster, Hosier and Hatter, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to apparatus for punching or perforating ventilating holes
through the crowns or sides of hats and is more particularly applicable to meet the
requirements of hatters in the retail trade. My improved punching or perforating
apparatus consists of a metal standard or framing-which arranged to stand upon
a shop counter or bench and to be firmly secured in position by being screwed
down thereto supporting at its upper projecting front side a vertical sliding bar
(mounted preferably in V shaped guides) the lower end of the sliding bar carrying a
punch plate from which depend a number of needles or punches of different degrees
of length.
The needles or punches may be arranged to perforate any desired pattern such
as a star-shaped or other suitable figure and upon being forced downwards by a hand
lever (operating preferably upon one side of the vertical sliding bar) enter corre-
sponding holes in a die plate below carried on the top of a standard or pillar rising
from the bed plate of the apparatus. I arrange the needles or punches of varying
lengths in order that they may enter the holes in the die plate in succession so that
the punching pressure may for the time being, be only upon one needle or punch
thus effecting gradually instead of simultaneously the punching of the entire number
of holes and thereby reducing or graduating the manual power required to force the
needles or punches through the hat-body. I preferably employ a spring press plate
depending from and at its upper part surrounding the needle or punch plate, the
crown or side of the hat being inserted between the underside of the press plate and
the top of the die plate before the needles or punches are brought down; the press
plate serving to keep the hat in position and to hold it down on the die plate during

page_text: the withdrawal of the needles or punches when the punching or perforating operation
has been effected. The hand lever for forcing down the needles or punches is
provided with a spring which tends to hold it back and the vertical sliding bar up to
its topmost position when not in use as will be well understood.
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Punching or Perforating Ventilating
Holes through the Crowns or Sides of Hats.
I, JOSEPH HENRY PICKLES, of 54 Market Street, Colne, in the County of
Lancaster, Hosier and Hatter, 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:-
This invention relates to apparatus for punching or perforating ventilating holes
through the crowns or sides of hats and is more particularly applicable to meet the
requirements of hatters in the retail trade.
My improved punching or perforating apparatus consists of a metal standard or
framing (which is arranged to stand upon a shop counter or bench and to be firmly
secured in position by being screwed down thereto) supporting at its upper projecting
front side a vertical sliding bar mounted preferably in V shaped guides the lower
end of the sliding bar carrying a punch plate from which depend a number of needles
or punches of different degrees of length.
The needles or punches may be arranged to perforate any desired pattern such as
a star-shaped or other suitable figure and upon being forced downwards by a hand
lever (operating preferably upon one side of the vertical sliding bar) enter
corresponding holes in a die plate below carried upon the top of a standard or pillar
rising from the bed plate of the apparatus. I arrange the needles or punches of
varying lengths in order that they may enter the holes in the die plate in succession
so that the punching pressure may for the time being be only upon one or some of
the needles or punches thus effecting gradually instead of simultaneously the
punching of the entire number of holes and thereby reducing or graduating the
manual power required to force the needles or punches through the hat body. I
preferably employ a spring press plate depending from and at its upper part
surrounding the needle or punch plate; the crown or side of the hat being inserted
between the underside of the press plate and the top of the die plate before the
needles or punches are brought down; the press plate serving to keep the hat in
position and to hold it down on the die plate during the withdrawal of the needles
or punches when the punching or perforating operation has been effected.

page_text: The hand lever for forcing down the needles or punches is provided with a spring
which tends to hold it back and the vertical sliding bar up to its topmost position
when not in use as will be well understood.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 is a side view and
Fig. 2 a front view of my improved hat punching or perforating apparatus.
n
a is the metal standard or framing carrying the vertical sliding bar b mounted
V guides c c. d is the punch plate and ee the needles or punches of various lengths
(shewn enlarged at Fig. 4). f is a hand lever (pivotted on the fixed stud or
fulcrum g) of which the slot in the short arm h engages with a pin on the face of
the sliding bar b. j is a spiral spring for pulling back the hand lever f to its original
position after the punching or perforating operation has been effected.
Figs.
and 4 are enlarged views of the die plate k and the punch plate d
respectively.
The die plate k is carried on the top of (preferably) a pair of standards or pillars 11
rising from the arm m projecting from the bed plate of the apparatus.
n is the press
plate carried upon the lower extremities of guide pins oo which are free to slide
through holes in the punch plate d spiral springs p p being interposed between the
punch plate d and the press plate n. In practice I prefer to make the several needles
or punches of such varying lengths that (excepting in the case of the pattern requiring
a punch in the centre of the figure as shewn in the drawings) a given number of
punches as nearly as may be equi-distant from each other and from the centre of the
pattern shall be of one length. By this arrangement the liability of the needles or
punches to be moved sidewise by the one-sided pressure which would obtain if the
punches were to enter the die plate one after the other in succession (as proposed in
my provisional specification) is obviated. In such a pattern as that shewn in Fig. 3
which consists of holes at regular intervals in eight lines radiating from the centre
at corresponding angles I should preferably arrange the punches to enter the die
plate in the following order namely:-first the centre punch (corresponding with the
hole marked 1 in Fig. 3) then the four punches entering the holes marked 2 2 2 2
and each succeeding four punches according to the progression of the numerals
marked on the said Fig. 3. As each succeeding set of punches passes through the
die plate the punches to follow are more securely guided into their respective holes
so as to enter them concentrically therewith.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The use or employment of needles or punches of varying lengths arranged to
enter a die plate in succession substantially as described and shewn in the drawings
for the purpose set forth.
2. The combination of a press plate n springs pp and sliding guide pins o o with a
punch plate having needles or punches of varying lengths and a die plate carried on
the upper end of a standard or pillars and operating substantially as described for
the purpose set forth.
3. The general arrangement and combination of parts constituting the improved
punching or perforating apparatus constructed and operating substantially as described
and shewn in the drawings.