AN IMPROVED METHOD OR PROCESS FOR CAUSING NAPS OR NAPPING BATS TO ADHERE TO HAT BODIES
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Kenworthy Dutton, of No. 41, John Dalton
Street, in the City of Manchester, County of Lancaster, Patent Agent, for an
Invention of " AN IMPROVED METHOD OR PROCESS FOR CAUSING NAPS OR
NAPPING BATS TO ADHERE TO HAT BODIES." A communication from abroad
by Giles Atherton, of Stockport, in the County of Lancaster, at present at
Newark, in the United States of America.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Kenworthy Dutton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th February
1882.
EDWARD KENWORTHY DUTTON of Number 41 John Dalton Street in the City
of Manchester, County of Lancaster, Patent Agent. "AN IMPROVED METHOD
OR PROCESS FOR CAUSING NAPS OR NAPPING BATS TO ADHERE TO HAT BODIES."
[A communication from abroad by Giles Atherton, of Stockport, in the County
of Lancaster, at present at Newark, in the United States of America.]
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The said Invention relates to the manufacture of such hats as consist of felt
bodies provided with naps as for example to the well known beaver or "pull over
hats.
According to the Invention the hat body is placed over the napping bat which is
mounted upon a forming cone or the napping bat is introduced into the body and
the two are placed upon the cone. The hat body and the bat are rubbed or pressed
and vibrated upon the cone until the combination or adhesion is effected the process
being aided by the application of steam or of heat otherwise derived.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Edward Kenworthy Dutton in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 14th August 1882.
EDWARD KENWORTHY DUTTON of 41 John Dalton Street in the City of
Manchester, County of Lancaster, Patent Agent. "AN IMPROVED METHOD OR
PROCESS FOR CAUSING NAPS OR NAPPING BATS TO ADHERE TO HAT BODIES."
(A communication from abroad by Giles Atherton of Stockport in the County
of Lancaster at the time of application at Newark in the United States of
America.)
The said Invention relates to the manufacture of such hats as consist of felt
bodies provided with naps as for example to the well known beaver or napped
hats. According to the Invention the hat body is placed over the napping but or
the napping bat is introduced into the body and the two are rubbed or pressed and
vibrated upon or within a cone or otherwise until the combination or adhesion is
effected the process being aided by the application of steam or of dry heat.
In the carrying of this Invention into effect the napping bat may be formed by
any ordinary or suitable means and be placed over the felt body so as to envelope
it or as much of it as is desired or be placed within the said body and the hands or
any suitable means or apparatus may be used to obtain the vibrating rubbing
action or effect. The napping bat may be upon a cone and the body be placed
upon the bat so as to enclose it or the bat inay be within a hollow cone and the
body within the bat and cone or the operation may be effected without the use of
cones as for example the bat and body may be pressed and rubbed together upon a
flat honted table. When a cone is used it is heated by means of gas flames or of
a fire or by any suitable means. When steam is used the cone or the surface upon
which the pressing and rubbing is effected may be perforated for the passage of
steam to act upon the bat and body. In all cases the ordinary dipping into hot
water during the sticking process can be entirely dispensed with but in some cases
hot water may be used to complete the sticking partly effected by the improved
process. The method of forming the said bat and the vibrating rubbing apparatus
which are considered to be most suitable and effective constitute the subject
matter of a subsequent application for Letters Patent made by the within
named Giles Atherton and bearing date the eighth day of March in this current
year.
Having now fully set forth and indicated the nature of the said Invention and
the manner in which the same is carried into effect I would have it to be under-
stood that I claim the method or process of sticking napping bats to hat bodies
whereby the ordinary immersion in hot water can be dispensed with wholly or
partially substantially as herein before set forth and indicated.
In witness whereof I the said Edward Kenworthy Dutton have hereunto set
my hand and seal this eleventh day of August in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two.