Improvements in and Apparatus for Heating Hat Brims for Curling and Setting the same.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Apr., 1887
Complete Left, 27th Jan., 1888
Complete Accepted, 2nd Mar., 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and Apparatus for Heating Hat Brims for Curling
and Setting the same.
I JONATHAN MOORES of the firm of J. & T. Moores of Heaton Street, Denton,
in the County of Lancaster, Hat Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of my
invention to be as follows :-
The object of this invention is to avoid the burning or over-heating of the hat
brims in heating the same for curling and setting operations, and consists in reversing
the metal plate upon which the brim is laid so that the hat is placed upon the saine
with the crown uppermost. Upon the top of this reversible plate I have a layer of
asbestos upon which the hat brim is laid instead of being laid direct on to the metal
as heretofore and thus the brim becomes sufficiently heated without any tendency to
burn or overheat the same. I find in practise that the asbestos becomes sufficiently
heated for the afore-mentioned purposes without the possibility of injuring itself or
of burning the hat brim.
JOHN G. WILSON,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: 1 JONATHAN MOORES of the firm of J. and T. Moores of Heaton Street, Denton,
in the County of Lancaster. Hat Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of my
aid 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 avoid the burning or over-heating of hat-brims in
heating the same for curling and setting operations, and consists of a cast metal plate
heated by gas jets upon which the brim is laid. Upon the top of this heated plate I
have a layer of asbestos upon which the hat brim is placed with the crown uppermost
instead of being laid direct on to the metal as heretofore and thus the brim becomes
sufficiently heated without any tendency to burn or overheat the same.
And in order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect I have hereunto annexed a drawing illustrative of my
improvements and will now proceed to describe the same with the assistance of the
several Figures and letters of reference marked thereon.
Fig. is a front view and Fig. 2 a side sectional view of my improved hat brim
heating apparatus. Fig. 3 is a plan of the same and Fig. 4 a plan with the top plate
removed.
In all the views a is the cast metallic plate resting upon the upper edge of a hollow
casting forming the base of the apparatus and which is designed to enclose a per-
forated or slitted tube e forming a Bunsen burner. This burner is supplied with
a mixture of air and gas through the branch supply pipe d in the ordinary manner
and thus burns with a series of jets inside the hollow base b. In this manner the
plate a becomes sufficiently heated and can be regulated in temperature to the greatest
nicety the holes surrounding the plate serving as outlets for the heated air. And in
order to prevent any tendency of the hot plate a to become over-heated and so to
burn or scorch the hat brim, I employ a layer or coating e of asbestos or other
similar noncombustible material laid upon the top of the plate a.
The hat to be curled is placed with its briun resting upon the top of this asbestos e
and with its crown uppermost and thus such brim becomes sufficiently heated without
any tendency to burn or overheat. The hat may thus be left upon the hot plate until
convenient for the operator to take it off to undergo the curling or setting process.
I find in practise that the asbestos becomes sufficiently heated for the afore-
mentioned purposes without the possibility of injuring itself or of burning the hat
brim.

page_text: Having thus 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
1st. The improvements in and apparatus for heating hat brims for curling and
setting the saine substantially as herein before described.
2nd. The improved combination and arrangement of apparatus for curling and
setting hat brims substantially as and for the purpose herein before described and
illustrated on the accompanying drawing.
3rd. The novel employment of a metal plate when mounted and heated and coated
with asbestos or other suitable noncombustible material substantially as and for the
purpose hereinbefore described and illustrated on the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Ofth day of Januar 1007
J. G. WILSON,
Patent Office,
55, Market Street, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicant..
J. G. WILSON,
Patent Office,
55, Market Street, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicant..