A NEW MACHINE FOR BINDING AND BORDERING BONNETS, HAT Shapes, and OTHER SIMILAR Purposes
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Leopold Hirschfeld, of No. 29, Spencer Street,
Goswell Road, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
"A NEW MACHINE FOR BINDING AND BORDERING BONNETS, HAT Shapes, and
OTHER SIMILAR Purposes.”
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Leopold Hirschfeld at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 23rd April 1875.
I, LEOPOLD HIRSCHFELD, of No. 29, Spencer Street, Goswell Road, in
the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "A NEW MACHINE FOR BINDING AND BORDERING Bonnets, Hat
SHAPES, AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES," to be as follows :—
This Invention consists of a machine for substituting machine
bordering and binding instead of by hand as at present, and will effect
the saving the labour of wiring as the shapes will be delivered from the
machine ready for use for millinery purposes, at the same time the

page_text: border is made firmer and will not come undone as the borders made
by hand; the usual cotton thread is dispensed with, and the wire is
fixed in much stronger than by the present mode of manufacture.
And in order that my said Invention may be properly understood I
will refer to the annexed Drawings, wherein A, A, A, represents the
framework; B, B, hollow metal rollers; C, C, C, gas apparatus; D, box
or chamber for moistening the ribbon; E, guide for border; F, ribbon
for bordering; G, wire; H, guide for wire; I, general guide; K, ribbon
wheel; L, crooked handle to regulate the roller B, B; and M, to com-
municate motion to the machine.
To carry out my Invention the ribbon F is introduced over the wheel K
into the guide E, after having been moistened in the box or chamber D;
the wire G is now passed through the guide H and connected with
the ribbon F. The border of the shape is pressed between the guide E
and the rollers B, B, by means of the handle L as soon as the shape is 1
introduced into the machine, which is heated beforchand by means of
the gas apparatus C, the handle M is turned round, say, from 4 to 6 times,.
during which operation the shape is guided by hand so as to prevent
the border being flattened and getting out of shape; so soon as the ends
of the ribbon and wire round the border meet they have to be cut and a 2
fresh shape introduced.
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said
Leopold Hirschfeld in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd
November 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LEOPOLD
HIRSCHFELD, late of No. 29, but now of No. 3, Spencer Street, Goswell
Road, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
2
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of April, in the year of 3
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto mo, the said Leopold Hirschfeld, Her special licence
that I, the said Leopold Hirschfeld, my exccutors, administrators, and

page_text: assigns, or such others as I, the said Leopold Hirschfeld, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, usc, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW MACHINE
FOR BINDING AND BORDERING BONNETS, HAT SHAPES, AND OTHER SIMILAR
PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Leopold Hirschfeld, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 Scal Patent Office within seven calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Leopold Hirschfeld, 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 Invention consists of a machine for substituting machino
bordering and binding instead of by hand as at present, and will effect
the saving of labour of wiring as the shapes will be delivered from the
machine ready for use for millinery purposes, at the same time the
border is made firmer and will not come undone as the borders made by
hand; the usual cotton thread is dispensed with and the wire is fixed in
3 much stronger than by the present mode of manufacture.
And in order that my said Invention may be properly understood I
will refer to the annexed Sheet of Drawings, wherein similar letters of
reference refer to similar parts in all the Figures.
Figure 1 represents a sectional clevation of machine; Figure 2
O represents a side elevation of the same; and Figure 3 represents a front
elevation of my machine.
A, A, A, represent the framework; B, B, hollow metal rollers;
C, C, C, gas apparatus; D, box or chamber for moistening the ribbon ;
E, guide for border; F, ribbon for bordering; G, wire; II, guide for
5 wire; I, I, general guide; L, crooked hand to regulate the roller B, B;
and M, handle to communicate motion to the machine.

page_text: To carry out my Invention the ribbon F is introduced over a wheel
or otherwise into the guide E, after having been moistened in the box or
chamber D; the wire G is now passed through the guide H and con-
nected with the ribbon F, as shewn. The border of the shape is pressed
between the guide E and the rollers B, B, by means of the handle L as 5
soon as the shape is introduced into the machine, which is heated
beforehand by means of the gas apparatus C, the handle M is turned
round, say, from 4 to 6 times, during which operation the shape is
guided by hand or other power so as to prevent the border being
flattened and getting out of shape; as soon as the ends of the ribbon 1
and wire round the border meet they have to be cut and a fresh shape
introduced.
I sometimes use a wheel for the ribbon to pass over, but this may or
may not be used.
Having thus described the nature and object of my said Invention I 1
would obscrve in conclusion that I am aware that bordering and binding
is sometimes done by means of heated rollers, the wire being previously
sewn, but that what I claim and desire to be secured to me by the heroin-
before in part recited Letters Patent is, the general arrangement and
combination of parts together forming the new machine for binding and 2
bordering bonnets, hat shapes, and other similar purposes without
sewing, substantially as hercin-before described, and as shown on the
Drawings, or any merc modification or imitation thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Leopold Hirschfeld, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, this Twenty-second day of November, in 2
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.
LEOPOLD HIRSCHFELD. (L.S.)