Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Feb., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 11th Nov., 1899-Accepted, 16th Dec., 1899
I, ALICE EMMA MACKLIN, of 14, Albert Hall Mansions, in the County of
London, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
I construct a press, in which the brim of a straw hat may be pressed and
held in shape, of a pair of rectangular frames of wood or other material, each
of a size equal to or slightly greater than the greatest diameter of the brim
of the hat to be pressed, and having a central opening of a size that will permit
of the crown of the hat to project through it.
These frames may be made of solid pieces of wood, metal, or other material,
or each of four pieces of wood or other material mitred together and suitable
means, such as bolts with butterfly nuts, are provided at each of the corners
whereby the frames may be securely clamped together with the brim of a hat
between them.
I, ALICE EMMA MACKLIN, of 14, Albert Hall Mansions, in the County of
London, 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:-
I construct a press, in which the brim of a straw hat may be pressed and
held in shape, of a pair of rectangular frames of wood or other material, each
of a size equal to or slightly greater than the greatest diameter of the brim
of the hat to be pressed, and each having a central opening of a size slightly
greater than that of the crown, so that the hat may be placed on one of such
frames, and the other frame then passed over the crown of it, and the two frames
then clamped together with the brim of the hat between them.
These frames may be made of solid pieces of wood, metal, or other material,
or each may be made of four pieces of wood, or other material mitred together,
whilst suitable means, such as bolts with butterfly nuts, are provided at each
of the corners whereby the frames may be securely clamped together with the
brim of a hat between them.

page_text: In a modified form of press one of the frames may be divided into two
parts and these two parts so slotted where the clamping bolts or the like pass
through them, that they may be adjusted to or from one another as required.
Of the accompanying drawings-
Fig. 1 is a plan, and,
.
Fig. 2 a side view of a press constructed according to my invention, and
Figs 3 and 4 similar views of the modified form.
As shewn in Figs. 1 and 2, the press consists of two frames a b, of a size
equal to, or slightly greater than, the diameter of the brim of the hat to be
pressed, and one or both of these has a central opening of such size that the
crown of a hat may project through it when said hat has been placed between
the two, so that the frames may be clamped together by the aid of bolts with
butterfly nuts b, or equivalent means, and so keep the brim in proper shape.
In the modified form shown by Figs. 3 and 4, one of the frames is divided into
two parts c, c, and these are slotted at dd, where the clamping bolts pass
through them, so that they may be adjusted to or from one another, according
to the size of the hat to be pressed.
'
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:-
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(1) A press for the brim of straw and like hats substantially as described and
illustrated by Figs. 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings.
(2) A press for the brims of straw and the like hats substantially as described
and illustrated by Figs. 3 and 4 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 8th day of November 1800
.
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, Mitre Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.