Improved Apparatus for Making Hat, Cap, and Bonnet Shapes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Aug., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 21st May, 1895-Accepted, 6th July, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Making Hat, Cap, and Bonnet Shapes.
I JOHN CASS 5 Heskey Street Nottingham Hat, Cup and Bonnet Shape
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Instead of the usual plain or grooved rollers on the spindles of binding machines
employed in the manufacture of shapes for hats, bonnets, mob caps, hoods and
crowns, each pair of rollers is currugated across the whole or portion of the
thickness to press the binding or other material employed at the edge of each
shape into round, square or other shaped corrugations, round or partly round each
shape.
Where a portion of the thickness of the rollers are grooved to admit the
employment of a stiffening wire instead of a wire covered with cotton or other
material I employ a cord or piping made wholly of cotton or other material.
Dated this Thirtieth day of August 1894.
H. W. GOUGH, C.E.,
Agent.
Improved Apparatus for Making Hat, Cap, and Bonnet Shapes.
I JOHN CASS, 5 Heskey Street, Nottingham, Hat, Cap and Bonnet Shape
Manufacturer, 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 :-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a back view of a pair of rollers provided with V shaped
corrugations and Figure 2 a side view of the same.
Figure 3 shows a back view of portion of a pair of rollers provided with rounded
corrugations.
Figures 4 and 5 show a plan and side view of a binding machine.
Instead of the usual plain or grooved rollers on the spindles of binding machines
employed in the manufacture of shapes for hats, bonnets, mob caps, hoods and
crowns, each pair of rollers is corrugated from the back to the grooved or plain
portion at the front of the rollers as shown at Figure 2 pointed corrugations 1 may
be employed as shown at Figure 1, or rounded corrugations 2 as shown at Figure 3,
or the corrugations may be formed with flat bottoms to form square or nearly
square corrugations in the material passed between them. Where a portion of the
thickness of either or both rollers are provided with a groove 3 shown at Figure 2
to admit the employment of a stiffening wire, instead of a wire or a wire covered
with cotton or other material I employ a cord or piping made wholly of cotton or
other material.
Either or both rollers are hollowed out from the back as shown by dotted lines
at Figure 2 to admit of them being heated by gas jets or gas and air jets in the
novel war

page_text: Rollers constructed as above described are secured on the spindles of binding
machines in the usual way.
A binding machine of the usual construction shown at Figures 4 and 5 cousists
of a bed plate 4 provided with bearing brackets in which two spindles 5 and 6
revolve simultaneously, near their back ends the spindles carry toothed wheels 7,
the lower spindle at its back end has a bevel toothed wheel 8 secured on it
driven by a smaller wheel 84 carried by a shaft 9 revolving in the bearings of a
bracket 10 secured to the bed plate 4. The shaft 9 may be revolved by a handle
secured on its outer end, or it may be provided with a pulley for a belt from a main
driving shaft. The back end of the upper spindle 6 revolves in a swivel bearing 11
turning on two screwed pins 12 passed through the sides of the bracket. The
front end of each spindle carries a corrugated roller 1 engaging with each other
"instead of the usual plain rollers." The front end of the spindle 6 is held down
by the lower end of a folded spring 13 pressing upon the upper half of the spindle
bearing the pressure being adjusted by a lock nut and set screw 14 passed through
the cap of the bracket and pressing upon the upper end of the spring 13, to lift the
upper roller 1 clear of the lower roller to place materials between them the outer
end of a lever 15 rocking on a stud secured in the front bracket is pressed down
causing the inner end of the lever beneath the spindle to rise and lift it.
rollers are heated by gas or gas and air jets supplied through a pipe 16, to one
edge of the bracket a folding guide 17 of a suitable width and of the usual
construction is adjusted which folds and guides the material 18 to the corrugated
rollers 1.
Both
Within the guide 17 a narrower guide 19 is secured through which a cord
or piping of cotton or other suitable material 20 and the shape 21 passes
enclosed in the material 18 to the plain and grooved parts of the rollers 1, the
portion of material outside the shape and piping being corrugated the length
required according to the width of guide 17 and material 18 employed.
If a plain piped binding alone is wanted then the shape 21 the cord or piping 20
and a narrow binding enclosing them are passed through the narrow guide 19 to
the plain and grooved parts of the rollers, the broad material 18 being omitted.
By such means material forming shapes for hats, bonnets, mob caps, hoods or
crowns may be provided with a plain piped binding, or a piped binding with a
corrugated edge.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The construction and employment in binding machines of rollers corrugated
across the whole or a portion of their thickness substantially as described for the
purposes specified and illustrated in the drawings annexed.
2. The construction and employment in binding machines of a cord or piping
made wholly of cotton or other material omitting the wire heretofore employed.
Dated this Twentieth day of May 1895.
H. W. GOUGH, C.E.,
Agent.