Improvements in Machines for Finishing Hats.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Sept., 1889-Accepted, 19th Oct.,
1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Finishing Hats.
We, JAMES REUBEN TOMLINSON, Hatter, and HERBERT TOMLINSON, Bricklayer,
both of Napier Street, Hazel Grove, in the County of Cheshire, 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:—
Our invention relates to improvements in that class of machines for finishing hats,
in which a table and hat block carried by a shaft suitably rotated is employed and has
for its object to provide means which will facilitate a more ready and secure adjustment
of the hat block relative to its table, and prevent the same from flying off and doing
damage to the bat, whereby the hat receives a better finish thain. heretofore has been
the case.
And in order that our invention may be more fully understood we have caused to
be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures.
Fig. 1. is a vertical section and Fig. 2. a side elevation of our improved hat block
adjusting device.
a is the rotary shaft, 6 the table, c the hat block.
Heretofore the table has been simply fixed on the top of the shaft a without
permitting it to project through the table band the hat block c secured thereon by
means of studs fixed to the same and passing into corresponding holes formed in the
hat block c.
To facilitate the adjustment of the hat block e relative to the table for various
depths of crowns of hats, the space between the block e and table 6 had to be packed
and the studs or holes made slightly taper, to facilitate the raising and lowering of the
block c, which is very objectionable as it does not give the block e the required firmness
on the table b, besides being troublesome. to adjust and apt to fly off.
In order to remedy these defects our invention consists in extending the shaft a
through the table c and securing to its free end, the hat block c, adjustably.
This we preferably carry out by forming the end of the shaft a projecting through
the table with a left handed thread d and furnishing the hat block c with a
corresponding nut e, suitably secured thereto..
Below the table b which is suitably secured unto the shaft a, below the thread d, we
form the shaft a with a right handed thread funto which is placed a corresponding
nut 9.
By means of a ring h, and screws ia frame or support is loosely connected to the
said But g, which frame or support consists of the ring k, formed with legs 1, passing
through corresponding holes m, in the table b, and having at their upper extremities
rigidly attached by means of the screws another ring n.
When it is desired to raise the hat block c and secure it in position, the same is
screwed up on the shaft a, away from its table b, the nut g is then also screwed up on
the shaft a until the ring n bears, underneath against the hat block c, so as to firmly
support and securely lock the hat block c in the desired position.
To lower the hat block c the operation takes place in a reverse manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is::-
"In machines for finishing hats."
The amolaument of two nuts & a on the shaft a. the nut e having secured thereto

page_text: furnished with a frame or support k, l, n capable of being moved by the nut 9,
underneath, against the hat block.c, to support and lock samo in the desired position,
substantially as and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 17th day of September 1881.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street,. Manchester, Agents to Applicants.