US1128007A - Machine for making the bats for hats. - Google Patents

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J. KOLB.

MACHINE FOR MAKING THE BATS FORIHATS. APPLICATION TILED JUNE 22, 1914.

Patented Feb. 9, 1915.

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J. KOLB.

MACHINE FOR MAKING THE BATS FOR HATS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 22, 1914.

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J. KOLB.

MACHINE FOR MAKING THE BATS FOR HATS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 22, 1914.

Patented Feb. 9, 1915.

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Patented Feb. 9, 1915.

JOSEF KOLB, OF NEUTITSCHEIN, AUSTRIA-I-IUNGARY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

MACHINE FOR MAKING THE BATS FOR- HATS.

Patented Feb. a, rare.

Application filed June 22, 1914. Serial No. 846,464.

T auto/1.0m it may concern Be it known that I, Josnr KoLB, manufacturen subject of the Emperor of Austria- Hungary, residing at Kaiswr Josefstra-sse,

Neutitschein, Moravia Austria I'lungary,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Making the Bats for Hats, of which the following is a specification.

1c The present invention relates to a novel machine for making bats for hats whereby the rate of output of such machines is very largely increased.

A machine constructed according to my invention comprises means whereby the machine works continuously. In the preferred form of my invention this result is attained by providing the machine with two or more bat fori'ning chambers supplied by a feed device common to them both and also with operating mechanism arranged between the feed device and the bat chambers, this mechanism regulating the access of the material to be formed into bats to the bat chambers in such a manner that it is possible to form the bats in a continuous operation.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing. in which: Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of the machine. Fig. 2 is a section showing the construction of a bat forming chamber. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line lll1ll in Fig. 1'. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section of the bat forming chamber on the line IVTV in Fig. (i. Fig- 5 is a cross section of the bat chambers on the line VV in Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the bat chzunbers with the whole of the operating and adjusting mechanism of the machine for positively actuating its auxiliary mechanisms. Fig. 7 is an elevation of the machine, and Fig. 8 is a section of a detail of the spraying device in section.

Its shown in Fig. l the front portion of the machine consists of a hopper device a into which the fibrous material (hair, etc.) to be formed into bats is placed and of a special distributing device I) for the material supplied to the machine which distrib utes it uniformly onto appropriate conveyor devices 0.- Behind the conveyer device the suction or atomizing chamber (Z usual in such machines, is arranged; in this chamber the hair supplied by the conveyor device 0 is broken up into a cloud of hairs.

In accordance with the invention, two or more bat forming chambers f, f are fitted to the chamber (5; their charging is regulated by mechanism .9 (Figs. 1, and 3) in a manner hereinafter explained. In each of the bat chambers a bat former t, 2?, and a spraying device 11, i are arranged. The bat chambers are connected with an eXhausting conduit 6 in a known manner and for the known purpose.

The charging device for the machine consists of a simple charging hopper a. The distributing device Z2 consists of two drawing rollers 1, 2 arranged below the charging hopper a beneath which a quickly running distributing roller 3 (a picker roller) of very short compact construction revolves (see Figs. 1 and 3). By this distributing roller, the fibrous material is thrown off into the distributing box I) which flares out sharply in the lateral direction, whereby tufts of fibrous material are broken up and distributed. Owing to the conically flared form of the distributing box 7), the breaking up and distribution of the fibrous material are rendered exceedingly uniform. This form of distributing box also permits of the employment of a distributing roller of very short compact construction, so that it can be run at very high speeds without producing any harmful self-oscillation. The air currents produced by the quick rotation of the distril'uiting roller 3, are damped by the conically flared form of the distributing boX and the sieve-like damping surface 4 (Fig. 1) built into it. In the device described,the fibrous material is deposited in a thoroughly uniform finely divided condition on the delivery apron 5, which moves downward carrying the material on to the conveyer apron 0 which conducts the distributed fibrous material to the atomizing chamber 03. In front of this chamber drawing rollers 8, 9 are provided in the known manner to conduct the fibrous material in a manner known per 86 to a second distributing or picker roller 11 and a so-called blowing roller 13; By means of these rollers 11 and 13 the material is pulverizedin a manner known per 86, that is to say it is broken up or disintegrated by the roller 11, and by air issuing through the conducted into one or other of the bat chambers f.

In order to prevent the fibrous material from adhering to the drawing rollers 8, '9 strippers 17, 18 are arranged above and below them; in accordance with the invention,

these strippers are given a hollow or boxlike formation. L e

Owing to the hollow formation of the strippers any knots which "form in the fiber owing to the friction ofthe fibrous material againstthfestrippers .are prevented from reaching-the bat chambers,-as these knots of hair or burs are in the present case collected: injthe stripper boxes from which they can begremoved from time to time. With this object ,the lower stripper 18 is provided with an opening 18 through which thedust and. any knots that may form can drop out. ...The, upper stripper 17 is pro vided with a tubular socket 17 which can beipfittedf-to a. compressed air pipe thereby insuring the blowing out of any foreign bodies accumulating in the stripper box 17 '..'-.-F rom the box (2 the broken up fibrous material is drawn into the bat chambers,'and.

already stated, the access to these chambBI'SI Of .thematerialto be formed into bats. ispregulated byispecialmechanism s. This mechanism 5 can be formed in any-convenient manner without affecting the principle of. theginvention; in the example illustrated in :the drawing,itconsists of a pivoted flap sisecured to ayshaft 20 which is operated in some convenient manner (Figs. 1 and 3).

. Anoperating arm 21'is keyed on this shaft and is controlled in a manner hereinafter explained. 1 I

;In accordance with the invention, the reversal' of the operating mechanism .9 and also the actuation of the auxiliary devices providedin thebatchambers are effected automaticallyzsofithat when the formation of a bat ,isffinished' in one chamber, the mechanisms "and the auxiliary devices provided injthe' bat chambers are positively reversed as g'ijs necessaryfor the bat forming operation in theiadjacent' bat chamberwhich is to be recharged. AThis is effected most simply by coupling the adjusting mechanism of the bat chamber reversing flap 8 and the other auxiliary apparatus with the opening and closing mechanism for the bat chamber doors-r, r by means of suitable rods, chains, cables or the like. This method of control can be adapted for the novel machine, be- Causeit is well-known that the formation of the bat which takes 'place'when the bat chamber door is closed occupies approximately the same timeas the spraying and the removal of the bat from the chamber which; takes place when .the'door is open.

In the embodiment of the invention illustrated in the accompanying drawing this special control of the bat chambers is insured by means of the following devices: As shown in Figs. 2 and 6, the doors r, r of the bat chambers are formed as sliding or rolling doors and are suspended so as to counterbalance each other on a cable or chain 23. This chain is carried by two rollers 2 f rotatably mounted on the upright 25. Independently of this chain a second chain or cable 28 (Fig. 5)-the so-called control cable drive-is provided, its path around the bat chambers f, f being shown in Figs. 5 and 7. This cable 28 is fixed at one of its ends to the known draft regulating plate 30 of the bat chamber f and runs over the rollers 31, 32, 33 through the lug 2 1 of the oscillating arm 21 of the flap s and is carried back to the regulating plate 30 of the second bat chamber 7 over the rollers 34, and 36. Tappets 40 4:1 and 4-0 4-1 (Fig. 6) are adapted to be adjusted and fixed upon the cable 28 within operative reach of the doors of the chambers: these tappets are operated in a manner hereinafter explained by the arms 42' and 42 fixed to the doors of the bat chambers. Moreover on the cable 28 tappets 44 are adapted to be ad justed and fixed within operative reach of bers f, f" is connected with a specially.

formed three-way valve w (Figs. 6, 4 and 8) by means of which the access of the water to the spraying devices a", 2' is controlled.

In the embodiment of the invention here illustrated in Fig. 8 this three-way valve consists of two correspondingly formed valve casings 50, connected one with the other by sockets 51. The spraying devices 2'", z' are fitted to the sockets 52; the spraying liquid is supplied through the pipe 53. In each of the valve casings, a spindle 54 or 54 is arranged each spindle being provided with two valve plates 55, 57'. A control lever 58, 58" acts upon each of these valve spindles 54 and 54" respectively; these levers oscillate about a common pivot 59. These control levers 58 58 are operated in a manner hereinafter explained by tappets 60 and 60 fixed to the doors of the bat chambers, whereby the supply of spraying liquid can be regulated as desired.

The operation of the apparatus described above is as follows: Assuming that a bat has already been deposited on the former t aringly, while the bat forming takes place in the chamber 7 the bat previously formed in the chamber f is sprayed. After the spraying is finished, the bat is removed from'the former t and at this point thebat forming in the chamber f is finished. At this mo-, ment the bat chamber door 1 is raised, whereby the entire apparatus is positively reversed. In the first place owing to the upward movement of the door 7 the cable 28 is displaced in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 6 by the striking of the door arm as" against the tappet 40 on the cable.v This causes the cable tappet a l to strike against the arm 21 of the pivoted flap 3, thus positively shifting the latter from the position shown in full lines in Fig. 3 into the position shown in broken lines. By this means the bat chamber 7 (Fig. 8) is cut off and the chamber f is thrown in. At the moment the door 1" is raised, the valve spring 56 of the spraying liquid valve 10 presses the valve stem 54 downward (Fig. 8) thereby suddenly cutting off the access of liquid to the spraying device On the de-. scent of the valve stem 54-, the lower valve 57 is opened and the whole of the water that may still be contained in the spraying plate z" is carried off along the path 52, 57 63.

It will be obvious from Fig. 6, that when the door 1" is drawn upward, the door r is positively lowered, and owing to the descent of the door 1", the spraying device z is positively rendered. operative, in the same way, as when the door 7* is in the closed position, the tappet 60 strikes the valve control lever 58. Accordingly, if the bat chamber door r is raised and the door f lowered, the spraying device 4. cut oft while simultaneously reversing the bat chamber mechanism 8 and the spraying device i is rendered operative.

As already stated, the movement of the control cable 28 in the direction indicated by the arrow also controls the regulating plate 30', 30 mounted in the bat formers and known per .96, these plates being given a position corresponding tothe phase of the operation, taking place in the respective bat chambers. When the door r is closed and the door 1* open. the plate 30 is raised and the plate 30 is lowered.

To permit of setting the regulating plate at different heights in the bat former, according to the type of bat, the control cable .28 is secured to a collar 71 adapted to be adjusted and fixed on the stem of the plate. This method of fixing the ends of the cable also provides for altering its tension.

The air is drawn through the bat former in the known manner by means of an exhauster (Fig. 7) which is connected by pipes 81, 82 (Figs. 6 and 7) to the base 83 of the chambers f, 7. Closing doors 8% are arranged in the pipe 82 and are adapted to be controlled by means of the handle 85 and the rod Sli connected therewith. By means of this device, it is possible in case of need (during the spraying process for eX- ample) to connect with one of the chambers the exhauster pipe leading to this chamber.

Above the bat formers t 25 plates (Figs. 3 and 5) with specially formed recesses 91 are provided to partially cover the bat formers. By suitably forming these recesses 91, the fibrous material is prevented from settling more thickly on the portions of the surface of the former t adjacent to the device supplying the fibrous material than on the portions of the former distant from the supply device.

The controlof the bat chamber operating mechanism, of the chamber doors and of the other auxiliary devices of the machine can be modified as desired without departing from the principle of the invention. Similarly the drive of the conveyer and distributing mechanism can be modified in various ways. In the embodiment of the invention illustrated in the drawing, the distributing and conveyer mechanisms are driven from the main shaft 93 (Figs. 1 and 7), which is driven by the belt pulley 9% mounted on this shaft. The distributing rollers or picker rollers 3, 1.1 are driven through the belt 95 (Figs. 3 and 7). The conveyer bands are driven by the belt 96 which, through appropriate chain wheel and chain transmissions, rotates the rollers 97, 98 of the conveyer bands. The exhauster is driven through the belt 99 as shown Fig. 1; the mechanism 100 for rotating the bat formers If, t" which is known per se is driven through the belt 101.

While necessitating but slightly more power the apparatus described above very largely increases the output of bat forming machines as it is possible with a reduced staff and in a shorter working time, to pro duce a much larger number of bats than with the known bat forming machines comprising a single bat chamber.

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 is:

1. In a hat forming machine, the combination of a pair of juxtaposed bat forming chambers, feeding mechanism common to both said chambers, means common to both said chambers whereby either thereof may be cut off from communication with said feeding mechanism, and means for automatically operating said first named means.

2. In a hat forming machine, the combination of a pair of parallel bat forming chambers, feeding mechanism adapted to communicate with said chambers, a gate pivotally mounted between said chambers and adapted to close communication between either thereof and saidfeeding mechanism, and means for automatically operating said gate. v

8. In a hat forming machine, the combi nation of a pair of parallel bat forming chambers, of feeding mechanism therefor, including a distributing roller and a distributing box in which said roller is journaled, and automatically operating means common to both of said chambers whereby either thereof may be placed out of communication with said feeding mechanism.

4.. In a hat forming machine, the combination of a pair of parallel closely adjacent bat forming chambers, a recessed plate horizontally positioned in each chamber and adapted to distribute uniformly the material supplied thereto, feeding mechanism communicating with said chambers and common to both thereof, means common .to both said chambers whereby either thereof may be cut ofi? from communication with said feeding mechanism, and means for automatically operating said last named means.

5. In a hat forming machine, the combination of a pair of closely adjacent bat forming chambers each provided with a movable door, of feeding mechanism communicating with and common to both said chambers, automatically operating means whereby either of said chambers may be cut out of communication with said feeding mechanism, and connections between the doors of said chambers whereby the operation of the door of a chamber in one direction will positively operate the door of the adjacent chamber in an opposite direction, and whereby said means is operated to out either of said chambers out of communication with said feeding mechanism.

6. In a hat forming machine, the combination of a pair of closely adjacent parallel bat forming chambers, feeding mechanism common to and communicating with both of said bat forming chambers, a vertically slidable door on each bat forming chamber,

means pivoted between said chambers and common to both thereof for cutting either of said chambers out of communication with said feeding mechanism, and a flexible connection between said doors whereby the operation of one of said doors will operate the other door in a reverse direction and will also operate said means to out either chamber out of communication with said feeding mechanism.

7. In a hat forming machine, the combination of a pair of closely adjacent parallel bat forming chambers, feeding mechanism common to both thereof and communicating therewith, a gate pivotally mounted between said chambers and automaticallyoperative to out either thereof out of communication with said feeding mechanism, spraying devices in each of the bat forming chambers, a sliding door forming a part of each bat forming chamber, and means carried by said sliding doors for rendering said spraying devices operative and inoperative respectively.

8. In a hat forming machine, the combination of a pair of closely adjacent parallel bat forming chambers, feeding mechanism common to both thereof and including a pair of feeding rollers, means adjacent said rollers for removing foreign matter therefrom, a gate nivotally mounted between said bat forming chambers and automatically operative to place either thereof out of communication with said feeding mechanism, doors slidably mounted on said bat forming chambers, and means whereby the operation of said doors causes the automatic operation of saidgate.

9. In a hat forming machine, the combination of a pair of closely adjacent parallel bat forming chambers; a flexible connection said chambers and pivotally mounted therebetween, feeding mechanism common to both said chambers, doors slidable on said bat forming chamber, a flexible connection between said doors, tappets carried by said flexible connection, means carried by the doors adapted to contact with said tappets whereby said doors are alternately operated, and means whereby certain of said tappets are adapted to actuate said gate.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEF KOLB.

Witnesses 2 ARTHUR MAREK, v AUGUsT FUGGER.

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