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R; EIGKEMEYER. HAT BINDING RING. No. 296,282. Patented Apr. 1,1884,

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RUDOLF EIGKEMEYER, OF YONKERS, NEW YORK.

-HAT-BINDING RING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,282, dated April 1, 1884.

Application filed February 4, 1884.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUDoLn EICKEMEYER, of Yonkers, in the county of \Vestchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Bind-- ing Rings, for use in connection with expansible hat-blocks during certain operations in the manufacture of felt hats; and I do hereby declare that the following specification, taken in connection with the drawings furnished and forming a part of the same, is a clear, true, and complete description of my invention.

It is well known that during the process of curling the brims of hats and other similar operations the hats are more or less heated, and that the expansible blocks on which the hats are usually mounted during such opera tions are liable to unduly enlarge or widen the hat at the junction of the side, crown, and brim. For obviating the undue heating of the hat at the point referred to, brim-curling machines have heretofore been devised having an auxiliary brim-bed which supports a hat at the junction of its side, crown, and brim, and is insulated from the main brim-bed for preventing the heat of the latter from being communicated to said auxiliary bed; but it is so important to guard against the enlargement or widening of the hat that binding-rings have heretofore been employed outside of the hats, which absolutely limit their expansion; and such rings are desirable, even if used in connection with certain other improvements in brim-curling machines heretofore devised by me, whereby the degree of expansion by the block can be accurately limited in each caseto hats of a certain size. Binding-rings as heretofore employed have been so constructed that a ring was necessary for each and every size or number of hat; but it is obvious that while it may be an easy matter to gage the exterior dimensions of a hat-block, the outside dimensions of a hat mounted thereon must vary according to the variable thickness of the felt, and therefore a binding-ring. for hats of a certain size will engage variably with hats of the same size.

The objects of my invention are to obviate the necessity formore than one binding-ring for use with each machine, and to enable one ring (No model.)

to be used equally well with all sizes of hats, and to properly confine them against enlargement, whether the felt be thick or thin. To accomvised an adjustable binding-ring, which can be readily enlarged or contracted and applied to a. hat of any size, and readily caused to firmly confine the same against expansion. My said novel binding-ring may be composed of a strip of any flexible but non-elastic material, but preferably of thin sheet met lsuch as iron, steel, bronze, or brass-and said strip is made into the form of a ring, and is overlapped at its ends and provided with a thumb-piece and a clamping device.

To more particularly describe my invention, I will refer to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 represents, in end, side, and edge views, the strip of thin metal of which my novel ring is composed, the same being properly slotted and provided with a thumb-piece. Fig. 2 represents in various views a clampingbolt and thumb-screw by which the ends of the slotted strip are united to form the bindingring. Fig. 3 is a front perspective view of the ring.

The strip A is composed preferably of thin steel. It is somewhat longer than the circumference of the largest-sized hat, and is slotted longitudinally near one end, as at a, so thatthe distance from the inner end of said slot to the opposite end of the strip is a little less than the circumference of a hat of the smallest size. The opposite end of the strip has a a short slot, 12, which receives the flat-sided clamp screw-bolt 0 when inserted through the ,slot a from the inner side of the ring.

extreme end of the strip near'the long slot a. is provided with a thumb-piece, cl, beneath which the opposite end of the strip can freely slide in the opening d. The clamp-bolt c is provided with a thumb-nut, 6, having a hub at its rear side, so that the two ends of the strip may be firmly clamped between the face of said hub and the inner surface of the head of the bolt. The head of the bolt 0 is quite thin, so as to occupy but little-space within the ring; but even if it should slightly indent the ihats it will not be objectionable,

because any indentation so made will be wholplish these ends I have for the first time dey The 1y covered by the outside hat band or ribbon I in hat-rounding machines in which the hat is '20 usually employed.

It will readily be seen that when my bindi11g-ring is placed over a hat filled out by an expansible block, said ring can be reduced in size and made to thoroughly compress a hat next to its brim by pulling oppositely upon the thumb-pieceand thumb-nut, and that the latter, with a slight turn, will be made to firn1 1y clamp the overlapping ends and secure the hat against expansion.

The clamping device may be obviously varied in construction Without departure from my invention, it only being necessary that it be capable of being tightened, while it and the thumb-piece have such pressure so applied thereto as will cause the ring to firmly pinch or bind the hat upon the block.

It is obvious that my device is also of use cold, but has to be secured firmly upon the expansible hat-block.

Having thus described my invention,I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The adjustable hat-binding ring composed 25 of a strip of flexible non-elastic mat e rial overlapped at its ends, and provided with a thumbpiece and a clamp, substantially as described, whereby hats of various sizes may be circumferentially confined upon ahat-block and pre- 0 vented from undue expansion during the curling and rounding of brims, or other similar operations.

RUDQLF EIGKEMEYER.

\Vitnesses:

HENRY OSTERHELD, GEORGE NARR.

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