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CHARLES H. MERRITT, OF DANBUEY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN T.

AKING, OF NEYV YORK, N. Y.

HATTERS TAN K.

SBPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 314,461, dated March 24, 1885.

Application filed December 20, 1883. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. Minimum, of Danbury, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hatters Tanks, of

which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to tanks for hot wa ter, which are used in hat manufacture for dipping the hat-bodies while performing the various operations of sizing, scalding, shrinking, &c. \Vhen designed for a number of operators, such a tank is commonly provided with a shelf or plank around its edge, and is termed a battery. The steam arising from such tanks is very annoying to the workmen,

and hinders them in their work by rendering it difficult for them to see, and is also injurious to health; and the object of my invention is to enable the steam to be more completely got rid of and carried off than has been possible with the hoods resembling inverted funnels commonly arranged over the tanks.

The invention consists in the combination,

with a battery-tank and a surrounding plank, 2 5 of a cover or steam-chamber above the tank, a guard or curtain practically closing the entrance to the cover or chamber, and a draftor outlet pipe arranged to carry off the steam or vapor from the cover or chamber.

Theinvention also consists in the combination,with a tank used for dipping hat-bodies, of a cover or steam-chamber above the tank having an opening closed by a yielding curtain, and a draft or outlet pipe arranged to 3 5 carry off the steam or vapor from said cover or chamber.

Theinvention also consists in the combination,with a battery-tank used for dipping hatbodies and asurrounding plank, of a cover or 0 steam-chamber above the tank, having an opening closed by a yielding curtain, and a draft or outlet pipe arranged to carry off the steam or vapor from said cover or chamber.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan of a battery-tank having my invention applied to it. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of said tank on the line a: :r, Fig. 1, showing the entrance to the steam-chamber as practically closed by guards, and Fig. 3is asection similar to Fig. 2,showing the openings into the chan1- loner closed by guards consisting of yielding cura1ns.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A designates the battery-tank,which is surrounded by the plank B, and which in itself is like the tanks heretofore used. Water is maintained therein up to a proper level, and steam to heat the water is admitted by a pipe,

a, under control of a Valve, a, to a coil, a in the bottom of the tank.

Above the tank is placed a steam-chamber or cover, 0, from which extends a draft or outlet pipe, D, and the entrance to the chamber is practically closed by guards. This chamher may be polygonal,and the lower portions,

0', of its sides may be inclined inward slightly, as shown in Fig. 2.

The tank A being circular and the chamber polygonal, there will be formed on each of the sides of the chamber,and opposite each of the sides of the polygonal plank B, an openin g, b,sufticient in size to enable the hat-bodies to be inserted into the tank, and not large enough to allow the steam to escape into the room when the draft oroutlet pipe is used.

The inclined sides 0 of the chamber 0 form guards, which practically close the entrance to the tank in that they, in connection with the draft-pipe, ei'i'ectually prevent steam from escaping into the room.

The steanrchamber G in Fig. 8 is shown as polygonal, and its guards instead of being rigid consist of yielding curtains. These curtains may be of any kind of flexible fabric or material, as shown at C or they may be of rigid material, such as a piece of board, as shown at G. In the latter case the curtain should be attached by hinges 0, so that it may swing inward. In either case the curtain is capable of yielding to permit of the hatbodies being introduced into the tank.

By the use of the draft-pipe a suction is produced from the room into the steam-chamber, and hence the steam arising from the hatbodies after they are withdrawn from the tank and while upon the plank will a large part of it be drawn into the steam-chamber, especially with the form of guards shown in Fig. 2.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure" by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination,with abattery-tank and a surrounding plank, of a cover or steamchamber above the tank, a guard or curtain ICO 'ing curtain, and a draft or outlet pipe arranged 3. The combination, with a battery-tank used for dipping hat-bodies anda surrounding plank,of a cover or steam-chamber above the tank having an opening closed by a yielding 1' curtain, and a draft or outlet pipe arranged to carry off the steam or vapor from said cover or chamber, substantially as described.

CHARLES H. MERRITT.

practically closing the entrance to said cover or chamber, and a draft or outlet pipe arranged to carry off the steam or vapor from said cover or chamber, substantially as and. for the purpose described.

2. The combination, with a tank used for dipping hat-bodies, of a steam-chamber above the tank having an opening closed by a yield- Witnesses:

THOMAS A. LOUNSBURY,

to carryoff the steam or vapor from said cover LUMAN L. HUBBELL.

or chamber, substantially as described.

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