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MACHINE FOR OURLING, FINISHING, 0R TRIMMING HATS.

No. 317,425. Patented May 5, 1885.

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MACHINE FOR G RLING, FINISHING, OR TRIMMING HATS. No. 317,425. I Patented May 5, 1885.

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EDMUND TWEEDY,-OF DANBURY, CONNECTICUT, AND GEORGE YULE, OF

NEWARK, NEW' JERSEY, ASSIGNORS, BY'DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO THE HAT CURLING MACHINE COMPANY, OF DANBURY, CON- NECTICUT.

MACHINE FOR CURLING, FINISHING, OR TRIMMING HATS.

SPECIFICATI forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,425, dated May 5, 1885.

Application filed September 4, 1884.

To all whom, it ntay concern:

Be it known that we, EDMUND TWEEDY and GEORGE YULE, citizens of the United States, respectively residing in Danbury, Connecticut, and Newark, New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Curling, Finishing, or Trimming Hats, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompa- 1o nying drawings, forming a part of the same.

This invention consists, primarily, in the combination, with a rotating hat-clamp, of arocking arm pivoted upon a fulcrum, with its vibrating end adjacent to the hat-clamp, so as to hold the tool in proximity to the hat, and the arm being vibrated automaticallyback and forth twice for each rotation of the hat, so as to traverse a predetermined elliptic path around the hat, independently of any contact that the tools may have with the hat.

It also includes means for adjusting the toolcarrier upon the arm, and consists in a toolcarrier guide pivoted to the free end of the arm, so that the tools may rest freely upon the hat- 2 5 brim plate, an adjustable device for vibrating the carrier nearer to or farther from the hatclamp, means for moving the tool-carrier in the pivoted guide, a stop to regulate such movement, an adjustable supporter for suso taining the toolcarrier when withdrawn from the hat-brim plate, a removable weight applied to the tool or carrier to press the same temporarily toward the hat-brim, means for carrying two curling'tools upon the hinged guide and for moving them in opposite directions to clear the curl when finished, and a hinged or universal joint between the tool and its carrier, so that the tool may adjust itself to the shape of the hat-brimplate.

The rocking arm claimed herein will be readily distinguished from all the pivoted arms or carriers heretofore used merely as a movable support for a tool. In such cases the arm has been held stationary when sustaining the tool 5 in an operative position, and has been turned upon its pivot merely to inspect the tool or to adjust it in a different operative situation. In our invention the arm is used as a substitute for the various reetilineal slides heretofore used to vibrate the tool back and forth adjacent to the hat while operating thereon; and

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our arm, therefore, differs from all others which are stationary upon their pivots when the tool is in operation by reason of it having a constant rockingor vibratory motion at such time, for which reason we have claimed it as a rocking arm, and hereby disclaim all hinged tool carriers or supporters that are not so vibrated.

Several modifications of these improvements are shown herein, and other constructions may be devised to carry out the diiferent parts of our invention.

In the drawings Figurel is a front elevation of a machine provided with two vibrating arms at opposite sides of the same hat-clamp; but each arm is shown actuated by separate means, to show that one arm may be employed alone and that the means for vibrating it may be varied at pleasure. Fig. 2 is a side elcvation of the same machine. Fig. 3 is a side elevation, partly in section, of a hat-clamp and arm upon a larger scale, with only such part of the frame as sustains the said parts. Fig. 4 is a plan of the tool-carrier and its guide. Fig. 5 is a rear view of the same parts, and Fig. 6 is a vertical section of the same at the center of the shifting-pinion. Fig. 7 is a vertical section of the jointed tool on its carrier.

In Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, A is apedestal of T-section, provided with a flange or foot, A, a bearing, A at the top for the spindle of the hat-plate, cam, and clamp, front and rear bearin gs, A and A for the driving-shaft, and side extensions carrying bearings E for the rocking shafts. The hat'clamp B is mounted at the top of the pedestal on a spindle, B, in the bearing A It may be made of any desired construction, but is assumed to be of the expansive brow-block class and a handwheel, B and arbor B are shown in Figs. land 3 for actuating such block and clamping the hat, either with or without the hat-plate B Gears B and B connect the spindle B with the driving-shaft. C, the front end of which extends through the pedestal, with the remainder fittin g into and beyond the horizontal bearings A and A the rear one of which is enlarged to receive a sleeve which is formed with a pulley, C, at its outer end'and a toothed hub, c, at its inner end.

'Betweenthe bearings A A is located a toothed clutch, a, which is feathered upon the shaft 0 so as to rotate the shaft when the clutch is engaged with the toothed hub c, the pulley 0 being driven continuously by a belt. (Not shown.)

A clutch'lever, 0 is jointed to the pedestal and to a shifter, 0 which proj ects to the front 7 l a finishing-iron, f, is represented asjointed to the tool-carrier D, which latter may also be movable to and from the hat-clamp in a guide, D, as at the left side, where the guide D is pivoted to the free end of the rocking arm G by a pin or short shaft, I), both arms having fulcra E journaled in bearings E upon opposite sides of the pedestal A, and the vibrating ends of the arms being extended opposite the sides of the hat-clamp so as to sustain the tools in proximity to the hat. The arms are shown provided with projections or cranks upon their inner sides,near the fulcra, and weights WV hung thereon, to press the tools toward the vibrating agent, and to thus trans mit a regular vibrating movement to the tool, free from the lost motion incident to such vibrating mechanism.

The vibrating mechanism shown at the right side of Fig. l is an adjustable shoe, H, provided with a roller, H, arranged to bear upon the edge of the hat-plate, B, which plate has its edge suitably shaped to act as a cam, B and impart the desired oscillating motion. The shoe H is furnished with a curved slot, to, to fit a GlZLllJplHg-DOIC, a, inserted through the arm G. As the vibrating mechanism has a uniform stroke, while the arm or holder G must hold the tool nearer to or farther from the clamp, to suit brims of different widths, means are required for setting the vibrator and carrier in various relations. A setting-screw, a is therefore fitted to a hearing, a and nut to, upon the parts G and H,

' respectively, to set the rocking arm or carrier in any desired relation to the vibrator, as may be required to set the tool into an operative position at any desired distance from the center of the hat-clamp. This means of adjust ment is for a purpose totally different from the movement of the carrier to and from the hat-clamp in its guide, that movement being intended merely to clear the tools from the hat, and not being necessarily combined with any means for securing the carrier in various positionsintermediate to its extremes of movement. The clamp-bolt a serves to bind the holder or arm Gr rigidly to the vibrating-shoe H, after the former has been adjusted for any specific tool or hat, by turning the settingscrew (0 To guide the operator in thus setting the carrier, we commonly use a graduated scale affixed to the parts G or H, but have not shown the same herein, as we have made it the subject of a separate patent application.

To move the tool'carrier in its guide, we have shown the former provided with a rack, b upon its lower side adjacent to the pivotal shaft 1), and provide the latter with a toothed pinion, b and with a head adapted to receive a crank, b, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4; or a hand-wheel may be affixed thereto.

The rear end of the carrier is provided with an adjustable stop, I), projecting from its bot tom at such point as to strike the guide 1) when the carrier is properly set. This stop consists, as isseen in Figs. 3 to 5, of a flat piece notched into the rear end of the carrier and held thereto by an adjusting-screw which has a round milled head, 8. The lower end of the stop projects below the carrier, and thus strikes the body of the guide D when the carrier is thrown forward.

lVith this construction themachineis adapted to sustain a tool at any required distance from the hat-clamp or the hat-crown thereon, and as the cam 13 reciprocates the shoe H twice for each rotation of the hat, the tools are "ibrated in such manner as to traverse a certain curve upon or about the hat independently of any contact with the hat itself, just as in the rectilinear-slide machines heretofore used.

\Vith the parts described, the machine is operated as follows A hat of known size and width of brim is secured upon the hat-clamp and one or both the carriers thrown forward by turning the pinion or pinions b and mov-' ing the carrier until arrested by the stop 12*. The clamp a is then loosened and the settingscrew to it turned until the tool is correctly set to operate upon the hat-brim. When correctly adjusted, the hat may be curled and the tool then be quickly retracted to remove the hat by turning the pinion If. The provision of the stop will then obviously afford the means of restoring the tool to the same operative position for any number of similar hats, provided the toolis unchanged, and, should it be necessary to change the tool upon one or both sides of the hat, the stop then affords the means to adjust the tool correctly and to reset it repeatedly in the same position. By slackening the clamp to sufficiently to move the shoe H upon the arm G the tool may be advanced while the machine is in motion, and any operation, as curling, may be gradually performed by first setting the tool-in its primary operative position and then gradually turning the settingscrew a until the curling is entirely effected. The clampbolt is not, therefore, an essential feature of the construction, and is entirely dispensed with in the vibrator adjustment shown at the left side of Figs. 1 and 3. In this construction, the arrangement of the parts is inverted, and the adjustable shoe is employed to fix the carrier 40 i made detachable, and others of diii'erent shape or its guide movably upon the arm G, the latter having a fixed movement imparted to it, instead of to the shoe, by means of a connecting-rod, h, affixed to an adjustable crank, E. This crank is mounted in a bearing, h, parallel with the driving-shaft (J, and is driven thereby through a pair of gears of the required proportions. The crank-pin is adjusted in a slot in the crank by a screw, h,-so as to vary the vibrations at pleasure and the shoe is fitted to a slide upon the arm, and provided with the adjusting-screw a a to set the carrier in relation to the vibrating mechanism in the required manner.

It is obvious that other means of vibrating the carrier and adjusting it in relation to the vibrating mechanism may be used,.provided the arm itself be vibrated twice for each rotation of the hat, as required to actuate the tool in an elliptic path independently of the hat.

The sliding carriers, being intended merely to retract the tools when replacing the hats, need not be constructed to draw entirely away from the top of the hat-plate B and to secure any further withdrawal of the tools, so

- as to remove the hat plate, it is desirable to move the vibrator itself from contact with the plate and hold it back, with the affixed rocking arm, by a suitable catch attached to the pedestal A. Such catch is shown in Figs. 1 and 2 as a sliding spring-bolt, e, inserted in a boss, 6, upon the top of the bearing behind the vibrator-arm H, and the latter is formed with a hole, e corresponding with the bolt when the vibrator is drawn back, as described. When thus drawn back, the bolt is automatically shot'into the hole a by a spring, e inclosed in the boss 0. The hat-plate may then be readily removed from. the clamp, if

at the edge be substituted, so as to actuate the tools in any desired curve; A knob, e, is shown fixed to the end of the bolt, by which it is pulled back from the hole a", when the machine is again ready for use.

To sustain the carriers and tools when the arms G are pulled back, an adjustable support is required, and is provided in the setscrew (0 shown in Fig. 1, that at the left side being inserted in the guide D, and resting upon its support H, while that shown at the right-hand tool is inserted in a lug upon the arm G so that the carrier almost touches it when the tool is in an operative position. By adjusting the screws the tools may be sustained when withdrawn from the plate, and rest upon the same automatically when restored to their operative positions, thus saving the operator the trouble of lifting them on either occasion.

The finishing-ironfis intended to press the brim of the hat, either before or alter curlin g, and is jointed to the end of the tool-carrier 1) to compensate for the curved movement conveyed to the carrier by the end of the rocking arm G, a tool rigidly attached to the carrier of a ball-and-socket joint, whereby the tool is i made self-adj usting in the direction ofanypressure applied to it. The segment of a ball is shown formed upon the back of the iron at m, with a bolt, m, affixed to its center; and the socket is formed upon the arm, at the inner side of a concentric shell, n, with a central aperture, a, somewhat larger than the bolt, so that the same may tip therein. A concave washer, 0, is fitted to the outer side of the shell, and a nut, 0, applied to the bolt above the washer, so that the iron is movably held in the socket and lifted with the carrier when the latter is turned upward upon the end of the arm G. A wooden knob, 19, is applied to the outer end of the bolt to manipulate the iron when hot, and a supporting-screw, e, is inserted in the rear end of the carrier and arranged to touch a lug, e upon the arm G, to prevent the carrier from falling down upon the outer side of the arm.

To heat this jointed iron effectively by a gasjet, we mount the gas-burner entirely apart from the iron upon the tool-carrier, as at l in Fig. 7, and project the flame Z by air-pressure into the interior of the iron through an opening, 70, left at one side of the joint. By this construction the gas-pipes are not attached at all to the iron, and the latter may, therefore, be removed and changed more readily, and the combustion is also more perfect than when the pipe is inserted within the shell of the iron. The flame is shown directed against the lower face or operative side of the iron as used in a curling-machine, and the bottom of the iron is thus most effectively heated. Such is also adapted for use in a hat-finishin g machine, and is, therefore, claimed distinct ively.

In Figs. 1, 3, and at is shown a construction for operating both inside and outside curlingtools upon the same carrier or guide, the hooked breaker d, often applied to the inside of the curl, requiring an opposite movement to that applied to the curler b for disengaging it from the finished curl. To permit the liftin g of the breaker from the hat-brim it is com- -monly joint-ed to the toolcarrier, and, in our construction, is jointed to a slide, 61, fitted to the guide 1) above the carrier-slide. To impart to these two slides opposite movements,

a fulcrum, r, is attached to the guide, and

draws the breaker automatically from the interior of the curl when the tool I) is drawn back by the pinion b but if the breaker be hinged to a movable slide, (1, as shown, it may be constructed without the lever r, and be moved independently of the carrier by the hand of the operator.

. claim such movement of these tools, except by means which actuates them both by the same agent or handle.

At t in Fig. 1 is shown a detachable weight secured to the carrier for the iron F to press the same temporarily upon the brim with an increased degree of force, the weight being provided with a screw-stem, a, which holds it securely to the carrier as the same is moved about, and which permits its removal very readily when not required. By the use of such weight the pressure may be regulated in any desired degree, and operates uniformly when the iron is moved up and down, as when curling hats previously set upon a curved flange. Although we have claimed such weight specifically in the present application, we reservethe right, on behalfof George Yule, to file a separate patent application for the same,jointly with Frederick Cooker, in a more generic claim. We therefore disclaim the same generically, restricting our present invention to the combination of the weight (to be thus generically claimed) with the vibrating rocking arm claimed herein.

The ball-joint described herein is also required upon the curling-tools b when operating uponhat-brims previously set, as the brimplate B is then set to match the brim, and the curling-tool is tipped in every direction as such brim-plate revolves beneath it. The brim-plate is made changeable, as in many other similar machines, and may be separate from the hat-clamp and held stationary on the bearing A as its movement is not essential to the operation of the tools when operating on flat brims.

We are fully aware that many of the elements of our invention have been used heretofore in different combinationsas, for instance, a pivoted hinge upon a finishing-iron, a vibrating guide for a tool-carrier, or a rocking arm with an iron or tool affixed thereto and do not, therefore, claim any such elements, broadly but we are not aware that any tool for either hat curling or finishing has been combined with a rocking arm vibrated automatically or independently of any contact with the hat, or that any rocking arm has been provided with a tool-carrier movable in a guide pivoted thereon, or that a tool has ever been pivoted to a carrier which has in turn been pivoted to a rocking arm.

Having fully set forth the nature of our invention herein, it will be seen that the rocking arm is in all cases combined with an automatic vibrating mechanism and. with a T0- tating hat-clamp, and that the latter implies in all cases suitable mechanism for revolving it at pleasure when the hat is properly clamped thereon. Such rotating mechanism is not claimed herein, although implied in all the claims, and may be varied, as well as the form and arrangement of the various parts, in any required manner to effect the combinations claimed. We have, however, claimed certain constructive features of the machine in separate applications, Nos. 11t2,206, 142,210, and 142,211, filed herewith.

Although we have shown herein a tool-carrierpivoted to a rocking arm in such manner that the tool may rest freely upon the hatbrim, we disclaim a yielding or weighted tool or carrier generically and we hereby reserve the right, on behalf of George Yule, to file a separate patent application, jointly with Frederick (locker, before the issue of our present claims, for the combination, witha brim-supporting plate, of a curling-tool resting freely upon such plate, and operated by a vibrating holder and tool-carrier. 7

Many features of our invention are equally applicable to machines for ironing hats, and for trimming off, softening, and paring brims, and we have therefore used general terms in claiming the same herein.

The distinction between our invention and preceding ones is clearly shown by reference to such patents as J. Nutts, No. 303,191, and (l. H. Reids, No. 292,356, in which various devices are used to hinge the tool upon a carrier or holder, so that it may be adjusted vertically, or turned up for more convenient inspection, or placed in an inoperative position, as stated in lines 117 to 124, inclusive, on page 2 of said Reids patent. In all such constructions the tool is not vibrated on the pivot when in operation, but the pivot itself is attached to some movable piece to which the vibrating motion is imparted, so that the pivot is required to vibrate in order to move the tool, and all parts of the hinged arm have the same motion relative to the hat-clamp. In our invention the pivot of the rocking arm is stationary while the tool is in operation, and the vibrating movement is transmitted to the tool by rocking the free end of the arm. Our invention also differs from others in respect to all the means for holding and adjusting the tool, which means are all, in our invention, attached to the end of a vibrating or rocking arm, instead of to a slide, as heretofore. Our construction, therefore, exhibits a tool-carrier pivoted to the free end of the rocking arm, anda guide for sustaining and moving the carrier relative to the arm, as well as means for moving the carrier and a stop for adjusting it in its operative positioniupon the arm.

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Having thus distinguished our invention from others, what we claim herein is 1. The combination, with a 'rotating hatclamp, of a rocking arm pivoted upon a fulcrum and having the operative tool or tools attached to its free or movable end, and means, independent of any contact with the hat, for oscillating or vibrating the arm on its pivot or fulcrum to and from the hat-clamp twice for each rotation of the hat.

2. The combination, with a rotating hatclamp, of a plate to support the brim of the hat, and a rocking arm pivoted upon a fulcrum and having the operative tool or tools attached to its free or movable end, and means, independent of any contact with the hat, for oscillating the arm on its pivot or fulcrum to and from the hat clamp twice for each rotation of the hat.

3. The combination, with a rotating hatclamp, of a rocking arm pivoted upon a fulcrum and having the operative tool or tools pivoted to its free end, so as to rest freely upon the brim-plate, and means for oscillating the arm on its pivot or fulcrum to and from the hat-clamp twice for each rotation of the hat.

4. The combination, with a rotating hatclamp, of a rocking arm pivoted to a fulcrum and having its free end adapted to vibrate to and from the hat-clamp, as described, a toolcarrier attached to the arm, a vibrator, and means, as shoe H, for adjusting the arm nearer to and farther from the hat-clamp, substantially as shown and described.

5. The combination, with a rotating hatclamp, of a rocking arm pivoted to a fulcrum and having its free end vibrated to and from the hat-clamp, as described, a carrier-guide hung on a pivot at the free end of the said arm, a carrier movably fitted to said guide, and'means for moving the carrier in the guide to and from the hat-clamp.

6. The combination, with a rotating hatclamp, of a rocking arm pivoted to a fulcrum and having its free end vibrated to and from the hat=clamp, as described, a carrier-guide hung on a pivot at the free end of said arm, a carrier movably fitted to said guide, and means for moving the carrier in the guide to and from the hat-clamp, and a stop to limit such movement.

7. The combination, with a rotating hatclamp, of a rocking arm pivoted to a fulcrum and having its free end vibrated to and from the hat-clamp, as described, a carrier-guide hung upon a pivot at the free end of said arm,

a pinion applied to the said pivot, a tool-carrier movably'held in the said guide and provided with a rack in contact with said pinion, a stop to determine the movement of the carrier, and means for rotating the pinion to set the tool in its operative position and to withdraw it from the hat-brim to remove the hat.

8. The combination, with a rotating hatclamp and table for supporting the hat-brim, of a rocking arm pivoted upon a fulcrum and having its free end vibrated to and from the and sustaining the tool at the level of the table.

9. The combination, with a rotating hatclamp and brim-table, of a rocking arm pivoted at one end and having its free end vibrated to and from the hatclamp, as described, a tool-carrier pivoted at the free end of the arm so that the tool may rest freely upon the hat-brim, and a removable weight affixed directly to the tool or carrier and operating to press the brim toward the table.

10. The combination, with the vibrating arm pivoted upon a fulcrum and having its free end vibrated to and from the hat-clamp, as described, of a shoe carrying a roller adapted to bear upon a cam, a screw for setting the shoe and roller in the required position, and a clamping-bolt for holding the shoe and arm rigidly together.

11. The combination, with a rotating hatclamp, a brim-table, and a carrier vibrated to and from the clamp, as described, of a tool resting freely upon the hat-brim, and ahinged or universal joint between the tool and carrier.

12. The combination, with a rotating hat clamp, of a curling-tool carrier mounted in a vibrating carrier-guide, a breaker or inside tool pivotally connected with such guide, and a single handle for moving the carrier outward and the breaker inward to disengage both the tools from the curl when completed, substantially as herein described.

13. The combination, with a rotating hatclamp, of a curling-tool carrier mounted in a vibrating carrier-guide, a breaker or inside tool pivotally connected with such guide, and means for moving the curler outward and the breaker inward simultaneously by mechanism connected with both.

14. The combination, with a rotating hatclamp, of a rocking arm pivoted upon a fulcrum and having the operative tool or tools pivoted to its movable end, means for vibrating the arm with the tools adjacent to the hat-clamp, means for pressing the arm constantly toward the clamp, and a catch operating to sustain the arm with the tool in an inoperative position.

15. In a hat ironing machine, the combination,with a tool-carrier having the iron pivoted thereto, of an iron formed with an external opening in its rear side to admit a gasflame, and a gas-burner fixed to the carrier entirely outside of the iron and adapted to project a jet of flame into the interior of the iron, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDMUND TWEEDY.

Witnesses: GEORGE YULE.

THOMAS E. TWEEDY, Tnos. S. CRANE.

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