US483746A - Hat-brim-ironing machine - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

W. J. MoGALL. HAT BRIM IRONING MACHINE.

No. 483,746. Patented Oct. 4, 1892.

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I UNITED STATES;

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM J. MOGALL, OF WEST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

HAT-BRlM-IRONING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 483,746, dated October 4, 1892.

Application filed February 11, 1892. Serial No. 421,086. (No model.)

had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to that class of hatbri1n-ironing machines represented by the one described in a oo-ordinate application filed September 23, 1891, in the United States Patent Office, Serial N o. 406,5at0, in which a disklike rotary iron suitably heatedby gas or other means co-operated with a rotary block centrally disposed over said disk and revolv ing at a slower rate of speed and with a hand- 1ron, also heated, to iron out the hat-brim. The object of the present improvements is to provide other means for accomplishing the advantageous results referred to in the said co-ordinate application and to secure other advantages and results, some of which will be referred to in connection with the description of the working parts.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters indicate corresponding parts in both of the views, Figure 1 is a side View, and Fig. 2 is a front view, of a machine embodying my improvements.

In said drawings, (it indicates a suitable frame providing bearings for the working parts.

I) is a rotary ironing-disk adapted to be heated in any ordinary manner. The said disk is carried by a shaft 0, to which power is imparted by gearing d, d, e, and for other appropriate means. Above said ironing-disk is shaft.

in its bearings, or a movement toward and from the ironing-disk, and carries a blockgrasping clamp or hand 70, adapted to engage the hat-block or the hat arranged on said hatblock and cause the same to revolve therewith. At the upper end of said shaft is a suitable clutch, one section at of which is on the shaft and the other 0 on the gear-wheel h. By simply raising the shaft out of engagement with the gear-wheel its rotary movement is Stopped, and by a reverse movement the rotation of the shaft is begun. The shaft is provided with a suitable catch Z to co-operate With another catch on on the frame of the machine, by which the said shaft and its clamp or hand are held in their elevated positions or away from a position to engage the hat-block. Said clamp or hand consists of an elastic and concavous device adapted to fit over the body of the hat and the hat-block, as indicated in the figures of the drawings. It is preferably of india-rubber, though it may be of any other spring material, and is coupled to the rotary shaft 9, so as to revolve therewith and impart rotary motion to the hat and hat-blockstationed at the center of the rotary disk.

The hat-block is independent of the ironingdisk and rotary clamp and simply rests on said disk, being free to move independent of said disk under the power of said clamp. Any suitable means may be employed to operate the vertically-movable shaft from and to engagement with the catch, either mechanical means or the hand of the operator.

In operating the device, motion being given to the disk and cog-wheel h and the elastic clamp being in its elevated position free of the hat and hat-block, the hat is placed on said hat-block and the two are disposed centrally upon the ironing-disk, the brim of the hat being laid out horizontally upon the latter. The clamp is then lowered and snugly caught upon the hat body and block by fric tional contact, and the clutch parts are at the same time brought into operative engagement, so that rotary motion is imparted to the vertical shaft, the hat and hat -block clamp, and said hat and hat-block, and thus the rim is caused to revolve on the ironingdisk, but at a speed less than that of saiddisk.

By employing an ordinary heated handiron on the top of the brim the latter is ironed out smooth and without wrinkles.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is 1. The combination, with a rotary ironingdisk, of a hat-block and a rotary concave clamp arranged above said disk and adapted to grasp the hat-body upon the said hat-block and cause the same to revolve upon the ironing-disk, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a rotary ironingdisk, of a rotary shaft arranged above the center of said disk, a clamp to engage the hat-block and secured to said shaft to revolve therewith and movable to and from the said disk, and a hatblock adapted to receive the February, 1892.

WILLIAM J. MoGALL. Witnesses:

CHARLES H. FELL,- OSCAR A. MICHEL.

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