US829920A - Hat-frame-forming device. - Google Patents

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H'AT FRAME FORMING DEVICE.

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EDWVARD A. HOW'E, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 28, 1906.

Application filed December 28.1904. Serial No. 238,606.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD A. HOWE, a citizen of the United States of America, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Frame-Forming Devices, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to an improvement in a device for making wire hat-frames for ladies hats; and its object is to facilitate the construction of wire hat-frames, whether of the wound-wire or loop-wire type.

In my present invention the construction is such that it will permit of wide variation in the adjustment of all the wire-holders for the many different styles or shapes to ladies hats and still have the working side of the wireholders in perfect alinement, so that the fore-and-aft wires will not only cross in a common center, but rest up against the working side of the wire-holders supporting the round-and-round wires of the brim or crown, thus making it an impossibility to construct any other shape than the one.desired. On this former duplicates may be made without the slightest variation of any of the wires. I have also rovided a simple and convenient means for holding the wires while making the hat-frame which is conducive to speed in the manufacture, as well as a novel means for collapsing the device, which entirely frees the hat-frame when completed.

The foregoing and other features of my invention will now be described in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which I have represented my hat-frame former embodying the improvements in the preferred form, after which I shall point out more particularly in the claims those features which I believe to be new and of my own invention.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which similar characters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views, Figure 1 is a plan view of the hatframe former embodying my present invention, the wire-holders being set for the formation of a typical hat-frame. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof in part section along the lines A A, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is the same side elevation, showing the device collapsed to release the wire hat-frame. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail of the wire-holders which I employ. Fig. 5 is a modification of same used for the construction of a turban-hat frame. Fig. 6 is a section through the arm 4, showing clamping-plate 10.

In the practice of my invention I provide a suitable base or support with which is connected in any desirable manner an upright 1, on the top of which is secured a circular plate 2, provided with radially-extended arms 3 to which are hinged the horizontal radial arms 4 at the pivot 5. The horizontal arms 4 are provided with a depending member having a vertical cam-slot 6, into which the circular ring 7 slides. When the ring 7 is in the lower end of the slot 6, the arms 4 are in their normally horizontal position, as shown in Fig. 2, the projections 8 resting against the upright member 1. When the ring 7 is in the upper end of the slot 6, the former is collapsed, as shown in Fig. 3. In the drawings, Figs. 1, 2, and3, I have shown eight horizontal arms 4 extending radially hinged to the upper'end of a central upright member; but a greater or less number may be employed with equally good results. It is preferable, however, to

have twice as many radially-extended arms as there are to be fore-and-aft wires of the hat-frame to be formed. To each of these radial arms is secured, by means of the screws or bolts 9, a clamping-plate 10, provided with a recess 11, into which is secured a soft filling 12such as leather, rubber, or similar materialwhich presses up against the vertical wire-holders 13 to 19, inclusive, binding same against the flat side of the radial arms 4. These wire-holders are constructed out of any flexible material with body suflicient to stand the bending of the hat-frame wire and are of any desirable section, provided at the upper end with a seat 20 for the wire 24, Fig. 4. EX- tending beyond the edge 22 of the wireholder is the lip 21 to protect against the accidental unseating of the wire 24. These wire-holders are straight for some distance on their outer side below the recess or wire-seat 20. When the hat-frame wire is Wound around the wire-holders for the round-andaround wires of the hat, it may be placed against the side 22 and moved upward and into its seat 20, the lip 21 protecting against an overrun and forms one side of the seat. On each of the horizontal radial arms 4 is secured, by means of a set-screw 80, one wireholder 17, which is for the round-and-round wire forming the head size.

In the construction of a turban hat the wire-holder shown in Fig. 5 is employed, substantially as shown, provided with a number of seats on one face. The wire-holder 18 is curved, as shown, to provide adjustment for the head-size round-and-round wire and an extended or bell crown without interfering with the Wire-holder l7. and also provides means when in collapsed position to enable the hat-frame to be taken off the former after being entirely freed. As the wire-holders supported by each of the horizontal arms are similar, only one has been described, as will. suflice. The modas operandi is as follows: The ring 7 is pushed down to the lower end of the cam-slot 6, the arms 4 taking their normally horizontal position. The wireholders 17 by their individually-adjusting set-screws 30 are secured to the horizontal arms 4, so that the round-and-round head- Wire of the pattern-hat which I wish to duplicate rests in the recesses or seats 20. This holds the pattern-hat frame in a vertical position. The wire-holders for the crown and brim roundandround wires are hung by their recesses or wire-seats 20 in their respective position, the bolts or screws 9 are then tightened, and the clamplng-plate 10 securely holds the wire-holders in. their relatively adjusted position. The former is now set to the pattern-hat, which is entirely freed from' the former by sliding the ring 7 to the upper end of the cam-slot 6. After the pattern-hat frame has been lifted off the ring 7 .is returned to its normal lower position, and the former is ready to form duplicate wire hatframes.

Referring to Fig. 1, it will be noticed that the wire-holders attached to any one horizontal arm are in one vertical plane and the wire-holders attached to the diametrically opposite arm are also in one vertical. plane. These two planes are parallel and are separated by a distance equal to the thickness of the wire to be used in making the hatframe. This arrangement just referred to is very important, because with. this construction the foreand-aft wires are fastened into position tight against the wire-holders, leaving no room for variation. The fore-and-aft wires always cross in the center and make a uniform hat. To facilitate the centralizing of a pattern-hat frame, I provide an upright member 31, which is adapted to engage an opening in the top of the central upright member 1 and be held. in vertically-adjusted position by the collar 32 and the thumbscrew 33.

I wish it distinctly understood that the hat-frame former in its entirety, as herein illustrated and described, is in the form which I now desire to construct it and that changes and variations may be used as may be convenient or desirable without departing from the salient features of my invention, and I therefore intend the following claims to cover such modifications as naturally fall within the lines of my invention. With some shapes it will not be necessary to use so many wire-holders. The number of horizontal arms or the number of wire -holders arranged on each arm are not specifically limited.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a device of the class described a series of radially arranged clamping arms hinged to a head on the upper end of a central upright member, each of these radial. arms provided with a depending member having a cam-slot, means engaging the slot of each of said members and movable upward and downward therein.

2. In a hat-frame former a series of clamping hinged arms perfectly straight on their face side to direct the wire-holders perpendicularly, a clamping-piece provided with a recess to support a suitable filler intended. to press against and hold in position the wireholders and means to securely clamp same to the clamping hinged arm. 7

3. In a device of the class described the combination of a series of radial horizontal clamping-arms movably mounted, each carrying wire-holders and provided with a depending member having a cam-slot, a circu lar ring passing through these cam-slots and movable therein upward and downward.

4. In a machine for making hat-frames, the combination of radial arms with spaced side plates, connecting bolts, and hookshaped crown-supports and rim-supports having shanks that project between the arms and plates.

This specification signed and witnessed this 26th day of December, A. D. 1904.

EDWARD A. HOWE.

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