US926343A - Process of making vizors for caps. - Google Patents

Description

J. MACKEY.

PROCESS OF MAKING VIZORS FOR CAPS.

APPLIOATION FILED DEO. 30, 100G.

ne: NoRRI PETERS co., WASHINGTON, n cv JOHN MACKEY, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

PROCESS OF MAKING VIZORS FOR CAPS.

Application filed December 30, 1908.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented .Tune 29, 1909.

Serial No. 470,005.

lo all whom t 'may concern:

Be it known that l, JOHN Mixoknr, a citizen of the United States of America, residing in New York, in the borough of h'lanhattan, county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Iniprovements in Processes of Making Vizors for Caps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improved vizors which are made of a single piece of leather or other material pressed into shape and japanned at both sides.

Heretofore vizors were made from a japanned face-layer, a lining of thin leather, and a japanned binding which was stitched around the edges of the same. rl`his vizor was too expensive and was superseded by a vizor which was made of stout leather that was pressed into shape and japanned at its face-side in one color and at the under-side in a different color.

The object of this invention is to simplify and cheapen the .manufacture of the onepiece japanned vizor; and for this purpose the invention consists of a process of making japanned vizors according to the following successive steps: first, soaking the blank in water for rendering it pliable; second, pressing the same between suitable dies so as to produce the ridges at the upper and lower edges of the same and simultaneously the grain at the under-side; third, hardening the blank by subjecting it to a baking operation; fourth, applying aplurality of japanning coats to the face-side of the blank and to the under-side; and finally putting a finishing coat of oil varnish on the j apanned surfaces, as will appear from the following description and claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure represents a flat blank from which my improved vizor is made, Fig. 2 shows the blank on a larger scale as it appears after being pressed into suitable shape by the dies, Fig. 3 is a rear-view of the vizor after it has been japanned, Fig. 1l is a front-view of the vizor after the apan is applied thereto, and Figs. la, 2a and la are respectively vertical transverse sections on lines l, l, 2, 2 and 4e, 4, of Figs. l, 2 and 4C, Fig. la being drawn on a larger scale.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several figures.

ln carrying out the improved process, a

blank 7) of the required shape and size and thickness is cut from so-called grain russet split leather. The grain at the under-side of the blank receives the impression of the lines in imitation of the skiver lined vizors heretofore in use. The edges of the blanks are beveled, as shown at b1.

lVhen the blanks are cut out, they are soaked in water so as to render them pliable. '.lhey are then subjected in moist state to the action of dies in a power-press, by which the ridges or beads d, (Z, that extend along the upper edge and the lower edge are pressed in. as shown in Figs. 2 and 2a. Simultaneously the intersecting lines or grain are pressed in the under-side of the blank by the dies, as shown in Fig. 3. The blanks are then baked so as to render them hard and firm. The face-side is then coated with five or six coats of spirit varnish, of black or other color according to the color to be given to the vizor, while the other side is coated with three coats of spiritl varnish, of green or other color. The apanned coating is finally polished with oil varnish at the face-side and under-side. The finished vizor is shown in Figs. 3, 4 and et, reference character e denoting the japanned under surface, and f the outer surface, which is more highly glazed.

Leather vizors are used for military and other caps which have to stand a great deal of wear. For boys caps the blank is made not of leather, but of pasteboard of suitable thickness, or other suitable material, which is preferably treated by a suitable size before being subjected to the pressure of the dies.

By the process described a neatly finished vizor is obtained. These vizors are made of one piece, have a high finish and can be furnished at a considerably lower price than the viZors heretofore made.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

l. The process herein described of making vizors, which embodies the following steps: soakino' a blank of suitable material t0 make it pliable, molding the blank and forming beads at the edges by means of dies, and then baking the blank to harden it.

2. The process herein described of making vizors for caps, which consists of the following successive steps: first, softening the blank by soaking it in water; second, subjecting the blank to the pressure of dies so as JOHN MACKIE Y.

to produce the ridges on the saine and the grain at the under-side of the blank; third, japanning the face and under-sides, and finally polishing the saine.

3. The process herein described of making` vizors for caps, which consists of the folloW- i ing successive Steps: irst softening the blank by soaking it in Water; Second, Subl jecting the blank to the pressure of dies So as I to produce the ridges on the saine and the grain at the under-Side of the blank; third,

Witnesses N. E. VERNER, GEORGE L. KELLOGG.

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