US937296A - Hat-frame machine. - Google Patents

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A. FBINSTEIN.

HAT FRAME MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED HAR.30,1908.

937,296, Patented Oct. 19,1909.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ABRAHAM FEINSTEIN, OF CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS.

HAT-FRAME MACHINE.

Application filed March 30,

To all whom it may-concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM FnINs'rEm, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chelsea, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Hat-Frame Machines, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like numerals 011 the drawings representing like parts.

My present invention is a machine for forming skeleton hat frames of wire, the principal object thereof being to provide a machine in which the wires and knots of the hat body may be arranged vertically above each other or if desired, obliquely, and in which, after the hat frame has been formed, the wires thereof may be quickly disengaged from the machine without disturbing their regular formation and shape.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a cross-sectional "iew showing the main portions of the machine in side elevation; Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the machine.

011 a suitable standard 1 I mount a base 2 having a vertical post 3 extending down into the standard 1 to turn freely therein excepting when locked by a clamp 4, the top of the standard being split at 5, at one side, to permit of the immovable clamping of the post 3. On the base 2 are mounted two narrow rims or flanges 6, 7, preferably curved as best shown in Fig. 2, and pivoted on cars 8 at their opposite ends to the base 2. At its middle each arched or curved flange 6, 7, is provided with a hook 9. A chain 10 extends therefrom to a rod 11 to which it is rigidly soldered or otherwise secured beneath a head 12 thereof, said rod extending downwardly and provided with a handle 13 so that by turning the rod 11 the chain may be wrapped around it and thereby tilt up the adjacent flange 6 or 7 on its pivots 8 for a purpose presently to be described. Projecting from the flange 6 or 7 are radial arms 14, preferably removably screwed into the flange as indicated at 15. Said arms have vertical holes 16 adapted to receive posts 17 vertically adjustable therein by means of set screws 18 or any other suitable means, and on these posts are a plurality of wire holders herein shown in the form of ferrules or rings. I have herein shown two kinds of rings 19, 20, adapted to be secured in desired adjustment by set screws or thumb screws 21. Each Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 19, 1909. 1908. Serial No. 424,199.

ring 19 has a notch 21 for receiving a hat wire and the rings 20 have a plurality of notches 22, three thereof being herein shown. At the outer ends of the arms 14 are preferably secured extensions 23 made adjustable and removable by threaded shoulders 24 and provided with holes 25 to receive posts 26 similar to the posts 17. The successive holes 16 in the arms 1 1 correspond to the successive sizes of hats desired, and the extensions 23 are for receiving the rim wires of the largest sizes of hats.

In use, when it is desired to make any given hat, the posts 17 are set in the corresponding holes 16 in all the arms, for the given size of hat and then the rings 19 are similarly adjusted on all of said posts to the height and position of the wires which are to form the body of the hat. If it is to be a three-wire hat three of these rings are ad justed on each post, whereas if it is to be a two-wire hat only two of them. The result is that the wires are exactly vertical over each other and cannot well be otherwise, even though the operator is careless. If it is desired to make a conical shaped hatbody, the rings 20 are distributed in the same manner and the operator places the top wire in the nearest notch 22 and the next wire in the next outward notch and the bottom wire in the notch which is farthest outward, the result being that the arrangement is not only conical but is absolutely uniform entirely around the hat body. The rim is made in similar manner by placing the posts in those holes which correspond to the size and position which it is desired that the rim shall assume, and then adjusting the rings 19 down level with the bottom rings of the posts, which have been positioned for forming the body of the hat. lVhen the wires have all been wound and tied or twisted in usual manner, the operator simply turns the handles 13 slightly and thereby tips all the posts inwardly by the tilting of the holding flanges 6, which are pivotally mounted on the base 2, and this tilting or tipping instantly disengages or loosens all the holding rings from the respective wires so that the hat frame can be lifted at once from the machine. As the position of each post is positively controlled by the vertical hole 16. or

as the case may be, all the posts are necessarily truly vertical. and as all the holes are at equi-distant points from the center of the apparatus, it follows that the hat frame must be uniform when the posts have all been put in position for any given size. The holes determine the sizes of the hats and hence it is impossible to make a hat just a little too large or just a little too small for any given size. There are no delicate parts and hence nothing liable to get out of order. The entire machine is exceedingly simple and inexpensive.

Although I prefer the precise embodiment herein shown and described, it will be understood that many changes and modifications may be made in the specific construction of the various parts and in the general combination without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention. A further advantage of my mechanism is that it can be set up for any given size of hat in much less time than the usual mechanisms commonly in use.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is,

1. A machine for forming hat frames, comprising a base, opposite supporting flanges pivoted respectively adjacent the opposite edges of said base, radial arms projecting from said flanges, vertical post-s supported by said arms, said arms containing means for restricting said posts to truly vertical position, and horizontal adjustable end extensions mounted in the ends of said arms.

2. A machine for forming hat frames, comprising a base, supporting flanges movably mounted on said base, radial arms projecting from said flanges, said arms containing vertical holes similarly spaced apart uniformly in all of said arms according to hat-sizes, vertical posts mounted in said holes and re stricted thereby to vertical adjustment only, clamping means for holding said posts in adjustment and wire-supporting means adjustable up and down on said posts, containing a plurality of Wire-holding grooves at varying distances from the center of the machine.

3. A machine for forming hat frames, comprising a base, opposite supporting flanges movably mounted on said base, radial arms projecting from said flanges, said arms containing vertical holes spaced apart according to the desired hat-sizes, upright posts adjustably mounted for vertical adjustment in said holes, wire sustaining devices movably mounted 011 said posts, flexible chain-like members connected to said opposite supporting flanges and thence extending across toward the opposite side of the base, and pull ing means engaging the free ends of said members for pulling them and thereby moving the supporting flanges and their arms and posts toward each other for disengagement from the frame wires.

4:. In a machine for forming hat frames, supporting means, radial arms extending therefrom, upright posts adjustably mounted in said arms, and wire supporting rings slidingly mounted on said posts, said rings having at their outer sides a plurality of wire-holding grooves for holding the wires of the hat frame.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my 4 name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ABRAHAM FEINSTETN.

Witnesses M. J. SPALDING, GEO. H. MAXWELL.

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