A new or improved finishing block for hats / [Charles Edgar Keator].

  • Keator, Charles Edgar.
Date:
1886
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A new or improved finishing block for hats / [Charles Edgar Keator]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1886, 17a February. N° 2327. COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. {Communicated from abroad by Charles Edgar Keatory of Brooklyn, in the State of New York, United States of America, Manufacturer.] A New or Improved Finishing Block for Hats. « . • I, Alexander Henry Reed, of Suffolk House, Laurence Pountney Hill, Cannon Street, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of said invention for a new or improved Finishing Block for Hats, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in 5 and by the following statement:— This invention consists in an improved hat block which is especially adapted for use on oval lathes of well known construction during the process of finishing hats. This improved finishing block consists essentially of a low block or band block 10 having thereon a shank which is adapted to be grasped by the chuck of the oval lathe, and in combination with such a block a bag of rubber or other suitable material which is secured to or formed integral with the band block and can be inflated subsequent to the insertion of the block into the hat. The inflation of the bag is accomplished by the use of a pump or other air compressing apparatus, and 15 when the bag is thus inflated the same bears closely against the interior surface of the hat and affords a cushion for the same. The object of this invention is to procure a finishing block by the use of which hats, both “ soft ” and “ stiff ” can be finished upon an oval lathe, the said operation having been heretofore practically impossible owing to the use of the ordinary 20 wooden block, which completely filled out the interior of the hat and offered a hard, unyielding bearing for the same, so that the latter were frequently injured by unavoidable shocks. The air cushion formed in the hat by the inflated bag offers a yielding support for the material of the hat, and consequently the hat cannot be injured under any circumstances. 25 The specific construction of this improved hat block is more fully pointed out in the following specification and claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which. t . , . * . Fig. 1 represents a side elevation of the improved finishing block. Fig. 2 shows a section of the block as provided with the bag, the latter being 30 inflated. L -» — f * v 4 [Price 8d.] „