US70066A - Improvement in hat-pelting machines - Google Patents

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TO ALL WHOM IT'MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JEAN FRANCOIS BADOYE, of the city and State of New York, have invented, made, and 'applied to use a certain new and useful Improvement in Machinery for Felting Hats; and I do hereby declare the following to he a full, clear, and exact description of the said invention, reference being had to the an'nexed drawing, making part of this specification, whereini Figur-e 1 is an elevation of' my machine, and

Figure 2 is a cross-section of the same at line a; :e of fig, l.

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The object of my inventon is to felt thehat hodies in hot water by machiiery, instead of by hand in the t usual manner.

My invention consists in a swinging-worker or 'hand," that is fitted to press upoirand work the felt hat bodies while rolled up, in a manner similar to the hand process. I construct the worker so that it swings on a rock-shefit above, and pendulous arms and weights aid in maintaining the motion, and the hot-water kettle and its inclined sides are so formed, in connection with the worker, that as the worker rolls over the roll containing' the hat bodesit rises as the roll passes away from the hot water, producing an increased pressure and squeezing 'operation that felts the'hats similarly to the hand process.

In the 'drawing a is a frame, of suitable size and strength; b is a hot-water kettle, of any desired or usual character, heated by fire or steam; a a are the inclined sides, extending from the kettle to the edge of the machine The portions of said inclines that come over the kettle are formed of metal plates ol d, leaving openings between their edges and the bar e, running lengthwise through between the plates d d. The rock-shaft f is hung in journalboxes in the frame a, and provided with pendulous arms g, with weights at their ende. The

movement is limited by stop h, so that the rock-shaft cannot be turned too far. Through the rock-shaft are mortises receiving the slding-a ms Ic, to the lower ends of which the workers l are attaehed. m is a eross-har extending from one pendulous arm,"g\to the other, and passing through elongated mortises in the arms k, so as to allow of their being raised with the workers Z to introduce the goods to he felted.

The sheets of felt or hat bodies are folded up of a size`adapted to the machine, and are either rolled up alone or upon awooden or India-rubber roller, eare being taken to cross the pieces of-felt, so that the direction in which the fib'es are laid shall vary, and this is to be borne in mind every time the material is changedhetween the respective felting Operations, the same as in fe'lting by hand. The material to be felted is to be rolled up with a coarse cloth, and properly tied, and placed in the machine under the worker, which is to be lowered, and weighted with suficient weight in its hoX-shaped upper surface to give the required pressure. As the worker is vihrated by hand, or other power applied to the pendulous arms or rook shaft, the roll t of the material to he felted is rolled up first one incline and then the other, the water being alternately expelled and imbibed, and the felting operation is performed -similarly to the hand process, hut much more rapidly und uniformly, in consequence of the hand or worker acting upon the entire surface of the roller, and rising and falling bythe arms k sliding through the mortises in the rock-shaft i Several of 'these workers may he mount'ecl on one rock-shaft in a row over a long kettle. v What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pate'nt, is

The-workers Z, mounted on arms that pass through mortisein the rock-shaftf, in combination with the kettle 6 and inclines, for Operating in the manner specified upo'n a roll containing the materials to be felted.

In witness whereof' I have hereunto set my signature this seventeenth day of January, 18671'.

J. F. BADOYE.

Witnesses: i

GEO. D. WALKER, Cms. H. SMITH.

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