USRE959E - Improvement in bonnet-frames - Google Patents

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Examinar Best AVAILABLE copy UNITED STATES .PATENT OFFICE.

WHITTEN E. KIDD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN BONNET-FRAMES.

vSpecticatimi forming part ot' Letters Patent No. 19,932, dated April 13, 1858; Reissue No. 959, dated May 15, 1860.

To all whom il; may concern:

Beit known that l, WHIT'I'EN E. KIDD, of

' the city, county, and State of New York, have l method. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the front, crown, and tip; Fig. 3, a horizontal section taken at the lines A a of Fig. 2; and Figs. 4, 5, and 6 separate views ot' thc pieces, as cut for making the front. crown, and tip.

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Prior to my invention net frames for ladies7 bonnets have been generally made of a single thickness ofcape net sewed onto apreviouslvformed wire frame to give them the required shape and strength, which not only makes them too heavy, and, from the want of elasticity, liable to remain out of shape when subjected to accidental pressure. On account of these objections it has long been desired to lnake bonnet-frames of cape net which would retain the required shape without the employment ot' so many wire stays, but I believe that prior to my invention all such attempts have 1'-iled to produce the required result.

The mode of application of my said invention is as follows, viz: I cut out of two thicknesses of cape net two pieces, Fig. 4, to make the front, b, two others, Fig. 5, to make the band c for the crown, and two others, Fig. 6,

to make the tip d of the crown; but forA greater expedition in working I cut some twenty (more or less) thicknesses at once, as the material is very thin and easily cut. Having cut the parts in this way I take three ""'f nesses of the material known as buckor other equivalent substance, meisten of them with water by rubbing it over a soft brush dipped in water, or in any r suitable manner, and lay it between the two dry ones. On these I pile twenty (in e or less) thicknesses of the cape net, cut asV before stated, and on top I lay three thicknesses of buckram prepared in like manner as those placed below, and on top of that I pile another batch ot' pieces of cape net, and so proceed until I get the desired quantity, depending on ,the number of frames to be made; and on top of this pile I lay a board with a weight, to make a slight-pressure, and there let it remain over night, when the `whole pile will be found to be slightly moistened. The next day I take the pieces, two at a time, and subject them to pressure between heated metallic molds ot' the required configuration, by which they will be made to assume the form ot' the surface thereof, the heat and moisture having the further effect ot' causing the iibers of the two thicknessess of net to unite where they come in contact, the heat and moisture having the effect to partially dissolve the slightly glutinous substance or sizing eniployed in the dressing ot' the fabric, and then to dry it to induce the cementing. The t'ronts, the bands, and the tips having been thus shaped, and the two 'thicknesses united, the three parts-viz., tip, band, and front-aie then united by lappingover each other, as at e and j', and by the application of' moisture, heat, and pressure, as in the well-known processof making bonnet-frames ot' the fabric known as buckram, and after thc double thicknesses are united and shaped, and the parts are put together in the manner described, the edge of the bonnet-frame is further strengthened, if desired, by securing thereto a wire binding, g.

When thus made, bonnet-frames will be much lighter than when made of a single thickness sewed to a wire skeleton frame, more perfect in shape, for every part will have taken the form of the molds in which they were pressed, and much more elastic to yield to pressure and resume their shape when relieved from such pressure, for the reason that the two thicknesses are cemented to each other by the same operation which imparts the form.

Although/I have above described the mode ot procedure for making the entire bonnetframe, and have stated that such frames are made in three parts-viz., the front, 'the band, and the tip- I do not wish to be understood as limiting my claim of invention to the making of such frames entire, as it will be obvious that the crown, consisting of the band and of a bonnet-frame, may be thus formed, and

Y then a front or rim made in any other manner added thereto. Nor do I wish to be understood as limiting m'y claim of invention to the making of the crown in two parts-viz., the band and the tipgnor to the making of the entire frame in three separate parts-viz., the tip, the band, and the front-and then uniting them, as the entire crown or the entire frame may be made in one piece of two separate thicknesses, united by heat and pressure in the act of imparting the required shape..

I am aware that prior to my said invention frames for ladies bonnets have been made of a single thickness of net pressed or molded into shape by heat and pressure; but in such cases the' required strength or stiffness was imparted to the fabric before forming the bonnetframe by dressing the net with a preparation of rice, such fabric being known in the trade by the appellation of rice lace, but such bonnet-frames were not only inferior to those made on my improved plan, but more expensive, by reason of the greater cost of the fabric employed; and I am also aware that prior to my invention bonnet-frames have in some instances been made of two thicknesses of cape net, by stretching them while in a moist state over a block of the required form and there securing them until dry, and then applying a sad-iron to the surface to smooth down the wrinkles or folds 5 but bonn et-frames so made were not only more expensive than `when made on my improved plan, but less nesses of the material known as buckram, but

in such cases the two thicknesses were not united in the act of forming the bonnet-frame, but in the piece, and so cut out/and formed into bonnets, and besides the fabric is very different from cape net. 1

I do not, therefore, wish to be understood as making claim, broadly, to the use of heated molds in making bonnet-frames, nor to the making of bonnet frames of two thicknesses of cape net or any other fabric; but

What l do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent in the manufacture of ladies7 bonnet-frames, is-

1. Making the tip of bonnet-frames of two separate thicknesses of the fabric known as cape net by subjecting the same while in a moist state to heat and pressure in metallicmolds of the required form to impart the required shape and effect the union of the two thicknesses at one and the same operation, substantially as described.

2. Making the crown of bonnet-frames of two separate thicknesses of the fabric known as cape net by subjecting the same while in a moist state to heat and pressure in metallic molds of the required form to impart the required shape and effect the union of the two thicknesses at one and the saine operation, substantially as described.

3. Making the entirebonnetframe of two separate thicknesses of the fabric known as vcape net by subjecting the same while in a moist state to heat and pressure in metallic molds ot' the required form to impart the required shape and effect the union of the two thicknesses at one and the saine operation, substantially as described.

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Witnesses:

JAMES D. StrnvnNsoN, ANDREW Dn LACY.

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