US269397A - Machine for sizing - Google Patents

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MACHINE FOR SIZING, SOALDING, FULLING, AND WASHING HAT BODIES AND OTHER FELTABLE FABRICS.

No. 269,397. Patented Dec.'19 1882.

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MACHINE FOR SIZING, SGALDING, FULLING, AND WASHING HAT BODIES AND OTHER FELTABLB FABRICS.

No. 269,397. Patented Dec. 19, 1882.

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NITED STATES PATENT HENRY E. EARLE, OF DANBURY, ASSIGNOR OF THREE-FOURTHS TO JOSEPH R. RAYMOND, WILLIAM T. RAYMOND, AND THOMAS I. RAYMOND, ALL

O F NORWALK, CONNECTICUT.

MACHINE FOR SIZING, SCALDING, FULLING, AND WASHING HAT-BODIES AND OTHER FELTABLE FABRICS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,397, dated December 19, 1882. I Application filed May 18, 1882. (No model.)

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I. HENRY E. EARLE, a citzen of the United States, residing at Danbury, in the county of Fairtleld and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new'and useful Improvements in Machines for Sizing, scalding, Falling, and Washing Hat-Bodies and other Fabrics; and 1 do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Myinvention relates to improvements in machines for sizing, scalding, falling, and washing hat-bodies and other felt-able fabrics; and the objectis to perfect machines of this class, so that they will accomplish this felting in a more thorough and eflicient manner, and more economically and cheaply than the machine now in general use.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of certain parts of such machines, as will be more fully'described hereinafter, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon. I

Like letters refer to like parts in the several figures of the drawings, in which- Figure-1 represents a longitudinal vertical section of my improved machine. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section on line a; :r of Fig.1.

In the drawings, A is a suitable frame, having in its upper part a trough or receptacle, a, in which hot or cold water, with propersizing, is placed during the operation of sizing, scalding, fulling, and washing the felting material of which the hat-bodies or other fabric which it is desired to manufactureis composed. In this receptacle is arranged a corrugated or grooved bed plate or piece, B, which maybe made movable or stationary and adjustable, if desired. Above this bed-plate is secured theframe-piece C,in grooveseof which the reciprocatingfeltingrubber D is moved backward and forward by means of a pair of pitmen or connecting links, d. The rubber is provided with strips to roughen its surface. The strips or corrugations on the rubber D are made of varying depth or size, so as to move the material backward and forward in a better manner than when made of 0 uniform size, as is ordinarily done, and so as to perform an action similar to the movements of the knuckles of the hand. These links are attached to cranks e on the shaft f, jourualed in suitable hearings on the sides of the 5 frame. They are made adjustable by means of bolts and slots gin the cranks 0, so as to im part more or less throw or movement to the rubber D. This gives the hat-body or other article to beoperated upon a rolling motion backward and torwa-rd,which felt-s,sealds.'and hardens it. On the shaftfare secured a tight and loose pulley, E, by which motion is imparted to said shaft. To the sides of the rubber are secured cross-heads i, which are mova- 6-5 ble up and down in guides k, secured to the upright pieces I, attached to the frame A. To the upper ends of the cross-heads i are bolted the bent or curved ends of the two connectingrods F,.which are preferably curved toward 7o their lower ends, and are attached to the ends of the pivoted levers m, which are united at their outer ends by means of a foot-treadle, a. By pressing down upon this tr'eadle the rubber C is raised high enough above the corrugated 7 bed-piece, as shownin Fig. 1 by dotted lines, to place the hat-body or other fabric, which is uusally wrapped in a piece of cloth, between thcm,or to remove it when finished. By means of the treadle the necessary or desired amount 8:; of pressure is also imparted to the fabric to be 1 felted, and according to the size of the roll to be operated upon. A wedge-piece, 0, moving in guides secured to tloor and operated by a rod connected to a lever, p, can be moved in or out, and the amount of pressure is thereby regulated when the rods F come in contact with the wedge-piece.

The frame-piece or rubber, as well as the other parts of the machine, may be made of metal, 0 wood, or any other suitable material, and the machine may be made ofvlarger or smaller capacity, as desired.

The advantages of my improvements will be readily appreciated by those skilled in the art; 5

and some of them are, that the pressure upon the article to be felted can be regulated to any desired degree, an d excessive pressure can also be prevented by meansof the adjustable wedgepiece; the article can be easily inserted in lace between the bed-plate and rubber and readily removed; the amount of movement of the rubber can be regulated by fie slotted cranks with the bolts; the parts are not liable to get out of order; and the whole machine is much simpler and more economical than any machine to my knowledge in use.

Having thus described myinventiqmwhatl claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. The combination of the connecting-rods and treadle with an adjustable wedge-piece for limiting and regulating the movement of the connecting-rods and rubber, and thereby the pressure upon the article, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of felting bed-plate B, having roughened surface, and reciprocating rubber D, provided with cross-heads i, movable in guides k by means of connecting-rods F and treadle m n, and means, substantially as described, for imparting a reciprocating motion to the rubber, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. A machine for sizing, scalding, fnlling, and washing hat-bodies and other fabrics for felting, consisting of a frame, A, bed-plate B, having roughened surface, the reciprocating rubber D, frame-piece (3, provided with cross-heads 1', moving in guides k and adjusted by connecting-rods d, and treadle m n. in combination with links d, cranks e, shaftf, and pulleys E, all arranged substantially as shown, and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereofIaffix my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

HENRY E. EARLE.

- W'itnesses:

G. W. MoLEAr L. F. KELEHER.

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