Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . Fig. 3444. Hat-Strftrlitfii: Machine. brought iutu till hat loijusteam arc iutroJuicJthrough the spindle tosoften the fur and ren-der it elastic. The rilware adjustable, to suitvarying sizes of hats. In Fig. 2444, thecone-bat is fitted overthe seiies of stretchers,which are surmountedby the block, and is car-ried up into the hollowformer, which is made ofradial
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . Fig. 3444. Hat-Strftrlitfii: Machine. brought iutu till hat loijusteam arc iutroJuicJthrough the spindle tosoften the fur and ren-der it elastic. The rilware adjustable, to suitvarying sizes of hats. In Fig. 2444, thecone-bat is fitted overthe seiies of stretchers,which are surmountedby the block, and is car-ried up into the hollowformer, which is made ofradial ribs, making thecrowu square, and leav-ing the brim in a conicalcrimped condition, soas to admit of beingstretched Hat by thehand process of block-ing. In an im))roved formof machine for this pur-pose, the cro\vn-stretch-ers have overlappingplates, so as to preventbreak of continuity ofthe former at this point Iplock. Jets of Fig. Hat-Stretrhinsr Machine when the parts are distended. This is also accom-plished by an india-rubber cap. When the brim-stretchers clamp the brim on arriving at a horizon-tal plane, they expand radially, drawing the bodyagainst the bamling-ring, stretching the brim cir-
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