Mari A. Cuming and Judson Knight, New York city.--This is a machine
for binding hats, felt skirts, and similar articles, by a uniform and
parallel pressure on the rims, and by facilitating the applying and
taking off of the articles from the machine, and accomplishing the
cutting of the binding or braid and wire in a reliable and improved
manner. Pressure rollers attach the binding and the wire, if one is
required, in connection with a grooved gage that is supported on a
seat of the shaft of the lower pressure roller. The wire is guided by
annular recesses or chamferings at the rear circumference of the
pressure rollers and the groove of the gage. The gage is so connected
to its seat that it may be turned and another guide groove of the same
be exposed to face the pressure rollers, so as to adapt the same for a
variety of work.
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