Content: Written on border: "1891" Printed on border: "Blocking. Fig. 2303 represents the Eickemeyer hand hat-blocking machine, which operates as follows: a hat previously stretched on the tip, side-crown, and brim is clamped on the outer edge and expanded to the desired size. Thirty-six clamping tongs are pivoted to the top plate, in an oval line around the block, and these are attached to the foot-lever so as to move outward from the centre when the lever is depressed." Includes additional text.
Source Note: Appleton''s cyclopedia of applied mechanics : a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts. (New York: Appleton, 1883) Benjamin, Park (1849-1922), Editor.

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NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17212433
Barcode: 33333159377114
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): bef1d030-c552-012f-3fe3-58d385a7bc34

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1883

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Hat-making machinery" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1883. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bef1d030-c552-012f-3fe3-58d385a7bc34

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