Hat-napping Machine
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A short dictionary entry on the hat-napping machine, reproduced from Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary. It explains that a felted hat body is dipped in boiling water and its nap raised with a small hand-card, a process also called ruffing, and cites an 1837 English patent. A line drawing (Fig. 2436) shows a hat mold on a base with a lever press, hand crank wheel and water valve.
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- 1876
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- English
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