United States v. Accurate Millinery Co.

The issue before us concerns the proper classification of imported fur felt hoods which are shapes intended for ultimate use in the manufacture of hats.

The hoods are produced by placing a weighted amount of fur sufficient to make one article in the chamber of an apparatus, from which it is blown into a box-like closed space containing a perforated metal cone, under which there is a suction arrangement in order that air may be drawn through the perforations. As the fur is projected into the box containing the metal cone, which is kept revolving, it settles thereon. During that process hot…