Patent ID: 6497060
Filing Date: 2002-12-24
Classification: D06F

Abstract:
Apparatus for pressing a shirt cuff and a pleated portion of a sleeve adjacent the shirt cuff comprising a lower buck and an upper pressing head, said buck and said head having cooperating arch-shaped pressing surfaces for pressing a cuff dressed on said buck upon mating closure of said buck and said head, an auxiliary buck mounted adjacent and extending forwardly of said lower buck to permit the pleated portion of the sleeve to be dressed thereon, an auxiliary pressing head mounted adjacent and extending forwardly of said upper head so as to lie in operative relationship with said auxiliary buck and the pleated portion dressed thereon upon closure of said lower buck and said upper head, actuating means holding said auxiliary pressing head in a retracted non-pressing position until said lower buck and said upper head are closed and thereafter moving said auxiliary pressing head toward said auxiliary buck to press the pleated portion dressed thereon.