Patent GB-605103-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to pressers and stretchers for trousers or other garments or articles
IPC: A47G25/72
Filed: 1945-12-14
Abstract: 605,103. Trouser presses and stretchers. READ, P. F. Dec. 14, 1945, No. 33881. [Class 141] In a trouser press and stretcher provided with a detachable footpiece which may be engaged with the lower end of the press to hold it in a vertical position, feet 11 and 12, braced together by rods 13 and 14, are secured to the press and stretcher by two spring rods 23, 24, the rod 23 engaging with a recess 19 in foot 11, then with a recess 17 in the rearwardly directed flange 15 of an angle iron 3 secured to the press at the same side and finally with a notch 22 in the lower end of the rearwardly directed flange 16 of angle iron 4 secured to the press at the other side, the rod 24 being similarly engaged with foot 12 and angle irons 4, 3. The front clamping board 1 has secured to its lower edge 25 a batten 26 through which it is hinged to the rear clamping board by means of a spring rod 29 which bears within the lower end of a pair of springs 30, 31, secured to the back of the rear clamping board 2, and to a cuff board 32 and by which the latter is urged forwardly towards board 1 and inclined relatively to board 2 when the press is open. Above the rear clamping board 2 is mounted a stretching board 48 having a housing 49 for a curved spring rod 50 with downwardly extending limbs 51. 52. A curved spring rod 55, secured at 60 and 60<1>, to the rear of clamping board 2, has ends 53. 54, which may be provided with rollers 56, 57 which act on the limbs 51, 52 to press the stretching board forwards. Cam-shaped operating levers 36 and 37, extending forwardly and co-operating with rollers 38 which project frcm opposite sides of front clamping board 1, are connected to a curved rod 35 extending transversely across the back of the rear clamping board 2, over longitudinally extending curved, metal, spring rods 33, 34. Each roller 38 is mounted on a spindle through the medium of a spring ring which engages with registering annular grooves in the spindle and roller. Alternatively, the roller is provided with an under-cut recess at the end of its bore, into which a spindle having a conically-drilled recess is driven, the drilled end being thus splayed outwardly in the recess. In a modification of the stretcher board, the curved spring rod 50 is hinged to the rear clamping board by means of the arms 51, 52 acting on the connecting rod of the Qperating levers. In a modified form of cuff board, two blocks or metal pressings bear against the rear face of the rear clamping board and are attached to the back of the cuff board, their lower ends bearing on a spring rod to which the batten 26 is hinged. The ends of this spring rod and the ends of two further, substantially parallel spring rods located above the first one, engage in the angle irons. To upstanding side members 73, 74 of the clamping board 2, a transverse member 75 is secured in which are slidably mounted hangers 76, 77 for other garments. The Provisional Specification states that the spring rods 23 and 24 may be replaced by blade springs mounted in suitably shaped boxes.