Patent GB-322331-A (GB)
Title: An attachment for pressing machines and pressing tables for conveying damp or dry pressing cloths over garments to prevent glossing whilst being pressed with hot irons
IPC: D06F71/32
Filed: 1928-11-26
Abstract: 322,331. Booth, T. H. Nov. 26, 1928. Damping-arrangements in ironing- presses.-Relates to a garment or like press comprising a press head 5, Fig. 2, which coacts with a stationary member 4 and which is carried by a bifurcated arm 7 pivoted at 8 to a swinging frame 2. The swinging frame is itself pivoted at 3 to a stationary frame 1 and is swung about its pivot by means of a handle 10 which is pivoted to the stationary frame and linked to the swinging frame so that the head can be brought forward to a position in which it is vertically over the stationary press member. The head is subsequently depressed to contact with the stationary member by means of a pedal 11 acting on the bifurcated arm 7. The damping means comprise a cloth 82 which is secured to a bar 83 and which passes over a positively rotated damping roller 76, its weighted free end hanging down behind the roller. When the press is open the bar 83 and roller are substantially adjacent, but means are provided whereby the initial closing movement of the press pushes the bar forward with respect to the roller thereby automatically stretching the cloth over the work on the stationary pressing member as shown, and means are also provided whereby the movement of the swinging frame rotates the damping roller and controls the supply of water thereto. The roller is rotated in contact with a pad 60, Fig. 6, supported on a perforated plate 59 in a trough 53 to which water is supplied by a pump-mechanism 20, 40, from a tank 13 in which the trough is supported. The trough is provided with depending lugs 61, 62, which rest on inclined projections 17, 21, on the inside of the tank, and with an actuating lever 63 whereby the trough can be moved to the left from the operative position shown, the projections 17, 21, causing the simultaneous lowering of the trough so as to withdraw the pad 60 from contact with the roller 76 when it is desired to operate the press without the damping means. A dry cloth may then be substituted for the damp cloth 82. The tank 13 in which the trough is supported is carried by the swinging frame 2 and is formed at one side with a stationary piston 40 having a longitudinal bore 44 communicating at its upper end through a pipe 41 with a bent-over pipe 48 and at its lower end with a perforated casing 20 having a closed bottom. The pipe 48 discharges into a pipe 58 formed in an extension 55 of the trough 53 and communicating therewith through a pipe 56. The casing 20 is reciprocated with respect to the stationary piston by the movement of the swing- ing frame 2 so that water is alternately drawn from the tank 13 and forced upwardly and through pipe 48'into the trough 53. The casing 20 is formed with an integral slide 34, Fig. 8, which works between guides 50, Figs. 1 and 8, supported by the tank 13 and is provided at its upper end with a roller 37, Figs. 2 and 8. A member 39, Figs. 2 and 5, is pivoted on a pin 105, Fig. 5, in the bifurcated end of a lever arm 106 which is pivoted at 107 to the stationary frame 1, and is releasably locked at 126 to a lever 124 pivoted at 125 to the swinging frame 2. The member 39 is provided with a slot 38 in which the roller 37 on the slide 34 works, and with rack teeth 81 which act on a gear wheel 80, Fig. 6, secured to the shaft of the damping roller 76. Movement of the member 39 consequent upon the swinging movement of the frame 2 therefore rotates the damping roller and effects the vertical reciprocation of the casing 20 to supply water to the trough 53. A lever arm 106 and releasable lock 126 therefor are provided at each end of the machine and work in unison. Each arm is provided with a bifurcated end in which a pin 105 is fixed, and on each pin, to one of which the member 39 is pivoted, a lug 104, Fig. 5, is pivoted. To each lug a rod 103 is secured, the front end of which is yieldingly connected to a plate 98, Fig. 6, provided with a lug 97 for travel along a rod 93 fixed to each side of the press head 5 by brackets 86. The brackets 113, 119, Fig. 2, supporting the ends of the bar 83 to which the damping cloth 82 is secured, are also yieldingly connected to the plates 98 so that the swinging movement of the frame 2 also effects, through the rods 103, plates 98 and brackets 113, 119, the forward and backward movement of the damping cloth relatively to the damping roller thereby spreading it over the work and removing it therefrom.