Improvements in Machines for Pressing and Ironing Cloth and other Fabrics.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 14th May, 1886.
Complete Left, 14th Feb., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 15th Mar., 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Pressing and Ironing Cloth and
other Fabrics.
We, Wolf Bash, 74 Coltart Road, Lock and Safe Manufacturer, MOSES ABRAHAM
PRENSLAN, 83 Great George Street, Dentist, both of Liverpool, and SAMUEL BASH of
157 Lloyd Street, Greenheys, Manchester, Machinist do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention applies especially to machines such as are described in the specification
of a former Patent granted to two of us vizt. Wolf Bash and Moses Abrahain Prenslan
No. 2811 in the year 1885 and in which in connection with a table on which the work is
carried a vertical pillar is provided; such pillar having at its upper end an arm which can
turn about the pillar, which projects also over the table and carries a slide or carriage
moveable along the arm from which carriage the iron is suspended; in which machines
also the pillar is moveable vertically by a treadle to carry the iron to and from its
work.
Our first improvement relates to the way of connecting the pillar with the framing
of the machine. In place of (as is described in our said former specification) jointing
the said pillar to short levers or links passing to brackets fixed to the back frame of
the machine, we now employ long levers extending beneath the table from back to
front and at the front jointed to brackets fixed to the front frame.
We employ as
before horns fixed to the back framing to control the pillar laterally but leaving it frec
to move vertically.
Our second improvement relates to the arrangement for rendering the revolving arm
fast upon the upper end of the vertical pillar when it is required to be so held. We
fix a disc or plate upon the pillar immediately beneath the arm and in this disc we form
a series of holes. Upon the arm we provide a strong bolt moveable vertically. It has a
knob or handle on its upper end. To set the arm free the bolt is lifted and retained by
a suitable catch. When it is required that the arm should be fast on the pillar as is
the case when the work is carried beneath the iron by the movement of the table, then
the bolt is dropped and made to engage with one of the holes in the disc which the
pillar carries.

page_text: Our third improvement relates to the method of connecting the vertical stem carrying
the iron with the slide or carriage which is mounted upon and travels along the revolving
arm. As in our former specification the arm is sloited and the wheels supporting the
carriage run in this slot. We now provide two lugs upon the side of the carriage and
the vertical stem to carry the iron, passes through these lugs and also through a loose
eye having a stem which extends through the carriage and the slot in the arm and
receives a lock nut on the further side. The nut is formed with a convenient handle
and when the nut is slackened the stem is able to pass freely through the lugs and
through the eye, but when it is tightened the eye locks the stem in any position to
which it may have been brought. The stem has a knob or handle at its upper end for
lifting or lowering the stem to the position required.
Our fourth improvement relates to the method of connecting the iron with the lower
end of the vertical stem. A socket is here formed in the stem and this receives a
vertical pin capable of turning freely in it, but by a locking screw it can be set fast
whenever required. The pin at its lower end is connected by a hinge like joint and a
horizontal joint pin to an intermediate piece and this intermediate piece by another
hinge like joint immediately below the first, but with the joint pin at right angles is
connected with the iron. These joints admit of movement such that the face of the
iron can be inclined every way to apply itself fairly to the work whatever irregularities
there may be in the thickness, and the iron can also be rotated when required about a
vertical axis or locked fast to prevent such movement by means of the locking screw
already referred to.
Our fifth improvement relates to the arrangement of the table which is such that the
table may be traversed to and fro by the operator using either his right or his left hand
for the purpose as may be most convenient.
The table is supported by rollers on a pair of parallel axes on one of these is a
barrel and a cord is passed around it. The cord after passing over guide pulleys is
connected with the ends of the table. The novel feature is that the axes carrying the
rollers are furnished with cranks coupled by a connecting rod so that either being
turned by means of a crank handle the table is traversed.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: other Fabrics.
We, WOLF BASH, 74 Coltart Road, Lock and Safe Manufacturer, MOSES ABRAHAM
PRENSLAN, 83 Great George Street, Dentist, both of Liverpool, and SAMUEL BASH
of 157 Lloyd Street, Greenheys, Manchester, Machinist, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Our Invention applies especially to machines such as are described in the Specification
of a former Patent granted to two of us vizt. Wolf Bash and Moses Abraham Prenslan
No. 2311 in the year 1885 and in which in connection with a table on which the work
is carried a vertical pillar is provided; such pillar having at its upper end an arm
which can turn about the pillar, which projects also over the table and carries a slide
or carriage moveable along the arm from which carriage the iron is suspended; in which
machine also the pillar is moveable vertically by a treadle to carry the iron to and from
its work.
Our first improvement relates to the way of connecting the pillar with the framing
of the machine. In place of (as is described in our said former Specification) jointing
the said pillar to short levers or links passing to brackets fixed to the back frame of the
machine, we now employ long levers extending beneath the table from back to front and at
the front jointed to brackets fixed to the front frame. We employ as before horns fixed to
the back framing to control the pillar laterally but leaving it free to move vertically.
Our second improvement relates to the arrangement for rendering the revolving arm
fast upon the upper end of the vertical pillar when it is required to be so held. We
fix a disc or plate upon the pillar immediately beneath the arm and in this disc we form
a series of holes. Upon the arm we provide a strong bolt moveable vertically. It has
a knob or handle on its upper end. To set the arm free the bolt is lifted and retained
by a suitable catch. When it is required that the arm should be fast on the pillar as
is the case when the work is carried beneath the iron by the movement of the table,
then the bolt is dropped and made to engage with one of the holes in the disc which
the pillar carries.
Our third improvement relates to the method of connecting the vertical stem
carrying the iron with the slide or carriage which is mounted upon and travels along
the revolving arm. As in our former Specification the arm is slotted and the wheels
supporting the carriage run in this slot. We now provide two lugs upon the side of
the carriage and the vertical stem to carry the iron passes through these lugs and also
through a loose eye having a stem which extends through the carriage and the slot in
the arm and receives a lock nut on the further side. The nut is formed with a

page_text: convenient handle and when the nut is slackened the stem is able to pass freely through
the lugs and through the eye, but when it is tightened the eye locks the stem in any
position to which it may have been brought. The stem has a knob or handle at its
upper end for lifting or lowering the stein to the position required.
Our fourth improvement relates to the method of connecting the iron with the lower
end of the vertical stem. A socket is here formed in the stem and this receives a
vertical pin capable of turning freely in it but by a locking screw it can be set fast
whenever required. The pin at its lower end is connected by a hinge like joint and
a horizontal joint pin to an intermediate piece and this intermediate piece by another
hinge like joint immediately below the first but with the joint pin at right angles is
connected with the iron. These joints admit of movement such that the face of the
iron can be inclined every way to apply itself fairly to the work whatever irregularities
there may be in the thickness, and the iron can also be rotated when required about
a vertical axis or locked fast to prevent such movement by means of the locking screw
already referred to.
Our fifth improvement relates to the arrangement of the table which is such that the
table may be traversed to and fro by the operator using either his right or his left hand
for the purpose as may be most convenient.
The table is supported by rollers on a pair of parallel axes; on one of these is a
barrel and a cord is passed around it. The cord is connected with the ends of the
table. The novel feature is that the axes carrying the rollers are furnished with cranks
coupled by a connecting rod so that either being turned by means of a crank handle
the table is traversed.
In order that our said invention may be most fully understood and readily carried
into effect we will proceed to describe the drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a machine constructed in accordance with our
invention.
Figure 2 is an end elevation of the same.
Figure 3 is a plan with a portion of the table removed.
Figure 4 is a portion of the front elevation showing the modification according to
which two rotating arms are employed.
Figure 5 is an elevation showing a portion of the machine and indicating the way
in which we mount the iron when it is desired to work it at different elevations.
Figure 6 is a plan of the parts shewn by Figure 5.
Figures 7 and 8 are elevations shewing the way in which we connect the iron with
the stem by which it is operated.
Figure 9 is a plan of a portion of the parts shown in elevation by Figure 7.
a. a. is the frame of the machine, it carries two axes b. b. and fast upon these axes
are pulleys. 6. on these the table e, is supported. The table can be moved to and
fro, and it is controlled in its movements by the guide rails a. a. on the frame and the
ledges e on the under side of the table, 62, is a barrel on one of the axes b. A cord is
wound upon it and it is fixed to it at one point so that it cannot slip. The ends of this
cord pass to the extremities of the table. 33 are cranks on the axes b. b. and these
cranks are connected by a rod d which ensures that when one axis is turned the other
shall move with it. e is a handle for turning the axes b. b. It can be applied to the
square end of either of these axes and can be shifted from one to the other, so that
the table may receive its movement from one hand or the other of the operator as for the
moment may be most convenient. is a vertical pillar-it is jointed to the levers g. g.
and these have their fulcra g' ' near the front of the machine. The pillar is also
retained by horns or lugs h. h. projecting from the frame, and between these the pillar
is able to move vertically-i. i. are coiled springs attached by their upper ends to the
frame, and at their lower ends connected with the lower lever g. The springs are of
sufficient strength to raise the pillar and all the parts connected with it when they are
permitted to do so. is a treadle it is jointed to the back of the frame at E¹,
and a

page_text: link connects it with the lower lever a carrying the pillar f. is an arm mounted
on the top of the pillar and free to rotate thereon. The arm has sockets upon it
through which the bolt passes. This bolt engages with notches in a plate fixed
upon the head of the pillar and so the arm can whenever desired be locked fast
upon the pillar, Or the arm can at any time be immediately released and
moved around the pillar and when required fixed in another position. The bolt /
has a knob at its upper end by which it is lifted when it is desired to move the arm
around the pillar, and when it is required to lock the pillar the bolt is again allowed
to fall into one or other of the notches in the plate. m is a carriage which is able
to travel along the arm 7; it has two little wheels m¹ m¹ upon it, which are received
into a longitudinal slot or opening in the arm 1, and they run between an upper and the
lower rail.
In the machine shown by the Figures 1 2 and 3 the carriage has a socket on its under
side and in this there is fixed a stem n, terminating in a ball. Over the ball is a ring or
collar in which the stem is able to move freely but through which the ball cannot pass.
The collar n is connected with the iron by tap screws.
Thus the iron is connected by a
ball and socket or universal joint with the stem n. is the iron; a box iron of any
suitable construction heated by gas or otherwise may be employed. The iron is
furnished with a handle o¹ convenient for moving it over the work.
The work to be pressed or ironed is laid upon the table c. and the iron o is then
brought down upon with a suitable pressure by the foot operating upon the treadle k;
the iron is then caused to pass over the work, either by the movement of the table or
by the movement of the arm 1, around the pillar for by the movement of the carriage m
along the arm 1, or by all these movements combined as may be most convenient in
each particular case.
Figure 4 shows a portion of the machine similar in all respects to that previously
described except that upon the top of the pillar f two supporting arms 1, 1, are provided
and each carries parts m. n. o, as already described.
Figure 5 shows the arrangement which we employ when it is desirable that the iron
should be capable of being raised and lowered independently of the movement of the
arm 1, as well as in conjunction with it. The iron then may be set to work at different
levels as is requisite when the work has to be supported upon a sleeve board (or other
shaped support) placed upon the top of the table. The carriage m, in this case in place
of having a socket underneath, has Ings m² m². projecting from its sides and through
these lugs the stem n*, carrying the iron passes. This stem also passes through the
eye of an eye bolt p which projecting through the carriage to the other side, as is
clearly seen in Figure 6, and here it receives a lock nut provided with a handle.
When the lock nut is not screwed up tight upon the eye bolt p the stem n* can move
freely through the eye and the lugs mm²; but when the lock nut p¹ is screwed up
tightly, the stem n* is securely held in any position in which it may have been placed.
The stem may carry the iron at its lower end in the manner described in
reference to the preceding figures but preferably we provide it with a socket at its
lower end, and this socket receives within it another stem which is retained in the
socket by the end of a screw r, entering a garter groove in the stem. Thus the stem
can turn freely in the socket but cannot draw out from it; it can however be set fast
in the socket by means of the set screws which is provided with a convenient handle.
The screw s, is tightened when it it is desired to hold the iron so that it cannot turn
horizontally as it is moved over the work or as the work is carried beneath it by the
movement of the table. The lower end of the stem is forked and a pin connects
it with the intermediate piece t, which is free to turn about the pin and similarly the
piece by another pin at right angles to the first is jointed to lugs o² oª formed upon
the iron.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we

page_text: 1. The method of supporting the pillar by levers y passing beneath the table to the
front of the machine.
2. The method of connecting and disconnecting the arm 1, from the pillar ♬ by
means of a notched plate" and a bolt A.
3. The method of adjusting the iron o, by means of the stem n*, the lugs m²,
bolt and the lock nut p¹.
the eye
4. The method of connecting the iron o, with its stem by means of the stem ; the
lock screws; the intermediate piece, and horizontal joint pins at right angles to each
other.
5. The method of actuating the table; by connections with axes b. b. which can be
turned by a handle or handles e, and which are coupled by cranks 73 3 and a
connecting rod d.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicants.