Improvements in Machines for Ironing Shirt Fronts and other Articles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Jan., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 25th Aug., 1898-Accepted, 22nd Oct., 1898
Improvements in Machines for Ironing Shirt Fronts and other
Articles.
I, SARKIS HAROUTIOUN SEKIAN, of Green Street, Ladybarn, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Laundryman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates primarily to machines for ironing shift fronts but in part
may be adapted for ironing collars or other articles.
It is designed to iron one side or half of a shirt front at a time, or both sides
or halves of the front at the same time without one side overlapping the other.
Or the right hand side of the front of one shirt and the left side of the front of
another shirt at the same time.
The table of the machine is constructed in two parts right and left hand shaped
to correspond with the shape of the shirt front. The two parts may be placed
together in any convenient way either with the insides together or with what would
correspond to the present outsides placed together a sufficient space being left
between them to satisfactorily manipulate the shirts.
The table is placed or mounted to provide a space or opening underneath to
receive the folds or material of the shirt not being ironed.
Instead of severing the table wholly or making it wholly of two parts, I may
form it with a slot or opening for part of the length to permit of the seam or joint
at the bottom of the vent in the shirt front being turned down and thus allow
of the shirt front being ironed without one half overlapping on to the other half.
For ironing collars an additional piece may be added to the inner side of the
table extending any desired distance beyond the part that is shaped to receive
the front.
Any addition may be made to the table of any shape for a useful purpose or
otherwise while it remains of such a shape at one side as to receive the half of the
shirt front.
Dated this 19th day of Ja
1000
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.
Improvements in Machines for Ironing Shirt Fronts and other
Articles.
I, SARKIS HAROUTIOUN SEKIAN, of Dickinson Road, Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Laundryman, formerly of Green Street, Ladybarn, Manchester,
aforesaid, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
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page_text: same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
This invention relates primarily to machines for ironing shift fronts but in part
may be adapted for ironing collars or other articlés.
It is designed to iron one side or half of a shirt front at a time, or both sides
or halves of the front at the same time without one side overlapping the other.
Or the right hand side of the front of one shirt and the left side of the front of
another shirt at the same time.
The invention consists essentially in constructing the ironing board or the table
of the machine upon which the shirt front or article to be ironed is placed of such
a shape as to present a space at the lower edge or corner which will allow of the
seam or joint of the opening of the shirt front to pass below the surface of
the board and prevent the pressure of the ironing roller upon it.
It will be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings in which
are illustrated several modifications of the invention.
Fig. 1, is a plan of the ironing machine showing my invention applied thereto.
Fig. 2. Plan of one part or half of the ironing board or table when divided
into two separate parts.
Fig. 3. Plan of the other part or half of ironing board or table corresponding
with Fig. 2 but showing a slight modification in construction.
Fig. 4. Side or front elevation of Fig. 2.
Fig. 5. Side or front elevation showing a modification in the form of base upon
which the ironing board or table or surface is mounted, the top being similar to
Fig. 3.
Fig. 6. Plan of Fig. 5.
Fig. 7. Plan showing another modification in the shape of the board or table top.
Fig. 8. Plan showing another modification in construction whereby one board
or table may be utilized for both right and left hand.
Fig. 9. Transverse section of same on line - Fig. 8.
Fig. 10. Front or side elevation of Fig. 8.
Fig. 11. Plan showing another modified shape of board or table top.
Fig. 12. Side or front elevation of Fig. 11.
Fig. 13. Plan showing modification of board or table top in which both sides of
opening are cut in strips.
Fig. 14. Plan of another modification of board or table top in which one side of
the opening is inclined to the other.
Fig. 15. Plan of another modification.
Fig. 16. Plan of a further modification showing two neck holes at one end of
the board or table and the inclined opening at the other.
As the invention comprises a space or opening a or a¹ at one end of the board or
table A it is evident that such space may be constructed in any suitable or desirable
way and of any convenient or suitable shape.
In Figs. 1 to 4 the board or table A is constructed in two parts one right
hand and the other left and are used in pairs preferably placed on the machine in
the relative positions shown in Fig. 1 and Figs. 2 and 3 taken together with the
space a between them. They may as a matter of course be placed in any other
relative position and either longitudinally or transversely of the machine.
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They are made loose and portable and readily removable as they are required in
different positions in the machine for different methods or processes of ironing or
finishing the fabrics. Thus for laying the starch evenly over the surface of the
shirts in the operation termed "blocking," the boards or tables are preferably
placed transversely of the machine and for finally finishing or glossing the shirt
front the boards or tables are placed longitudinally of the machine as illustrated
in Fig. 1.
At the inner corner of one or both of the boards or tables shown in Figs. 1 to 8
I cut out or form a space a of either of the shapes shown or any other convenient
or suitable shape to receive, the seam or joint at the bottom of the vent of the

page_text: shirt front and to permit of shirts of varying lengths being ironed upon the same
table. One half or side of the shirt front is ironed on one part of the
table and the other side ironed on the other part of the table two shirts being
under operation at the same time.
In Figs. 8, 9 and 10 an arangement of board or table is shown which answers
both right and left hand the table top A being hinged to the base B and capable
of being reversed from side to side as required.
In the modifications shown in Fig. 11 and the remaining figs. instead of severing
the board or table wholly or making it wholly of two parts the table A for ironing
both sides of the shirt is made in one piece with the slot or opening at one end
to permit of the seam or joint at the bottom edge of the vent of the shirt front
being turned down or inwards and thus allow of one half or side of the shirt front
being ironed without one edge overlapping the other edge thereof.
In Fig. 16 a further modification is shown in which two neck holes a² are shown
if it should be found desirable to extend the board or table in that way to receive
both sides of the shirt front at one time without overlapping at the edges. The
opening a may be of the shape shown in full or in dotted lines or any other
convenient shape such as illustrated in the other figs.
The opening slot or vent a in any of the modifications of the table may be of
any suitable shape such as shown or any modification thereof.
It will be evident that the board or table A may be extended to any desired
extent or shape at either side for any special purpose such as for ironing collars
cuffs or the like without departing from the characteristic feature of my invention.
The board or table A is in every instance supported on a base B with space or
opening underneath to receive the folds or material of the body of the shirt to
which the front is attached.
The board or table A is covered with a piece 1) of felting, flannel or other
soft material suitable for ironing upon.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is: -
1. In machines for ironing shirt fronts a board or table constructed in two parts
with a space slot or opening to permit of the seam or joint at the base of the vent
being turned under for the purpose of ironing the front without the edges over-
lapping substantially as described.
2. A board or table for ironing machines constructed in two parts left and right
hand with a space (such as a) cut out of one or both to adjust them to shirts of
different sizes substantially as and for the purpose described.
3. A board or table for ironing machines constructed of one part hinged or
pivoted to a base to be used as either right or left hand for either side of the shirt
front substantially as described and shown.
4. An ironing board or table constructed arranged or shaped substantially as
described and shown in either of the figs. of the drawings or any modification
thereof.
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