Improved Apparatus for the Drying, Ironing, or Calendering of Garments, Cloth, or other Fabrics.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 15th Aug., 1894-Accepted, 16th Nov., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for the Drying, Ironing, or Calendering of
Garments, Cloth, or other Fabrics.
GEORGE CHUMLEY 163 Upper Richmond Road Putney, S.W. Master Tailor
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Such apparatus consists essentially of an enclosed chamber or box which may be
supported on a stand or legs or a number of such chambers may be arranged
continuously as a table or bench or in groups.
The top and one or more sides of such chamber or box are perforated with holes
to allow of the ingress of air or steam from the article drying or being artificially
dried by ironing or calendering on the perforated surfaces. At the back, bottom
or side of the chamber is a pipe communicating with it and also communicating
with the exhaust chamber of a fan or other mechanical appliance calculated to
induce a current of air to pass through the perforations into aud through the box
or chamber to the outer air or to the flue of a chimney.
On the bottom of the inner surface of the box or chamber I construct grooves to
carry away the moisture of condensation which may accumulate inside the chamber,
such grooves lead into each other and into a duct or pipe conveying the water of
condensation to a suitable vessel the end of the pipe being taken below an
established water level in the vessel to prevent air entering at the end of
the pipe.
By these means the steam vapor and fumes arising from the ironing, drying, or
calendering of fabrics or garments on the perforated surfaces is conveyed away
from the room in which the operations are being carried on and such operations are
thereby carried on under more healthy and sanitary conditions.
Dated this 16th day of November 1893.
GEORGE CHUMLEY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for the Drying, Ironing, or Calendering of
Garments, Cloth, or other Fabrics.
I, GEORGE CHUMLEY of 163 Upper Richmond Road Putney in the County of
Surrey Master Tailor 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 :-
Fig. 1 is a cross section Fig. 2 a longitudinal section and Fig. 3 a perspective
view of such apparatus which consists essentially of an enclosed chamber or box A
which may be supported on a stand or legs B or a number of such chambers may
be arranged continuously as a table or bench or in groups. The top C and one or
more sides D of such chamber or box are perforated with holes to allow of the
ingress of air or steam from the article drying or being artificially dried by ironing
or calendering on the perforated surfaces. At the back bottom or side of the
chamber is a pipe E communicating with the exhaust chamber of a fan or other
mechanical appliance calculated to induce a current of air to pass through the
perforations into and through the box or chamber to the outer air or to the flue of
a chimney. On the bottom of the inner surface of the box or chamber I construct
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page_text: grooves F to carry away the moisture of condensation which may accumulate
inside the chamber. Such grooves lead-into each other and into a duct or pipe G
conveying the water of condensation to a suitable vessel H the end of the pipe
being taken below an established water level 1 in the vessel to prevent air entering
at the end of the pipe.
Or, if the operations of ironing or calendering are carried on in a room or place
where there is a natural draught or current of air it is sufficient for the ironing or
calendering to be done on the perforated surfaces as described without such surfaces
being connected with an exhaust chamber.
By these means the steam vapour and fumes arising from the ironing drying or
calendering of fabrics or garments on the perforated surfaces is conveyed away
from the room in which the operations are being carried on and such operations
are thereby carried on under more healthy and sanitary conditions.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. An improved apparatus for the drying ironing or calendering of garments
cloth or other fabrics consisting of a perforated surface connected with an exhaust
chamber substantially as described or not so connected.
Dated this Fifteenth day of August 1894.
GEORGE CHUMLEY.