An Improvement in Ironing, Finishing, and Drying Machines.
Year: 1890

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Ironing, Finishing, and Drying Machines.
1, HENRI CHARLES CHASLES, of 9, 11, and 13, Rue Friant, Paris, France, Engineer,
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:
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My invention relates to an improvement in machines for ironing finishing or drying
linen, fabrics, paper, etc. These machines usually consist of a polished heated surface
which is in direct contact with one side of the fabric, the other side of the fabric being
pressed against a bed or counterpart clothed or faced with felt, swanskin, cloth, or
other material. This clothing has the objection that it quickly loses its elasticity-and
porosity and consequently becomes bard and reduced in thickness. In the case of
swanskin wrapped round a cylinder there is consequently a diminution in diameter
which causes to bear imperfectly upon the concave ironing surface, and moreover
at the join there is a ridge or extra thickness which puts the cylinder out of truth and
renders the action of the machine imperfect. Lastly, this clothing absorbs a great
part of the vapor given off by the moistened fabric during its passage through the
machine so that the operation becomes defective.
To obviate the above objections, the invention consists in the combination, with the
cylinder, of a metallic or other brush-like clothing preferably such as the card clothing
used in machines for carding cotton.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings illustrating the application
of the present invention to a special form of machine forming the subject of another
application for Letters Patent of even date herewith.
Around the cylinder A of the machine I wind, preferably in spiral form, a strip or
fillet of card clothing having dents made of steel, tinned iron, brass or other wire
or other material, of greater or less length and either straight or bent as shewn. If,
for example, a card clothing having bent dents be used the cylinder would rotate in
the opposite direction to that in which it would run if used for carding, that is to say
the rotation of the cylinder would tend to lay the dents and not to raise them. In
this manner I obtain a resilient non-absorbent clothing, whereby the operation of
ironing or finishing can be carried on continuously, more especially when an exhauster
is used for carrying off the vapor.
In some cases it is preferred to cover the card clothing with linen or other fabric in
order to prevent the points of the card teeth from coming in frictional contact with
the heated metallic ironing surface, as well as to ensure the more perfect action of the
exhauster. It is also preferred to provide stop rings a, formed by winding a narrow
strip of felt around the cylinder several times upon itself, at the ends of the card
clothing in order to prevent access of air thereat.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is ;
The combination, with the cylinder of an ironing, finishing, or drying, machine, of
a metallic or other brush clothing, particularly card clothing, substantially as and for
the purpose described.
Dated this 11th day of April 1890.
H. C. CHASLES.
By A. M. & Win. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Patent Agents.