Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Apr., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Jan., 1900—Accepted, 3rd Feb., 1900
We, ARTHUR CHARLES ADOLPH HUTTON, of The Tohpaca Trading Company,
6, Philip Lane, and ROBERT HODGES BISHOP, Manufacturer, of 257, High Holborn,
both in the County of London, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
:-
Our invention has for its main object to provide a combined stretcher and press
for trousers and other garments whereby the garment can very readily and con-
veniently be more or less tightly stretched and while under tension be clamped in
the press.
A varied number of articles can, if desired, be pressed in our improved appa-
ratus, while the amount of pressure allowed to remain upon the articles can be
varied to suit the particular requirements of the case.
In making a clothes-press according to our said invention, we provide a base-
board which has a metal upright at or near each end of the same at one side
thereof. These uprights have a portion bent at right angles to the side of the
board, and in this part of each upright is secured the pivot-pin of a pressing-
lever. At or near each end of the board on the opposite side thereof uprights
are provided opposite to those before mentioned, and these are provided with a
series of ratchet-shaped teeth on their one side.
A second or pressing board is arranged above the base-board, and between
these two boards the article or articles to be pressed are placed. This pressing
board is provided with springs, for example bow-shaped springs or spiral springs,
in such a position that they are operated upon at the centre by the said pressing
levers.
The said pressing levers are pivoted to the first mentioned uprights and are
bent so that they have a bearing on the centre of the springs on the top or pressing
board, the said levers being provided with handles so that, with the pivot in the
upright as a fulcrum, a large amount of pressure can be brought to bear
upon ach of the said springs and through the said spring upon
the top board. The said levers are, moreover, so shaped that they can engage
with the ratchet-shaped teeth of the aforesaid uprights.
When the levers are sufficiently depressed, they are retained in position,
by causing them to engage in the ratchet-shaped teeth on the uprights at the
opposite side of the guard. The springs are used to evenly distribute the pressure
of the levers.
We find it advantageous to stretch the trousers or other garments and to keep
them so stretched while they are being clamped in the press. For this purpose
we combine, with the press, a suitable stretcher arranged at one end thereof,
whereby, after the garment has been clamped in the press at the other end thereof,
the said garment can be stretched and kept in that condition during the clamping
of the same in the press at the end thereof next the stretcher. We prefer to

page_text: use a stretcher comprising a clamp for fastening upon the garment in the usual
manner at a suitable distance from one end thereof, and a screw-rod which is
suitably attached to the top board or the base of the press and works in a tapped
hole or nut in a lug on the said clamp, a suitable handle being provided for
turning the said screw-rod to move the said clamp away from the press and thus
stretch the garment. We can, however, use any other suitable form of stretcher
combined with our press in the manner above mentioned.
Dat the
1
J
1000
D. YOUNG & Co.,
11 & 12, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants,
improvements in Apparatus for Pressing and Stretching Clothes.
We, ARTHUR CHARLES ADOLPH HUTTON, of The Tohpaca Trading Company,
6, Philip Lane, and ROBERT HODGES BISHOP, Manufacturer, of 257, High Holborn,
both in the County of London, 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 has for its object to provide a combined stretcher and press
for trousers and other garments whereby the garment can very readily and con-
veniently be more or less tightly stretched and while under tension be clamped in
the press.
According to our said invention, we provide a base board which has a metal
upright at or near each end of the same, at one side thereof, to which is secured
the pivot-pin of a pressing lever. At or near each end of the board, on the oppo-
site side thereof uprights are provided opposite to those before mentioned, and
these are provided with a series of ratchet-shaped teeth on their one side.
A second or pressing board is arranged above the base-board, and between
these two boards the article or articles to be pressed are placed. This pressing
board is provided with springs, for example how-shaped springs or spiral springs,
in such a position that they are operated upon at the centre by the said pressing
levers.
The said pressing levers are provided with handles so that, with the pivot in
the upright as a fulcrum, a large amount of pressure can be brought to bear
upon each of the said springs and through the said spring upon the top board.
When the levers are sufficiently depressed, they are retained in position
by causing them to engage in the ratchet-shaped teeth on the uprights at the
opposite side of the board.
We combine, with the press, a suitable stretcher arranged at one end thereof,
whereby, after the garment has been clamped in the press, at the other end thereof,
the said garment can be stretched and kept in that condition during the clamping
of the same in the press at the end thereof next the stretcher. We prefer to
use a stretcher comprising a clamp for fastening on the garment in the usual
manner at a suitable distance from one end thereof, and a screw-rod which is
suitably attached to the top board or the base of the press and works in a tapped
hole or nut in a lug on the said clamp, a suitable handle being provided for
turning the said screw-rod to move the said clamp away from the press and thus
stretch the garment.
In the accompanying drawing we have shown how our said invention can he
conveniently and advantageously carried into practice,

page_text: Figure 1 is a plan, and
Figure 2 is an end elevation of our improved combined press and stretcher, and
Figure 3 is a side view of the same showing the parts in the positions which
they occupy after a garment has been partly clamped therein and stretched in
readiness for the final clamping thereof.
The base-board a of the press has a metal upright b at or near each end of the
same, at one side thereof. These uprights 6 are bent so that a part thereof is at
right angles to the side of the board, and in this part of each upright is
secured the pivot-pin.c of a bent pressing-lever d. At or near each end of the
board, on the opposite side thereof, uprights are provided opposite to those
before mentioned, and these are provided, on one side, with a series of ratchet-
shaped teeth f.
A second or pressing board 7 is arranged above the base-board a. and between
these two boards the article or articles to be pressed are placed. This pressing
board is provided with springs h, for example, bow-shaped springs or spiral
springs, to evenly distribute the pressure of the levers. These springs are in
such a position that they are operated upon at the centre by the pressing-levers d.
The pressing-levers are bent so that they have a bearing on the centre of
the springs on the top or pressing board g. the levers d being provided with
handles & so that, with the pivote in the upright b as a fulcrum, a large amount of
pressure can be brought to bear upon each of the springs h, and through the
said springs, upon the top board g.
The said levers are, moreover, towards the handle thereof, somewhat twisted
and provided with a bevelled portion so that they will have a tendency to
spring beneath the ratchet-shaped teeth f of the racks e.
When the levers are sufficiently depressed, they are retained in position.
by causing them to engage with one or other of the teeth of the racks e.
For stretching the trousers or other garments, and keeping them so stretched
while they are being clamped in the press, we combine, with one of the boards
of the press, at one end thereof, a suitable stretcher such, for example, as the
clamp for fixing to the garment and the screw-rod m which is attached to or
bears against a shoulder on the top board g of the press and works in a tapped
hole or nut in a lug on the said clamp 7, a suitable handle being provided
for turning the said screw-rod m to move the clamp away from the press and
thus stretch the garment.
By these means, after the garment has been clamped in the press at one end
thereof, the said garment can be stretched as shown in Figure 3, and kept in
that condition during the final clamping of the same in the press at the end
thereof next the stretcher.
We can, however, use any other suitable form of stretcher combined with our
press in the manner above described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
(1) A press comprising a base board and a pressing board, and provided with
a stretching device which supports a clamp whereby the article to be pressed
can be subjected to a preliminary stretching before it is finally clamped in the
press, substantially as described.
(2) A press in which the article to be pressed is placed between a base board
and a pressing board to which pressure is applied by means of a bent or curved
lever adapted to bear centrally upon a spring on the top of the said pressing
board, said bent or curved lever being pivoted to an upright at one side of the base
board and being suitable shaped to engaged with the teeth of a rack formed upon
an upright at the other side of the said base board, substantially as hereinbefore
described,

page_text: (3) The improved pressing and stretching apparatus constructed substantially
as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying drawing for the
purposes specified.
Dated 2nd day of January 1900.
D. YOUNG & Co.,
11 & 12; Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.