An Improved Stand and Apparatus in connection therewith for Use in Ironing.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Sept., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 11th May, 1895-Accepted, 31st Aug., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Stand and Apparatus in connection therewith for Use
in Ironing.
THOMAS HENRY SCHOOLING 2 Upper Tollington Park Stroud Green Road N.
Carpenter do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A stand for ironing sleeves collars cuffs coats shirts for preesing.
Ironing stand 10 inches high with iron bace 5 inches wide and 9 inches long.
Top flap nine inches long by three inches wide and half inches thick.
Fitted with boards of various sizes with moveable beds for ironing dress sleeves
and blouse sleeves to save creesing and general laundry work also for pressing
coats sleeves and trousers and all kinds of tailor pressing also for dress making
sleeves pressing.
Datahan 1
T. H. SCHOOLING,
2 Upper Tollington Park, Stroud Green Road.
VOMI LEIN DIUIFJCATION.
An Improved Stand and Apparatus in connection therewith for Use
in Ironing.
THOMAS HENRY SCHOOLING 95 Moray Road, Fonthill Road, Finsbury Park
Lonlon N. Carpenter late of No. 2 Upper Tollington Park, Stroud Green Road N.
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 :-
This invention relates to a new or improved stand and apparatus in connection
therewith for use in ironing.
In carrying the invention into effect I employ a metal stand of height required
and capable of being fitted with boards of various sizes and provided with movable
beds, for ironing dress sleeves and blouse sleeves and the like to avoid creasing and
for other laundry-work; also for pressing coat sleeves and trousers and all kinds
of tailoring pressing; also for dress-makers' sleeves, pressing and the like.
In order that the invention may be well understood I have annexed hereto a
sheet of drawings illustrative thereof, and will refer thereto in the following more
particular description, by figures and letters :-
Fig. 1 is a side view of a stand suitable for use upon a table or bench.
Fig. 2, is a like view but with movable bed turned on its hinge for convenience
in or upon use in placing the article to be ironed in proper position over the ironing
board A.
Fig. 3, is an isometric under-side view of the movable bed e, of the stand.
Fig. 4, is a top view of the stand (Fig. 1) with the movable bed e, removed but
with the ironing-board A, indicated in dotted lines.
Fig. 5, illustrates in detail, a suitable hinge joint for the movable bed e, of the
stand carrying the required ironing-board A, parts being in section as at line A. B.
of Fig. 2.

page_text: a, is a foot plate for the pedestal b. c, is a projection on the pedestal b, to which
is hinged by joint-pin d, the downwardly projecting forked snug e', of the movable
bed e.
The joint-pin d, is shown in Fig. 5, with a milled head, a cylindrical stem d', and
a screw threaded end thereof d, to screw into a tapped hole of one of the ears of
the fork el, of the movable bed e.
This joint-pin d, d', might however be screw threaded toward the head and the
remainder of the stem be left plain and one of the ears of the fork e', would be
screw tapped to correspond. Both these fixings of the hinge- or joint-pin d, d³,
would not be used in the same hinge-joint. I have found it undesirable to make
the hinge with a rivetted ended joint-pin but it might be so fitted.
The bed e, has holes f, for passing therethrough, holding screws for the
attachment of the ironing boards A.
Below the bed e, is a projecting arm 2, with a hole therein for passage of the
stem of a holding screw es, as shown in Fig. 1, having a winged- or batterfly- or a
milled-head, and being screw threaded at the end thereof to screw into a tapped
hole in the pedestal b, to secure the bed e, from moving (tilting) on its hinge
whilst the work of ironing is being proceeded with.
The pedestal b, may be varied so as to constitute a stand from the floor, or form
part of such floor stand, instead of serving as a stand for use upon a table or bench.
In Fig. 2, is shown such an application, and the pedestal b, is fitted with a collar b
and turn-pin, received in a socket 63, so allowing of a turning action of the
ironing board if required.
In Fig. 1, shown in dotted lines a', there is indicated a form of clamp applied to
the base-plate a, of the pedestal b, suitable for application to a bench-board or
table-board. In such case the securing screws a² may be dispensed with.
It will be readily understood that various sizes of boards A, may be employed
interchangeably and that they may be removed and attached (according to the
work required to be done) and with great facility, the characteristic feature being
the supporting of the ironing-board or pressing-surface upon a stand so that the
"work" ironed and being ironed may be free from the crushing or creasing of the
article under treatment (and partially ironed it may be) incident to the use of
ironing-boards in the ordinary way.
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 :-
First. An ironing board supported upon a pedestal or stand with free over-
hanging portion or portions thereof as and for the purpose substantially as
specified.
Secondly. In combination with a stand or support, as described, the hinged
movable beds e, carrying or having attached thereto an "ironing-surface
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"
or
" ironing-board as and for the purpose set forth and described in reference to and
shown by the respective figures of the drawings.
Thirdly. In ironing-board-stands as herein set forth the combined movable bed e,
with turning means such as b', 6, and 63, combined with the pedestal b, substantially
as and for the purpose herein set forth.
Dated 10th May 1895.