Improvements in Ironing Machines.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 9th July, 1894-Accepted, 11th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ironing Machines.
I, WILLIAM HOOK DAVEY, of 47, Chaucer Road, Acton, in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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This invention relates to improvements in ironing machines specially designed
for ironing collars and cuffs but also applicable for ironing other articles.
In carrying out my invention I employ the usual feed cylinder mounted in a
frame or stand and driven in the usual manner and adapted to be heated or not as
required. Above the cylinder I arrange the usual iron, the working surface of
which is concentric with the cylinder. I suspend the iron by means of links to a
lever connected by a rod to a treadle whereby I am enabled to raise and lower the
iron in a simple and convenient manner. Behind the iron I arrange a heated roller
having a polished surface. The said roller is fixed in adjustable bearings and is
driven at a higher speed than the feed-roller.
With this arrangement the collars or other articles to be ironed and polished are
placed between the iron and the feed-roller and being carried forward by the roller
are ironed in the usual manner. On leaving the iron the collars or other articles
pass between the polishing roller and the feed-roller and as the polishing roller is
driven at a higher speed than the feed-roller the surface of the articles have a high
polish given to them.
In practice I find that with my improved machine the ironing and polishing of
the articles is generally completed when the articles have been passed twice through
the machine.
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G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ironing Machines.
I, WILLIAM HOOк DAVEY, of 47, Chaucer Road, Acton, in the County of
Middlesex, 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in ironing machines specially designed
for ironing collars and cuffs but also applicable for ironing other articles.
In carrying out my invention I employ the usual feed-cylinder mounted in a
frame or stand and driven in the usual manner and adapted to be heated or not as
required. Above the cylinder I arrange the usual iron, the working surface of
which is concentric with the cylinder. I suspend the iron by means of links from
a lever connected by a rod to a treadle whereby I am enabled to raise and lower
the iron in a simple and convenient manner. Behind the iron I arrange a roller
having a polished surface. The said roller is carried in adjustable bearings and
is driven at a slightly higher surface speed than the feed-cylinder.
To enable my invention to be fully understood 1 will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawings, in which :—

page_text: Figures !,
and 3 are a front elevation, a side elevation and a plan respectively
of an ironing machine having my improvements applied thereto :
Figure 4 is a sectional view of the roller having the polished surface.
a, a are the side frames of the machine which are connected together by the tie-
rods b, b, b. c is the feed-cylinder mounted in bearings in the side frames a, a and
driven in any suitable manner, for instance, from the shaft d through the medium
of the pinion e and gear-wheel f, the said shaft being provided with fast and loose
pulleys.
g is the iron arranged to work in conjunction with the cylinder c. This iron is
provided at its ends with trunnions, having bearings in links i, i pivotally
suspended from the side bars j, j of a double lever k, the said double lever being
pivotted to the frame standards a, a at l, l. This lever is connected by a rod m
with a lever n pivotted at o upon a bracket p and carrying at one end a treadle q
and at the other end a weight r which normally tends to hold the iron in contact
with the feed-cylinder.
The operator working the machine by depressing the treadle q can readily lift
the iron for the purpose of placing the articles to be ironed between the said iron
and the feed-cylinder c, the weight when the treadle is released serving to press
the iron against the feed-cylinder.
sis the roller (which may be heated if desired) working in conjunction with the
feed-cylinder and having a polished surface. This roller (which is shewn in section
in Figure 4) is mounted in bearings t, t adapted to slide in guides u, u; and is driven
from the gear-wheel through the medium of a pinion ², the said gear-wheel fand
pinion u¹ being so proportioned that the rollers shall have a slightly higher surface
speed than the feed-cylinder c.
At the lower ends of the guides u, u are boxes v, v containing spiral springs
which normally tend to hold the roller s away from the cylinder c and at the upper
ends of the said guides are other boxes w, w also containing springs which act to
press the said roller s against the cylinder c. In conjunction with these spring-
boxes w, w are screws w', w' having hand-wheels a, secured to them. These
screws w¹, w¹ serve for compressing the springs in the boxes w, w sufficiently to
counteract the pressure of the springs in the boxes v, v and to press the roller s
against the cylinder c with the desired pressure; the springs in the boxes w, w being
at all times capable of yielding to allow for the movements of the roller due to
the variation of the thickness of the material passing between the same and the
cylinder.
y,y are stops formed upon the upper ends of the side frames a, a and serving
when the double lever k is disconnected from the rod m and thrown back to lift the
iron entirely away from the feed cylinder to support the said lever in its turned up
position.
z is a tray arranged beneath the rollers and serving to receive the articles as they
drop from the ironing rollers.
The collars or other articles to be ironed and polished are placed between the
iron g and the feed-cylinder c and being carried forward by the said cylinder are
ironed in the usual manner. On passing from beneath the iron the collars or other
articles pass between the polishing rollers and the feed-cylinder c whereby as the
polishing roller is driven at a higher speed than the feed-cylinder the surfaces of
the articles have a high polish given to them.
In practice I find that with my improved machine the ironing and polishing of
the articles is generally completed when the articles have been passed twice through
the machine.
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. In an ironing machine having an iron arranged in combination with a feed-
cylinder suspending the said iron from a lever adapted to be raised by a treadle to

page_text: lift the iron from the feed-cylinder and to be pressed against the said feed-cylinder
when the pressure is removed from the treadle by means of a counterweight on the
treadle-lever, substantially as described.
2. In an ironing machine having an iron arranged in conjunction with a feed-
cylinder a polishing roller such as shaving a slightly higher surface speed than the
feed-cylinder, the said roller being so arranged in conjunction with the feed-cylinder
that as the articles being ironed pass from between the latter and the iron they
enter between the said polishing roller and the feed-cylinder, substantially as
described.
3. In an ironing machine having a polishing roller arranged in conjunction with
the feed-cylinder in the manner herein before described, the combination with the
bearings of the said roller of springs and means for regulating the pressure of the
said springs substantially as, and for the purposes, described.
4. The manufacture and use of the improved ironing machine herein before
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 9th day of July 1894.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.