Improvements in and connected with Ironing Machines.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 29th July, 1898
Complete Specification Loft 1st May 1800-Accented 2nd June 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Ironing Machines.
I, EDWIN JOHN LANE, of The Phoenix Engine Works, Cranbrook Street, Old Ford
Road, in the County of London, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to ironing machines known as shirt and body ironers and
the object thereof is to maintain an even pressure between the ironing surfaces
from one end of the ironing rollers to the other end thereof.
Now according to this invention I support the shaft carrying the heated upper
roller in fixed bearings supported by the frame of the machine and I attach the
shaft carrying the padded lower roller at one end to the pinion driving the said
shaft by means of a ball and socket joint and support the said shaft at or near the
inner end of the padded roller in a block or bearing sliding in suitable guides
in or attached to the frame of the machine.
The said pinion has a hollow sleeve thereon which rotates in a bearing sup-
ported by the frame of the machine.
The shaft carrying the padded roller is long enough to reach to the middle of
the said roller to which it is attached by a ball and socket joint or other suitable
form of universal joint so that when the sliding block is raised by means of a treadle
in the usual way the pressure between the ironing surfaces of the upper and
lower rollers is equal along the whole length of the said rollers as the pressure
from the foot of the operator is applied to the centre of the length of the padded
roller and not to one end thereof as usual.
The padded roller may be made in two or more pieces if desired.
One method of making the universal or ball and socket joints at the ends of the
shaft carrying the padded roller is by making the end of the shaft carried by
the pinion barrel shaped and attaching the same to the pinion by means of a pin
passing through the said shaft and boss of the pinion.
The other end of the shaft is secured to a disc having a spherical periphery and
a pin passing through the disc and the roller secures the latter thereto.
The inner end of the padded roller is held loosely in a bush fitting the shaft
(which bush rotates in the sliding block) to prevent horizontal movement of the
said roller.
Dat this 20th day of July 1898

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I, EDWIN JOHN LANE, of The Phoenix Engine Works, Cranbrook Street, Old Ford
Road, in the County of London, 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 ironing machines known as skirt and body ironers and
the object thereof is to maintain an even pressure between the ironing surfaces
from one end of the ironing rollers to the other end thereof.
upper
Now according to this invention I support the shaft carrying the heated
roller in fixed bearings supported by the frame of the machine and I attach the
shaft carrying the padded lower roller at one end to the pinion driving the said
shaft by means of a ball and socket joint and support the said shaft at or near the
inner end of the padded roller in a block or bearing sliding in suitable guides
in or attached to the frame of the machine.
The said pinion has a hollow sleeve thercon which rotates in a bearing sup-
ported by the frame of the machine.
The shaft carrying the padded, roller is long enough to reach to the middle of
the said roller to which it is attached by a ball and socket joint or other suitable
form of universal joint so that when the sliding block is raised by means of a treadle
in the usual way the pressure between the ironing surfaces of the upper and
lower rollers is equal along the whole length of the said rollers as the pressure
from the foot of the operator is applied to the centre of the length of the padded
roller and not to one end thereof as usual.
The padded roller may be made in two or more pieces if desired.
One method of making the universal or ball and socket joints at the ends of the
shaft carrying the padded roller is by making the end of the shaft carried by
the pinion barrel shaped and attaching the same to the pinion by means of a più
passing through the said shaft and boss of the pinion.
The other end of the shaft is secured to a disc having a spherical periphery and
a pin passing through the disc and the roller secures the latter thereto.
The inner end of the padded roller is held loosely in a bush fitting the shaft
(which bush rotates in the sliding block) to prevent horizontal movement of the
said roller.
And in order that my said invention may be fully understood I will explain
the same with reference to the accompanying drawings in which
Fig. 1 represents front elevation of an ironing machine constructed according
to this invention.
Fig. 2 is view of the driving end of the frame.
Fig. 3 is view of the roller end of the frame shewing sliding block for sup-
porting the padded roller.
Fig. 4 is section through the rollers.
The same letters denote the same parts in all the figs.
a is the heated roller.
the padded roller.
chollow shaft secured to roller a.
dd bearings formed in frame e of the machine supporting the shaft c.
f is a spur wheel keyed to shaft c.
g¹ fast and loose driving pulleys.
his a pinion attached to driving shaft i and gearing with the wheels f and j.
The wheel has a pinion secured thereto gearing with the pinion 7 which
is connected to the roller b by means of the shaft m.

page_text: As is clearly shown by Fig. 4 the pinion has a sleeve n thereon which rotates
in a bearing o supported by the frame of the machine and the end of the shaft m
is made barrel shaped where it passes through the boss of the pinion a pin P
passing through a slot in the said boss connects the shaft to the pinion so as to
compel both to rotate together while still allowing the shaft to oscillate in the
said boss.
The other end of the shaft m is attached to the roller at about the centre of
the length thereof by means of a ball and socket or other universal joint.
As shewn in the drawing the end of the shaft is secured to a disc
sperical periphery a pin passing through the disc and roller secures the disc and
roller together.
having a
is
is a bush fitting the shaft m in which bush the inner end of the roller
held loosely the said bush rotates in the block s moving in the slotted guide t in
the frame of the machine is a spindle connecting the blocks with the lever v
which is oscillated by means of a treadle, wo is the treadle shaft is a rod by
means of which the motion of the treadle is transmitted to the lever so that when
the treadle is depressed the roller is raised into contact with the roller a.
As the roller bis free to move in the bush r and as the said roller is also free
to oscillate slightly on the disc q and as the shaft m fits the bush it follows that
as the bush is raised the shaft m and roller b will be also raised and the pressure
of the operator's foot on the treadle will be transmitted to the roller by means of
the disc I at the centre of the roller and the pressure between the ironing surfaces
of the rollers a and b will be equal along the whole length of the said rollers.
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 connecting the driving shaft of the movable roller to
the said roller and to the pinion rotating the said shaft by means of ball and socket
joints or other suitable universal joints substantially as specified and for the
purpose stated.
2. In an ironing machine the combination of a steam heated roller a secured
to a shaft C rotating in bearings dd the said shaft and roller
being driven by means of a spur wheel gearing with a pinion h
Fecured to the driving shaft i with a padded roller supported in a bush r
at one end the said bush rotating in a sliding blocks which block is adapted to
be raised by depressing a treadle wo and a shaft m universally jointed at one end
thereof to the centre of the roller and at the other end thereof to a pinion k
secured to a pinion driven by intermediate gearing from the pinion all sub-
stantially as herein before specified and for the purpose of obtaining equal pressure
throughout the ironing surfaces.
3. In an ironing machine the combination of a pinion a padded roller ba
shaft m secured at one end to a disc q having a spherical surface and at the other
end to a pinion the end of the shaft being barrel shaped where it passes through
the boss of the pinion a bush fitting the shaft m in which the inner end of
the roller is loosely held and pins to secure the end of the shaft to the pinion and
the disc of the roller all substantially as specified and illustrated by Fig. 4 of the
accompanying drawings.
4. Ironing machines constructed as shewn by the accompanying drawings.