An Improved Multiple Roller Ironing Machine.
Year: 1892

page_text: This Print is in accordance with the Original Specification as it stands after
Amendment (under Section 18 of the Patents, &c. Act, 1883), as allowed by
the decision of the Chief Examiner of the 30th day of November 1897.
Date of Application, 31st May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 28th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 22nd Apr., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Multiple Roller Ironing Machine.
We, DAVID KEIL TULLIS and JAMES TULLIS, both of Parkhead, Glasgow,
in the County of Lanark, North Britain Engineers do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved multiple roller ironing machine, and
consists of four or more rollers with a corresponding number of heated beds
lying at an angle to the floor. These rollers are supported in suitable bearings,
under each of which there is a spring for the purpose of raising the rollers above
the heated beds when standing. When working pressure is brought to bear
simultaneously each bearing by means of a lever which is hung on end of frame
and to which power is applied through an eccentric.
Dated this 30th day of Nov 1002
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicants' Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION (AMENDED).
An Improved Multiple Roller Ironing Machine.
We, DAVID KEIL TULLIS and JAMES TULLIS, both of Parkhead, Glasgow,
in the County of Lanark, North Britain, Engineers, 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 relates to an improved multiple roller ironing machine, and
consists of two, three, four, or more rollers with a corresponding number of, heated
beds lying at an angle to the floor, thus avoiding any danger of the cloth or other
articles to be ironed wrapping around the rollers. These rollers are supported in
suitable bearings, under each of which there is a spring for the purpose of raising
the rollers above the heated beds when standing, thus preventing the blankets
which are placed round the rollers being burned or scorched, and so effecting a
considerable saving in the supply of them. Working pressure is brought to bear
simultaneously on each bearing by means of a lever which is hung on end of frame,
and to which power is applied through an eccentric.
In order that our invention may be properly understood and readily carried into

page_text: effect we have hereunto appended two explanatory sheets of drawings in the
several figures of which corresponding parts are marked with the same letters of
reference.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of the machine.
Figure 2 is a plan of the spur gearing for actuating the rollers.
Figure 3 is an end view of one of the heated beds.
X is the frame of the machine, and A are the rollers which are made of any
suitable material: These rollers A are supported on bearings B, each of which is
provided with a spring C to enable the rollers A to be lifted off the heated beds D
when the machine is at rest. These beds are heated in any suitable manner. Any
convenient working pressure is brought to bear simultaneously on the bearings B
by means of the levers E, F, G, H, and eccentrics I. The rollers are actuated by
means of the spur gearing as shown more particularly in Figure 2:
The cloth or other article to be ironed is passed into the machine at Y, and passes
between the first roller and its heated bed, and the beds lying at an angle to the
floor, it (the cloth) then passes over the top of the bed down the inclined surface of
the following bed and between the second roller and its heated bed, and so on to
the last, whence it falls on to the table or platform Z.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In a multiple roller ironing machine, the means whereby the rollers can be
lifted off the heated beds when the machine is not being used substantially as and
for the purposes hereinbefore described and shown on the drawings.
2. In a multiple roller ironing machine the general arrangement and combination
of the parts for bringing simultaneous pressure on the bearings, substantially as
described and shown on the drawings.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicants' Agents.