Improvements in Pressers for Trousers and other such like Articles.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 17th June, 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pressers for Trousers and other such like Articles.
I, FRANCIS ROBERT BAKER, of Hillside, Kenilworth, in the County of Warwick,
Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention has for its object improvements in pressers for trousers and other
such like articles which are simple in use cheap to manufacture and effectual
in action whether only one or several articles are being pressed at the same
time.
In carrying my invention into effect I provide a board of a size sufficient to
allow of the articles to be pressed being laid thereon and upon one edge of this
board I provide and attach a pair of uprights at right angles to the face of
the board and arranged in the position where the pressure is most required
3.e. near the ends and I may in some cases have one upright in the middle.
To the top of each of these uprights a lever is hinged and shaped so as to have
a bearing on the centre of a second board which is placed on the first the
articles to be pressed being placed intermediately between the two. Uprights
are provided on the reverse edge of the lower board and opposite those uprights
before mentioned the latter being provided with a series of catch slots with which
the reverse end of the lever is made to engage when depressed for the purpose
of pressing and by which means the two boards are pressed and retained together.
Instead of the lever passing accross the boards I may provide a series of cam
shaped levers which have one end pivoted direct to the lower board and which
are fixed paralled to the side of the board so that the ratchet teeth which are
formed upon the inside curve of the lever will engage with a stud or projection
attached to the top of board the end of the lever being provided with a pro-
jecting handle to allow of the cam lever being depressed until it is secured at
the required point where it is retained.
Improvements in Pressers for Trousers and other such like Articles.
I, FRANCIS ROBERT BAKER, formerly of Hillside, Kenilworth, in the County
of Warwick, but now of 20, Caroline Street, Birmingham, in the same County,
Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in
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what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:--
The invention relates to an improvement in or applicable to pressers for
trousers and other such like articles whereby such like articles either singly or
several may be kept in correct shape and style or if stretched or strained out
of their correct shape style may be pressed and also stretched or strained
and
or
and
back into correct shape style.
or
and
or
In carrying my invention into shape I provide a board Fig. 1 "A" of a size
sufficient to allow of the articles to be pressed stretched being laid thereon
and upon one edge of this board I provide and attach a pair of metal uprights
Fig. 1 "B" at right angles to the face of the board and arranged in the position
where the pressure is most required i.e. near the ends and I may in some cases
have a similar upright in the middle. To the top of each of these uprights
a lever Fig. 1 "C" is hinged Fig. 1 "D" and shaped so as to have a bearing
on the centre of a second board which is placed on the first the articles to be
pressed being placed immediately between the two. Uprights Fig. 1 "E" are
provided on the reverse edge of the lower board and opposite those uprights
before mentioned the latter being provided with a series of catch slots or teeth
Fig. "F" with which the reverse ends of the lever are made to engage when
depressed for the purpose of pressing stretching by which means the two
boards are pressed and retained together.
and
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Instead of the lever passing across the boards as in Fig. 1, I may provide a
series of cam shaped levers Fig. 2 "B" which have one end pivoted direct to
the lower board and which are fixed parallel to the side of the board so that
the ratchet teeth Fig. 2 "F" which are formed upon the inside curve of the
lever will engage with a stud or projection Fig. 2 "C" attached to the top of
the second board the end of the lever being provided with a projecting handle
to allow of the cam lever being depressed until it is secured at the required
point when it is retained.
To stretch the trousers or other such like article I place such article between
the two boards and depress the lever at one end only so that the article is held
tightly at that end. The article is then stretched by pulling by hand and
whilst held in the stretched position the remaining lever is depressed so as to
fix and hold the article in such stretched position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
An improved form of pressers for trousers and such like articles as shewn on
the annexed drawings whereby the original shape and style of such articles may
be retained or if stretched or strained out of their correct shape or style may be
pressed stretched back into their original correct shape
and
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and
or
style.
1000
1500.
BILLINGHURST, WOOD & POPE,
7, Bucklersbury, E.C., Solicitors,
Agents for the said Francis Robert Baker.