An Improved Shirt, Collar, Cuff, and Front Ironing Machine.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Nov, 1896
Complete Specification Left 23rd Aug 1897 Accepted 2nd Oct. 1807
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Shirt, Collar, Cuff, and Front Ironing Machine.
DAVID ANDERSON 29 Trefoil Road Wandsworth Common London S.W. (Consulting
Engineer). I DAVID ANDERSON do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
An improved method of raising or lowering the revolving polishing cylinder away
from or on to the table which carries the work; or in other words increasing or
decreasing the pressure required by the operator. This is done by means of a cam
fixed in each of the two bearings of the revolving polishing cylinder, these cams being
worked by means of worin wheel gearing. The Plummer blocks or bearings slide up
and down in parallel guides. The two spindles on which the two cams are fixed (one
cam and spindle for each bearing) are driven by a shaft running at right angles,
connected to each spindle (cam attached) by worm wheel gearing. This shaft is in
two pieces but is held together by means of a moveable coupling so as to allow of
each bearing being easily and separately adjusted.
Dated this 26th day of November 1896.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Shirt, Collar, Cuff, and Front Ironing Machine.
I DAVID ANDERSON, of 29 Trefoil Road, Wandsworth Common London, 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 an improved shirt, collar, cuft and front ironing machine
and consists in an improved method of raising or lowering the revolving polishing
cylinder away from or on to the table which carries the work; or in other words
increasing or diminishing the pressure required by the operator.
And in order that my said invention may be better understood I will now proceed
to describe the same with reference to the drawing accompanying this specification,
in which Fig. 1 shews a view of one end of the machine, the arrangement being
exactly the same at the other end.
Figs. 2 and 3 shew details hereinafter referred to.
The same letters denote the same parts in all the views.
a shews the polishing cylinder, b position of top of table, c cam working in
extension g of the bearing d. Fig. 2 shews how the cam c presses upon either the
part e or the part f of the extension g of the bearing d, thus either ruising or lowering
the same. The cam c is turned by means of the hand wheel h actuating the worm

page_text: which gears with the worm wheel j on the cam spindle k. are guides for the
bearing d. The shaft m which carries the worm i is in two pieces connected
together by a movable coupling n (see Fig. 3) so that each bearing may be separately
adjusted.
The bottom of the box o containing the cam c may support the drum spindle p, or
this latter may be carried by a cross bar, shewn by dotted lines q.
Although I have described and shewn the shaft m and mechanism for raising and
lowering the roller beneath the machine, it may be placed above the same without
departing from the spirit of my invention.
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:-
1. The improved shirt, collar, cuff and front ironing machine, as described and
shewn on the accompanying sheet of drawings.
2. In shirt, collar, cuff and front ironing machines, the means herein described and
shewn on the accompanying sheet of drawings, whereby the revolving polishing
cylinder is raised and lowered for the purpose set forth.
Dated this Twenty-third day of August 1907
BROWNE & Co.,
9, Warwick Court, Gray's Inn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.