IMPROVEMENTS In TAILORS' PRESSING OR IRONING MACHINES, ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER PROVISIONAL SPECÍFICATION
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Francis Zysel, of Berner Street, Commercial
Road, and Joseph Warschawsky, of Princes Street, Spitalfields, in
the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS In
TAILORS' PRESSING OR IRONING MACHINES, ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER
PROVISIONAL SPECÍFICATION left by the said Francis Zysel and
Joseph Warschawsky at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 29th January 1875.
We, FRANCIS ZYSEL, of Berner Street, Commercial Road, and JOSEPH
WARSCHAWSKY, of Princes Street, Spitalfields, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
દ્ર IMPROVEMENTS IN TAILORS' PRESSING OR IRONING MACHINES, ALSO APPLICABLE
TO OTHER MACHINES FOR PRESSING OR IRONING," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to certain useful and effective improvements
in tailors' pressing or ironing machines, which improvements are also
applicable to other machines for pressing or ironing..

page_text: The machine (or apparatus) is constructed with a table or framing
made of convenient height, underneath which is placed a suitable
arrangement of driving gear, such as a treadle actuated by the foot of
the operator and working a horizontal shaft by means of cranks, the
shaft being provided with a fly wheel to regulate its motion. The
driving gear actuates a travelling belt or band, upon which the articles
to be pressed or ironed are carried. This band is made of any required
width and is situated at the fore part of the table, so as to be within
easy reach of the operator; it is or may be formed of transverse metal
bars suitably connected by rings, pins, or pivots, and covered with a
suitable material, or left bare and provided with teeth on their inner
surfaces, which teeth gear into pinions fixed on horizontal transverse
shafts receiving motion from the first-mentioned horizontal shaft by
bevil gearing and intermediate vertical shafts: Or by the use of other
suitable gearing the band may be driven by steam or other motive
power.
One of the transverse shafts projects in front of the frame, and parallel
with it another short shaft also projects for an equal distance, and
round these projecting parts a smaller band runs and is actuated
similarly to the first-mentioned band. This smaller band is used for
pressing trousers' bottoms and cuffs of sleeves or similarly formed
articles, and on the projecting end of the transverse shaft a wooden
roller or wheel may be placed when required to be used for pressing
circular seams, such as those of arm holes.
At or near one side or end of the travelling band is a trough or frame
filled with water, and in this trough is placed a roller revolving on or
with a spindle, on one end of which is fixed a spring similar to a clock
or blind spring. Round this roller is wound a suitable damping cloth
which is kept in or passes through the water, and passes thence through
two squeezing or india-rubber rollers (regulated by the usual screws),
which when the cloth is being drawn through for use presses all super-
fluous moisture therefrom.
When the cloth is used and dried by the heat of the pressing iron it is
released, and the spring draws it back and recoils it round the roller, its
free end is prevented passing the rollers by a rod or strip of metal
secured to its end.
Above and at the rear part of the table is placed a standard or pillar,
ou nout of which is conahlé of being turned áliout micht
on loft

page_text: round its centre; this part is provided with two projecting side parts or
arms in which are elongated slots, through which slide metallic pieces -
holding a pin passing through the second joint of a system of lazytongs.
Behind these slots are holes holding another pin running through the
first joint of the tongs, and holding them in positión; upon the opening
of the tongs the metallic pieces slide outwards to the ends of the slots
and limit the movement. At the opposite end of the lazytongs a similar
connection is made with a box to which is attached a spring carrying
the press or iron, the attachment being made so as to allow of free
turning movement of the iron, the pressure of which upon the materia!
is regulated as required by a rack and pinion actuated by a handle and
carried in the box, the lower end of the rack carrying a roller which
bears downwards upon the spring carrying the iron. The pinion works
in connection with a ratchet and pawl, and upon releasing the latter by
a handle or knob the spring lifts the iron immediately clear of the
material.
Instead of constructing the iron as usual with perforated holes which
quickly let the heat escape, it is formed of a long oval box closed all
round, and between the gas burner and the top is placed a horizontal
diaphragm or plate somewhat shorter than the length of the iron which
causes the heat to travel along the bottom, and then the top of the iron
before it can escape through an outlet left at the top of and rear of
the iron.
By the above described rotary motion of the upper part of the pillar
and the rectilinear motion of the lazytongs and the free rotary motion of
the iron, the great advantage of a universal joint is obtained, allowing
perfect freedom of movement of the iron supported by the spring.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Francis Zysel and Joseph Warschawsky in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th July 1875.
☐ TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wĆ, FRANCIS
ZYSEL, of Berner Street, Commercial Road, and JOSEPH WARSCHAWSKY,
of Princes Street, Spitalfields, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting,

page_text: "
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Francis Zysel. and Joseph
Warschawsky, Her special licence that we, the said Francis Zysel and
Joseph Warschawsky, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said Francis Zysel and Joseph Warschawsky, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TAILORS' PRESSING OR IRONING MACHINES, ALSO APPLICABLE
TO OTHER MACHINES FOR PRESSING OR IRONING," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Francis Zysel and Joseph Warschawsky, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our,
or one of our or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
t
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Francis Zysel and Joseph
Warschawsky, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement in writing, and on
reference being had to the accompanying Drawings, that is to say:-
This Invention relates to certain improvments in and applicable to
pressing and ironing machines used by tailors, hatters, laundresses, and
others.
The Invention is illustrated on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings
in Figures 1 to 10, of whichi Figure 1 represents a front view of the
table, and the arrangement of all the details thereunder, that part of the
apparatus operated by the foot; and Figure 2, a complete side view of
the entire apparatus, shewing the ironing or pressing apparatus, that
part above the table and, which is actuated by the hand, in its most
backward position.

page_text: lines a, a, in Figure 1.
Figure 4 represents a view corresponding to that of Figure 2, but only
of the ironing or pressing apparatus, shewing it in a forward position
and with the iron depressed into position for work, and with the standard
carrying the same raised so as to be applicable for working with the iron
upon an ordinary sleeve board..
Figure 5 represents a plan view of Figure 4, but shews the iron a
little turned.
Figure 6, a longitudinal section of the improved iron; and Figures 7,
8, 9, and 10 are detailed views, and will be subsequently particularly
referred to.
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The framing 1 of the machine or apparatus is preferably constructed
of angle and bar iron and of a suitable height, and upon its top is placed
a metallic or wooden table 2, underneath which is placed a treadle 3
actuated by the foot of the operator, and by means of cranks 4 and con-
necting rods 5, 6, working a horizontal shaft 5, carrying fly wheels 6 to
regulate its motion, which by the use of bevil gearing 7 and shafts 8
supported by brackets 9 is transmitted to horizontal shafts 10. and
toothed wheels 11 thercon (running at right angles to the shaft 5), which
actuate a metallic travelling belt or band 12; upon which the articles to.
be pressed or ironed are carried.
One of the shafts 10 projects in front of (or at the side of or above)
the table 2, and parallel with it another shaft 15 also projects. These by.
means of smaller toothed wheels 13 further communicate the motion. of
the shaft 5 to a smaller inetallic band 14; this shaft 10 is also carried
out still further and is squared at its projecting end 20.
The bands 12 and 14 may be made of any required width, they are
preferably situated at or near the fore part of the table so as to be within
easy reach of the operator. They each enclose and are carried forward
by a series of supports or transverse wood or metal bars 16, as shown in
the detailed views (of the band 14) illustrated in Figures 7, 8, and 9,
connected by rings or bands 17 passing through holes 18, or by pins or:
pivots, and provided with teeth 19 on their inner surfaces, which teeth:
engage with the toothed wheels or pinions 11 and 13 on their respective
shafts above mentioned. The upper parts of the bands.upon which the.
.

page_text: pressure of the iron is exerted are supported by blocks of wood 21 which
arc formed with longitudinal grooves 22, along which the teeth 19 or
other separately formed projections 23, or friction wheels affixed to the
under surfaces of the bars 16 may slide so as to raise the body of the
bars from the blocks 21 and materially lessen the friction.
By the use of suitable gearing the bands 12 and 14 may be driven by
steam or other motive power. The band 12 is used more particularly
when pressing or ironing flat surfaces, and the band 14 when pressing
trousers' bottoms and cuffs of sleeves or similarly formed articles, and a
wooden roller or wheel which is placed when required upon the squared
end 20 of the shaft 10 when pressing circular seams, such as those of
arm-holes.
It should be distinctly understood that these travelling bands may be
formed of various shapes (depending upon their use), they being intended
for supporting and carrying the articles to be pressed or ironed under
the iron, they may thus be formed of the shapes of blocks for hats
for the use of hatters, or of other special forms for certain particular
uses.
At or near one end of the band 12 is situated a trough or frame 24
(carried by the framing 1) filled with water, and provided with a
roller 25 revolving on or with a spindle 26, on one end of which is fixed
a spring 27 similar to a clock or blind spring. Round the roller 25 is
wound a suitable damping cloth 28 which is kept in or passes through
the water, and passes thence through two india-rubber squeezing
rollers 29 (regulated by the usual means 30), which when the cloth 28
is being drawn through for use presses all superfluous moisture there-
from.
When the cloth has been used and become dried by the heat of the
pressing iron 31 it is released, and the spring 27 draws it back and
recoils it around the roller 25, its free end is prevented passing to the
rollers 29 by a metal rod or strip 32 secured to its end.
Above and at the rear part of the table 2 is bolted to the framing 1 a
standard or pillar 33, an upper part 34. of which is capable of being
raised and turned about to the right. and left around its centre. The
part 34 is provided with two projecting side parts or arms 35, in which
are elongated slots 36, through. which slide metallic pieces 37 holding a

page_text: pin 38 passing through the second joint of a system or arrangement of
lazytongs 39; behind these slots are holes holding another pin 40 running
through the first joint of the tongs and holding them in position. Upon .
the drawing out or opening of the tongs from the position shewn in
Figure 2 to the position shewn in Figure 4, the metallic pieces 37 slide
to the outer ends of the slots 36 and limit the movement. At the
opposite end of the lazytongs 39 a similar connection is made with a
box 41,, to which is attached a strong spring 42 carrying the press or
iron 31, the attachment being made by a pivotted plate 62 carried by
the spring 42, and through which passes a screw pin 63 connecting the
handle with the lower part of the iron, as shewn in Figures 4, 5, and 6, ·
so as to allow of free turning movement of the iron, the pressure of
which upon the material is regulated as required by a rack 43, and
pinion 44 actuated by a handle 45 and carried in the box 41, the lower
end of the rack 43 carrying a roller 46 which bears downward upon the
spring 42 carrying the iron 31. The pinion 44 works in connection
with a ratchet 47 and spring pawl 48, and upon releasing the latter by a
handle and projection 49 the spring 42 immediately lifts the iron 31.
clear of the material to the position shown in Figure 2. Or the roller 46
may be carried by two side arms 64 hanging from a nut 65 working
within the box 41 and actuated by a screw 66, the latter being actuated
by means of the handle 67, shaft 68, and bevil wheels 69. Upon the
end of the shaft 68 is a coiled spring 70 which is wound up as the
roller 46 is being depressed and held by a small thumbscrew 71 or other-
wise, upon the release of which the springs 42 and 70 cause the
nut 65 and roller 46 to be raised, and the iron 31 to be lifted (see
Figure 10).
When desired to keep the iron 31 still in any one position, so that
either of the travelling belts may simply carry the articles thereon under
it, its pressure being obtained by turning the handle 45 (or 67) and
depressing the spring 42, the nut of the screw 57 is turned and it bears
against the plain part of the screwed 'spindle 58, and keeps the part 34
and all parts connected with it in the desired position.
The raising of the part 34 and all connected with it when it is desired
to iron or press any article upon an ordinary sleeve board placed and
supported above the table 2 is effected by turning the screwed spindle 58
working in the fixed part 33 of the standard by its handle 59, the upper
part of the spindle is made with an enlargement 60 which lies in a cavity
i
.

page_text: ´in and bears against the cap 61 of the part 34, and carries the latter up
and down with it.
The system, of lazytongs above described may be replaced by any
equivalent, such as a telescopic arrangement.
In Figure 1 the line 55, and in Figure 3 the mark 55, indicate the
position of the centre of the standard 33, 34.`
Instead of constructing the iron 31 as usually with perforated holes
which quickly let the heat escape we form it of a long oval box, see
Figures 4, 5, and 6, closed all round, and between the gas burner 50 and
the top we place a horizontal diaphragm or plate 51, somewhat shorter
than the length of the box which causes the heat to travel along the
bottom, and then the top of the iron before it can escape through an
outlet 52 left on the top and rear of thic iron. The burner 50 is carried
by a plate 53 perforated with air holes 54, and to which the diaphragm 51
is attached.
☐ It will thus be seen that the weight of the iron 31. is supported by the
spring 12, and that it has perfect freedom of all necessary movement; it
has a sweeping movement consequent upon the rotary movement of the
upper part of the pillar, and an in-and-out movement consequent upon
the rectilinear motion of the lazy tongs, and a free turning or rotary and
side movement upon the pivotted part, 62, 63, at and by which it is
attached to the spring 42, and has thus very great advantages over all
ironing and pressing machines hitherto in use. The directions of move-
ment of the iron 31 arc indicated by the dotted lines X.
The above described improvements may also be equally well applied
to the various kinds of irons used by different trades.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature and
objects of our said Invention, together with the manner in which the
same is to be or may be performed or carried into practical effect, we
would remark in conclusion that, we claim as our Invention, the above
described improvements in and applicable to pressing and ironing
machines, and the above described arrangements and combinations of
parts, substantially as and for the purposes described, and as illustrated
on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, and more especially we
claim,-
1. The construction, and use of travelling bands actuated by suitable

page_text: gearing from the foot for carrying the articles to be operated upon under
the iron.
2. The combination and arrangement and the use of all the parts
described above the table for obtaining all necessary and free movement
in every direction of the iron, so that it can be manipulated by the hand
with great dexterity.
3. The application of these improvements to the existing forms of
irons used by different trades.
And, 4. The above described improved construction of iron.
In witness whereof, we, the said Francis Zysel and Joseph
Warschawsky, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fifth
day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five.
Witness,
BRISTOW HUNT,
FRANCIS ZYSEL.
(L.S.)
JOEPH WARSCHAWSKY. (L.S.)
Solicitor and Patent Agent,
5, Serle Street,
Lincoln's Inn.