AN IMPROVED PRESSING MACHINE FOR THE USE OF TAILORS AND OTHERS.
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Israel Summersfield and John Glasgow Sanderson,
both of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, for the Invention
of "AN IMPROVED PRESSING MACHINE FOR THE USE OF TAILORS AND
OTHERS.
"
Sealed the 19th July 1870, and dated the 2nd April 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Israel Summersfield
and John Glasgow Sanderson at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with their Petition, on the 2nd April 1870.
We, ISRAEL SUMMERSFIELD and JOHN GLASGOW SANDERSON, both
of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED PRESSING MACHINE FOR THE USE
OF TAILORS AND OTHERS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a machine to be used by tailors and others
for smoothing or ironing clothes or other articles, and consists mainly
of a smooth hollow roller of cast iron or other suitable metal heated by
gas and capable of being turned by a treadle or otherwise in connection
with a metal table capable of moving to and fro beneath the same on

page_text: friction rollers, the said table being furnished with certain suitable
appliances for holding the work, the form of such appliances being
adapted for holding the particular kind of work to be operated upon.
The roller is suppported in brasses or bearings at each end sliding in
vertical grooves or slots in the side frames of the machine, the height of
the roller (and consequently the amount of pressure) being regulated
by a screw or screws. The moving table or bed plate is provided with
two uprights, and when straight scams are to be pressed (as, for instance,
in the leg of a pair of trowsers or the sleeve of a coat), these uprights
support a bar which is passed through the article like a tailor's sleeve
board, and as this bar passes underneath the heated roller the seam is
ironed or pressed. The seam is opened immediately before passing under
the roller by means of a small metal shoe attached to a lever fixed to
the frame above, and which can be moved up out of the way when not
required. If a flat surface is to be pressed the bar or sleeve board is
removed and a broad table is substituted in place thereof, and if the end
of a tubular article is to be pressed, such as the cuff of a sleeve or the
bottom hem of a pair of trowsers for example, a short roller or cylinder
is used to support the work, the said roller or cylinder being free at one
end and carried by a neck revolving in a bearing at the other end.
All these appliances for holding the work, that is, the bar or sleeve
board, the table, and the roller or cylinder, are so arranged that they can
bo raised and lowered by cams and levers so as to raise the work to
the heated roller and lower it away from the same when required without
interfering with the position of the said roller when it is once set to give
the pressure required. Any or all of these appliances may also be
heated by gas as well as the roller if thought desirable, but as a rule
this will not be required.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Israel Summersfield and John Glasgow Sanderson 30
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st October 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, ISRAEL
SUMMERSFIELD and JOHN GLASGOW SANDERSON, both of Manchester, in
the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 35

page_text: of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said Israel Summersfield and John Glasgow
Sanderson, Her special license, that we, the said Israel Summersfield
and John Glasgow Sanderson, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said Israel Summersfield and John Glasgow
Sanderson, 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 "AN IMPROVED PRESSING MACHINE FOR THE USE OF TAILORS AND OTHERS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Israel Summers-
field and John Glasgow Sanderson, our exccutors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly 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 Scal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Israel Summersfield and John
Glasgow Sanderson, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement and accom-
panying Drawings (that is to say) :—
This Invention relates to a machine to be used by tailors and others
for smoothing or ironing clothes or other articles, and consists mainly
of a smooth hollow roller or cylinder of cast iron or other suitable metal
heated by gas or otherwise and capable of being turned by a treadle or
other means in connection with a metal table capable of moving to and
fro beneath the same on friction rollers, the said table being furnished
with certain suitable appliances for holding the work, the form of such
appliances being adapted for holding the particular kind of work to be
operated upon.
Such being the nature and object of our said Invention for "An
Improved Pressing Machine for the Use of Tailors and others," we will
now proceed to describe more in detail the manner in which the same is
to be or may be performed or carried into practical effect, and in order

page_text: that the same may be clearly understood we have annexed hereunto a
Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof, and have marked the same with
figures and letters of reference corresponding with those in the following
explanation thereof.
Fig. 1 in the annexed Drawing is a longitudinal section taken
vertically through about the centre of the machine; and Fig. 2 is a front
view of the same.
a, a, is the main framing of the machine supporting the moving
table b, b, on the friction rollers c, c; d, d, is the hollow cast-iron roller or
cylinder heated by means of a perforated gas tube e, e, in the interior,
as seen at Fig. 1, and also in the detached sectional view, Fig. 3, or by
steam or other convenient means, and caused to revolve as hereafter
described.
The roller d, d, is supported in brasses or bearings at each end, sliding
in vertical grooves or slots in the side frames a, a, of the machine, the
height of the roller (and consequently the amount of pressure) being
regulated by screws f, f, moved simultaneously by a hand; wheel g, g.
The moving table or bed plate b, b, is provided with two uprights h, h,
and when straight seams are to be pressed (as, for instance, in the leg
of a pair of trowsers or the sleeve of a coat), these uprights support a
bar i, i, (seen detached also at Fig. 4), which is passed through the article
like a tailor's sleeve board, and as this bar passes underneath the
revolving heated roller or cylinder d, d, the scam is ironed or pressed.
The seam is opened immediately before passing under the roller by
means of a small metal shock, k, attached to a lever 1, 1, fixed to the
frame above, and which can be moved up out of the way when not
required.
If a flat surface is to be pressed the bar or sleeve board i, i, is
removed and a broad table or "lapelle board" m, m, (sco Fig. 5) is sub-
stituted in place thereof, and if the end of a tubular article is to be
pressed, such as the cuff of a sleeve or the bottom hem of a pair of
trowsers, for example, a short roller or cylinder n, n, (see Figs. 6 and 7)
is used to support the work, the said roller or cylinder being free at
one end, and carried by a neck revolving in a bearing o, o, at the other
end.
All these appliances for holding the work (that is, the bar or "sleeve
board", i, the table or lapelle board m, m, and the cuff roller or
cylinder n, n,) are so arranged that they can be raised and lowered by

page_text: cams and levers p, p, so as to raise the work to the heated roller d, d,
and lower it away from the same when required without interfering
with the position of the said roller when it is once set to give the
pressure required.
Any or all of these appliances may also be heated by gas or other-
wisc, as well as the roller, if thought desirable; but as a rule this will
not be required.
The table b, b, may either be driven by means of a rack and pinion q, q,
as shown at Figs. 1 and 2 on the Drawing, or it may be moved only by
frictional contact with the roller d, d, or by hand.
The machine is driven by means of a treadle ", ", and crank 8, 8,
giving motion by means of an endless chain t, t, to the spur gearing u, u;
v, v, is a sliding clutch box for throwing the wheels which drive the
roller d, d, into or out of gear as required. The machine may (if
preferred) be driven by steam or other power.
Having now described the nature and object of our said Invention,
together with the manner in which the same is to be or may be per-
formed or carried into practical effect, we wish it to be understood that
we claim as our Invention, the use or employment of a revolving heated
metal roller or cylinder in combination with a moving table provided
with the movable appliances for holding the work to be pressed, as
herein-before described and represented by the Drawing annexed, or any
mere modification or imitation thereof constructed and operating in
substantially the same or a similar manner.
In witness whereof, we, the said Israel Summersfield and John
Glasgow Sanderson, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Thirtieth day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand
cight hundred and seventy.
I. SUMMERSFIELD.
(L.S.)
Witnessed by
GEORGE DAVIES, C.E.,
Office for l'atents,
Manchester.
J. G. SANDERSON. (L.S.)