Improvements in the Construction of Goffering or Ironing Machines.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Nov., 1898
Complete Specification Left. 16th Aug.. 1899-Accepted. 16th Sent.. 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Goffering or Ironing Machines.
I, WILLIAM LITLER_BRADFORD, of the Crescent Iron Works, Salford, in the
County of Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates principally to machines for goffering the frills of
garments or the like, but it is also applicable to ironing machines.
It is more particularly applicable to such machines for the above purpose in
which two rollers are employed, the upper of which is heated.
According to this invention I arrange a suitable treadle, connecting rod, and
spring, for raising one end of the upper roller and replacing it under pressure
when the foot is removed from the treadle, and also spur gearing so formed
and set together as to admit of the necessary oscillation of the upper roller and
ensure constant rotation thereof in any position.
The motion of the lower roller is stopped by the raising of the upper roller,
in the case of the goffering machine by the flutes of the latter roller being dis-
engaged from those of the lower roller, or (say in the case of an ironing
machine) by raising a toothed wheel on the upper axle from a carrier wheel or
a toothed wheel on the lower roller.
Thus when the foot is applied to the treadle the upper roller will be raised
(for the insertion of an article) without stopping its rotation, and the lower roller
will be stopped by the same action; and by this means manipulation of the
article upon the lower roller is facilitated, and uniform heating of the upper
roller is ensured.
Improvements in the Construction of Goffering or Ironing Machines.
1, WILLIAM LITLER BRADFORD, of the Crescent Iron Works, Salford, in the
County of Lancaster, Engineer, 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 principally to machines such as are employed for
goffering the frills of garments or the like, but is also applicable to ironing
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page_text: machines, and to such like machines in which two rollers are employed, the
upper roller being heated.
In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a side elevation and Fig. 2 a back
elevation of a goffering machine constructed according to my invention.
I provide a suitable frame as A with a treadle 6 fitted near the base of said
frame; a vertical rod c connected therewith and passing up preferably through
the centre of the frame is united at its upper end to one end of a horizontal
lever that is pivotted to the frame at d'; the opposite end of said lever is
connected to a vertical connecting rod e whose upper end is attached by a stud e¹
to the free end of the spindle f which carries the upper roller said stud sliding
in a groove g¹ formed in the frame A: a coil or other suitable spring ; is fitted
on the aforesaid vertical rod c by which the upper roller is pressed on to the
lower roller K. The rollers are rotated by spur or other gearing such as a
worm and worm wheel m set together so as to admit of the necessary oscillation
of the upper roller and ensure constant rotation of said roller in any position.
By pressure of the foot on the treadle the upper roller is raised from contact
with the lower roller for the insertion of an article, the rotation of the lower
roller being thereby stopped but without stopping the rotation of the upper roller.
When the pedal is released the upper roller is brought down and pressed on to
the lower roller by the spring j, the flutes of the upper roller engaging with those
on the lower roller or if employed as an ironing machine by a toothed wheel at
the end of a plain roller on the upper axle engaging with a toothed wheel on
the axle of the lower roller. By these means manipulation of an article on the
lower roller is facilitated and uniform heating of the upper roller is ensured.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be employed what I claim is:-
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1st. In a machine employed for goffering the frills of garments or the like,
or for ironing, the combination of a pair of rollers affixed to the ends of spindles
that are mounted in a suitable frame as a the upper roller being heated, and
capable of being raised from contact with the lower roller without interrupting
the rotation of said upper roller in the manner and for the
purpose substantially
as hereinbefore described.
2nd. In a machine employed for goffering the frills of garments or the like,
or for ironing, the combination of a frame as a carrying a pair of rollers, one of
said rollers being heated, means for placing said heated roller in contact or with-
drawing from contact with the other roller consisting of a treadle lever as ba
vertical rod as c, a pivotted lever as d and a spring or equivalent as j, and
mechanism for ensuring constant rotation of said heated roller in any position
all substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
3rd. A goffering or ironing machine that is constructed substantially as herein-
before described.