Improvements in Machines for Ironing Shirt Fronts and other Articles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Mar.,
1090
Complete Specification Left. 24th Dec. 1898-Accepted. 11th Mar., 1899
Date of Application, 20th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left. 24th Dec. 1898-Accepted. 11th Mar. 1899
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Ironing Shirt Fronts and other
Articles.
I, SARKIS HAROUTIUN SEKIAN, of Green Street, Ladybarn, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Laundryman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention is designed to provide certain improvements in ironing machines
whereby the ironing may be effected in two directions that is longitudinally and
transversely of the article and the "blocking be effected in perfection.
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It consists essentially in mounting the ironing table so as to revolve in a hori-
zontal plane so that it may be turned round any number of degrees and thus pass
under the ironing roller.
In carrying out the invention the ironing block or table may be mounted upon
a central pivot or pin about which it can be turned or moved or the reciprocating
or other table or bed upon which it is placed may be mounted to rotate like a turn-
table either with a central pivot or axle or in a circular or other frame.
Other methods may be adopted if preferred of carrying the invention into opera-
tion by which a rotary or angular movement in a horizontal plane can be imparted
to the shirt or ironing table.
The shirt table is of such a shape with space beneath to allow of the portions
of the shirt not under operation being passed beneath it.
Dated this 25th day of March 1898.
AVM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Ironing Shirt Fronts and other
Articles.
I, SARKIS HAROUTIUN SEKIAN, of Green Street, Ladybarn, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Laundryman, 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 is designed to provide certain improvements in ironing machines
whereby the ironing may be effected in two directions that is longitudinally and
transversely of the article and the "blocking" be effected in perfection.
It consists essentially in mounting the ironing block upon the reciprocating

page_text: table of the machine so as to be capable of being rotated about its vertical axis in
a horizontal plane any number of degrees and in this position pass under the
ironing roller.
The invention will be fully described with reference to the accompanying draw-
ings in which sufficient of an ironing machine is shown to illustrate the invention.
Fig. 1 is a plan of ironing machine showing ironing block in position thereon.
Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of ironing block.
Fig. 3. Plan of ironing block shown in Fig. 2.
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Fig. 4. Sectional elevation showing modified form of ironing block..
Fig. 5. Side elevation of another construction of ironing block (partly in section).
Fig. 6. Side elevation of another modification of ironing block (partly in section).
Fig. 7. Plan of ironing block shown in Fig. 6.
Fig. 8. Side elevation partly in section of another modification of ironing block.
Fig. 9. Plan of ironing block shown in Fig. 8 in section.
Fig. 10. Side elevation and section of another modification of the ironing block.
Fig. 11. Plan of same showing one position of the ironing block.
Fig. 12. Plan showing the reversed position of the ironing block.
The ironing machine is constructed in the usual way with a reciprocating table A
travelling to and fro beneath the heated ironing roller B. Upon the table A is
placed the revolving block D capable of being rotated about its vertical axis to any
degree. It is intended primarily to use the block D when in operation either in
the position shown in Fig. 1 or in a position at right angles thereto.
The ironing block D may be mounted on a vertical pivot or pin d on a bracket
or stand E secured by screws or otherwise to the reciprocating table A as shown
in Figs. 2 and 3 or it may be arranged in any convenient way to receive a rotary
cr angular movement in a horizontal plane as illustrated in the several other figs.
of the drawings.
In Fig. 4 the rotary ironing block D is mounted centrally on a circular base ¹
fitted to it with a pin e secured to the reciprocating table A on which the block D
can be rotated as desired.
In Fig. 5 the rotary ironing block D is mounted at one end on a base E2 which is
pivoted on the pin e secured to the reciprocating table A.
In Figs. 6 and 7 the rotary ironing block 1) is mounted at one and to a base E³ to
which is secured a circular wooden platform or turn-table F fitted into an annular
recess in the reciprocating table A in which it is free to rotate or turn to any
degree required.
In Figs. 8 and 9 the rotary ironing block is mounted upon a circular platform
or turn-table F fitted into an annular recess formed on the surface of the recipro-
cating table A by a metallic ring G and if desired may also be provided with a
central stud or pivot g.
In Figs. 10 to 12 the ironing block D is mounted on a vertical pin d affixed to
or rotating in a suitable bracket E of any convenient shape or size affixed or secured
to the reciprocating table A of the machine. The ironing block D is mounted on
the pin d eccentrically or so that the pin is nearer to one end or side than the
other to cause the block when rotated or reversed to come nearer to one side of the
table A than the other and thus pass under one end of the ironing roller B more than
the other. Either of the other methods described of supporting the vertical pin or
of rotating the ironing block D may be adopted whilst the block is placed eccen-
trically to move to one side of the table as it is rotated.
It is to be understood that any other suitable or convenient way of supporting
or mounting the ironing block B may be adopted which will permit of its being
rotated in a horizontal plane in the manner described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
1. An ironing machine constructed with the ironing block mounted so as to be

page_text: capable of rotation in a horizontal plane to pass under the ironing roller in any
desired position substantially as described.
2. In an ironing machine the combination with the ironing roller B and recipro-
cating table of A of a rotary ironing block D a supporting bracket or stand and
a device about which it can rotate in a horizontal plane substantially as described.
3. An ironing machine having the several parts constructed and arranged in
combination substantially as described and shown with reference to either of the
figs. of the drawings.
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Dated this 92nd dose of December 1898.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool, and London, Patent Agents.