Improvements appertaining to Machines for Ironing or Smoothing Linen and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Complete Specification Left, 23rd June, 1899-Accepted, 5th Aug., 1899
PROVIDIONAL DIEULTICATION.
Improvements appertaining to Machines for Ironing or Smoothing
Linen and the like.
I, HENRY CROFTS LONGSDON, Managing Director of the Firm of W. Summer-
scales and Sons, Limited, of Keighley, in the County of York, Laundry Engineers
and Machine Makers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows, that is to say:-
It relates to that class of machine for ironing or smoothing linen or the like
wherein a heated roller, has the articles to be ironed, pressed against it by
another roller covered with suitable material, as felt or the like, and consists
in arranging and constructing the parts whereby one of these rollers is pressed
against the other in such a manner as to render the regulation of said pressure
comparatively easy for the operator while all the parts are firm and perform their
functions efficiently.
To attain the object of my invention I mount the upper rollers on levers which
I couple by suitable rods to lever arms securely keyed or otherwise fixed on a
cross shaft mounted to oscillate in bearings carried by the framework.
On this cross shaft is secured a worm wheel gearing with a worm arranged to be
rotated by a hand wheel, so that as such hand wheel is rotated the shaft will be
moved by its worm and wheel to cause the arms carried by it to operate the levers
on which the roller is mounted thus any desired movement of same may be
cffected.
To allow the necessary yield to the roller, the connecting rods referred to are
arranged to act thereon through the medium of springs.
Appropriate guards and guiding parts are employed and mounted on the
machine to prevent the operative from being caught by the rollers.
Dated this 22nd day of September 1898.
HENRY C. LONGSDON,
Per Samuel Hey,
Agent,

page_text: and 'Machine Makers, 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, that is to say:-
It relates to that class of machine for ironing or smoothing linen or the like
wherein a heated roller has the articles to be ironed pressed against it by
another roller covered with suitable material, as felt or the like, and consists
in arranging and constructing the parts whereby one of these rollers is pressed
against the other in such a manner as to render the regulation of said pressure
comparatively easy for the operator while all the parts are firm and perform their
functions efficiently..
In order that my said invention may be readily understood, I have hereunto
appended sheets of drawings illustrative thereof, to which, by figures and letters,
reference is made in the following description.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a machine for ironing or smoothing linen and
the like, made in accordance with my invention.
Fig. 2 is a sectional end elevation taken on the line A-B of parts shown by
Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a plan of the parts illustrated by Figs. 1 and 2.
Similar letters and figures of reference indicate similar parts throughout the
several views.
To attain the object of my invention I mount the upper roller a on levers bb
pivotted on the shaft a¹ and coupled, by means of the connecting rods d d¹
and ee to the lever arms f f which are keyed or otherwise fixed on the cross
.shaft I mounted to oscillate in bearings h carried by the framework 1.
On the cross shaft g is secured the worm wheel k by gearing with the worm m
mounted on the shaft m¹ which rotates in bearings m, and is operated by the
hand wheel n, so that as said hand wheel is rotated, the shaft g will be moved
by the worm m and worm wheel to cause the arms ffl carried by it to operate
the levers bb through the medium of the connecting rods d¹ and ee¹ thus any
desired movement of said levers may be effected.
To allow the necessary yield to the roller a, I mount the springs oo¹ on the
rods dd so that they may intervene between said rods d d and ee¹, hence it will
be seen that any pressure exerted on the levers 66 by means of the worm, worm
wheel and rod and lever connections above described, will act through said
springs while when it is necessary to raise the upper roller a from contact
with the lower one c it is only necessary to rotate the hand wheel in the oppo-
site direction to that required when pressing said rollers together, and said roller à
will be raised by the parts of the rods o el coming into contact with and lifting
the collars d³ ³ fixed to the rods d dr.
The roller a derives its motion from the driving pulley p through the medium
of the gearing wheels q, q', q3 and q³, while the roller c is driven through the
wheels g and r.
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The roller c is heated by a mixture of air and gas which is admitted at 5 s¹ to
the pipe which is perforated and thus forms a cylindrical burner. Air is
admitted to the interior of the roller c to carry away the products of combustion
through the hollow bearings of said roller, by means of the valve or cock t.
The linen etc. is fed to the rollers a and c over the table u, mounted on the
framework 1 by the brackets u¹, u², and this table is also provided with a
guard which prevents the fingers of the operative passing between the said
rollers a and c, while the receptacle wis mounted on the framework as shown, in
order that the linen etc. after passing through or between the rollers a and c will
fall therein to be again brought to the front of the machine.
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;-
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In machines for ironing or smoothing linen and the like, the several parts

page_text: constructed and arranged to operate in combination substantially
specified.
Dated this 02nd day of Tune 1900
as herein
HENRY C. LONGSDON,
Per Samuel Hey,
Agent.