Improvements in Drying, Ironing, and Finishing or similar Machines.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 31st July, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 28th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 22nd May, 1897
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Improvements in Drying, Ironing, and Finishing or similar
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 to improvements in drying ironing and finishing or similar
machines more particularly such machines as is described in the Specification of my
Patent No. 1862 of 1895.
. It consists in the provision of an endless band which is placed round the first and
if necessary round the second roller for the purpose of preventing the clothes from
adhering to and being carried round the roller.
I purpose to make the band of so much greater length than the circumference of the
roller that as it is delivered from between the roller and its bed it will in the case of
the first roller overhang the heated casting or any similar surface.
. In the loop of the band thus formed I purpose to fix a circular rod working on the'
heated casting or similar surface without bearings and prevented from lateral motion
by the side frames of the machine.
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The rod which is rotated by the band acts as a weight to keep the loop of the band.
in line against the heated or other surface and also to give an angular shape to the:
loop of the band, thus preventing articles from sticking to the laths.
By the above arrangement the roller may be made of any material and, to work
under pressure.
It will be evident that this invention is equally applicable to other ironing or similar
machines than that patented as above stated wherein a cylinder or roller rotates in a
concave bed.
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GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Drying, Ironing, and Finishing or similar
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 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 to improvements in drying ironing and finishing or similar
machines, more particularly such machines as is described in the Specification of my
Patent No. 1862 of 1895, and in order that the same may be readily understood I

page_text: have annexed hereunto a drawing shewing in section part of a machine such as above
described with my present invention applied thereto.
The invention consists in the provision of an endless band, as seen at a, which is
placed round the first roller b'as shown on the drawing, (and if necessary a similar
band may be placed round the second roller c) for the purpose of preventing the clothes
from adhering to and being carried round the said roller."
I purpose to make the band a of so much greater length than the circumference of
the roller that as it is delivered from between the roller and its bed, it will in the case
of the first roller 6 overhang the heated casting d or any similar surface.
In the loop of the band a thus formed, I purpose to fix a circular rod or roller e
working on the heated casting d or similar surface without bearings, and prevented
from lateral motion by the side frames f of the machine.
The rod or roller e which is rotated by the band a acts as a weight to keep the loop
of the band a in line against the heated or other surface d and also to give an angular
shape to the loop of the band, thus preventing articles from sticking to the surface of
the roller.
By the above arrangement the roller b may be made of any material and to work
under pressure.
It will be evident that this invention is equally applicable to other ironing or similar
machines than that patented as above stated, wherein a cylinder or roller rotates in a
concave bed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The combination with an ironing roller of a loose jacket or band of greater length
than the circumference of the said ironing roller and held in a loop overhanging the
surface upon which the articles treated are to be delivered by a loose rod or roller,
substantially as and for the purpose herein before described.
2. The band a and rod or roller e applied to the roller 6 substantially as hereinbefore
described with reference to the annexed drawing.
Dated this 26th day of April 1897
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.