Improvements in the Construction of Presses for Wearing Apparel, Linen, and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Dec., 1899-Accepted, 24th Feb., 1900
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Presses for Wearing Apparel,
Linen, and the like.
I, JOHN ROBERT WATTS, of Lambert Street, in the City of Sheffield, Manu-
facturer, 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:-
My improvements relate more particularly to the class of screw presses referred
to in Letters Patent granted to me No. 23,109 and dated 3rd November 1898.
They have for their object to obviate certain difficulties in construction and in
the use of such presses, especially in respect of the distribution of pressure, and
to afford facilities for stretching as well as pressing garments, and are carried
out substantially as shown in the accompanying drawings and as further described.
Fig. 1, is a perspective view of a complete press, Fig. 2, a series of alternative
shapes of under cross-bars, Fig. 3, illustrates an arrangement of hinged pillar or
leg E to match bar C¹. Fig. 4, shows two methods of constructing top cross bars
integrally with legs.
The press proper consists of the usual pair of hardwood boards of any desired
size between which the articles to be pressed are inserted, and preferably they
are provided with duplicate apparatus for applying pressure: this apparatus is
made up of several parts, that is to say, across the underside of bottom board B,
a little distance from each end I fix métal cross-bars C, which may be made
according to any of the shapes illustrated by Fig. 2, or of any other combina-
tion of such extremities for the reception of legs D, E illustrated by Figs. 2-3
& 4 of a frame or cross-bar F, which may be formed in one piece as shown.
Figs. 1 & 4, or the leg E, may be a separate part say as shown Fig. 3, according as
it is desired that the frame may be entirely removed or only swivelled out of
the way. The frame F may have slotted opening in both legs E and so be entirely
removed from bar C, or one leg E slotted, leg D acting as a swivel. The leg Ei
Fig. may likewise have one end shaped to constitute an hinge with C¹ Fig. 2.
The cross-bar F carries a screw S for applying pressure by means of lever H or
other equivalent means.
The pressure resultant from rotation of screw may be received direct by a
metal cross-bar I fixed to the top board A, or when desired a steel spring G
may be inserted between the screw end and a bar. J, thereby transmitting pressure
more directly toward the sides.
By the construction herein described it becomes possible to stretch garments
such as trousers, by simply applying pressure first by one screw, then pull longi-
tudinally, and finally apply second screw to maintain position.
my said
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
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1st. For a trousers press and the like, the special formation of an under cross-

page_text: bar to permit of upper bar or frame being attached or detached therefrom by
slots, swivel action, locking hook or drop down hinge as described and illustrated.
2. In a trousers press and the like, an upper cross-bar through which passes a
said cross-bar having forged integral therewith one or more legs, pillars or
supports connectable with an under cross-bar as C Figs. 2 & 4, substantially as
described and illustrated.
screw,
3. In a trousers press and the like, the combination of two or more under
cross-bars, two or more upper cross-bars, each having one or more legs formed
integral therewith and readily detachable from said under cross bars, upper
cross-bar also carrying a hand operated screw pressing down the upper press board
through a metal cross plate alone or with an intervening spring, all as herein
described.
TAL
1000
ISAAC BECK, F.S.P.A.,
Agent for the Applicant,
Haymarket Chambers, 17, Haymarket, Sheffield.