Improvements in Ironing Machines.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 26th Aug., 1897-Accepted, 16th Oct., 1897
Improvements in Ironing Machines.
We ISAAC BRAITHWAITE and EDWARD O'BRIEN of the Firm of Isaac
Braithwaite and Son of Kendal in the County of Westmoreland Merchants and
Engineers do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to ironing machines for ironing the bodies of shirts
and other articles in which the rollers are supported at one end only.
It is designed to improve the working of the machine so as to run without
noise and also to render a number of machines being so placed and driven as to
occupy or take up but little space.
The rollers are mounted and geared together in the ordinary way and on the sup-
ported end of either top or bottom roller preferably the top one we apply a worm
wheel. At right angles to this wheel we place a shaft mounted in journals which
between the journal .carries a worm to gear with the worm wheel on the roller
shaft. On the end of this shaft is placed a fast and loose pulley to receive the
driving band or strap.
To the bracket which carries the journals for the cross shaft or in other suitable
position we mount a strap fork capable of sliding or swivelling by which the
strap is changed from one pulley to the other.
The strap fork is operated by a lever or handle and sliding rod or bar or in
other convenient manner.
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WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.
Improvements in Ironing Machines.
We, ISAAC BRAITHWAITE, and EDWARD O'BRIEN, of the Firm of Isaac
Braithwaite and Son, of Kendal, in the County of Westmoreland, Merchants and
Engineers, 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 ironing machines for ironing the bodies of shirts
and other articles in which the rollers are supported at one end only.
It is designed to improve the working of the machine so as to run without
noise and also to render a number of machines being so placed and driven as to
occupy or take up but little space.

page_text: It will be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawing.
Fig. 1. End elevation.
Fig. 2. Side elevation.
Fig. 3. Plan of gearing with parts in section.
Fig. 4. Plan of strap fork and mechanism for operating same.
Figs. 5 and 6. Side and end elevations of modified arrangement of gearing.
The rollers A A¹ are mounted in the framing B and geared together in the
ordinary way, each being supported at one end by a shaft keyed to it, the top
one by the shaft C, and the bottom one by the shaft C¹.
To the end of shaft C which supports the top rollers A, we key or otherwise
affix a worm wheel D by which the rollers are driven. At right angles to the
shaft C we place a cross shaft E mounted in suitable bearings f in the bracket F,
which is bolted or otherwise affixed to the framing B and also forms a wheel
guard or cover. On the shaft E between the bearings f we fix a worm G to gear
with the worm wheel on the roller shaft.
On the cross shaft E are mounted the fast and loose driving pulleys H to
receive the driving band or strap.
At the lower end of the bracket F we form sockets f¹ to carry the sliding bar
or rod k of the strap fork K. The slide bark of the strap fork K is operated by
a bell crank lever L, which is caused to oscillate upon its pivot by a sliding rod M
moved to and fro by the pivoted hand lever N, the rod M being connected with
the levers by the projecting pins m m³.
Instead of placing the worm wheel on the supporting shaft C of the top roller A,
it may be placed on the shaft C' of the bottom roller, but we prefer the arrange-
ment shown in the drawings.
In a modified arrangement of gearing, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, for the worm
and worm wheel, may be substituted skew" pinions D¹ G', the axes of which
are placed at right angles to each other.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:
1. In ironing machines the combination with one of the rollers of driving gear,
comprising a worm wheel on the roller supporting shaft, and a worm on a cross
shaft gearing therewith supported in suitable bearings substantially as described.
2. An ironing machine having the several parts constructed and arranged in
combination, substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 24th day of August 1631.
Dated this 4th day of August 1997.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool and London, Patent Agents.