Improvements in Ironing or Polishing Machines.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Aug., 1897
Date of Application, 25th Aug., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 25th May, 1898-Accepted, 20th June, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ironing or Polishing Machines.
I, WILLIAM EXCELL BAKER, of 41, Almeric Road, Battersea Rise, London,
Laundry Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to construct a machine for ironing or polishing
shirts, collars, cuffs or other fabric's. For this purpose I mount two polished
heated cylinders, on pivots, in a suitable framing, provided with a handle for
moving or guiding the apparatus over the article to be operated upon. The
cylinders are caused to revolve in reverse directions (to obtain the desired friction
& to prevent them from running away) by flexible shafting or by band or belting,
(the slack being taken up if desired by weights or springs) or by other suitable
means. More cylinders may if desired be used. A modification consists in using
one cylinder only, such cylinder being arranged to revolve through an opening
in, or near to, a presser plate or iron, by which the operator applies pressure upon
the table, or article being operated upon, to prevent the cylinder from running
away thus obtaining the desired friction."
Deted this 24th day of August 1897
The
WILLIAM EXCELL BAKER.
COMPLETE SPECI
CATION
Improvements in Ironing or Polishing Machines.
I, WILLIAM EXCELL BAKER, of 41, Almeric Road, Battersea Rise, London,
Laundry 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: --
The object of this invention is to construct a machine for ironing or polishing
shirts, collars, cuffs, or other fabrics. For this purpose I mount two polished
heated cylinders on pivots, in a suitable framing, provided with a handle, for
moving or guiding the apparatus over the article to be operated upon. The
cylinders are caused to revolve in reverse directions, (to obtain the desired friction
and to prevent them from running away), by flexible shafting, or by band or
belting (the slack being taken up if desired by weights or springs) or by other
suitable means. More cylinders may if desired be used. A modification consists
in using one cylinder only, such cylinder being arranged to revolve through an
opening in, or near to, a presser plate or iron, by which the operator applies pressure
upon the table, or article being operated upon, to prevent the cylinder from

page_text: running away, thus obtaining the desired friction. But in order that
But in order that my inven-
tion may be more fully understood, I will now proceed to describe it by the aid of
the accompanying drawings, which show an end view of the apparatus. A is the
cylinder, B the framing, C1, C2, C3, and C show the position of four toothed
wheels, fixed at the opposite end of the apparatus, two of such wheels being fixed
to the ends of the two cylinders, and two being fixed to the framing. These four
toothed wheels are fixed to gear with one another, so that when either of these
wheels are driven by the gear, (which I connect to one of them) the two cylinders
will rotate in reverse directions. D) is the handle for guiding or moving the
apparatus over the article to be operated upon, after the manner of gas irons.
The cylinders may be heated by gas or other suitable means, laid on by suitable
connections. It will be seen that when both rotating cylinders are applied to the
article to be operated upon, the contact will be frictional, as owing to the cylinders
rotating in reverse directions they cannot roll. One only can roll when & if the
other is raised. It will be understood that in describing cylinders to be rotated
in reverse directions, I do not refer to machines in which the articles pass between
cylinders so rotating. The presser plate or iron described in the modification,
may if desired be heated to act as an ironing agent. Although I have described
this presser plate as a means of preventing a single cylinder from running away
over the work, it will be obvious that the effect would be the same if it was
desired to use more cylinders rotating in the same direction.
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:-
1st. In ironing or polishing machines operating in the manner described (in
which the article does not pass between the cylinders) the use of revolving heated
cylinders rotating in reverse directions substantially as & for the purpose
described.
2nd. The use of a presser plate or iron substantially as and for the purpose
described.
3rd. Ironing or polishing machines substantially as described & illustrated in
the drawings.