Improved Machine for Ironing Textiles and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Mar., 1898-Accepted, 30th Apr.,
1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Machine for Ironing Textiles and the like.
I, MATHAUS ENGELBRECHT, of Nymphenburg, near Munich, in the Kingdom
of Bavaria and German Empire, Ironer, 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 invention relates to a machine which is devised to effect the ironing of linen
and the like (which has hitherto been done by hand) by means of mechanism,
and thus to effect considerable saving of labour whilst obtaining equally good or
even better results.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of the machine.
Figure 2 a section through the iron used and
Figure 3 an end view of the machine.
It should be noted that Figure 2 is on a somewhat enlarged scale. In the
machine frame a is supported a shaft b passing right through the same, which shaft
is hollow at its hinder end at 61. Both parts are connected together by means
of the bearing c which serves at the same time as a steam chest. The shaft b
carries the pulleys e, f of which the first serves for the main driving belt and the
other for the belt connecting to the pulley h placed below. The pulley h is fixed
upon the shaft g which has at its other end a crank . The crank pin thereof moves
in the slot k of a two-armed lever 1, which lever revolves upon the pin and by
means of its upper end sets the table m in motion to and fro, said table being
supported in bearings upon the floor. Above this table is placed fixed upon the
frame of the machine the smoothing iron proper, which remains stationary during
the ironing whilst the goods to be ironed move to and fro under it. This iron con-
sists of two cast-iron steam chests n, n¹ which are hollow as shown in Figure 2,
and also of an ironing roller o. The said roller is placed upon the shaft bor b₁
and together with the steam pipes of the chambers, and their connecting
pipes p, is in communication through the hollow shaft 61 with the steam pipe d.
The ironing or polishing roller o, makes together with the shaft and the pulley e
a little more than four hundred revolutions in a minute. For the purpose of
ironing, steam is admitted into the tube d which steam may pass direct from the
boiler or may be the exhaust steam from the machine, and thereby both the
chests, n, n¹ and also the ironing roller are heated. The goods to be ironed are
placed suitably arranged upon the swinging table m, and so packed that they are
passed beneath the heated iron with the necessary pressure, the roller of the said
iron projecting a few millimetres over the said parts. The advantages of the
machine are obvious and consist principally in the uniform efficient ironing of
the goods with great saving of labour and no danger of scorching.

page_text: 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:-
The improved steam ironing machine constructed and operating substantially
as described with reference to the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 15th day of March 1898.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
322, High Holborn, London, W.C., Patent: Agents for the Applicant. -