Improved Means of Heating ironing
Year: 1896

page_text: Improved Means of Heating ironing
THOMAS CUDLIPP, 8, Church Street London N.W. Laundry and General Engineer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
To heat Ironing, drying or other machines, more particularly those used in the
Laundry, Drying, and similar trades, instead of using Gas, or Steam as used at
present.
I connect the flue pipe of an ordinary, drying or heating stove to the roller or
other part of the machine and heat it with the hot air of the said stove, or I take a
separate pipe from the stove for this purpose. In this pipe or pipes, I place a damper
for regulating the heat or for shutting it off altogether. In cases where the draught
of the stove is not strong enough I use a fan or blower to increase it.
This fan or blower I either fix to the Machine or in any suitable position.
Dated this 29th day of October 1896.
THOMAS CUDLIPP, 8, Church Street Edgware Road London Laundry and General
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:-
To heat Ironing, Drying and other Machines, more particularly those used in the
Laundry, Dyeing, and similar trades. Instead of using Gas or Steam as used at
present, I connect the flue pipe A of an ordinary drying or heating stove E to the
roller B or other part of the machine; and heat it with the hot air of the said stove.
Or I take a separate pipe from the stove E for this purpose. In this pipe or pipes I
place a damper C for regulating the heat, or for shutting it off altogether.
I do not confine myself to any particular plan of connecting the pipes, as this will
differ with the different machines.
For instance in the case of an ordinary Collar, Cuff, or Body Ironing Machine, I
may attach a nozzle to the bearings of the roller or to any other part of the machine.
This nozzle may be fastened by bolts, set screws, or such like, leaving it large enough
to receive a pipe from the stove.
The roller will then form part of the stove pipe, and get sufficiently heated. At
the other end of the roller, I fix a tapered nozzle D that another pipe may fit over it,
and be conducted in any desired direction. In cases where a fixed part of a machine

page_text: requires heating, such for instance as the Chest of a Decoudun or similar machines, I
attach the nozzle to the said part or chest.
The nozzle in this case being made the shape of the chest, or any other suitable
shape, to conduct the hot air as above described. Should the draught of the stove
not be strong enough to insure a free circulation of the hot air, I increase it by means
of a fan or blower; which I place in any suitable position, and work it either by
hand or power.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performned, I declare that what I
claim is
1st. A means of heating Ironing, Drying and similar Machines by the fire of a
stove of any kind or shape.
2nd. The heat to be conveyed as described or in any other suitable manner.
Although this is more particularly intended for Collar, Cuff, Shirt and Body-
linen Ironers.
3rd. It is also applicable to any other machine which has hitherto only been heated
by Gas or Steam.
Dated this 20th day of August 1907