dering Garments and Textile Fabrios
Year: 1884

page_text: Calendering Garments and Textile Fabrios.
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I WALTER BRIERLEY of Crossley Street, Halifax, in the County of York, Patent
Agent and Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR IRONING, PRESSING, AND
CALENDERING GARMENTS AND TEXTILE FABRICS," communicated to me from
abroad by Friedrich Adolph Zschiesche, of Cottbus, Germany, to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improved apparatus suitable for use of tailors, for hot
pressing the seams or other parts of garments, and is also applicable for ironing
or calendering fabrics, and consist of an "iron" or roller mounted, carried, and
counterbalanced, so as to admit of the free movement thereof, in any direction.
The improved apparatus comprises a vertical rod, or pillar, on which is a collar
or bossed bracket, to which is bolted an horizontal ironing, pressing, or calendering
table or platform, the upper part of the said pillar receives and supports, upon a
fixed collar, a horizontal lever, the outer arm of which carries a counterbalanced
lever, and through the inner arm, which is hollow, or composed of two parts, or
rails, is a pendent rod, screwed and chased, and having adjusting wheels and
spiral spring, by means of which the iron or the calender roller, which is by link
and pin attached to the foot of this rod, can be raised or lowered at will, so as
to adjust its height in relation to the ironing, pressing, or calendering table or
platform.
The screwed pendent rod is provided with a long collar and bush, the lower
portion of which is between the hollow arm or rails referred to, the upper portion
of the long collar carries the spiral adjusting spring, the lower part of the collar
has arms or brackets, to the extremities of which are attached runners, or wheels,
received upon the outer edges or rails, formed by the hollow arm, by means of
which the iron or the calender roller can be run nearer to, or further from, the
vertical supporting pillar, whilst the latter is the centre, for lateral or radial move-
ments, of the iron or calender roller, there is thus provided, facilities for movement

page_text: vertically and horizontally. A cross bar, is attached to the iron, on one end of the
bar is the handle for operating and guiding the iron, the other end of the said
bar forms a book, which can at pleasure be hooked upon one of a series of pins
attached to a standard fixed to the ironing table, the pin, bar and handle, thus
form a lever and fulcrum, by means of which (aided by the spiral spring, upon
the pendent rod hereinbefore referred to,) the iron can be raised or turned up, но
as to bring its point to bear specially upon any part of the fabric, or garment, by
the least exertion on the part of the operator.
The iron may be heated by gas as is well understood, or otherwise made hot.

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for Ironing, Pressing, and
Calendering Garments and Textile Fabrics.
I WALTER BRIERLEY, of Crossley Street, Halifax, in the County of York, Patent
Agent and Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR IRONING, PRESSING, AND CALENDERING
GARMENTS AND TEXTILE FABRICS communicated to me from abroad by Friedrich
Adolph Zschiesche of Cottbus, Germany, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
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This invention relates to improved apparatus suitable for use of tailors, for hot
pressing, the seams or other parts of garments, and is also applicable for ironing or
calendering, fabrics and consists of an "iron" or roller, mounted, carried, and :
counterbalanced, so as to admit of the free movement thereof, in any direction.
Such being the nature and object of the said invention, the following is a
complete description of same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings
forming a part of this specification in which:-
Fig. 1 is a side view partly in section of a machine provided with an ordinary
Bad-iron.
Fig. 2 is a plan view of part of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a vertical section of Fig. 2.
Figs. 4-10 are details or parts detached.
The cylindrical rod b, is secured by the collar, a¹, to the ironing table and by
the socket, a, with adjusting screw c, to the floor.
On the upper end of rod, b, is turning horizontally by pivot e' and collar e, the
borizontal arm d, in the vertical slot d', of which the traversing block or carriage f
slides The rollers f¹ of the block frun on the upper surface of arm d.
In the vertical hole of the block f, lined with the box f' is raised or lowered
the screw g- A strong spiral spring h encircles the upper part of the box ƒ³, and
bears on a shoulder of the box f', whilst the upper end takes up the pressure of the
adjusting wheel g¹, containing the nut for screw g.-A second adjusting wheel p
of this kind is placed under the box f' so that these two adjusting wheels enable
the tailor to vary the pressure on the sad irons fixed to the lower end of screw g,
and to raise or to lower it-The spring h has the tendency to raise the screw g and
the sad iron s attached thereto and the box f prevents the adjusting wheels g¹
and p from approaching overmuch one to the other and so injuring spring h.
To the lower extremity of screw g is secured by means of pin, q the link q¹ and
to the latter by pin q³ the lever r, to which the sad iron 8, is attached by means
of the clamps 2.
The weight of the sad iron 8, is counterbalanced by the weight u held by the
short end of arm d.-The sad iron, being pressed down by means of the adjusting
wheels gl and p upon the garment or fabric, is then conducted by means of the
handle attached to lever 7.

page_text: As the block or carriage ƒ slides in the arm & and the latter is pivotting on
rod b, the sad iron is adapted to be moved in any direction in a horizontal plane-
The pins q and q and the link q¹ form an universal joint and allow to tilt the sad
iron in longitudinal and transversal direction, as needed in work.
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In order that the hot sad iron may more easily be attached to the screw g, the
transportable standard k with bottom plate m and arms l is employed-A notch as
the end of lever is put over one of the arms and the handle of lever is raised
and hereafter the pin q* is put in its holes-When the pin q³ shall be withdrawn
from its hole for bringing the iron to the fire, the same standard is employed and
the end of hook v, is introduced into the hole of lever r, and serves then for
carrying the iron to the stove.
The gas jet sad iron illustrated by Figs. 4, 5 and 6 may be used instead of the
ordinary iron This iron is hollow and has in its interior a long ring of gas pipe b
provided with fire apertures The gas is introduced into the ring b¹ through the
pipe a³, the cock a¹ and a flexible tube attached thereto-The back wall of the
iron 8 is held by a rabbet and secured moreover to the other part of the sad-iron
by means of the cross piece e with pressure screw f³-The disc h¹ serves for
regulating the admission of the air, whilst the products of combustion escape
through socket and a flexible tube attached thereto.
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Instead of the sad iron also a pressing plates, (Figs. 7 and 8), or a calendering
roller y with holder (Figs. 9 and 10) may be adapted to the machine.
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
1. The combination of the horizontal arm d, swinging round the vertical rod b,
with block f, screw g, and adjusting wheels g¹ and p, as described.
2. The screw g, connected with the sad iron 8 by means of an universal joint,
formed by link q¹ and pins q q², as described and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 8th day of June 1885.