Year: 1898

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I, JAMES MCALLISTER, of 144, Craigpark, Dalmeny Terrace, Dennistoun, Glas-
gow, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to ironing machines and it has for its object to improve
their construction.
In carrying out my invention I use a large copper or other suitable metallic
cylinder or roller which is heated by steam or other heating agent and which is
revolved by any suitable mechanism from a prime mover. The roller is carried
in a suitable frame which frame also carries five or other suitable number of
small rollers arranged at intervals round the large roller and at a short distance
from its surface. Carried also by the frame is a, preferably, adjustable roller.
From the adjustable roller an endless blanket or its equivalent passes round
nearly the whole of the surface of the large roller or cylinder and then back over
the small rollers to the adjustable roller. This blanket may be caused to travel
at the same or at a different speed to the large cylinder or roller by simply revolv-
ing the adjustable roller or one or more of the small rollers.
The articles to be ironed are placed upon the blanket and carried round between
it and the large roller being thoroughly ironed during their passage.
In order to dry the blanket one or more of the small rollers or the adjustable
roller may be heated by steam or in any other suitable manner.
The large cylinder or roller would be preferably provided with an arrangement
of water lifters or buckets whereby water of condensation would be lifted up
and run into a central chamber from whence it would escape through the trun-
nions of the cylinder.
In this machine the articles are dried and ironed at the same time.
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I, JAMES MCALLISTER, of 144, Craigpark, Dalmeny Terrace, Dennistoun, Glas-
gow, 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:-
This invention relates to ironing machines and it has for its object to improve

page_text: In order that my said invention may be properly understood I have hereunto
appended two explanatory sheets of drawings, whereon,
Fig. 1 is an end view of the machine.
Fig. 2 is a front view of the machine, shown broken in half.
Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the machine.
Fig. 3 is a section on the line - Fig. 3.
On the drawings the same reference numerals wherever repeated indicate the
same parts.
In carrying out my invention I use a large copper or other suitable metallic
cylinder which can revolve in the bearings 2 of the frame 3. This cylinder
is heated by steam which is admitted through the trunnion 4 and it is revolved
by means of the wheel gear 5, 6, driven from the shaft 7 which latter is actuated
from any suitable prime mover by means of belts running on the pulleys 8 or 9
according to the speed desired.
10 is the steam inlet pipe. 11 is a water drain pipe. 12, 13 are stuffing glands.
14, 15, (Figs. 3 & 3") are curved water lifters arranged at the inside of the cylin-
der and provided with a central partition 16. As will be seen the lifters are
inclined and the condensed water caught by them runs along to the pipes 17, 18,
and thence to the drum 20 and out by the pipe 11. 21 are stays and 22 ribs for
strengthening the shell of the cylinder. 23 are frame stays.
Three or other suitable number of small rollers 24 are arranged at intervals
round the copper cylinder 1. 25 is a blanket drying cylinder which is heated by
steam supplied through the pipe 26. 27 is a water drain pipe for the cylinder 25.
The pipes 26, 27 pass through stuffing boxes to the hollow trunnions of the
cylinder.
28 is an adjusting roller which revolves in bearings in the brackets 29 pivottel
at 30, 30, to the frame 1. The adjustment is effected by means of the screws 31,
31, which work through tapped lugs 32 on the brackets 29 and bear, at their
ends, against the frame 3.
33 is the driving roller for the endless blanket 34. This roller 33 is actuated
by means of the cog wheels 34, 35, chain wheels 36, 37, and chain 38 from the
trunnion 4.
39 is the feed table which is carried upon the brackets 29. 40 is the delivery
table which is carried upon the brackets 41, 41, fixed to the frame 3. 42 is a
guide which is pivotted in the brackets 41 and can be lowered into contact with
the cylinder 1 or raised up therefrom by means of the counterweighted crank-
levers 42", 42".
The blanket 34 is perforated to permit of the escape of steam and water.
The clothes to be ironed are fed on to the table 39 and in between the blan-
ket 34 and the heated cylinder 1 and are carried round, between the cylinder and
the blanket, to the delivery table 40. During their passage the clothes are
thoroughly pressed and ironed.
The cylinder revolves in the direction of the arrow a (Fig. 1) whilst the
blankets 34 is caused to revolve, by the action of the roller 33, in the direction of
the arrow (Fig. 1) and at a slower speed than the ironing cylinder 1.
b
The blanket is thoroughly dried as it travels to the roller 28 by the heated
cylinder 25.
The blanket can be adjusted to the proper tension by means of the roller 28
and screws 31.
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 consider novel and desire to claim is :-
1. An ironing machine characterized by an endless blanket which is caused to
travel partially round a revolving ironing cylinder and at a different speed there-
from, the clothes being pressed and ironed between the blanket and the surface
of the cylinder, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

page_text: 2. The construction or the arrangement and combination of parts of the iron-
ing machine substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the
drawings annexed.
Dated this 28th day of August 1899.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
100, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.