Improvements in Apparatus for Pressing or Ironing Trousers and other Garments, and for similar purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 30'h July, 1896-Accepted, 12th Sept., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Pressing or Ironing Trousers and
other Garments, and for similar purposes.
We, LEO LOEBENBERG and DANIEL H. MORRIS, both of 153 East 47th Street,
in the City, County and State of New York, United States of America, Inventors,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
My invention relates to improvements in devices for ironing or pressing the legs
of trousers and the object thereof is to provide a small and effective device of this
character, which will be more fully described in the following specification.
In the practice of my invention I provide a bar which is curved near the centre
thereof, and provided at one end with a handle of wood or similar material which
is a non-conductor of heat; and the opposite end of the bar is bent transversally
and then horizontally to form the shaped portion.
The bar is provided at the central of said bent portion, with an enlarged or
flattened part and through this enlarged part is passed a screw or pivot pivotally
connecting the bars. Within the transversed portion is secured a metallic cylinder
which has an opening or recess in the ends thereof, adapted to receive the end of
the bar.
The bar is provided with a transverse portion, the end of which is bent to form
the U-shaped portion and within said transverse portion is secured a small metallic
cylinder, the opposite end of said bar is provided with a handle similar to the handle
of the bar.
The operation of this device is as follows:-
The cylinders are heated and the leg of the trousers is inserted between said
cylinders, the cylinder being upon the under side thereof, and the small cylinder
being placed upon the upper front edge of the trousers. The object of placing the
small cylinder upon the outer or front edge of the trousers is that same may
be creased or pressed only upon the front edge thereof.
The pressure of the cylinders may be regulated by the force exerted upon
the handles as by forcing the handles together, the cylinders are likewise pressed
together.
Various changes in the construction and material may be made without departing
from the scope of my invention.
This invention can obviously be used in pressing other garments and for other
similar purposes.
Dated this 30th October 1895.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for Pressing or Ironing Trousers and
other Garments, and for similar purposes.
We, LEO LOEBENBERG, and DANIEL H. MORRIS citizens of the United States,
both residing at No. 153 East 47th Street in the City of New York, County of
New York, and State of New York, United States of America, Inventors, 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:
Our invention relates to improvements in devices for ironing or pressing the legs
of trousers and the object thereof is to provide a small and effective device of this
character, which will be more fully described in the following specification.
We attain this object by means of the device illustrated in the accompanying
drawings in which :-
Fig. 1 is a side view of my improved device, and,
Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.
In the practice of our invention we provide the bar A, which is curved near the
center thereof, and provided at one end with a handle B, of wood or similar material
which is a non-conductor of heat; and the opposite end of the bar A is bent
transversally and then horizontally to form the U-shaped portion a² and the ends
are bent upon themselves to form the inwardly directed extremities as shown
in Fig. 2.
The bar A is provided at the central part of said bent portion, with an enlarged
or flattened part a¹ and through this enlarged part is passed a screw or pivot C
pivotally connecting the bars. Within the transversed portion is secured a metallic
cylinder B which has an opening or recess in the ends thereof adapted to receive
the ends a² of the bar A, which are sprung into said opening and are retained
therein by the pressure of the ends.
The bar A' is provided with a transverse portion a³, the end of which is bent to
form the U-shaped portion at and within said transverse portion is secured a short
metallic cylinder B³. The opposite end of said bar A¹ is provided with a
handle B', similar to the handle B of the bar A and the bent portion of the bar A'
is flattened or enlarged and provided with an opening adapted to receive the screw
or pivot C which pivotally secures said bars A and A' together.
The operation of the device is as follows:-
The cylinders B and B are heated and the leg of the trousers is inserted
between said cylinders, the cylinder B³ being upon the under side thereof and the
small cylinder B² being placed upon the upper front edge of the trousers. The
object of placing the small cylinder B2 upon the outer or front edge of the trousers
is that same may be creased or pressed only upon the front or back edge thereof.
The pressure of the cylinder may be regulated by the force exerted upon the
handle as by forcing the handles together, the cylinders are likewise pressed
together.
Various changes in the construction and material may be made without departing
from the scope of my invention.
This invention can obviously be used in pressing other garments and for other
similar purposes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In a creaser or presser for trousers the bar provided with metallic cylinders

page_text: and means for forcing said cylinders together, substantially as shown and
described.
2. A creaser or presser for trousers and the like consisting of non-conducting
handles, of metallic cylinders and the connecting bars centrally pivoted, substantially
as shown and described.
3. The creaser or presser for trousers and the like consisting of bars having
a centrally bent portion, and provided at one end with non-conducting handles,.
and at the other with a transverse portion and the metallic cylinders revolubly
supported within said transverse portion, substantially as shown and described.
4. A creaser or presser for trousers and the like consisting of a bar having an
intermediate bend or curved portion and provided at one end with a transverse
portion said transverse portion having bent or U-shaped ends, the metallic
cylinder revolubly secured between said ends, and non-conducting handles upon
the opposite end of said bar and the similar bar provided with a similar curved
portion and a transverse portion extending to one side thereof, substantially as.
shown and described.
Dated this 20th day of July 1806
WHEATLEY & MACKEnzie,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents..
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents..