Patent ID: 8025190

Claim:
An upgraded ironing machine for ironing trousers, comprising: a supporting structure of at least two substantially vertical pressing plates arranged so they are facing each other and moving from a home configuration, wherein said pressing plates are substantially a long way from each other, and a working configuration wherein said pressing plates are substantially close together, at least one ironing plate substantially vertical and interposable between said pressing plates in said working configuration, at least one supporting element of at least one pair of trousers, and automated positioning means of said trousers with respect to said ironing plate, wherein said trousers are positionable vertically in said ironing machine with the free ends of the legs arranged upwards for being supported by said supporting element, with the legs laid and extended upwards respectively on the opposite sides of said ironing plate, and with the waistband and crutch of the trousers arranged downwards in the zone of and by a lower portion of said ironing plate, and in that said automated positioning means comprise moving means associated with said ironing plate for moving said supporting element and said ironing plate relatively each other along at least one moving direction substantially vertical, and at least one detection device, operatively connected to said moving means, for detecting the position of the waistband of said trousers with respect to said ironing plate.