US1230984A - Clothes-pressing apparatus. - Google Patents

Description

D. H. BENJAMlN & B. W. BROCKETT.

CLOTHES PRESSING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED 050.1.1915.

1,230,984. Patented June 26, 1917.

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CLOTHES PRESSING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. I. 1915.

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DANA. H. BENJAMIN, OF CLEVELAND HEIGHTS OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNORS TO THE VILLAGE, AND BLUFORD W. BROCKETT, AMERICAN LAUNDRY MACHINERY COM- PANY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

CLOTHES-PRESSING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 26, 1917.

Application filed December 1, 1915. Serial No. 64,499.

- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DANA H. BENJAMIN and BLUFORD W. BROCKE'I'I, citizens of the United States, residing at Cleveland Heights Village and Cleveland, respectively, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Pressing Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in clothes pressing machines and particularly to that class of such devices wherein the garments are subjected to pressure between heated members, the one engaging the right side of the fabric, being provided with a pressin surface which will not mat the nap of the abric and produce a gloss thereon.

More specifically the invention relates to an apparatus for pressing garments having a nappy finish and it consists of cooperating pressing members, one of WhlCh 1s provided with suitable padding and the other of which is provided with a pressing surface having innumerable hardened projections and intervening recesses which in the one instance extend into the fabric and in the other receive the fibers and prevent the matting thereof and therefore avoid the production of a glossy finish on the seams, the material utilized being preferably emery cloth or emery paper or any similar surface having projections of a. crystallme character with intervening interstices.

The invention may be further briefly summarized as consisting in the construction'and combination of parts hereinafter set forth in the following description, drawings and claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation; Fig. 2 is a section through the several bucks Fig. 3 is a left end elevation; Fig. 4 is a detail showing the. yielding means for the upper buck; Fig. 5 is a sectional view of this device; Fig. 6 is a top plan view of the machine; Fig. 7 is a detail view of the equalizer for the upper buck; Fig. 8 is a bottom plan view of one of the bucks; Fig. 9 is a cross. sectl n of the ame;

- and and Fig. 10 is an enlarged sectional view of a piece of the buck covering.

In carrying out the invention any preferred form and construction of parts may be employed so long as it possesses the necessary characteristics, but we have shown one form in the drawings which is effective, and in such embodiment 1 represents a base provided with a stationary buck standard 1 having an upper platform portion 2 provided with openings adapted to'receive bolts 3, one arranged near each corner and all secured rigidly within a buck support 4. These bolts receive between the platform 2 and the base of the support 4 suitable springs 5. Below the, platform 2 these bolts are provided with nuts 6. The support 4 is cut in from one end to form a recess 7 for receiving the portion of the garment which passes under this buck. Secured to the top of this support 4 is a lower ironing buck 8 preferably provided with a steam chamber 9 to be furnished with steam from any suitable source.

To the rearof the standard 1 is a main operating shaft standard 10 and an auxiliary standard 11. These two standards are provided .with bearings 12 and 13 respectively. These bearings support a rock shaft 14 extending beyond both bearings, the portion extending beyond the bearing 12 being tapered at 15 and reduced and threaded at 16 for a purpose to be described. Mounted upon the rock shaft 14 are intermediate buck supporting brackets 17 and 18, the former being rigidly secured to the shaft just inside of the bearing 12, and the latter being rigidly secured to the shaft justoutside of the bearing 13. These two brackets are integral with an intermediate buck 19 provided with a steam chamber 20 to be supplied with steam from any suitable source, in any suitable manner. Loosely mounted upon the rock shaft 14 is an upper buck supporting bracket comprising side portions 21 spaced apart and each having at its outer end a shaft receiving portion 22, these two bearing portions receiving a shaft 23 which passes through eyes 24 referably formed integral with the upper uek 25. This upper buck has a steam chamber 26 therein. The shaft 23 is held within the shaft receiving portions 22 by means of suitable set screws 27 holding the shaft against rotation. Secured to this shaft by set screw 28 between the inner eyes 24 is an equalizing member 28 having laterally extending vided with a head 34 engaging in a' recess 35 formed in a block 36 provided with a flange 37 secured by bolts 38 to the upper end of a standard 39.. The shank of the bolt passes through an opening 40 in the block 36. The block 36 below the head of the bolt 34 is recessed at 41 to receive a tongue 42 of a bar 43 which extends to the front of the machine and is there provided with a hand piece 44. Above the block 36 the shank of the bolt is provided with a nut 45 engaging a spring 46. This spring thrusts against a washer 47- engaging the underside of the boss 31 while on the upper side of the boss the shank is provided with a nut 48 held in place by a check nut 49.

In order to transmit pressure from the driving mechanism to the bucks the tapered portion 15 of the shaft 14 is provided with a hub 50 having a downwardly extending arm 51. This arm has at its lower end a fork 52 provided with a cam 53 on the outside of the end of each fork. The hub 50 is rovided with a laterally extending arm 54 aving a counterweight 55secured thereto. A. suitable nut 56 holds the hub 50 in place, and the hub is fastened in any suitable manner to the tapered portion so that these parts operate the shaft.

Coiiperating with the cam 53 is suitable driving mechanism, and it comprises a hearing bracket 57 provided with a-bearing portion 58 having a cap 59. This bearing receives a shaft 60 to which. is keyed a peripheral cam 61 in extent a little greater than a semi-circle.

Assuming that the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 3, the operator moves the intermediate member upward untilit is in engagement with the upper buck, then places the garment upon the lower' buck. He then shifts the intermediate buck until it engages upon the top of the garment and applies power through mechanism to be des'cm ed, causing the cam 61 to rotate in a counter- 1,2so,es4 I clockwise direction, as shown in Fig. 3, and moves the arm 51 and the intermediate buck in a clockwise direction. Thiscauses pressure to be brought to bear between the intermediate buck and the lower buck. The power mechanism is then released from the shaft 60.

Any suitable mechanism may be provided for rotating the shaft 60 first in one direction then in the other, but since this mechanism constitutes no part of the invention it has not been shown or described, it being only important that when the buck 19 is moved downward the cam 61 should be rotated in counter-clockwise direction as shown in Fig. 3, so that it will engage one of the cams 53 and force the buck 19 downward, the reverse rotation causing the cam 61 to coeperate with the other cam 53.

The engaging surfaces of the several pressing members are equipped in the following manner. The upper surface of the lower buck 8 and the upper surface of the intermediate buck 19 are both provided with suitable padding 62 held in place by pins 63 and by bands 64 applied in the usual manner. The lower face of the intermediate buck 19 and the upper buck 25 are each provided with a suitable pressing surface preferably produced by applying a sheet of yielding material 65 thereto comprising a support 66 having a plurality of projections 67 of crystalline character with intervening interstices or recesses 68, the material preferably utilized being either emery cloth or emery paper. In each instance the buck to which this covering is applied is supplied with a bead 69, overwhich the covering is formed and it is then held above the bead by a clamping band preferably made in halves 70 and 7-1 which separate on both sides of the buck at some point intermediate the ends. At the point of separation each half portion of the band is provided with outwardly extending lugs 72 provided with suitable openings for receiving clamping bolts 7 3 having wing nuts 74 thereon. These half bands firmly clamp the material in place over the pressing surface of the buck.

In use the garments are placed upon the padded surface with the right side away from the padding. The press is then closed when the projections of the covering fabric will embed themselves in the fabric and prevent in the first instance the formation of a matted surface and the consequent production of a gloss, and in the second place will engage some of the fibers and pull them out vided with a pressing surface consisting of innumerable projections and recesses, said- In testimony whereof we afiix our signa- 10 projections bemg of a crystalline character, tures' in presence of two witnesses as 01- and means for opening and closing said lows:

members.

2. A press for fabric comprising pressing members, one of said members being pro-' DANA H. BENJAMIN. BLUFORD W. BROCKETT.

Witnesses:

G. O. FARQUHVARSON, D. Tozcon.

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