US1129408A - Clothes-pressing machine. - Google Patents

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O. D. LIOHTENSTEIN.

CLOTHES PRESSING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 2a. 1913.

Patented Feb. 23, 1915 WITNESSES: INVENTOR ATTORNEY lit] lli

CHUNE 1D. LICHT'E'NSTEIN, 03E SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

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application filed November 26, 1913. Serial No. 803,138.

To all whom it may concern 1 Be it lmown that l[, CHUNE D. LIcHTEN- srnm, a subject of the Czar of Russia, residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State ofWashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes- Fressing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to clothes pressing machines and its object is the improvement in machines of this character whereby the operations of pressing garments are more conveniently and efficiently performed than hitherto.

The invention consists in the novel construction and adaptation of devices, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawin s, Figure 1 is a plan view of a machine em odying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a view partly in side elevation and partly in vertical longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4: is a detail sectional View on line 4-45: of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the attachments for the pressing iron or body.

The reference numeral 5 designates the machine standard of a tubular form and having a wide base 6 to render the standard stable. Secured to the standard 5 are upwardly extending arms 73 provided near their upper ends with journal. bearings for a transversely arranged shaft 8. Fixedly connected to the shaft, as by keys 9, is a pair of spaced levers respectively provided wlth forwardly and rearwardly extending arms 10, 10 and 11, 11 The arms 10 and 1.0 are bored to receive the stems 12, of inverted cup- members 13,13 which are rigidly connected to the respective lever arms as by nuts 14 engaging screw-threads termed on the stems 12. Provided for said cup-members are ball- members 15, 15 which are formed with or rigidly connected to'plates 16 which, in turn. are rigidly connected to a hollow presser-block 17 of cast iron or other suitable material. The plates 16 areset up at their ends 16 to receive therebelow the heads 18 of bolts 18 which extend upwardly through slots 19 provided in the plate ends and likewise through apertures provided in the lever t ecm'eauon of Letters Patent.

Patented ]Fe1b.23, 1915 arms 10 and 10 The u per ends of said bolts are screw threaded or engaging nuts 21 servmg as adjustable stops for washers '22. 23 are helical springs positioned about bolts 18 and between said washers and the respective lever- arms 10 and 10 ,.as shown. The oflice of said springs is to yieldingly hold the ball-and- socket members 13, 13 and 15, 15 in couple. The lever- arms 11 and 11 are connected by a rod 24 which supports a counter-weight or weights 25 tending to hold the presser block in its most elevated position. Secured to the shaft 8 by a key 26 is a wheel 27 having in its periphery notches 28,each of asubstantially triangular shape, disposed as shown in Fig. 4. Said wheel is housed in a cylindrical'casing 29 which is rotatably mounted on the shaft and is. provided witha rearwardly extending arm 30.

31 represents a link connecting the arm with a treadle 32 which is normally held in the position in which it is illustrated in Fig. 2 through the medium of a weight 32 Within each of the notches 28 of wheel 27 is a roller 20 which is adapted to engage the casing 29 to the wheel 27 when the casing is rotated in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 4:, but allowing the wheel to be turned independently of the casing when influenced bythe operator pulling down. the presser block through the agency of a handle 33 provided on the latter. Positioned within the casing is a second wheel 34 having peripheral teeth 35 (see Fig. 4:) which are adapted to engage the rollers 20 .and push the same against the shoulders 28 of the a other wheel 27 when the wheel 34: is suitably turned through the medium of a handle 36.

37 represents a bracket having at one end a sleeve 38 which is rotatable upon a cylindrical portion 5 of the standard and between flanges 5 thereon. Adjacentto its outer end said bracket is provided with a socket 39 for a tubular element 40 which extends downwardly from a plate 41 bearing on the upper surface of the bracket. A hollow post 13 extends upwardly-from plate .41 and in ofl set relation with respect to the axis 'of the element %0.

44: represents a table or board upon which are placed garments or other articles to be means of handle 33 grasped in his hand,

pulls the block 17 downwardly upon the goods to press the latter. Ordinarily, sufficient force may be thus applied to effect the pressing of the goods. When garments are made of heavy material, however, then the operator after pulling down by handle 33 the block into about the position at which it is shown in Figs. 2 and 3, pushes down with his foot upon treadle 32 resulting in the link 31 pushing up arm 30 to cause the easing 29 to be turned in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 4, .whereby the rollers 20 are influenced to turn the wheel 27 whereby the shaft 8 is actuated to further depress the block 17 with a force greater than what may be attained by hand-power applied through handle 33. When the pressing is completed, the operator swings handle 36- upwardly causing the wheel 34 to disengage the rollers from the wheel 27 and casing 29, thereby releasing the shaft 8 with respect to the treadle, whereupon the weights 25 assert their power to elevate the block. By reason of the ball-and-soeket connections between thearms 10, 10 and the block, the latter, sub ect to springs 23, is adapted to be tilted both in longitudinal and transverse directions as respectively indicated by broken lines A and B in Figs. 2 and 3.

The table 44 may be swung with the bracket 37 about the axis of the standard sitions to present selected parts of the work to the block 17 when the latter is brought down, as before explained.

For different classes of work, various sizes or shapes of tables may be substituted.

What I claim, is

1. In a clothes pressing machine, the combination with a rock-shaft of a pair of weighted levers fulcrumed on said shaft, a presser-block, parallel plates secured transversely to the upper side of said block, and having'off-set slotted ends, a ball secured to each of said plates centrally of its length, resilient connections between said slotted ends of the plates and said levers, and cupshaped members depending from said levers to receive said balls.

2. In a clothes-pressing machine, the combination with a rock-shaft, of a pair of levers fulcrumed thereon, a presser block resiliently suspended from .said levers, and provided with a handle for tilting the block and treadle-operated means for depressing said block, comprising a casing, clutcl1-devices within said casing mounted upon said rock-shaft, aclutch-operating handle projecting at one side of said casing, an arm also projecting from said casing, a treadle, and a link connection between said arm and treadle. r

3. In a clothes-pressing machine, the combination with a rock-shaft of a pair of weighted levers fulcrumed on said shaft, a presser block resiliently-suspended from said levers by means of headed bolts extending through openings in the levers, plates secured to said block and having 01fset slotted ends to receive the heads of said bolts, springs encircling the bolts above said levers, stops on the bolts confining said springs, nuts on the threaded ends of the bolts for adjustably securing said stops, and ball and socket connections between said plates and levers.

Signed at Seattle, Wash, this 17th day of November, 1913.

I CHUN E D. LICHTENSTEIN.

Witnesses HORACE BARNES, E. PETERSON.

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