US1527513A - Steam pressing device - Google Patents

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Feb. 24. 1925. 1,527,513

va. D. GOLDBERG swam PRESSING DEVICE Fild March 6, 1934 Patented Feb. 24, I925.

ATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN I). GOLDBERG, F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

STEAM PRESSING DEVICE.

Application filed March 6, 1924.

1 0 aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that I, BENJAMIN D. GOLD- nnnc, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings ant State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Steam Pressing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of cloth 1.0 pressing devices in which closely assembled metal points or teeth, usually consisting'of line hard drawn Wire, project outward from a suitable base or foundation and afford in their assembly a support or bed for the fabric or cloth being pressed.

The object of my invention is to secure durability and to attain other advantages over other constructions of pressing device heretofore devised. To these ends my in vention consists essentially in supporting the wire points or teeth in a foundation composed of two layers of woven wire cloth or fabric maintained a short distance apart by suitable spacing means, the wires or teeth being set or fixed in the meshes of the two layers of wire cloth or fabric as hereinafter described so as to be supported against flexure or turning in the foundation by being engaged or held at two points, one near the so inner end of the wire or length of the wire forming a point and the other a short distance above the same and nearer the free end which receives the pressure of the fabric being pressed.

The invention further consists in passing the wire points or teeth through the foundation at an inclination to the general plane of the foundation itself, the portion of wire above the base or foundation being extended vertically to receive at its extremity the vertical pressure of the cloth or fabric being pressed. By this construction the wire will more effectually resist the tendency to push back through the foundation under the pres sure of the iron or pressing device.

The invention further consists in a foundation composed of two layers of wire mesh or fabric, a spacing layer of porous material preferably non-combustible interposed be tween said layers of woven wire mesh, thus making the wire points rigid in the foundation and preventing the same from moving, while at the same time affording means for passing and distributing steam or moisture uniformly through the foundation. As-

Serial No. 697,353.

bestos may be employed as the non-combustible material.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 shows the manner in which the wire 15 supported in a foundation constructed according to my inventlon.

Fig. 2 illustrates a side in which the teeth may view of the way pass through the foundation at an inclination for the purpose already described.

mentioned and as will be presently Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a portion of a pressing device ance wlth my the teeth or points foundation.

constructed in accordinvention with a few only of projecting above the Fig. t illustrates my improved pressing device looking from beneath.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a pressing buck or pressing device equipped with my invention.

Fig. which 6 illustrates in plan the manner in one of the wire teeth or points is sus tained or engaged with the sides of wires forming the mesh and bounding the space or mesh m which the wire point or tooth is received.

Fig. 7 shows the device with a separating or spacing layer consisting. of a number of layers of fabric.

Referring to Flg.

1, 3 indicates a layer shown in Fig. 6. At

3 is shown a similar layer of woven wire fabric, while & indicates a spacing layer fabric 3, 3.

between the layers of wire The points or teeth are shown as forming the extremities of U-shaped pieces of hard drawn wire both layers 3, 3.

passing through The spacing layer is adapted to allow the points of the wire 2 to be inserted through it and is porous so as to be capable of being permeated by steam or moisture.

It may consist of a mass of porous material or as more fully illustrated in Fig. 7,

may be composed of one or more layers of fabric woven and sufliclently firm to maintain a spaced relatlon of the layers 3, 3. points 2 being fixed spaced layers 3, 8

As will be seen, the in the meshes of the will be held at two points, one near the foot of the wire and one some distance above holding the tooth so the foot, thus firmly that it cannot readily hinge or turn in its support in the foundation.

Fig. 2 illustrates a preferred manner of mounting the wire in a foundation of any kind to prevent it from being readily pressed back through the same after it has been inserted by pressing its points through from the back. The foundation shown is the same as that illustrated in Fig. l but the wire which terminates in the supporting points for the material being pressed insteadof passing straight through as shown in Fig. 1 passes through the foundation at an inclination to the plane thereof, while a portion of the wire above the foundation which receives the pressure directly on its point extends practically perpendicular to the foundation. Hence, as will be readily seen, the pressure exerted vertically cannot as readily press the wire back through the foundation as it could if the wire should pass straight through the foundation as illustrated in Fig. 1. Furthermore, the expansion of the wire pointin the mesh of the wire fabric due to the heat of the hot iron will cause it to bind or engage more firmly against the wire bounding the opening which receives the point.

In employing the device the hot iron may be applied either to the bottom or back of the foundation, when for instance the material is being steamed, the material itself being laid upon a board or table, or, (when the material is laid upon the assemblage of wire points the foundation resting upon the table, board or form) the iron of course is then applied to the material or to a cloth superposed on it.

VVh-at I claim as my invention is:

1. In a pressing device of the character described, a foundation consisting of two layers of woven wire fabric held in spaced relation and wire points mounted in the meshes of said layers at two places one above the other 2. In a pressing device of the character described, a foundation consisting of two layers of wire mesh and an intermediate layer of porous material spacing them apart, and wire points forming the supporting bed passing through all of said layers said point engaged and held against turning or hinging by engagement with the wire fabric layers at two places one near the foot of the points and the other above the foot.

3. In a pressing device, the combination with a foundat on, of wire points retained therein and passing through the foundation at an inclination and extending therefrom perpendicularly to afford points engaged by the material being pressed.

4. In a pressing device of the character described, the combination with a founda tion consist ng of two layers of woven wire fabric and an intermediate spacing layer, of wire points retained in position by said foundation and passing through the same atuan inclination to the plane thereof and extending perpendicularly to said plane.

5. In a pressing device of the character described, a foundation having a plurality of layers of woven wire fabric and wire points passing through the meshes of said plurality of layers and supported thereby at a plurality of places one above the other.

6. In a pressing device of the character described, a foundation cons'sting of a. plurality of layers of woven wire fabric having wire points inserted through said layers and means for spacing said layers apart, said means consisting of a number of layers of a superposed porous fabric to allow passage of steam or moisture substantially uniformly over its whole area.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York this 5th day of March A. D. 1924.

BENJAMIN D. GOLDBERG.

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