US1575366A - Collar-conditioning apparatus - Google Patents

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' 'March 2 1926.

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UNITED STATES PATENT (OFFICE.

GEORGE W. JOHNSON, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGN OR TO THE AMERICAN LAUNDRY MACHINERY COMPANY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

COLLAR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collar-Conditioning Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in conditioning apparatus for use in laundering collars and the like preparatory to their introductioninto an ironing machine.

The regular laundering process includes the steps of washing, extracting, starching, drying, moistening and pressing, all preliminary to the final step of ironing. Ac cording to the present invention, this process is shortened by omitting and modifying some of the steps, namely, the steps of drying, moistening and pressing.

Accordingly, the objects of this invention are to provide an improved apparatus in which laundry, such as collars and the like, may be properly conditioned immediately after the starching of the work and immediately preceding the introduction of the work into an ironing machine; to provide means for liberating and removing a certain portion of moisture contained in the work so as to present the work to the ironing machine with the proper degree of moisture; to provide vacuum means for removing the moisture liberated from the work and at the same time reduce the temperature of the work preparatory to its introduction to the ironing machine.

Other objects will appear from the following description and claims when considered in connectlon with the drawings.

Fig. 1 shows my improved device in side elevation; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 3; Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken on the line 3-3. of Fig.

1; Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view taken on line 14 of Fig. 3; and Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional view showing a modified form of device.

The main casing which is supported upon the standards 1 comprises the side walls 2 0 and 3 and suitable end walls, the heating coils 5 being enclosed in the heating chamber 4 which. forms the lower part of the casing. The endless belt 6 extends through the heating chamber above the heating coils general way by reference numeral 10.' Another endless belt 11 extends about the idlers 12 and is driven by means of the roll 13. The lower stretch of this second belt travels 1n contact with the upper stretch of the belt 6 so as to constitute a means for conveying the work through the casing, the work being received at the left-hand side of the machine and delivered to the ironing machine at the right.

The meansfor driving the belts comprises a pulley 14 which may be operated from any suitable source of power and which has a clutch connection 15 with the shaft 16. Fixed upon the shaft 16 is the worm 17 which meshes with the gear 18 mounted upon the shaft 19. The worm 20 fixed upon the shaft 19 meshes with and drives the gear 21 which in turn is fixed upon the shaft 22. The pinion 23 meshes with and is driven by the gear 21 on shaft 22 and in turn drives the gear 24, which is fixed upon the shaft of the roll 7 for driving the same. The gear 25 meshes with the gear 21 and is fixed upon the shaft of the roll 13 so as to drive the same. The clutch 15 is controlled through lever connections by the operating handle 26. The tautness of belts 6 and 11 may be regulated by means of screws 27 which are mounted in suitable brackets and are adapted to engage the bearings of the rolls at the two ends thereof.

Extending across the casing and just above the lower stretch of the upper belt, I

have provided a perforated plate 28 which constitutes a partition between the lower heating chamber and the upper part of the casing. This plate 28 serves also as the bOt-i tom wall of a plurality of vacuum chambers 29 each of which is provided with an outlet 30 communicating with. the manifold 31.

-The vacuum connection 32 is provided for the manifold as a-suction means for removing the moisture which is liberated from the work which is introduced directly from the starcher and is subjected to the heat of the casing. The belts are of porous fabric so .the lower belt between as to permit the necessary circulation for such treatment.

According to Fig. 5,

theparts as to extend work which is received directly from the starcher is introduced into the left-hand side of the conditioning apparatus, as viewed in the present drawings, and is carried between the overlying stretches of the endless belts so as to be exposed to the heat of the heating chamber and eventually delivered to the ironer on the right. Since the belts are madeof porous material, such as canvas or the like, the heat is permitted to freely pass through the belts and toliberate a certain degree of moisture from the work. This'released molsture is drawn oif by means of the suction which'at the same time reduces the improved apparatus for temperature of the work so as to be more easily handled in the ironing machine.

Thus it will be seen thatI have devised an placing starched work in properbondition to be introduced into the lroninv machine, and have in this way shortened the ordinary laundering process.

What I claim is 1. A laundry conditioning apparatus comrising a casing having a eatlng chamber "in the lower part thereof, means for convey- .ing starched work through said heating 1 chamber, a perforated plate extending across sa d casing and prov ding a chamber above of the work, and suctlon means located above said plate and adapted to recomprising a casing havin move moisture released from the work and to reduce the temperature of the'work.

2. A laundry conditioning apparatus comprising a casing havin a heating chamber in the lower part thereo ,means for conveying.

starched'work through said heating chamber, a perforated plate extending across said casing above the path of the work, a plurality of vacuum chambers located above said plate, and a manifold outlet connection for said vacuum chambers, whereby the moisture released from the work is removed and the temperature of the work is reduced.

apparatus 3. A laundry conditioning a heatmg chamber, means for conveying starched work through said heating chamber, a perforated plate extendin across said casing and providing a cham er on the opposite 1 through the casing,

side of the path of work from said heating chambenand suction means arranged to remove the moisture released from the work by drawing the same through said perforated plate. 1 I

4. A laundry conditioning apparatus comprising a casing, means for conveying starched work through said casing, a per' forated plate extending acrossv said casing and co=operating with said conveying means so as to constitute a guiding means-for the work in its path of travel, and means for removing moisture from the work by withdrawing the same through said perforated plate.

5. A laundry comprising a casing, means for conveying starched work through said casing apertured conditioning apparatus means co-operating with said conveying ing and having an apertured wall past which the work is moved, and means for freeing moisture from the work and removingthe same out through said manifold connection.

7'. A laundry conditioning apparatus comprising a casing,- a orous belt for conveying starched work t rough said casing, apertured means co-operatmg with said belt so as to guide the work in its travel and means for providing a current of air through said belt and apertured means so as to remove moisture from the Work.

8. A laundry conditioning apparatus comprising a casing, foraminous ,means for conveying starched work through the casing, comparatively rigid apertured means extending in close proximity to said foraminous conveying means, and means for forcing air through said conveying means and. apertured means so as to remove moisture froln the work, said parts being so constructed and arranged that said apertured ,means serves to preventundue movement of said conveying means out of a predetermined path.

9. A laundry conditioning apparatus comprising a casing, foraminous belts extending through said casing and arranged to feed starched work through the casing by engaging opposite sides of the work, comparatively rigid apertured means extending in close proximity to said belts, and means for forcing air through said belts and apertured means so as to remove moisture from the work, said parts being so constructed and arranged that said apertured means portion of the belts out of a predecomprising a casing, means including an endless belt for conveying starched Work through said casing, heating meansarranged in said casing on both sides of one of the stretches of the belt and in intimate relation to the path of travel of the Work, and means for removing moisture from the cas n testimony whereof I hereby aflix my signature.

GEORGE W. JOHNSON.

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