US1705547A

US1705547A - Garment press

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Publication number: US1705547A
Application number: US189383A
Authority: US
Inventors: Harry G Sutton
Original assignee: ZEIDLER CORP
Current assignee: ZEIDLER CORP
Priority date: 1927-05-06
Filing date: 1927-05-06
Publication date: 1929-03-19
Anticipated expiration: 1946-03-19

Description

. March 19, 1929. H. G. SUTTON GARMENT PRESS 5 Sheets-Sheet 1 Original Filed May 6, 1927 Harry Q. Sailon abhor/1mg.

5 Sheets-Sheet 2 GARMENT PRESS H. G. SUTTON Original Filed May 6, 9

March 19, 1929.

March 19, 1929. H. e. SUTTON GARMENT PRESS Original Filed May 6, 1927 3 Sheets-Sheet Patented Mar. 19, 1929.

UNITED STATES V I 1,105,541 PATENT-OFFICE.

- HARRY G. SUTTON, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNORTO THE ZEIDLER CORPOIB'A-v TION, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

GARMENT PRESS. 7

Application filed May G, 1927, Serial No. 189,383. Itenewed August 9, 1928.

This invention pertains to improvements in garment presses.

The invention has for its main object the production of a simple and effective structure wherein the head, when the press is open, stands clear and-well to the rear of the buck to afford the operator ready access to the garment or goods laid upon the buck in order to secure a proper lay thereof.

A further object of the inventionis to provide a structure wherein the head, as it is moved forwardly over the buck, stands in spaced relation thereto so as not to drag across the goods imposed upon the buck and when the head is brought in vertical alignment with the buck to provide means whereby the head may be moved downwardly at right angles to the face of the buck to effect pressure upon the goods and this without any relative sidewise or swinging motion of the head with reference to the buck.

The press is shown in the annexed drawings wherein,

Figure 1 is a front elevation thereof part-- 1y broken away with the press shown in its closed position; Y

Figure 2 a vertical sectional view showing the press in the same relation; and

Figure 3 a similar view with the head as thrown fully back and clear of the buck. The frame of the machine may be of any approved type but in the instant case it is composed of a basemember l to which 5 re secured two vertically disposed

members

2 and 3, preferably formed from sheet steel struck to the desired contour, each of said members being provided with a forward portion as 2 and 3*. Said members, in other words, are L-shaped in cross section and'at their upper ends are secured to a bed plate l.- Extending upwardly from the bed plate is the usual buck support 5 'upon which is imposed the buck 6. The head is denoted by -7 and is secured to the forwardly extending shaped outline. .comprise a body or transverse web element 8 provided with rearwardly extending

flanges

9 and 10 at each side ofthe web member.

At the lower end of each of the

webs

9 and 10 they are enlarged and each web in such enlarged portion is provided with a slot having a slightly curved section 11,.the forward end of which merges into an upstanding or vertical short section 12. In other words,

end of a frame of substantially inverted L-- Said frame may be said tov the lower section. 11 guidesthe head frame forwardly from the full open position to carry the head to the dotted line position in Figure 3immediately above and in direct alignment with the buck while the short vertical section allows the head carrying frame and the head to be moved downwardly in a right line into contact with the goods imposed upon the buck. Q

Secured to the side wall 2 is a stub axle 13 upon which is mounted a roller 14 which enters theslot in the web 9. A small stub axle 15 is mounted in thelother side frame 3 and a roller 16 extends into the slot formed in the web 10. These rollers therefore act'as guides for the lower end of the head carrying frame. I

Secured to the forward face of the web 8 j of the head frame are

brackets

17 and 18 which carry pins 19, to which pins aresecured blocks 20 threaded to receive the lower ends of springs 21 and 22. The springs at theirupper ends are attached in any suitable manner to a fixed portion of the machine frame as, for instance, the bed plate 4 and are under tension at all times so that they have a tendency to raise the lower end of the head frame upwardly and throw itto the full open position shown in Figure 3.

Two pair'of links are assoeiatedwith the head carrying frame to cause it to move in the desired path and to this end there is pivotally secured to the side plate or frame member 2, as at 23, a link 24 the upper forward end of said link being pivotally con nected as at 25 to a second link 26 which in turn is pivotally connected to a bracket 27 secured to the web 8. -A second pair of links is associated with the side frame 3 and the head frame. The lowermost link 28 is pivoted, as at 29, at its lower end to the plate 3 and extends upwardly and rearwardly and is pivotally connected as at 30 to the second link 31, said link in turn being iv-- otally connected as at 32 to a bracket 33.v 100 These 'two pair of links, while shown as extending in opposite directions, might both extend in the same general direction though the arrangement illustrated is preferred inasmuch as they tend to counteract each other 105 in so far as any twisting motion of the head .frame is concerned.

It will be noted that the pivotal connection of the upper ends of the

links

26 and 31 described, form in effect a floating pivotal support or fulcrum for said head carrying frame. Extending downwardly from the under -side of the bed plate 4 is a rigid bracket 34 which forms the support for a bell-crank lever. fulcrumed upon the shaft 35. The lower end 36 of the bell-crank lever has pivotally attached thereto a link 37 which in turn, at its lower end, is pivotally attached to a bracket 38 secured to the lower forward face of the head carrying frame. The upper arm 39 of the bell-crank lever has pivotally attached to it a pair of draw links 40 and 41, said links at their lower ends being pivotally connected to a treadle lever 42 fulcrumed as at 43 to upstanding brackets 44 formed at the rear of the base frame 1. The forward end of the lever is fashioned into a treadle 45 and associated therewith is a latch 46 adapted, when the head is fully closed down upon the buck, to engage a fixed portion of the machine and hold the press in its closed position.

It is thought that from theforegoing the operation of the press will be clearly understood but a short rsum will be given. Assuming that the parts are in the position shown in Figure 3, it is to be noted that the head standsto the rear of the buck so, that the operator may readily secure the proper lay of the goods upon the buck. He then depresses the treadle or may draw the head forwardly by grasping a handle 47 1 secured to the forward end of the head carrying frame. This will cause the head carrying. frame to swing forwardly, the

lower portion of the frame traveling over the rollers working in the substantially horizontal slightly curved portion of the slots, or in other words the portion 11, the linkages 2426 and 28-31 co-operating'therewith to bring the head forwardly and in I spaced relation to the buck.

When the lower portion of the head carrying frame reaches a position where the rollers 14 and-16 stand in alignment with the lower portion of the vertically disposed section 12 of the slots, the head carrying frame will be thrust downwardly by further downward -movement of the link 37 and thus the head will be lowered in a right line directly upon the goods imposed upon the buck without any wiping or drawing action of the head thereover. a

When fully depressed the lever 42 will become locked and the goods may be maintained under pressure as long as desired.

The operator may, of course, pat the goods by 'holding the latch 46 out of operation 'by merely placing his toe thereon. \Vhat is claimed is:

1. In a garment press the combination of a frame; a buck supportedlthereby; a head carrying frame oflsubstantially inverted L- shaped outline; a head secured to the forwardly extending portion thereof, said frame in its lower portion being provided with a pair of slots, each slot having at the forward end thereof a substantially vertical portion, and a longer, slightly curved, substantially horizontally disposed portion extending rearwardly therefrom; rollers se-- frame having a downwardly extending portion; a head carried by the upper portion of said frame;- a pair of rollers supported upon opposite sides of the frame, said rollers extending into guide slots extending'substantially horizontally at the lower portion of the head frame, said slots-having a vertically disposed portion at the forward ends thereof; a shifting fulcrum for the head frame located at a point above the slots; means acting at all times upon the head frame to raise the same; and means for forcing the lower end of the head frame downwardly. I

3. A garment press as set forth in claim 2 wherein the'shifting fulcrum is produced b links connected respectively to the maciine frame and the head carrying frame.

4. A garment press as set forth in claim 2 wherein the shifting fulcrum is produced by a pair of links to each side of the lower portion ofthe head frame, the links of each pair being pivoted to each other and the other ends pivoted, respectively to the machine frame and the head carrying frame.

5. In a garment press the combination of a frame having two spaced vertically disposed side walls; a buck supported on the frame; a head carrying frame having an upper forwardly extending portion, the lower endof said frame extending downwardly and inwardly of the side walls aforesaid,

said lowerend having oppositely disposed guide slots, each slot having a horizontal section merging at its forward end into a vertically disposed section; rollers carried by the machine frame entering said slots;

spring means acting upon the lower end of HARRY e. SUTTON.