US1840965A

US1840965A - Pressing apparatus

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Publication number: US1840965A
Application number: US474115A
Authority: US
Inventors: Archie O Long
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1930-08-09
Filing date: 1930-08-09
Publication date: 1932-01-12
Anticipated expiration: 1949-01-12

Description

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PRES S ING APPARATUS Filed Aug. 9, 1950 2 Sheets-Sheet l I "/2 INVENTOR.

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Jan; 12, 1932. A. 0. LONG v 1,849,965

PRESSING APPARATUS Filed Aug. 9, 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 A TTORNEY.

Patented Jan. 12, 1932 I mm 0.1mm, or mess our, msso'onr Y 'mmssnre .urm'rus Applioaflon'fled August 9, 1930. Serial No. 474,115.

My invention relates to pressing apparatus and more particularly to apparatus of this character including a steam heated padded buck on which a garment may be supported, and a head adapted to press the supported garment, and has for its principal objects to efi'ect adjustment of a garment supporting buck to garments of di erent sizes, andto provide for the complete ironing of the entire body of any sized shirt in four lays on a buck.

A further.'object of my invention is to effect adjustment of pressing boards and retaining means with reference to each other to accord with the shapes and sizes of different types of garments.

In accomplishing these and other objects of my invention, I have providedimproved details of structure, the preferred forms of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of pressing apparatus constructed in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the garment-supporting portion of the apparatus illustrating a shirt mounted thereon to be pressed.

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3, Fig. 2.

Fig. 4C is a section on the line 4- F ig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a plan view illustrating a pressing board or steam chest located in pressing relation with a shirt mounted on the supporting board, a retaining clamp arm being shown fragmentarily.

F 'g. 6 is a fragmentary section onthe line 66, Fig. 5.

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary perspective view of a collar clamp arm showing the relation of a spring-pressed clip to the arm.

Referring in detail to the drawings:

The invention is illustrated as applied to a pressing machine including a base or pedestal 1, a table 2 fixed to the frame, a head yoke 3 pivotally supported by the frame, and operating apparatus 4 controlled by a button 5 for operating the head, and means includboards later described.

y invention pertains particularly to an.

8 mounted on the ing a conduit 7 for delivering steam to press of the neckband yoke and com rising in the illustrated example a steam c est supplied with steamthrough the conduit 7, a movable .lower padded pressing board or buck 9 on which a garment or the like may be mounted to be pressed by the head, means for retaining the garment, and means for adjusting the buck to the size of the garment, all of which will be particularly described.

Mounted on the table 2 and secured thereto by bolts 10 is a housing 11 having an open top and including end walls 12 having upper edge slots 13 and side walls 14 provided with inwardly directed grooves 15 registering with said slots and formed in bosses 16 at the upper edges of said side walls. outwardly directed tongues 17 on parallel legs or flanges 18 depending from the under side of the buck 9 support the buck for slidable movement across the table.

A post 19 depending centrally from the buck 9 into the housing has a horizontal threaded opening 20 in which is mounted a screw 21 journaled in opposite openings 22 and 23 in the front and rear walls of the housing and retained by collars 24 against longitudinal movement, and having an operating crank 25 whereby the buck may be moved back and forth across the table upon rotation of the screw by the crank for adjustment to the size of the garment.

The buck 9 is illustrated as adapted to support a shirt 26 as in Fig. 2, including a bosom portion 27 and an arm or sleeve28 having'an arcuate edge fixed to the edge of the arm hole of the shirt to form an arcuate' seam 29, and the buck is provided with a recess in one longitudinal edge producing a curved edge portion 30 conforming substantially to the shape of the seam.-

The end edge 31 of the buck is formed arcuately conformably to the curve of the shoulder or yoke of the shirt and the shoulder seam will snugly engage said end edge when an arm seam portion is located on the upper surface ofthe buck adjacent the recess 30.

When the shirt is so located, the portion 32 related to the bosom portion 27 and sleeve 28 will lie upon the buck, the upper end'of the bound vertical I edge of the bosom portion being spaced from the adjacent end of the buck.

An operator would ordinarily have to laboriously effect adjustment of the longitudinal side seam of the shirt to the longitudinal edge of the buck, and adjustment of the seam 29 on the face of the buck adtion relative to the sliding buck, I mount a post 33 having spaced ears 34, on the table adjacent the end of the buck, and provide aclamp or swinging anchor'35 pivoted on i a pin 36 in said ears, including a weighted enlarged head portion 37 offset from the arm and having an arcuate edge and a relatively broad lower face to engage the surface of the buck within the neckband. An upstanding flange 38 is provided on the arcuate edge of the head 37 and a latching finger or clip 39 is pivotally mounted on the head 37 having a tip 40 adapted to press the neckband to the flange 38. The clip preferably has ears 41 mounted on a pin 42 in lugs 43 projecting from the flange 38 for support from the head of the swinging arm and is normally pressed by a spring '44 into engagement with the outer face .of the flange.

, A button 45 is provided on' the outer end of the clip to facilitate operation thereof to pivot the same away from the flange 38 and permit location of the neckband in engagement with the arcuate face of said flange.

When the shirt is thus retained by the post-- supported anchor and clip, the buck may be moved to adjust the edges thereof to'the side and arm hole seam of the shirt, and the head board may then be operated to press the shirt.

The head board is provided with a recess 46 at one edge conforming substantially to the contour of the recess in the lower board adapted to extend adjacent the corresponding recess in the lower board for access to the sleeve, and with a recess 47 in its opposite edge to partly surround the neckband and permit the upper board to be located on the shirt without interference by the shirt retaining clip, and without touching the band. P

The clip maytherefore be operated to release the neckband while the upper board is located on the buck and the swinging arm ma then be pivoted outwardly.

X post 48 is mounted at the opposite end of the buck and provided with a swinging arm 49 having shirt-retaining means including a clip 50 similar to. the retainer above described, and the buck and head boards are provided with

recesses

51, 52 and 53 correpass the shirt over the buck until the back portionopposite the unironed bosom half is located in the position previously occupied by the ironed bosom half, and iron said back portion. The operator may then press the other portions of the bosom and back similarly on the other end of the buck, to complete the pressing operation.

Therecesses

30 and 51 are formed in the same longitudinal edge of the buck board, thus providing right and left buck portions in alignment, and reducing the requisite width of a board adapted to receive the opposilte bosom portions and back portions of a s irt.

The apparatus is adapted to permit the entire shirt to be sleeved over either end of the supporting board or buck. The preferred structure and mode of operation, just described, provide that one-half of the bosom of a shirt opening in the front may be mounted on the buck at one time as illustrated in Fig. 2 and the arm of said half will hang from the buck.

In using the device, a shirt bosom portion will be positioned on the buck, and the clip will latch the neckband to prevent movement of the shirt as a whole when the buck is shifted. The crank may be operated to shift the buck across the table for locating the arcuate recess in suitable spaced relation with the position of thefixed clip so that the arm seam will be located at the curved edge of the buck recess. Stretching of the material on the buck will be facilitated by the buck-adjusting process.

When the head 8 is pressed down and relatively tightly binds the spread out half of the shirt bosom or back to the buck, the operator will have access through the corner recess of the head to the sleeve and may manipulate the sleeve to assure proper pressing-operation on the shirt. I

When the pressing operation on a bosom lifted, the clip and swinging arm may be operated to release the shirt and permit the shirt to be removed from the buck.

It is apparent, therefore,'that garments of any size may be pressed efficiently on apparatus as illustrated, since the neck bands of the garments may easily be arranged snugly around the vertical flanges of the swinging arms and securely held thereto by the clips,

and the arm seams may be located approxiortion is completed and the upper board operating on the, post 19 of the buck is sufficient to move the buck in one or the other direction to assure location of the arm seam on the upper surface of the buck at the margin of the recessed ed e 30.

\ Attentionis particu arlycalled to the movable character of the garment-supporting board or buck, whereby the buck may be shifted with reference to the retaining clip, so that the edge portions of the buck may fit snugly against the side seams, arms and like portions one side of a shirt of any size. The apparatus thus provides for easy ad- 7 justment of the buck-to any sized shirt, and

ironing the complete body of the shirt by four operations, i. e., pressing one-half of the bosom and the half of the back opposite the other bosom portion on one end of the buck, and ressing the other halves of the bosom and ack on the other end of the buck.

and latch the bosom and each end of the buck, to permit all portions 'The clips are easily mani 'ulated to release ack portions at to be drawn fiat on the buck for pressing.

What I claim and desire to secure by etters Patent is:

1. In pressing apparatus of the character described including a support, a pressing board having an edge recess and movably mounted on the support, means fixed to the support for retaining a garment mounted on the board in fixed relation with the sup; port, and means for moving the board to reposition said edge with reference to the garment. I

2. In pressing apparatus of the character described including a support, a buck having an edge provided with a recess and movably mounted on the support, and means fixed to the support for retaining a garment mounted on the buck in fixed relation with the support. a a

8. In pressing apparatus of the character described including a support, a buck movably mounted on the support and having an edge-portion provided with a recess, means for latching a garment mounted on the buck against movemelitby the buck, and means for moving the buck.

4. Pressing apparatus including a table, a

post fixed to the table, a garment retainer vertically pivotally mounted on the post to engage one edge portion of a garment, a garment supporting board mounted on the table adjacent the post, and means for shifting the board in a lateral direction beneath said retainer.

5. Pressing apparatus'including a support, a garment-supporting buckhorizontally slidably mounted on the support, means including a post fixed to the support and a clamping arm pivoted on the post to engage buck, and

, the direction of one edge portion of a horizontal movement with reference to the support, and means for,

moving the buck to adjust the outer edge of the back to another edge of the garment.

6. Pressing apparatus including a support, a buck slidably mounted on the support, a post fixed to thesupport, a weighted clamping arm pivoted on the post to swing in a path transverse to the slidable movement of the buck and having a spring pressed clip for latching a garment to the arm, and means for adjusting the buck to the garment.

7 Pressing apparatus including a support, a buck horizontally slidably mounted on the support, a post fixed to the support, a clamping arm vertically pivotal on the post and having a weighted head for clamping a garment to the buck and provided with an armate flange, a spring-pressed clip pivoted to said head for latching a garment portion to the flange against movement by the sliding means for moving the buck.

8. In pressing a paratus, in combination with a support, a ead vertically pivotal on the support, and a buck horizontally movably mounted on the support, means on the support having a portion engageable with a garment positioned on the buck for holding the garment in fixed relation with the support upon movement of the buck for adjusting the garment to be pressed by said head.

9. In pressing apparatus, in combination with a pivotal head and a movable buck, means including a member having fixed relation with the support and having a portion engageable with a garment mounted on the buck for holding the garment to permit movement of the buck relatively thereto. 10. In pressing apparatus including a support, a movable arranged longitudinally on the support, means at one end of the support for engaging one end of a garment to retain the same against a pull exerted on the garment by the operator longitudinally of the buck, and means for moving the buck transversely to said pull exerted by the operator.

11. In combination with a support and a garment-supporting buck movable horizontally on the support and having a front lon- 'gitudinal edge engageable with the side seam of a garment sleeved on the buck, a garment retainer fixed to the support and including a member movable vertically into overlying relation with the buck to clamp a portion of a garment to the buck, and means on said member for retaining the garment against movement by the buck when the buck is moved to locate the front edge thereof in engagement with the side seam of the garment.

12. In apparatus of the character described, a support, a post fixed to said support adjacent one end thereof and in a longitudinal line on the support, a garment-supporting buck movable transversely of the support, an arm pivotal on said post to overlie the buck, and means for latching a garment to the arm.

13. In apparatus of the character described including a buck having a garmentsupporting surface and movable in a horizontal plane, a garment retainer having fixed mounting adjacent the buck, and including a vertically pivotal arm movable into and out of engagement with the garment-supporting surface of the buck.

14. In apparatus of the character described, a support, a buck having a horizontal upper surface and a front edge provided with a concave recess, a pivotal pressing board having a cutout edge portion conforming to the contour of said recess, a post having fixed mounting adjacent one end of the buck and adjacent the extended median line of the buck, an arm on the post movable in a vertical path toward and away from the'upper surface of the buck, a clamp'on the arm for clamping a garment to the buck .to permit movement of the buck relatively to the garment,'an arcuate upstanding flange on the head, and a cli on said clamp having a spring pressed nger for latching one end of the garment to the flange, the buck being movable horizontally on the support in a direction transverse to the direction in which a pull may be exerted on the garment by the clamp and the hand of an operator holding the opposite end of the garment for adjusting said recessed front edge to the latched garment.

15. Pressing apparatus including a support, and a shirt-supporting board movable on'the support transverselyto the longitudinal axis of the board and having a sleeve cutout at each end of the front longitudinal edge of said board formin rightand left shirt-supporting portions of the board.

16. In pressing apparatus including a sup port, and a vertically movable pressing board, a buck movable on the support in a direction substantially transverse tothelongitudinal axis of the buck, and having a front edge provided with end portions shaped to accommodate respectively right and left portions of a garment for mounting opposite portions of a garment on opposite ends of the buck. J.

17. In pressing apparatus including a support, a garment-supporting buck movable on the support and having opposite end portions shape to'accommodate opposite portions of a garment, and means including members movable respectively toward opposite ends of the buck for respectively retaining the portions-of the garment mounted on said end portions of the buck against movement by the buck. v

tion of a garment mounted on the buck, and

a pressin board movable to and from the buck and having a recess to accommodate said garment-engagm member.

In testimony w ereof I afiix my si ature. 7

ARCHIE o. L NG.