US2516054A - Garment press - Google Patents

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y 1950 H. D. FORSE ETAL 2,516,054

GARMENT PRESS Filed March 15, 1946 4 Sheets-Sheet l J6 11 v Ira/an ers: jj Ha rlzy .D. Bras and 5 fall 021E Cam pZeZZ July 18, 1950 H. D. FORSE ETAL GARMENT PRESS 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed March 15, 1946 ma 33 mm J A W July 18, 1950 H. D. FoRsE ETAL GARMENT PRESS 4 Sheets-Sheet 3 Filed March 15, 1946 July 18, 1950 H. D. FoRsE ET AL GARMENT PRESS 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 Filed March 15, 1946 Harry E. .Fbnse and Rolling Ca 561/ i atenied July 18, 1950 GARMENT PRESS Harry D. Forse and Rollin E. Campbell, Anderson,

Ind.; said Campbell assignor to Forse Corporation, Anderson, Ind., a corporation of Delaware Application March 15, 1946, Serial No. 654,550

32 Claims. (Cl. 223-73) This invention relates to improvements in garment presses and more particularly to a press for ironing the sleeves of mens skirts in power laundries.

It is most desirable to finish a man's shirt entirely on pressing machines without the necessity of any hand finishing. Many power laundries now employ finishing stations, each station including a plurality of machines for pressing different portions of the shirt actuated by several operators, whereby the damp shirt is received at one side of the station, is passed through the pressing machines by the operators and leaves the station in an ironed and folded condition. Presses have been developed for ironing various portions of the shirt, including the back, bosom, yoke and neck band, cuffs and gussets. Most of the power laundries still use what is called a sleever for removing the wrinkles of the sleeves between the shoulder and gusset. These sleevers for many years have included two spaced-apart polished metal steam heated cones, adapted to enter the arm holes of a shirt so that the operator may pull the shirt over them to dry and possibly stretch the wrinkles out of the sleeves between the shoulder and the gusset. These sleeves are not entirely satisfactory because shirts of different sizes have difierent size sleeves and different length sleeves.

It is an object of this invention to provide a garment press including two members adapted to enter the arm holes of shirts to receive the respective sleeves and then cause the members, or

ject to so construct a sleeve press of this kind that will be operated entirely by air pressure; that will accomplish the pressing of the cuff and gusset at the same time it presses the sleeve between the gusset and the yoke; in which the oper ator may actuate the control to cause this press to operate while handling other shirts on other presses and by again actuating the control the pressed shirt sleeves will be moved to a position for the removal of a shirt.

With these and other objects in view, reference is made to the accompanying drawings which illustrate a preferred form of this invention with the understanding that detail changes may be made therein, without departing from the scope thereof.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a view in front elevation of a preferred form of this garment press having received the sleeves of a shirt (not shown) and 2 moved to its vertical position as indicated by the dot and dash line on Figure 2.

Figure 2 is a view in side elevation of Figure 1 showing the sleeve bucks in lowermost position to receive a shirt, with parts broken away and parts shown in section, indicating a shirt sleeve in position in dotted lines on a sleeve buck.

Figure 3 is a view in side elevation, with parts broken away, illustrating the sleeve receiving bucks in raised or ironing position.

Figure 4 is an enlarged detailed view of the mechanism for alternately inflating and deflating the buck bags, as taken on the line 4-4 of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is an enlarged fragmentary, detailed View in central section taken on the line 5--5 of Figure 1, looking in the direction of the arrows, illustrating the cuff bag with the cufi retainer in position to hold the cuff thereon.

Figure 6 is a view in section taken on the line 66 of Figure 5, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Figure 7 is a view in section taken on the line of Figure 2, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Figure 8 is what may be termed a piping diagram illustrating the various pipes, valves and controls for conducting air under pressure for operating this press.

The embodiment of this invention as illustrated upon the drawings includes a press comprising two spaced-apart vertical supports I mounted upon a base 2 and joined at their ends by plate 3. The buck members for receiving the shirt sleeves, B and B are supported upon a carriage indicated generally by 4, secured to the lower end or a cylinder 5 mounted upon a vertical piston rod 6 secured to the base 2 and plate 3 intermediate the supports I having a piston '1 intermediate its length with the upper end of the cylinder 5 resting in spaced-apart engagement upon the upper side of the piston in the normal downward position. Each buck member B, B is mounted upon a central hollow tubular support 8 extending throughout the buck and through a table 9 at the lower end of the buck to be supported by I and in communication with a horizontal hollow cylindrical member I!) the opposite ends of which are rotatably mounted in side plates l l forming a part of the carriage 4 carried upon the lower end of the cylinder 5. In the lowermost position an angular extension 12 from the cylinder Ill is enhected to the outer portion of the table 9 and carriage 4 moves the bucks and buck supporting shafts 8 to a vertical position bringing an extension l5 upon a plate l6 connecting the underside of the table 9 with the shaft l9 into engagement with an adjustable stop ll upon the carriage 4 to maintain the bucks in vertical relationship.

Each buck includes a cuff and gusset pressing section and a sleeve pressing section at its free end. The upper end of the hollow shaft 8 mounts, and is in connection with, an axial cylinder 8 about which is secured a cufi and gusset pressing bag E9 of expansible and contractible material with the interior of the bag in communication with the interior of the cylinder 53.: .Mounted about each hollow shaft 8 between the cuilf and gusset pressing bag I9 and the top of the table 9 on each buck are two sleeve pressing bags 29 and 2| divided vertically by a form plate 22 mounted on the shaft 8. These bags are each'of expansible and contractible impervious material and are similar in shape, tapering upwardly in cross section from a semi-elliptical bottom secured to the upper surface of the table 9.

Two heads H and H are adjustably mounted upon a frame 23 between the upper ends of the vertical supports I attached to the top cross plate 3. These heads are formed of a shape to cooperate with the bucks B and B each having a spacedapart inner wall having polished inner ironing surfaces adapted to be heated by the passage of steam between the walls in the usual manner. Each head includes a cylindrical portion 24 adapted to receive and cooperate with the cufi and gusset bag 19 which cylindrical portion flairs outwardly and downwardly to form a surface 25 cooperating with the sleeve bag 29 and 2E when the carriage 4 is moved upwardly to bring the bucks into cooperative relation with the heads.

The carriage i is raised and lowered, the cuff bags are expanded and contracted and each of the two sleeve bags on each buck is alternately expanded and contracted by the admission of air under pressure to expand them and means to exhaust the air to contract them, as shown on the piping diagram of Figure 8. An actuating control C in the form of a U-shaped lever extending about the front of both heads H and H adjacent their lower edges with the free ends of each arm mounted upon a connecting shaft 26 pivotally'mounted in brackets 21 extending from each vertical support I. The connecting shaft 25 is provided with a rearwardly extending valve operating member 28 and a depending valve operating member 29. The actuator control C is normally maintained in its upper or inoperative position shown in Figure 2, by the engagement of a roller at on an extension 3! from one'of the side members of the actuating control C engaging a notch in an arm 32 pivoted upon the adjacent bracket 2! and held in engagement with the roller by a spring 93. This member is provided. withanother notch which is engaged by the roller 35) when the actuating member C is depressed. In the upper position the valve operating members are out of operative engagement with their respective valves.

Mounted on one of the vertical supports l is a valve 3 having a spring pressed piston 35 with its piston rod 36 extending on the side opposite the spring through the bottom of the valve casing. This valve has an inlet port adjacent the lower end of the valve casing connected to a pipe P in communication with the source of pressure, see Figure 8. Adjacent the upper end of the casing an exhaust port 31 is provided. Intermediate these ports a port is provided connected by pipe 33 to a port 38 extending axially within the piston rod 6 from the upper end to the interior of the cylinder 5 above the piston l, as shown in Figure 8. The spring normally presses the piston 35 to close the pressure inlet port and connect the pipe 38 to the exhaust port 31, so that when the cylinder 5 is in its lowermost position with the top of the cylinder in engagement with the top of the piston I and the control lever C is depressed the valve operating member 28 engages the valve stem 36 and moves the piston 35 into a position to connect the source of pressure to the pipe 38 to transmit pressure to the space between the top of the cylinder 5 and the top of the piston i to raise the cylinder 5 to the position shown in Figure 3.

When the actuating control C is moved to its uppermost position the valve engaging member 28 moves downward allowing the spring pressed piston 35 to move to close the port to the source of pressure and connect the exhaust port 31 to the pipe 33 whereby the weight of the cylinder 5 and parts carried thereby moves the cylinder downward over the piston I on rod 6 and allows the air to escape through the pipe 38 to the exhaust port 31. Air enters and leaves the cylinder 5 through vent v at the lower end.

Another valve 39 is mounted on the carriage 4 below and in line with the valve 34 having a spring pressed piston 48 with the piston rod 4| normally extended through the top of the valve casing by the tension of the spring. The depending curved valve actuating member 29 is normally out of engagement with the piston rod ll when the actuator control C is in its uppermost position and when moved to its lowermost position the member 29 engages the piston rod 4| and depresses the piston 46 against the tension of the spring when the carriage 4 approaches its upper end of travel. The valve casing 39 is provided with three ports. One port 42 near its upper surface is connected by the pipe 43 to a port 44, leading from the interior of the cylinder 5 adjacent its upper end. The casing of the valve 39 is provided with a port 45 on the side opposite port 42 which is connected by a pipe 46 to the buck bags inflating and deflating apparatus. The port 45 is a sufficient distance below the port 42 so that when the piston 30 is freed by the movement of the arm 29, the spring will move the piston to close the port 42 and allow the pressure in pipe 46 to exhaust through port 45 and out through the exhaust port 47. When both valves are operated by the two valve operating members 28 and 29 pressure from the source will first raise the cylinder 5 to its uppermost position and then the pressure will be conducted through .port :54, pipe 53 and through the valve 39 into the pipe 46. When the actuator control C is moved to the uppermost position both valves will be reeased and the air exhausted from the cylinder through valve 3'! and from the pressure operated mechanism through valve 3.! and from the pressure operated mechanism through the exhaust port 27 of valve 39.

The pressure pipe 46 conducting pressure from the valve 39 is connected to branch pipes 48 and 49. The branch 48 is connected to the hollow shaft Ill supporting the hollow shafts 8 passing through the sleeve buck bags to the cylinder I8 supported on the end of each of these pipes. The cylinder i8 is provided with ports 50 adjacent its lower end which communicates the pressure from hmeidhi vd r ki i pr de with asi a'i PP GPW PBFFQ to a n ne. I alWe D l'fiPWQiWPh. ti l ndefejl and 54 are conneotedto each other by'a V i-sh pe po .7 lea in a DQfi Q- fi lEa h: c 1 n r., sr -v d it W pi and mounted upQnni Qar dsi l' h fi ti tending through theupper casing of the respecttive cylinders. The pistons are so arranged; on

ea hpi t n eel t at w n th hier ld st n en a es he top t e a ve l a ng. t i29 leadin f om ipefl fand y s Wi th: sen," nected to th p nes-5 fitsi t e ehhaust port. .51. lo ed.- when the his Qaslare th lowerm s pos ion the n et p t? iQ i t s m or pressure will be closed and the ports leading from p pe and 5t w l be o s ctsdte t exhau t. port fh rpipefi is connec ed b branches 52 and E3 to the interior of the corresp nd n sl eve press nshass 25' up n e h buck sothatwh nthepir .5 ycqnnecte hr u h v valve 5.2%. t e eursepr s e s iet ese pecfa e .b ss w -he in l t d and w en t es pipes are eonneeteol to theexliaust respective bass, wi lb eils d- Thames. 5 is c n ted t t e br h Wa n. 5 lead sie t et 1. t o her t oi le ve rress eba s 41 1 1 site dis sedl se l ehbssk-l Whe h stea i mi der st of e. alv r m d i opposite directions the oppositely disposed"sets oi? bags 23 and 2t willbe inflated and" deflated. By alternately inflating onesetof bags while .l jiee s t as se m at h n e an second set of bags when "the masses of' 'bagsis deflated. o r e L Qthe respeetivelbuclis, 'Inhrder to automatically accomplish this"alterhatingbperation 'a cylinder Httispivoted ato'ne end to thebracket I l'of'the sure will be alternately applied to ions of the'sh'irt "sleeves embracing carriage 4 The irit'erior'upper endof the'cylinder B5 is onneotedbyfpipe 55 to pipe 55 and iewer'ehd of the lcylindertfi' is connected by pipe se itdpipe at, 'A pistont'i'isrri'ounted on the: lower end of a'p'istbnrodhswhich rod ex- 5 tends through theupperefid of the cylinder 65. 'The free end of the"pi'ston rod 68 is operably connected to one end of an operating lever 69 which in turn is operably connected to the bracket ll of the carriage 4. Intermediate thego upper extremities ofthe piston rods 60 and 60 of the duplex valve 52, an actuating arm 10 is pivotally mounted upon the carriage i. The

actuating arm 59 has oppositely disposed eXten- 7 sions ll adapted to lengage and alternatelydepress the piston rods Errand 60 Theupper end of the actuating arm it is providedwith a roller 12 adapted to travel about a stop 13 carried upon thearm 69. o All 01f center snap, movement is app iedtotheac u ns rm l b means of .the oi srr e 4 a d]? The Spring 14 connected at one end to the lever"!!! above its eenter and atthe other end to anaifm' i6 depending from. the pivoted "e'ridQofYthe leverftli, The I spring 853s cassettes atbne iidtdthe'xtiemity 75 insertion until the shoulder reaches a mark upon.

in an upwarclv'directionthel piston Bl will movethe stop l 13 upwardly and at, the same 'tiine. increasifigfthe tnsiono'n spring is whiledecreas- .ing the tension, on] the spring it so" that "as I the pistonjreachesthe upward end of its"strolre"the roller, 12 willftravel over the bottom of stop 13 causing the arm '10 to rotateabout its pivot and. 'in so doing will depress'the right hand piston. rod 69 to ,ope'nthe exhaust from the right hand. sleevebags 2|v and undersidenof the piston .61- Thislwilljallovlithe piston rod seen the left hand side to move upwardly 'to connect the source of pressure to the oppositely located or leftliai'id sleeve bags fit and to the uppers'ide of the piston 61 which will cause the lever 17:59 to rotateaboiit :its pivot ina downwardly direction andcause the roller i2 to travelover theri'ght handsurface of the stopiifiuntil the stopfpass'esunder the roller when the. spring '14 willfcause the, roller to Tpassov'e'r the stopan'd rotate the arm m i'npthje opposite direction to assume, the positionjshown in Figure, 4. ,v This cycle ,willbe repeated as long as the valve 39 admits pressure from thesource to enterv the pipe 56- so thatlthere will be an 'al .ternat ticnand d fl tion f hQ QHIQ D d ing bags ofeach'pair of buck bags upon each In an, air 'operated jpress of the type described! it is" preferable to employa pressure of a roxn mately 60 pounds to the square inch in the source I of pressure for operating the'l'eylihder 5 in moving the bucks into pressing position. It is'jalso pref- Qerable to employ a pressure or 15 to 30 pounds per square inch in the cufi and pressing bags and from 5 to 10 pounds in the sleeve pressing bags 2i! and 2 I of the bucks. Itisthereiore'preferable to providean adjustable check valve #8 in the branch pipe f ifi leading to the cuff bags lfl. to adjust the pressure jets desirable with a lay-pass 18 thereabout to allow'the cuff bags is to be exhausted. It is also preferable to place a similar adjustablecheck valve E9 in the pipe 45} leading through dupl'ex valve to the interior ofthe respective bags 20 and 2! upon each buck. It is also desirable to rnaintainthese buck bags"? rand 2| at all times under a pressure of approximately. 1 pound per square inch or less and this ispreferably accomplished by inserting in pipe between branch 551 and branches t2 and 63 and in .pipe 56 between branch5t and branches E i and 65, relief valves [9 so arranged that air passes through them freely in one direction and in the- .reverse is opposed by a slightspring pressure to retain a slight pressure inthe bag being exhausted.

In the position shown in Figure 2, the carriage Q'has reached its lowermost position and the an angleto the vertical. receive the sleeves of a shirt.

arm holes of the sleevesand ma continue the the buck or until the cuff reaches a mark upon the cuff pressing bag or buck [9. Each cufi is then smoothed about the cuff pressing bag and is held in position by a spring 80 carried on the end of a piston rod 8| passing through the upper end of the cylinder I9 attached to a piston 82 which may be manually depressed to engage the bottom of the cylinder when the air has been exhausted from the cuff bag [9 so that extensions 83 at the bottom of the spring may engage the adjacent edges of the cuff and hold it in position, as shown in dotted lines on Figure 2. The operator then depresses the actuator control C. This admits air through the upper valve 34 to raise the cylinder 5, the first effect of which is to align the centers of the bucks B and B with the center of the heads H and H respectively, and upon further movement, the bucks are caused to enter the heads until the lower valve 39 carried upon the carriage 4 is actuated to admit air into the central buck supporting pipe 8 and into the duplex valve. The admission of air will cause the piston 82 carrying the spring 80 to move upwardly as the air under pressure enters the interior of the cuff pressing bag I9 so that as the edges of the cuffs are pressed against the pressing surface of the heads, holding spring portions 83 will be moved out of engagement with the cuffs. As this occurs, the two bags and 2| on each buck will be alternately expanded and contracted whereby a pressing action against the interior of the head is imparted to the sleeve between the gusset and the shoulder irrespective of the size of the shirt or length of the sleeve.

The expansible and contractible pressing members may be of elastic material or any other material impervious to air under pressure which in the expanded position will force the portions of the shirt sleeve into ironing engagement with the interior surface of the head and when the air is exhausted may shrink or collapse together in folds.

What we claim is:

1, A garment press comprising, a sleeve receiving buck, a cooperating head operably associated with said buck, means for moving said buck and said head into telescoped relation, expansible and contractible means on said buck, and control means automatically operable upon the movement of said buck and said head into telescoped relation for intermittently expanding the expansible and contractible means on said buck.

2. A garment press comprising, a buck, a hollow head operably associated with said buck, means for moving said head and said buck into pressing relation, expansible and contractible means carried by said buck, means actuated by the movement of said buck and said head into pressing relation for expanding said expansible and contractible means, and means for alternately expanding and contracting said expansible and contractible means when said buck and said head are in pressing relation.

3. A garment press comprising, cooperative pressing elements disposed to be moved into and out of telescoped relation with each other, expansible and contractible means carried by one of said elements, means actuated by the movement of said elements into telescoped relation for expanding said expansible and contractible means, and means for alternately expanding and contracting said expansible and contractible means when said cooperative pressing elements are in telescoped relation.

4. A garment press comprising, a form upon.

which a piece of Work may be carried, a second form, means for moving said forms into and out of pressing relation, and means for alternately moving different portions of one form toward and from the other form while said forms are in pressing relation to press a piece of work carried by one of said forms.

5. In a garment press including, in combination, a plurality of pressing surfaces, means for moving said plurality of pressing surfaces into and out of opposed relation, pressure actuated means for expanding and contracting certain positions of said surfaces, control means operable upon the movement of said plurality of pressing surfaces into opposed relation to initiate operation of said pressure actuated means, and means for maintaining a minimum expanding force upon certain portions of said expanding and contracting surfaces.

6. In a garment press comprising, in combination, a plurality of pressing surfaces, means for moving said plurality of pressing surfaces into and out of opposed relation, certain of said pressing surfaces including expansible and contractible compartments, pressure means connected to said compartments, and pressure control means operable to relatively vary the pressure in the various compartments and thereby the force exerted against the surface opposing each compartment.

7. In a garment press, a plurality of cooperating pressing elements, means for moving said elements into and out of opposed pressing relation, said elements including a plurality of separately inflatable members, pressure means connected to said inflatable members, and means for controlling the inflation and deflation of said members, said control means being operable to synchronize the inflation of certain of said inflatable members with the deflation of certain other of said inflatable members.

8. The structure of claim '7, wherein the means for moving said elements into and out of opposed pressing relation includes a vertical rod and a cylinder mounted to slide axially upon said rod.

9. The structure of claim 7, wherein the means for moving said elements into and out of opposed pressing relation includes a vertical rod, a cylinder mounted to slide axially upon said rod, a piston fixed upon said rod within said cylinder adjacent the top of the cylinder when it is in its lowermost position, and means for admitting air under pressure between the upper cylinder head and the top of the piston to force the cylinder and cooperating pressing elements into opposed pressing relation position.

10. The structure of claim 7, wherein the means for moving said elements into and out of opposed pressing relation includes a vertical rod, a cylinder mounted to slide axially upon said rod, a piston fixed to said rod within said cylinder adjacent.

the top of the cylinder when it is in its lowermost position, and means for admitting air under pressure between the upper cylinder head and the top of the piston to force the cylinder and cooperating pressing elements into opposed pressing relation position, and means to exhaust said pressure to allow the cylinder and elements to move from opposed pressing relation position.

11. In a garment press, a buck adapted to be inserted through a sleeve and receive and press the cuff, gusset and entire sleeve portion thereof, a cooperating head to receive said buck,

means for moving said respective parts into-and,

when said buck and head are in pressing re1a-,

control for admitting air under pressure to said cylinder to move said buck means into pressing relation with the head means, and means to ad" mit air under pressure to the said pressing memtion to reciprocate opposed-portions of the buck bers to press a portion of a shirt against the ironing surface upon the interior of said head member to press the sleeve, gusset. and cuff.

against the interior ofthe head.

12. A garment press including asleeve receiving buck and a hollow head to receive and surround said buck, means operated by air under. pressure to move said buckand head into and out of pressing relation, exp-ansible and contractible members on the buck to press the sleeve against the interior of the head operated by air under pressure, manual means to actuate said moving means, and means to admit airunder pressure to the buck members actuated by the entry of the buck within the head.

13. The structure of claim 12, wherein said means for actuating said moving means is provided with means cooperating with said last namedlmeans when the first named means has been actuated in one direction.

14. The structure of claim 12, wherein said manual means in one position admits air under pressure to impart movement in one direction, and in another position exhausts air to impart movement in the opposite direction.

15. The structure of claim 12 and means ac-;

tuated as the buck is withdrawn from, the interior of the head to exhaust the air from the buck.

16. A garment sleeve press operated by air under pressure including a sleeve buck having expansible and contractible pressing members mounted upon a carriage, a head to receive the buck, a cylinder mounted upon said carriage, a piston within the said cylinder, a stationary piston rod therefor passing through both'ends of. the cylinder, an air valve connected to a source of air under pressure adapted in one position to admit air under pressure within the cylinder at one side of the piston to move the cylinderand carriage to bring the buck into pressing relation with the head and in another position to exhaust the air from the cylinder to reverse the movement of the buck, and a manually actuated control for operating the said air valve.

17. The structure of'claim 16, wherein a second air valve is provided upon the carriage connecting in one position air under pressure to the interior of said pressing members and in another position to an exhaust for the air under pressure therefrom.

18. The structure of claim 16,wherein a sec ond air valve is provided upon the carriage connecting in one position air under pressure to the interior'of said pressing members and in an other position to an exhaust for the air under pressure therefrom, and means upon the control cooperating with the second air valve to admit air under pressure to the pressing members of the bucks after air under pressure has been admitted to the cylinder.

19. A manually actuated compressed air operated garment sleeve press including a base, two spaced-apart uprights mounted thereon, ,a piston rod mounted upon the base intermediate the uprights, a piston fixed upon said rod intermediate its length, a cylinder mounted for reciprocation upon the piston rod and about the piston thereon, a carriage mounted upon the cylinder, buck means mounted upon the carriage, buck receiving head means mounted uponsaid uprights, expansible and contractible. pressing members upon said buck means, a, manually actuated means.

20..The structure of. claim 19, wherein the means for admitting air under pressure to the ,pressing members includes a valve to admit air under pressure from the cylinder after the cylinder has moved the buck means into pressing relation with the. head means.

2 1. The structure of claim 19, wherein the carria'ge mounts a valve in line with an actuating arm carried on said control when said control has been actuated to admit air under pressure tosaid cylinder to be engaged by said valve as the carriage approaches its end of movement to admit air under pressure to said pressing members.

22. The structure of claim 19, wherein the carriage mounts a valve in line with an actuating member carried upon said control when said control has been actuated to admitair under pressure to said cylinder to be engaged by said valve asthe carriage approaches the end of its movement to admit air under pressure to said pressing members and to actuate said valve upon the carriage to exhaust the air under pressure from said pressing members as the carriage starts to move in the opposite direction.

23. Ina garment sleeve press, a base, spacedapart uprights mounted upon said base, a pair of sleevebucks mounted upon a carriage, a pair of heads to receive the sleeve bucks mounted upon said uprights above said bucks, a cylinder mounting said carriage adapted for axial movement upon a piston rod and a piston for moving the bucks into and out of pressing relation with said heads, a source of air under pressure, an air valve on an upright adjacent a head, a second air valveupon the carriage below and in line with said first airvalve, ,a manually actuating control foroperating, both valves, each buck carried on a hollow shaft rotatably mounted upon and in comrnunication with a hollow transverse shaft in communication with said second air valve mountedupon the carriage, an expansible and contractible pressing member mounted upon the end of said buck supporting shaft, said pressing member adapted to receive the cuff and gusset of a shirt sleeve, each of said bucks including two expansible and contractible pressing members below-the cuff and gusset ressing member arranged on opposite sides of the center shaft for pressing the shirt sleeves between the gusset and shoulder, the corresponding sleeve pressing members on the same side of each buck in communication with said valveupon the carriage, whereby when the carriage is in its lower-most position with both air valves closed and the manual control operated in one direction, air under pressure is admitted through the upper valve tothe cylinder to move the bucks into pressing relation within the heads and as the carriage aproaches its upper end of travel to admit air under pressure through the second valve to equally. and simultaneously expand the cuffs and gusset pressing members and to equally and simultaneously expand the sleeve pressing members whereby both sleeves of a shirt are simultaneously given precisely the same pressing finish.

24:. The structure of claim 23, wherein an automatic duplex valveoperated by air under pressure 11 is interposed between the sleeve pressing members and the second air valve to continuously and alternately admit air under pressure to and'exhaust from the. complementary sleeve pressing,

members as long as airunder pressure is admitted through the second valve.

25. The structure of claim 23, wherein an automatic duplex valve operated by. airunder pressure is interposed between the sleeve pressing members and the second air-valve to continuously and alternately admit air under pressure to and exhaust from the complementary sleeve pressing members as long as air .under pressure is admitted through the second valve, and wherein, said duplex valve includes two cylinders connected to a common exhaust and each cylinder connected to the second valve, pistons in each cylinder movable to connect the second valve to the interior of said sleeve pressing-members and to connect said sleeve pressing members to a common ex haust, means to alternately connect one cylinder to the complementary sleeve pressingmembers on each buck while theother cylinder connects the other pair of said complementary sleeve pressingmembers to the exhaust.

26. The structure of claim 23, wherein an automatic duplex valve operated by air under pressure is interposed between the sleeve pressing members and the second air valve to continuously, and alternately. admit air under pressure to and exhaust from the complementary. sleeve pressing members as long as air under pressure is admitted through the second valve, and wherein said duplex valve includes two cylinders connected to a common exhaust and each cylinder connected to-the.

second valve, pistons in each cylinder movable to connect the .said second valve to the interior of said sleeve pressing members and to connect said sleeve pressing members to the .common exhaust,

means to alternatel connect one cylinder tothe.

complementary sleeve pressing members on each buck while the other cylinderconnects the other pair of said complementary sleeve pressing members to the exhaust, and wherein said .means includes an oiT-center snap-action mechanism..

27. The structure of claim23, wherein an automatic duplex valve operated by air under pressure is interposed between the sleeve pressing members and the second air valve to continuously and alternately admit air under pressure to and exhaust from the complementary sleeve pressing members as long asair under pressure is admitted through the second valve, and wherein said duplex valve includes two cylinders connected to a common exhaust and .each cylinder connected to the second valve, pistons in each cylinder movable to connect the said second valve to the interior of said sleeve pressing members and to connect said sleeve pressing members to a common exhaust, means to alternately connect one cylinder to the complementary sleeve pressing members on each buck while the other cylinder connects the other pair of said complementary sleeve pressing members to the exhaust, and wherein said means includes an off center snapaction mechanism actuated by the movement of a piston rod of a piston reciprocating in a cylinder by means connecting one side of the piston in the snap-action operating cylinder through a cylinder of the duplex valve to the said second air valve and at the same time connecting the other side of said piston through said second cylinder in said duplex valve to the common exhaust.

28. In a garment press, sleeve receiving bucks and buck receiving heads, means to move'said bucks and heads into and out of pressing relation, each buck having-two oppositely disposed expansible and contractible sleeve pressing members, control means for expanding the complementary members while contracting the other complementary members to simultaneously impart precisely the same pressing finish to both sleeves of a shirt, said means including a source of air under pressure and an automatic duplex valve continuously and alternately connecting one pair of complementary sleeve pressing members to the source of air under pressure while the other pair are connected to'an exhaust and then connecting the second pair of complementary members to the source of air under pressure and the first pair of complementary members to the exhaust.

29; The structure of claim 28, wherein said last named means includes -a snap-action actuator operated by air under pressure from a cylinder of the duplex valve to cut off air under pressure to that cylinder and to connect the other cylinder of said valve to the source of air under pressure.

30. The structure of claim 28, wherein said last named means includes a snap-action actuator operated by air under pressure from a cylinder of the duplex valve to cut off air under pressure to that cylinder and to connect the other cylinder of said valve to the source of air under pressure and wherein said actuator is reciprocated by the movement of a piston in-a cylinder connected on the opposite sides of the piston to the opposite cylinders of the duplex valve.

31. In a garment press a sleeve receiving buck and a buck receiving headgmeans to move said buck and head into and out of pressing relation, said buck having a central hollow-shaft pivotally mounted at one end on the carriage and supporting a cylinder in communication with the shaft at the other end, an expansible and contractible cuff and gusset pressing member mounted about saidcylinder and in communication therewith, the -opposite end of the hollow shaft being connected with the source of air under pressure, a'piston mounted in said cylinder to reciprocate, a piston rod extending through the outer end of said cylinder, a spring member secured to the exterior of said piston rod adapted to engage and hold the cuff of a shirt about said pressing member when'the piston is in its lowermost position.

32. The structure of claim 31, including means to admit air under pressure to said hollow shaft and cylin'derasthebuck is received-*within the head to expand the pressing member against the interior surface of the head-andto admit air below the piston inthe cylinder'to carry-the spring engaging the cuff out of engagement therewith beforethe pressing operation is completed.

HARRY D. FORSE. ROLLIN'E. CAMPBELL.

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