US2898020A - Method and means for shaping dresses - Google Patents

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US2898020A
US2898020A US536679A US53667955A US2898020A US 2898020 A US2898020 A US 2898020A US 536679 A US536679 A US 536679A US 53667955 A US53667955 A US 53667955A US 2898020 A US2898020 A US 2898020A
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Kannegiesser Karl Herbert
Juraschek Johann Richard
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F71/00—Apparatus for hot-pressing clothes, linen or other textile articles, i.e. wherein there is substantially no relative movement between pressing element and article while pressure is being applied to the article; Similar machines for cold-pressing clothes, linen or other textile articles
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F59/00—Supports adapted to retain the shape of particular articles being dried, e.g. incorporating heating means
    • D06F59/02—Supports adapted to retain the shape of particular articles being dried, e.g. incorporating heating means for garments
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F73/00—Apparatus for smoothing or removing creases from garments or other textile articles by formers, cores, stretchers, or internal frames, with the application of heat or steam 

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  • This invention relates to a method and means for shaping dresses; it relates more particularly to a new method for shaping dresses by pressing the same under heating, without the use of mechanically applied pressure.
  • steaming tables have been devised for feeding and applying steam to the dress to be shaped, through the table padding, i.e. from below the table, the dress being lifted from the table by inflating the padding, whereupon the moisture remaining in the dress and the padding after the steam treatment, is sucked off by specially provided suction means.
  • These steaming tables serve primarily for a preliminary treatment of the dress, which must then be finished on a different machine.
  • Inequality of pressure is further caused by thicker portions of the dress.
  • a leg of a pair of trousers cannot be subjected to uniform pressure by any of the known methods of pressing, the turn-up of the leg being always pressed and smoothed strongly, while the leg portion next adjacent'the tum-up forms a recess where pressure is not suflicient to yield a smoothing effect.
  • a further disadvantageous feature of the known ironing machines is that they must be provided with pressing pedals, rods, frames, structures and releasing devices required for producing the necessary mechanical pressure.
  • the steaming tables known in the art only permit a preliminary treatment of the dress in order to make the same more pliant.
  • the known steaming dummies have the drawback that an unobjectionable smoothing or shaping cannot be obtained, because the dress is steamed solely from within the dummy, and that the shaping and drying must be achieved by inflating the cloth bag.
  • it is indispensable to fasten the different dress portions such as coat tails, slit parts, sleeve openings and the like by means of elastic bands or clamps in order to maintain the dress in position in the desired shape during the pressing step.
  • this known step is very time-consuming and complicated, yet the result of this step is that the dress is only smoothed and not yet shaped.
  • the heat transmitting medium such as, preferably, steam to act upon the dress when the latter is placed over a padded mold, from the outside of the dress, thus making the latter pliable, while at the same time, a depression (partial vacuum) is created in the hollow interior of the mold.
  • the steam' is sucked otf throughthe interior of the mold, and the garment is pressed firmly onto the mold bythe atmospheric 3 pressure acting from without upon the dress covering the evacuated mold.
  • the invention thus consists in shaping a dress on a mold by applying a heat-transmitting medium'such as a -gaseous or finely sprayed liquid” agent, preferably steam, onto the dress fromthe outside thereof, while concurrently creating a depression in the interior of themold, the latter being, of course, so devised as to permit the partial vaotium in its interior to act through the mold'on the inner side of thegarment.
  • a heat-transmitting medium' such as a -gaseous or finely sprayed liquid” agent, preferably steam
  • the garment adopts'the shape of the mold, 'while wrinkles and folds in the dress can be easily removed during this treatment by shifting and stretching the dress on the mold 'as required.
  • the amount of depression inside the mold is adjusted by suitable control meanssuchas valves to correspond to the specific pres-.
  • the pressing devices to which the method 'I according to the invention is being applied can be of much simpler construction, and be operated much more easily.
  • a further important advantage of the method according to our invention consists in that the pressure exercised from without "uponthe dress on' the mold is infinitely variable by a corresponding variation of the vacu- -um inside the mold.
  • the dress to be shaped'need not be exposed to a sudden pressure, but gentle increase of the pressure is possible, the shaping of the dress thus becoming more uniform.
  • This feature of infinitely varymg the pressure is indispensable in order to prevent that any parts of the dress lying beneath the surface layer, especially if the latter is of thin cloth, i.e. that such parts as turned'seams, pocket linings and the like, appear in the surface layer by causing correspondingly elevated or "-embossed portions in the dress surface.
  • a new and advantageous eifect-of the method according to our invention resides in the fact that, as the steam acts upon the dress from without, the dress is pressed onto the mold by the air streaming from without toward'the inside of the mold under a pressure'corresponding to the difference between the atmospheric pressure and the partial vacumn'producedinside the mold, while, at the same time, the dress is-held in position in the shape determined bythe mold, as a result of the drying and cooling effect of 'the airpassing therethrough.
  • Figure l is a sectional view of a hollow mold fitted with means for carrying out the method according to the invention.
  • Figure 2 is a schematic view of the streamlined open- 1 ings provided between the outer and inner or heating mantle'of the hollow mold shown in Figure 1.
  • Figure 3 shows another embodiment of the hollow mold according to the invention, in sectional view.
  • Figure 4 shows a cross-sectional view of a pressing machine having an upper and a lower platen and being adapted for carrying out the method according to the invention.
  • Figure 5 is a front view of the machine shown in Figure 4.
  • Figure 6 is a sectional view of Figure 4 illustrating in detail the upper platen and lower platen of the machine in closed position, and
  • Figure 7 is a'longitudinal sectional view along line 7-7 in Figure 6.
  • themachine for shaping awgar- .4 meat according to the method of the invention comprises a hollow, padded mold b on or over which the dress to be shaped is placed.
  • the garment c is placed on the mold b by slipping it over the same from above.
  • the mold b in Figure .1 is devised as a dummy or lay figure, while in Figure 4, the garment must be placed on the lower platen rof a pressing table.
  • a suitable device for supplying the heat-transmitting medium such as steam comprises, in the embodiment shown in Figure l, the annular feeding tube a, which can be passed manually over the mold b and the dress thereon, without coming into contact with the latter, for instance from below.
  • a gaseous or finely dispersed liquid medium is caused to impinge upon the cloth of the 'dress 0 for instance by spraying from the orifices a in the direction indicated by the arrows in Figure l.
  • a partial vacuum is created in the hollow interior j of the mold b by means of an exhaustor e, vacuum suction and correspondingly the pressure exercised by the atmosphere outside the dress on the latter, being controlled by means of displacing the valve body In of the valve l. Air as well as the water vapors in the cloth are thereby suctioned into the interior of the mold b.
  • the latter is provided with a perforated outer hull f and a heating jacket g.
  • the latter jacket or mantle g is provided with openings i whose cross sectional area as a total, is proportional to that of the evacuating line h.
  • ribs k are provided for supporting the outer 'hull on the inner mantle g, which ribs are of streamlined cross-section and radially arranged about the circular perforations i.
  • Pressure on the dress can be infinitely varied by adjusting the position of the streamline-shaped valve body In in the air valve 1.
  • the valve body In is provided with a displaceably mounted rod m which is guided in a streamline-shaped guide rib n of the vacuum conduit h and may, for instance, be actuated by a member n connected to a foot pedal (not shown).
  • FIG. 1 shows the position of the valve body in andthe rod m in closed position in uninterrupted lines
  • FIG. 3 shows the steam-heated inner jacket g which is equally adapted to the outer shape of the mold b. Heating voltage is fed to the heating means p by way of a lead-in'p
  • the feed pipe a is replaced by hood q which serves to lead the heat transmitting medium on to the dress.
  • the upper platen .9 need only be closed manually by means of the handle s However, it may also be coupled with the pedal 1? so as to synchronize its closing and opening with the admission of steam to recess x and the evacuation of hollow space it through the valve I.
  • all devices for fixing the upper platen in pressure position on the lower platen and releasing the same can be completely eliminated.
  • the dress By lifting the steam feeding means from time to time from the lower platen, the dress may be smoothed manually between successive steaming steps in order to remove folds and Wrinkles and to straighten borders, edges, and the like.
  • the streamlined shaped of the ribs between the outer hull and the inner jacket of the mold prevents losses of pressure in the air flowing through the garment into the interior of the mold from the surrounding atmosphere.
  • Pressure on the garment may also be increased by superimposing a layer of material being less permeable to air and steam than the cloth of the garment to be shaped over the latter.
  • a method for pressing and shaping garments comprising the steps of placing the garment on a porous mold, applying a heat-transmitting gaseous medium upon the outside of the garment, evacuating the interior of the mold so as to establish a partial vacuum therein to cause pressure to be exercised exclusively by the atmosphere on the garment from the outside thereof so that a current of atmospheric air and the heat-transmitting gaseous medium will pass concurrently through the garment from the outside thereof toward the interior of the mold.

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US3257047A (en) * 1964-06-01 1966-06-21 Mc Graw Edison Co Vacuum-clamping buck
FR2618810A1 (fr) * 1987-07-29 1989-02-03 Gomez Jacques Appareil de repassage de vetement

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US1536637A (en) * 1920-11-12 1925-05-05 Max H Thurnauer Method of and apparatus for ironing
FR646334A (fr) * 1927-12-17 1928-11-09 Machine à former et à sécher
US1797011A (en) * 1929-12-26 1931-03-17 Milazo Thomas Garment renovator
US1839472A (en) * 1930-04-14 1932-01-05 Harry D Forse Drying and pressing machine
US1977403A (en) * 1932-04-08 1934-10-16 Roland Haggerty Press for tailors
US2140961A (en) * 1937-04-26 1938-12-20 Carl R Lendle Garment steaming device
US2453730A (en) * 1946-05-20 1948-11-16 American Laundry Mach Co Garment steaming and drying apparatus
US2562956A (en) * 1949-03-26 1951-08-07 American Laundry Mach Co Vacuum holding device for garment steaming apparatus
US2667291A (en) * 1951-06-01 1954-01-26 Kleindienst & Co Pressing bust

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US1536637A (en) * 1920-11-12 1925-05-05 Max H Thurnauer Method of and apparatus for ironing
FR646334A (fr) * 1927-12-17 1928-11-09 Machine à former et à sécher
US1797011A (en) * 1929-12-26 1931-03-17 Milazo Thomas Garment renovator
US1839472A (en) * 1930-04-14 1932-01-05 Harry D Forse Drying and pressing machine
US1977403A (en) * 1932-04-08 1934-10-16 Roland Haggerty Press for tailors
US2140961A (en) * 1937-04-26 1938-12-20 Carl R Lendle Garment steaming device
US2453730A (en) * 1946-05-20 1948-11-16 American Laundry Mach Co Garment steaming and drying apparatus
US2562956A (en) * 1949-03-26 1951-08-07 American Laundry Mach Co Vacuum holding device for garment steaming apparatus
US2667291A (en) * 1951-06-01 1954-01-26 Kleindienst & Co Pressing bust

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DE1186022B (de) * 1962-07-21 1965-01-28 Johann Heinrich Oelkers Hosenbuegelpresse
US3257047A (en) * 1964-06-01 1966-06-21 Mc Graw Edison Co Vacuum-clamping buck
FR2618810A1 (fr) * 1987-07-29 1989-02-03 Gomez Jacques Appareil de repassage de vetement

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