DE78747C - Ironing and smoothing machine for individual parts and places of laundry - Google Patents

Description

IMPERIAL

PATENT OFFICE.

Many types of laundry have individual parts or locations that have hitherto been found cannot be ironed and smoothed in any other way than by hand, e.g. B. the bent Corners of collars, the center webs of clip pins and shirts and the like. Since, furthermore, these parts are mostly supposed to be smoothed to an outstanding degree, so ironing the same causes much greater effort and stresses you accordingly longer expenditure of time.

The present invention relates to a machine device for ironing and smoothing such laundry parts. The device is characterized by a drum-shaped Iron, which is mounted in a handle attached to an articulated arm, that the perpendicular central axis of the latter runs through the middle of the drum-shaped one in the radial direction, merely by friction on it Outer surface in rotation iron passes through, with the required ironing pressure generated by means of an ironing table that can be raised and lowered by kicking and is regulated and a more or less dragging movement of the ironing drum achieved a guide of the handle that is correspondingly obliquely directed to the longitudinal axis of the latter can be.

The accompanying drawing illustrates an embodiment of the machine. Fig. 1 is a Side view of the same with a partial section of the table top. Fig. 2 is a top view the machine. Fig. 3 illustrates the handle with the iron stored therein together with the heating device of the latter.

On the table α a stand b is attached, which carries the pin c for the articulated arm d, e. The head f of this articulated arm carries a handle 0 at the bottom, which is formed at the same time as the two bearings for the pins i and z ^{1 of} the drum-shaped iron h . As Fig. 3 illustrates, is this one bearing for the convenient assembly of the iron /? set up for losing weight. One pin i ^{l of} the drum h is hollow. A burner tube m fastened in the bearing piece extends through its cavity into the interior of the iron. The burner tube is connected to a channel k which is passed through the handle 0 and the head f of the articulated arm and through which a suitable mixture of gas and compressed air is introduced.

The heating flame strikes against the inside of the drum shell serving as an ironing surface; the combustion gases are discharged through openings ρ arranged in one or in both end walls of the drum.

In the table a cut is present through which the r in lothrechten tours guided ironing board t passes. A footstep s, which is connected to the ironing table t by steering rods u , enables the ironing table t to be brought closer to the iron during the simultaneous manual guidance of the iron as required, thereby regulating the ironing pressure according to the desired degree of smoothing . By releasing the pressure exerted on the footstep, the ironing table with the item of laundry can be removed immediately from the

Iron can be lifted off. The immediate sinking of the ironing board can, if necessary be supported by a suitably attached spring.

As already mentioned above, the drum-shaped iron is mounted in such a way that the perpendicular center axis of the handle in the radial direction exactly through the center of the Drum passes through, whereby it is achieved that the in also radial direction on the Drum acting ironing pressure is taken up exactly axially by the handle itself. This has the effect, on the one hand, that the full ironing pressure is used, which is both increases the smoothness effect, as well as a safe entrainment of the merely by friction in Rotation of the iron drum, secondly, that the guidance of the iron a light and safe one is what would not be the case if the ironing pressure was off the Handle would not be axially received; rather, the ironing drum would then Have endeavored to deviate to the side, but with consideration that it is here mostly about ironing small, precisely delimited, often only strip-shaped, narrow areas, must be avoided at all costs.

Are especially narrow strips to be pressed and smoothed, so the iron shown in Fig. 3 is replaced by one which, as Fig. 4 illustrates, in the middle of the drum shell an annular, serving as a pressing surface increasing h has ^1, the width of that of the corresponding laundry items.

According to the above, it is evident that with the machine described, when a Iron with an appropriately wide ring-shaped ironing surface in the most comfortable and safest Iron individual parts and places of items of laundry wisely and also relatively quickly and by simultaneously exercising a suitable one brought about by lifting the ironing board Let the pressure smooth in any degree. It comes in the latter relationship still particularly into consideration that in the described storage of the ironing drum through a movement directed more or less obliquely against the axis of rotation of the same the handle brought about a partly dragging, partly rotating movement of the drum and as a result - without damaging the item of laundry - a particularly strong smoothing Effect can be achieved.

Claims (1)

Patent claim: A machine for ironing and smoothing individual parts and places of items of laundry, in which the iron (h) , which is provided with an annular ironing surface and is rotated about its horizontal axis of rotation only by friction, directly in the handle ( h) attached to an articulated arm (de) o) is mounted in such a way that the perpendicular center axis of the latter passes radially through the center of the ironing surface and so with the table (t) that is constantly acting axially on the handle and can be changed by means of lifting and lowering of the ironing pressure, only a rotating or with the addition of a suitable guide the side pressure generated by the handle also causes a partly rotating, partly dragging movement of the ironing drum. 1 sheet of drawings.