US1761296A - Hosiery-drying-form machine - Google Patents

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June 3, 1930. GUGGENHEM 1,761,296

HOSIERY DRYING FORM MACHINE Filed March 20, 1928 /A/VW7'0/? lwnvass: P G A w 1 an (75:12 6 m Patented June 3, 1930 UNITD SATE$ Mar HCE PAUL GUGGENI-IEIM, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO PHILADEL- PHIA METAL DRYING FORIv'I COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A COR- PORATION OF DELAWARE HOSIERY-DRYING-FQRM MACHINE Application filed March 20, 1928. Serial No. 263,188.

Hollow steam heated or hot water heated drying forms for the drying of hosiery are usually mounted, in a vertical or somewhat inclined position, on a. pipe, which may be the pipe for supplying the heating fluid or the pipe for carrying oil the steam condensate or cooled water. It is customary to pivot these forms on the pipe on the longitudinal axis of the form, so that the operator may turn the form 180 degrees, or thereabouts,

and examine both sides of the stocking before stripping it from the form.

In the drying operation the hands of the operator are fairly steadily occupied and it would be an advantage to provide means for reversing the form that require no hand manipulation. It is also desirable, because of the highly heated condition of the form, to avoid unnecessary contact with the heated stocking stretched thereon. It would also be advantageous to insure that the form should be turned to a definite position and returned to a definite position. The object of the invention is to provide manually controllable means, preferably foot-controlled means, to turn the form back and forth on its axis and to definitely position it in both its normal and reversed positions. In the drawings, which show a preferred embodiment of the invention:

Fig. l is a front elevationof the form turnably mounted on a pipe and with my invention applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the form-support, the lower end of the form and the form turning mechanism with the fluid pipes shown in section.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of part of the form turning mechanism. with the form shown in cross-section. I

In the embodiment of the invention shown. the steam or hot water supply pipe a extends through a steam condensate or cooled water draw-off pipe 6, on which is mounted a base 0, having an upstanding tubular member (Z in which the lower contracted end orneck e of the form f is turnable. This construction is old and well known and need not be described in detail. Nor is it necessary to show or describe the known means whereby the interior of the form on one side of the partition 9 communicates with pipe at and on the other side of the partition with pipe 6. So far as my invention is concerned, the drying form may be entirely hollow or may have any internal construction and it may be mounted on any support and any means may be provided for allowing it to turn on its longitudinal axis.

Secured to the form support ol is an upstanding bracket z'. This bracket carries a small L-shaped arm is. Turnable on arm is is a small pulley m. Secured to the neck of the form is a large pulley n. A flexible connection extends over pulley m and nearly the whole way around pulley n. The major part of this flexible connection is a chain 0 which extends part way around pulley m. The remainder of the flexible connection comprises a spring p which is secured to arm is. The opposite end of the flexible connection extends down from pulley m under a pulley 1' to one end of a lever s pivoted between its ends. Conveniently, this lever is a foot treadle and both the treadle and pulley 1" are mounted on the floor of the work shop.

Spring p normally holds wheel a and form f in the position shown in Fig. 3, in which one edge of' the form contacts with the bracket 2', which acts as a stop to prevent its further movement.

This position of the form is that which it may conveniently assume during the operation of drawing the stocking onto the form and while the stocking is drying. During, or at the conclusion of, the drying operation, the operator depresses treadle s and thereby pulls chain 0, thereby turning wheel n so as to turn the form through an arc of nearly 180, its further movement being stopped by the engagement of the form with bracket 2'. As the chain is pulled the spring, one end of which is fixed, is necessarily elongated. This turning movement of the form brings the opposite side of the form under observation of the operator without the necessity of the operator touching the form or using her hand to effect the reversal; and, moreover, the form is brought to a definite position. After inspecting the stocking the operator releases the foot pedal and the spring p, being free to contract, returns the chain to its normal position, thereby turning the wheel and the form back to their normal positions.

This invention will doubtless find its most useful application in the drying of hosiery on hollow metal internally fluid-heated forms, but it is adaptable to the drying of other articles of textile fabric. The hereindescribed specific embodiment of the invention posscsses advantages, but the invention is not limited to such specific embodiment.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

1. In a drying apparatus for drying articles of textile fabric, the combination with a form for receiving the article to be dried and a support on which the form is turnable on an axis extending longitudinally of the form, of manually operable mechanism to turn the form on said axis from a given position, and a spring adapted to return the form to said position.

2. In a drying apparatus for drying articles of textile fabric, the combination with a form for receiving the article to be dried and a support on which the form is turnable on an axis extending longitudinally of the form, of manually operable mechanism to turn the form on said axis from a given position, and a spring adapted to normally hold said form in said position and to return it to said position after it is so turned and after the manual release of said mechanism.

3. In a drying apparatus for drying articles of textile fabric, the combination with a form for receiving the article to be dried and a support on which the form is turnable on an axis extending longitudinally of the form, of manually operable mechanism to turn the form on said axis from a given position, a spring adapted normally to hold said form in said position and to return it to said position after it is so turned and after the manual release of said mechanism, and means to limit the turning movement of the form in both directions.

4. In a drying apparatus for drying articles of textile fabric, the combination with a form for receiving the article to be dried and asupport on which the form is turnable on an axis extending longitudinally of the form, of a pulley on said form, a bracket secured to the form support, a flexible connection extending around said pulley and secured at one end to said bracket, and a manually operable lever to which the other end of the flexible connection is secured and by means of which the flexible connection may be pulled and the wheel turned.

5. In a drying apparatus for drying articles of textile fabric, the combination with a form for receiving the article to be dried and a support on which the form is turnable on an axis extending longitudinally of the form, of a pulley on said form, a bracket secured to the form support, a flexible connection extending around said pulley and secured at one end to said bracket, and a manually operable lever to which the other end of the flexible connection is secured and by means of which the flexible connection may be pulled and the wheel turned, the flexible connection comprising a spring which, when the lever is released, is adapted to return the wheel.

6. In a drying apparatus. for drying articles of textile fabric, the combination with a form for receiving the article to be dried and a support on which the form is turnable on an axis extending longitudinally of the form, of a pulley on said form, a bracket secured to the form support, a flexible connection extending around said pulley and secured at one end to said bracket, another pulley on said bracket around which the flexible connection also extends, and a foot-treadle to which the other end of said flexible connection is secured.

7 In a drying apparatus for drying articles of textile fabric, the combination with a form for receiving the article to be dried and a support on which the form is turnable on an axis extending longitudinally of the form, of a pulley on said form, a bracket se cured to the form support, a flexible connection extending around said pulley and secured at one end to said bracket, another pulley on said bracket around Which the flexible connection also extends, and a foot-treadle to which the other end of said flexible connection is secured, that end of the flexible connection which is secured to said bracket comprising a spring which, when the wheel is so turned, is adapted to be thrown into tension and which, when the foot-treadle is released, is adapted to return the wheel.

8. In a drying apparatus for drying articles of textile fabric, the combination witha form for receiving the article to be dried and a support on which the form is turnable on an axis extending longitudinally of the form, of a pulley on said form, a bracket secured to the form support, a flexible connection extending around said pulley and secured at one end to said bracket, and a manually operable lever to which the other end of the flexible connection is secured and by means of which the flexible connection may be pulled and the wheel turned, the flexible connection comprising a spring which, when the lever is released, is adapted to return the wheel, said form in its turning movement in both directions being adapted to engage said bracket and have its turning movement arrested.

9. In a drying apparatus for drying articles of textile fabric, the combination with a form for receiving the article to be dried and a support on which the form is turnable on an axis extending longitudinally of the form, of manually operable mechanism to turn the form on said axis in one direction from a given position, and automatic means adapted to return the form in the opposite direction to said position.

In testimony of Which invention, I have hereunto set my hand, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on this twenty-fourth day of February, 1928.

PAUL GUGGENHEIM.

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