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- H. E. SMITH.

IRONING MACHINE.

No. 519,974. Patented May' 15, 1894.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFrcE.

HAMILTON E. SMITH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IRONING-MACHIN E.

SPECIFICATIdN forming part of Letters Patent No. 519,974, dated May 15, 1894.

Application filed January 15, 1894:- Serial No 496,903- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that I, HAMILTON E. SMITH, i

of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ironing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

0 My invention relates to that type of iron- 1ng machines or maugles wherein an endless apron supported by suitable rollers is arranged to extend partially round a heated, ironing or smoothing cylinder, in such mannor that articles or goods delivered to the cyliuder and carried round between the same and the apron are ironed or smoothed and dried.

The object of my invention is to provide new and improved means for raising or lowering the arched portions of the apron be tween the peripheries of the ironing cylinders to increase the efficiency and adaptability of the machine.

To accomplish this object my invention consists in the features of construction and the combination or arrangement of devices hereinat'ter described and claimed, reference being made to the accompanying drawing, in which the figure is a longitudinal sectional View of an ironing-machine embodying my invention.

In order to enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will now describe the same in detail, referring to the drawing, wherein-- The numeral 1 indicates a frame supported by legs 2, and constructed in any suitable manner to support the journals of a series of ironing or smoothing cylinders 3, l and 5. The frame is provided in proximity to the delivery table 6 with an apron-supporting roller 7, the axis of which is slightly above the level of the delivery table. At a point on the frame considerably below the axes of the ironing cylinders are arranged a series of apron-supporting-rollers 8, 9, 10 and 12, and at points between the cylinders are arr. nged a series of vertically movable apron-supports 13, which are susceptible of being raised or lowered through the medium of screw-shafts 15, suitably engaged with the vertically slidable boxes 16 in which the supports 13, which are composed of rollers, are journaled.

The endless apron 17 is composed of any material ordinarily used for the purpose and extends around the severalrollers above mentioned, and at the end of the frame opposite the delivery table 6, a part of this apron is arranged to travel in a horizontal plane, or approximately so, for the purpose of constituting a moving or traveling feed-section or table by which the articles or goods to be ironed or smoothed are moved in the direction of the arrow 18. In order to properly support the apron so that a part thereof always travels in a horizontal plane as above stated, I provide two separate rotary supports 19 and 20' having their axes preferably arranged in a plane coincident with the axis of the roller 7.

The end of the frame 1, opposite the delivery table 6, is constructed to receive and support a clothes-basket 21, preferably perforated for the admission of air to facilitate the drying of the clothes contained therein. The clothes-basket is arranged some distance from the rotary support 20, and between the said basket and that part of the apron which travels horizontally between the rotary supports 19 and 20, is arranged a non-moving feed table 22, composed of a flat board or plate secured in a fixed position to the frame 1 by any suitable means, in such manner that the top surface of the feed board or plate lies level with that part of the endless apron which travels horizontally. By this arrangement I provide a stationary feed board or table, and a traveling or. moving feed section composed of a part of the endless apron which passes partially round the ironing cylinders, and consequently the attendant can lift the articles or goods out of the clothes-basket 21, and spread them out fiat upon a stationary chject from which they are delivered to a traveling feed section which carries them direct onto the ironing cylinder 3 and between the latter and the endless apron. The articles or goods are carried by the apron from one cylinder to the other and are finally delivered from the roller 7 onto the delivery table 6.

The vertically adjustable rollers 13 render it possible for the attendantat any time, or as occasion may demand, to more or less raise the arched portions of the apron at points between the ironing oylinders, for the purpose tions of the apron when adjusted to their highest position and pass into engagement with the cylinders, heavy goods or articles are liable to improperly pass into engagement- With the cylinders 4L and 5, and sometimes bunch or build up between said cylinders,'for' which reason it is advisable to lower the rollers 13, and thus reduce the elevation of the- "arched portions of the apron for operating,

on heavy goods or articles.

The intermediate vertically adjustable rollers 13 are not merely to tighten the apron, but are particularly designedto more or less raise the arched parts of the apron between theironingcylinders, and therefore I provide special apron tighteners, preferably two,-one of which is arranged between the rollers 9' and 10 beneath the cylinder 4 and is composed-of a roller 23 which can be raised or Jloweredby a'screw-shaft 2i operated in any suitable manner. The other apron tightener is composed of the roller 12 which is mounted in a bell-crank lever25'having-a handle 26 so arranged as to be conveniently manipulated by the attendant standing at the clothesbasket 21'. l

I do not deem it necessary to further describe the apron tightening devices as they constitute no part of the claims in the present cas e.

rollers supporting theapron in arches'between the cylinders, and means for vertically adjusting saidrollers to Vary the elevation of the arched parts of the apron, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence-of two subscribing wit- HAMILTON E. 'SMIT H.

WVitnesses:

ALBERT H. NORRIS, J. A. SAUL.

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