US1540567A - Folding shelf for ironing machines - Google Patents

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June 2, 1925.

M. E. PORTER FOLDING SHELF FOR IRONING MACHINES Filed July 24. 1924 Patented June 2, 1925.

MARY E. PORTER, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

FOLDING SHELF FOR IRONING MACHINES.

Application me July 24,

' To all whom it may concern:

berfor laundering purposes, the upper surface of the table being disposed in substantially the same horizontal plane as the upper face of the feed roller whilethe heated ironing member is preferably located; at the rear of tlhe roller for pressing cooperation therewit Y In machines of this character, there is always more or less liability of the work becoming wound around and upon the feed roll unless stripped from the underside thereof before returning upwardly along the front side of the roller toward the feed" table, and inasmuch as no suitable means as yet has beenprovided for properly stripping the work from the roller, it becomes necessary for the operator to stop the machine, reverse the roller and unwind the articles therefrom and when all parts of the table are secured in a fixed -position relatively to the feed roller, this stripping operation is extremely difficult and somewhat dangerous.

The main object of mypresent invention is to divide the table transversely and diagonally some distance from one end and to leave that end free so that it maybe displaced for convenient access to the rollers for stripping the work therefrom, particularly when ironing thin fiat work which is more liable to adhere to the roller and to become wound thereon, than the heavier fabrics be-' cause the latter are more liable to fall from the underside of the roller by their own weight.

In other words, I have sought to make the table in sections dividedtransversely along a 1924. er1a1 No. 727,983.

7 wardly away from thefeed roller to permit access to the major portion of said roller for ironii g the thin fiat articles thereon against the heated pressure member thus permitting the operator to observe the action of the work on the roller and to readily strip the samefromthe roller in case it should tend to wind thereon.

Other objects and uses relating tospecific parts of the device will be brought out in the following description. 7

In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of an ironing machine equipped with my improved folding shelf, the dotted lines indicating portions of the movable section of the valve adjusted to different positions from its normal positionshown by full line.

Figure 2 is atop plan of the detached shelf, the clotted lines indicating the positionof the movable section when unfolded.

As illustrated, this machine comprises a main supporting frame 1-'-, a feed roller --2 journaled on the frame and an ironing block -3 together with a feeding table which is also mounted upon the mam supporting frame --1 in a manner hereinafter described. Y

The heating drum orironing block -3- is preferably stationary and is provided with a concave face lying adjacent the rear face of the feed roller -2- for cooperation therewith in smoothin and ironing the articles as they are fe rearwardly by the upper part of the roller.

Any suitable means may be employed for heating the member 3 which is preferably hollow and for this pur ose is provided a pipe 5- adapted to he connected to any source of heating fluid such assteam" or as.-

'1 e feeding table 4 constitutes the essential feature of this invention, and is normally supported in a horizontal frame on the front of the main frame -1 directly in front of the upper portion of the feed roller 2 and parallel therewith for receiving the articles to be ironed and permitting them to be fed forwardly therefrom into engagement with'the upper face of the roller --2 which is preferably covered with suitable fabric for frictionally engaging and feeding the articles rearwardly and against the front face of the heated ironing member 3. i

In many instances, as for example,

v said roller necessitating stopping of the inachine for unwinding the articles therefrom and in order that this operation of stripping or unwinding the articles from the roller may be accomplishedmore conveniently and with greater facility without liability of injury to the operator, the table is made in sections so that one section may be displaced from its normal position for afiording a greater vision of the adjacent portion of the roller and, permitting the articles which are liable to adhere tothe roller to be observed and stripped by hand before they become entirely wound upon the roller.

This ability todisplacea portion of the feeding table is best accomplished by dividing said table transversely nearer to one end than to the other end and hinging the two sections together in such manner that the longer section may be folded upwardly, forwardly and laterally to rest flatwise upon the shorter section if desired, some distance to one side of the center of the machine where it is temporarily out of the way of the operator as shown by horizontal dotted lines in Figures 1 and 2.

, The shorter section as -6, is preferably secured by any suitable fastening means not necessary to herein illustrate or describe, to the frame of the machine so as to lie in a substantially horizontal plane while the longer section as --4, is supported along Dividing the feeding table transversely and diagonally in the manner described, permits the longer section 6 to be rocked from its normal horizontal position upwardly and away from the roller 2 so as to leave the major portion ofthe roller exposed to the view of the operator particularly when ironing thin flat articles, all of which enables. the operator to strip these articles from the roller in case they should I tend to wind thereon and to allow them to fall into the underlying tray as 8-'.

' lVhat I claim is: In an ironing machine having. atee roller for the articles to be ironed, a sectional table normally disposed parallel with and adjacent one side of the roller. one of.

the sections being relatively longer than the other section and hinged thereto to swing about an axis diagonal to the axis of the roller.

In witness whereof I have hereunto se my hand this 2nd day of July, 1924 MARY E. PORTER. Witnesses: y

H. E. CHAsE; R. CAMPOLIETO. s

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