Textiles: ironing or smoothing – Smoothing machines – Platen presser
Patent
1999-04-29
2000-12-05
Izaguirre, Ismael
Textiles: ironing or smoothing
Smoothing machines
Platen presser
D06F 7126
Patent
active
061549908
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an automatic ironing machine for ironing the neck and shoulder portions of a cloth article.
As is known, for ironing the neck portion of a cloth article in general, and in particular of jackets, are conventionally used ironing apparatus including substantially a bottom framework defining a fixed bottom shaping element, or manikin part, thereon the jacket is applied, and a top movable shaping element, or manikin part, which is driven toward the fixed shaping element in order to properly iron the cloth article.
In these prior ironing machines, the movable shaping element is driven by a rotary movement, which is susceptible to generate a very great horizontal feeding movement for the top shaping element supporting arms, with consequent great dangers for the machine operator.
Further prior solutions provide to support the top shaping element by means adapted to perform vertical movements: however, these vertical movements must be necessarily limited to a comparatively narrow range, in order to prevent the vertical size of the ironing machine from being excessively increased.
Accordingly, the ironing operations are greatly hindered, since the machine operator can not properly see the working surface of the ironing machine.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Thus, the aim of the present invention is to overcome the above mentioned drawbacks, by providing an automatic ironing machine for ironing neck and shoulder portions of a cloth article in general, which allows to perform a series of operating movements adapted to improve the ironing steps, by movements which are successively controlled and which do not generate any dangerous conditions, while providing the ironing machine with a small size.
Within the scope of the above mentioned aim, a main object of the present invention is to provide such an automatic ironing machine which allows to adjust the ironing length in order to proper iron the lapel portions as well as the inner top and bottom portions of a jacket.
Another object of the present invention is to provide such an automatic ironing machine which is very reliable and safe in operation.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide such an automatic ironing machine which allows to perfectly iron even neck and shoulder portions of cloth articles difficult to iron, such as the neck, lapel and inner top and bottom portions of a jacket.
In this connection, it should be pointed out that the above mentioned jacket portions are much more difficult to iron as they are made of delicate fabrics requiring that delicate ironing steps be carried out which, on the other hand, could not be easily performed on prior ironing machines.
On the contrary, by using the subject automatic ironing machine, very good results are always obtained, since the top supporting arm of the subject machine has been specifically designed to properly raise and lower a heated plate element supporting the movable shaping element, thereby the movable shaping element is not susceptible to stress or strain undesirably the fabric material of the cloth article to be ironed.
This, in particular, is obtained by providing the top shaping element, during the lowering movement thereof, at the top portion of its path, with a maximum horizontal motion component tending to decrease as the top movable shaping element is lowered to be arranged at a set distance from the cloth article to be ironed.
This feature, which represents a main characteristic of the subject automatic ironing machine, allows to provide safety devices applied to the top shaping element with a very high operating efficiency.
On the contrary, prior safety systems could not operate efficiently on ironing machine including movable arms driven exclusively with rotary movements, which arm, moreover, were dangerous for the operators because of the great horizontal displacements of said arms.
According to a further characteristic of the inventive ironing machine, it is further provided with control devices which have been speci
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