US2443069A - Machine for drying and finishing dry-cleaned garments - Google Patents

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June 8, 1948. w E GAYRlNG 2,443,069

MACHINE FOR DRYING AND FINISHING DRY-CLEANED GARMENTS Filed June 6, 1946 4 Sheets-Sheet 1 FIG. I 2 A5 .4 1 5''*\\ l m f {I V |I I H I I //I H I 1' l IN VEN TOR.

WALLACE F. GAYRING ATTORNEYS.

June 8, 1948. w. F. GAYRING MACHINE FOR DRYING AND FINISHING DRY-CLEANED GARMENTS Filed June 6, 1946 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 FIG. 2

IN V EN TOR. WALLACE F. GAYRING ATTORNEYS.

2,443,069 MACHINE FOR DRYING AND FINISHING DRY-CLEANED GARMENTS Filed June 6, 1946 June 8, 1948. w. F. GAYRING 4 Sheets-Sheet 3 INVENTOR. WALLACE F. GAYRING FIG.4

ATTORNEYS.

June 8, 1948. w, GAYRlNG 2,443,069

MACHINE FOR DRYING AND FINISHING DRY-CLEANED GARMENTS Filed June 6, 1946 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 III-III.

INVENTOR. WALLACE F. GAYRING ATTORNEYS Fatented June 8, 1948 MACHINE FOR DRYING AND FINISHING DRY-CLEANED GARMENTS Wallace F. Gayring, Minoa, N. Y., assignor to G. A. Braun, Inc., Syracuse, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application June 6, 1946, Serial No. 674,687

2 Claims.

This invention has for its object a finishing machine for newly dry-cleaned garments, that is, a machine by which the newly dry-cleaned articles or garments, which have a residual of dry cleaning solvent therein, after coming from a centrifugal extractor are finished by drying and deodorizing, that is, removing the residual solvent contained therein, then by steaming and drying to remove wrinkles, all in one continuous cycle.

After the removal of the garments from the extractor, the garments are placed in the machine where the drying and deodorizing takes place, after which, each garment passes to a station wherein the final finishing is done. By finishing is meant steaming the garment to condition the material and soften the fibers so that heated air under pressure may remove the wrinkles by holding the material in a smooth condition. Maintaining the material in a smooth state during the drying not only removes the wrinkles but produces a natural finish or lustre. During the deodorizing and final finishing cycle, the garments are housed in a closed cabinet to prevent the fumes, heat and steam from entering the room, wherein the machine is located.

The invention consists in the novel features and in the combinations and constructions hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In describing this invention, reference is had to the accompanying drawings in which like characters designate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a machine embodying this invention.

Figure 2 is a sectional view taken on the plane of line 22, Figure 1.

Figure 2A is a fragmentary detail view of the actuating mechanism and control pedal therefor for the blower for forcing air and steam through the garment at the loading station.

Figures 3, 4 and are sectional views taken on the planes of lines 33, 44 and 55, respectively, Figure 2.

This finishing machine comprises, generally, a closed cabinet, except for a loading and unloading station, which may be provided with a door, a conveyor movable in a closed cycle in the cabinet and being formed with means, as upright partitions, which with side walls of the cabinet provide compartments for the garments, the conveyor being movable to bring the compartments successively to the loading and unloading station, where the finished garment is removed, and another garment to be finished loaded in the compartment, operator controlled means for pro- 2 I jecting steam and heated air through the garment at the loading and unloading station, and re-circulating it through the garment at that station, and means for passing heated air through the garments in the other compartments. The conveyor is actuated and controlled in its actuation by suitable means or may be shifted by hand or manpower, and also the flow of steam and of heated air at the loading and unloading station is controlled by suitable means, as pedals.

l designates the cabinetwhich, in the form shown in Figures 1 to 5 inclusive, is cylindrical and formed with upper and lower chambers. 2 designates the conveyor, shown-in Figures 1, 2 and 5 as mounted tum-table fashion on an upright axis in the cabinet I. It is here shown as embodying a central hollow pillow 3, upper and lower end walls 4, 5, and radial partitions 6, which together with the cylindrical wall of the cabinet, form compartments 1. Each of the partitions is formed with a wiper or gasket 8 at its outer edge coacting with the inner cylindrical wall of the cabinet I. The cylindrical wall of the cabinet is cut away at the front of the machine providing a door opening 9 for the loading and unloading station. The cabinet is also formed with top chambers l0 and H and bottom chambers l2 and i3, the top and bottom chambers i0 and i2 opening through the upper and lower walls of the loading station 84, the chamber l0 overhanging the loading station. The chamber I0 is here shown as formed with a conduit 15 Y which communicates through a swivel joint I6 with the upright axial conduit or hollow pillar 3 which communicates at its lower end through a swivel joint at l8 with the lower chamber l2. The chambers II and I3 are common to all the remaining compartments, that is, the compartments when not at the loading and unloading station. Preferably, a perforated nozzle or spreader I9 is located on the conveyor in each compartment over which the garment, as G, is placed, which garment is suspended as by hangers 20 from the conveyor. The hanger is swivelled to permit the garment to be turned to make all portions of the garment accessible from the front of the cabinet. The nozzle or spreader I9 is conical in form and of such dimensions as to enter the lower portion of the garment and hold the garment spread or open for the passage of air or steam projected through the nozzle. The nozzle or spreader is usually referred to as a, form, although it does not fit the garment to shape it. The conveyor may be rotated about its axis by hand, the operator pushing against the partition 7 or a form.

An electric motor ii is shown as located within the lower chamber i2. The motor 2| drives a double pulley 22 and through belt 23 drives a blower 39 and belt 3| drives blower 29. The motor is controlled by a. switch, as a. push button switch 2IA located within reach of the loading station. Steam is projected through the garment at the loading and unloading station by means v of a steam nozzle 25 located in the conduit 12A and connected by a pipe 26 to a source of supply, the flow of steam being controlled from the nozzle by a valve 21 operated by a pedal '23 located at the front of the machine, where it can be conveniently operated by the operator at the loading station. Heated air is supplied and circulated through the garment at the loading station through the conduit I2A, by means, as a blower 29, actuated from the motor 2| through suitable motion transmitting means, as the belt 30 (Figure 2A) running over a loose pulley 3| on a blower shaft and clutched to the blower shaft by means of a clutch 32 operated by a pedal 33 located at the front of the machine, this pedal having a latch 34 which holds it in clutched position, the latch being located to be released by the foot operating the pedal 33. A heater H is located in the inlet pipe I2B for the blower 29, this inlet pipe communicating with the upright conduit 3. The conduit HA is the outlet of the blower 29. The heater may be of the hot water or steam type, wherein hot water or steam is circulated through the coils from an inlet to an outlet pipe 31 and 38 respectively. Thus, the projection of steam and hot air into the garment at the loading and unloading station is controlled through the pedals 28 and 33.

Heated air is projected through the other compartments within the cabinet by a blower 39 located in the compartment l3 and discharging through the bottoms of such other compartments, through the forms therein, and through the garments, the air discharging into the upper compartment or chamber II and out through a suitable exhaust pipe 40. The blower 39 is actuated from the motor 2| through motion transmitting means including a, belt 23. A heater ll is located in the inlet to blower 39.

It will be seen that I have provided a machine for finishing garments wherein two operations are combined in a single unit. Also, a machine in which garments are conditioned or finally finished with steam and hot air wherein said steam and air are confined within the machine and are prevented from entering the room where the machine is located. Heretofore, the steam and hot air has been allowed to escape into the room. Also, a separate machine known as a dryeror hot tumbler has been used to dry and deodorize the garments preliminary to steaming and drying them.

What I claim is:

1. A finishing machine for newly dry-cleaned garments including a cabinet, a conveyor movable in a closed cycle in the cabinet and formed with means for providing with a wall of the cabinet a series of compartments, a hollow spreader nozzle in the bottom of each compartment projecting upward into the compartment within the garment to hold the garment open, and means by which the garments are suspended over the spreader nozzle, the cabinet being formed with a loading and unloading station, the conveyor being shiftable to bring the compartments successively to said station, operator controlled means for projecting steam and air through the form and the garment at said station, and means for re-circulatlng the same through the garment at said station, and means for passing heated air through the forms and the garments in the other compartments.

2. A finishing machine for newly dry-cleaned garments including a cabinet, a conveyor movable in a closed cycle in the cabinet, the conveyor having partitions with which walls of the cabinet form compartments, the cabinet being formed with an open loading and unloading station, the conveyor being movable to bring its compartments successively to said station, the cabinet being also formed with upper and lower chambers into which the upper and lower ends of the compartments open, there being two upper chambers, one for the said station and the other for the remainder of the compartments, and there being also two lower chambers, one for the compartment at said station and the other for the remainder of the compartments, means in one of the lower chambers operable at will for supplying steam and heated air to the compartment at said station, a return conduit communicating with the upper chamber for' said station and with the lower chamber for the same, and means for supplying heated air to the lower chamber for the other compartments, and an outlet leading from the other upper chamber for the other compartments.

WALLACE F. GAYRING.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,759,179 Wiesman May 20, 1930 1,763,193 Shields June 10, 1930 2,075,724 Jacobs Mar. 30, 1937 2,214,923 Glover Sept. 17, 1940 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 326,044 Great Britain Mar. 6, 1930 5 Certificate of Correction Patent N 0. 2,443,069. June 8, 1948. WALLACE F. GAYRIN G It is hereby certified that error appears in the printed specification of the above numbered patent requiring correction as follows: Column 3, line 49, after blower 39. insert the following paragraph:

The walls of all the compartments are formed by the radial partition 6. and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Ofiice.

Signed and sealed this 14th day of September, A. D. 1948.

THOMAS F. MURPHY,

Aaaistamt Oommz'ssioner of Patents.

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