Improvements in or relating to Means or Apparatus for Heating, Ironing, Pressing, Shaping, or Smoothing Flat and other Surfaces.

摘要

13,871. Brown, J. A. June 14. Ironing - machines, tables for; means for heating ironing - surfaces. - Pressing-tables, ironing -rollers, &c. are heated by the circulation of oil, the temperature of which is controlled automatically. An oil-heater a is connected by a pipe i with a suitably-shaped ironing-block j, and is heated by gas burners 1 supplied through a pipe 4, provided with a gas cock 5 having a spring-controlled arm 6 normally held down by a weighted lever 15. In the expansion tank q is a float r which, when lifted sufficiently by an increase in volume of the oil in the system due to a rise in temperature, engages a rod x and so lifts the lever 15 to allow the arm 6 to close the gas cock. A vapour outlet o leads to a condensing-tube p, and any air and vapour in the table may escape through a pipe l and cock n.