Pneumatic pad and roll cover for ironing rolls on industrial ironers

A pneumatic pad and roll cover assembly for use upon rotatable ironing cylinder members of an industrial ironing machine comprised of an initially substantially flat flexible pneumatic member having a pair of similar impermeable elastic walls and said pneumatic member also having opposite ends and a length and width adequate to substantially circumferentially and longitudinally envelope said ironing cylinder members, means to secure said opposite ends of said pneumatic member together when extended around said cylinder, a flexible substantially inelastic cover member having opposite ends and substantially circumferentially and longitudinally enveloping said pneumatic member when extended about an ironing cylinder, and means to connect the opposite ends of said cover member in circumferential and longitudinal cylindrical envelopment about said pneumatic member when mounted upon said ironing cylinder to restrict the expansion of said pneumatic member to a pre-determined circumferential dimension, whereby when said pneumatic member is inflated with gas under a limited pressure said pneumatic member is elastically distended radially inward to compressively and frictionally engage the longitudinal outer circumference of said ironing cylinder member with one wall of said pneumatic member and said pneumatic member also is distended radially outward to frictionally engage the longitudinal circumferential cover member with the opposite wall of said pneumatic member, thereby being adapted to provide an ironing cylinder having a compressible and yieldable pressure surface throughout the entire circumference of said cylinder.