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US 4,063,376 AGranted
Clothing presser
AssigneeToshin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKei Horiuchi
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Abstract
A clothing presser is provided with a stationary ironing buck, a movable ironing head, a rocking arm having the head mounted on its forward end and adapted to swing to bring the head onto the buck, and a toggle mechanism operated by a pneumatically operated piston-cylinder assembly to impart an additional force to the head to permit the head to be strongly pressed against clothing on the buck.
Claims3
A clothing presser comprising:
- a base;
- upright support plates mounted on the base;
- a stationary ironing buck fixed to the upright support plates;
- a movable ironing head for pressing the stationary ironing buck;
- a rocking arm having the movable ironing buck fixed to one end thereof and adapted to swing about a shaft provided on the upright support plates;
- a piston-cylinder assembly connected to the other end of said rocking arm for swinging the rocking arm;
- and
- a toggle mechanism comprising a rotary shaft rotatably mounted on the upright support plates, an eccentric cam fixed to the rotary shaft, a ring member surrounding the eccentric cam and supporting the piston-cylinder assembly to cause the piston-cylinder assembly to move in a longitudinal direction thereof by the rotation of the eccentric cam, an actuating lever extending crosswise of the piston-cylinder assembly from the rotary shaft, and a connecting rod disposed substantially in parallel with the piston-cylinder assembly, said connecting rod having one end operatively connected to that intermediate portion of the rocking arm which is situated between the shaft and said other end of the rocking arm and having the other end connected to the free end of the actuating lever.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.