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US 5,299,372 AGranted
Press for smoothing creases on ties
AssigneeArrowhead T.P. Limited
InventorsThomas Kelly, Andrew Bradley
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Abstract
A tie press (1) having a base moulding (3), a heating element (4) covered by a foam pad (5) and a center moulding (6) having a tie receiving recess. A cover (7) is also provided having a foam pad insert (9) and is hingedly connected to the center and base mouldings (3,6). The press being designed to press creased front and rear knot forming sections (K.sub.F,K.sub.R) of a tie (2). The creased tie portions or portion is placed between the pads and the cover is lowered and locked on the mouldings by a locking and releasing device (36).
Claims16
A tie press for pressing and removing creases from at least a portion of a tie, comprising:
- a tie receiving member for receiving said portion of the tie;
- a tie pressing member comprising a cover and a tie-engaging resilient mat mounted on the cover, said tie pressing member being movable relative to the tie receiving member from an open position for insertion and removal of the tie to a pressing closed position wherein the tie is pressed between the members;
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- closure means for retaining the tie pressing member in the closed position in pressing engagement with the tie receiving member;
- the closure means being mounted on the cover and the receiving member and including
- i) cooperating engagement means for a releasably holding the tie pressing member in the closed position, and comprising a projection on at least one of the members for engagement in a recess in at least one of the member, the projection being releasably engaged in the recess on closure of the tie press, and
- ii) release means for releasing the tie pressing member form the closed position, and comprising a spring release member, said spring release member being movable by an actuating means from a clamping position in which the recess is engaged with the projection to a release position for moving the tie pressing member to the open position;
- wherein at least one of said members includes a receiving recess to receive said portion of the tie, and said receiving recess is defined between a pair of spaced-apart side walls, the side walls being inclined in a longitudinal direction to substantially follow the shape of the tie.
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A tie press for pressing and removing creases from at least a portion of a tie, comprising:
- a tie receiving member for receiving said portion of the tie;
- a tie pressing member comprising a cover and a tie-engaging resilient mat mounted on the cover, said tie pressing member being movable relative to the tie receiving member from an open position for insertion and removal of the tie to a pressing closed position wherein the tie is pressed between the members;
- the tie receiving member being mounted in a base support member;
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- the tie pressing member and the tie receiving member being jointed by a hinging arrangement including a pair of projecting stubaxles extending sidewardly of one of said pressing member and receiving member and a pair of recesses defined by the other of said pressing member and said receiving member and which stubaxles are engageable in said recesses;
- wherein at least one of said members includes a receiving recess to receive said portion of the tie, and said receiving recess is defined between a pair of spaced-apart side walls, the side walls being inclined in a longitudinal direction to substantially follow the shape of the tie.
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A tie press for pressing and removing creases from at least a portion of a tie, comprising:
- a tie receiving member for receiving said portion of the tie;
- a tie pressing member comprising a cover and a tie-engaging resilient mat mounted on the cover, said tie pressing member being movable relative to the tie receiving member from an open position for insertion and removal of the tie to a pressing closed position wherein the tie is pressed between the members;
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- closure means for retaining the tie pressing member in the closed position in pressing engagement with the tie receiving member;
- the closure means being mounted on the cover and the receiving member and including
- i) cooperating engagement means for releasably holding the tie pressing member in the closed position, and comprising a projection on at least one of the members for engagement in a recess in at least one of the members, the projection being releasably engaged in the recess on closure of the tie press, and
- ii) release means for releasing the tie pressing member from the closed position, and comprising a spring release member, said spring release member being movable by an actuating means from a clamping position in which the recess is engaged with the projection to a release position for moving the tie pressing member to the open position;
- wherein at least one of said members includes a receiving recess to receive said portion of the tie, and the receiving recess is of arcuate shape in a longitudinal cross-section of the press.
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A tie press for pressing and removing creases from at least a portion of a tie, comprising:
- a tie receiving member for receiving said portion of the tie;
- a tie pressing member comprising a cover and a tie-engaging resilient mat mounted on the cover, said tie pressing member being movable relative to the tie receiving member from an open position for insertion and removal of the tie to a pressing closed position wherein the tie is pressed between the members;
- the tie receiving member being mounted in a base support member;
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- the tie pressing member and the tie receiving member being joined by a hinging arrangement including a pair of projecting stubaxles extending sidewardly of one of said pressing member and receiving member and a pair of recesses defined by the other of said pressing member and said receiving member and which stubaxles are engageable in said recesses;
- wherein at least one of said members includes a receiving recess to receive said portion of the tie, and the receiving recess is of arcuate shape in a longitudinal cross-section of the press.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.