Garment pressing apparatus with garment end rotator
AssigneeHoffman/New Yorker, Inc.
InventorsMark S. Dreisbach, Russell J. Miller, John Dehler
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Abstract
Pants pressing apparatus including a buck around which an operator turns the top or waist end of a pair of pants and cycles a pressing head with respect to the buck to perform the top end pressing operation. The apparatus includes a rotator mechanism including a clamp assembly which grasps the bottom end or cuffs of the pants and turns the cuffs and legs of the pants incrementally through 360.degree. as the operator is topping the waist end of the pants. The finished pants are thus free of any undesirable wrinkles.
Claims19
Apparatus for pressing a clothes garment having first and second opposite ends comprising a buck around which the first end of the garment is turned as it is pressed, a rotator mechanism comprising clamp means for clamping the second end of the garment and drive means for rotating said clamp means and second end of the garment as said first end of the garment is turned on the buck.
Apparatus for pressing a clothes garment having first and second opposite ends comprising a stationary buck around which the first end of the garment is turned as it is pressed, a presser head mounted adjacent said buck and movable toward and away from said buck to press the first end of the garment as the first end is turned around the buck, and a rotator mechanism for holding the second end of the garment and rotating the second end of the garment with the first end of the garment as the first end is turned on the buck.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.