Roll cover for flat work ironer
AssigneeSouthern Mills, Inc.
InventorsThomas J. Hejhal, Scott W. Moore
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Abstract
An improved roll cover for use on a flat work ironer is provided, having an improved resin coating. The roll cover is a sheet of thermally resistant fabric which is coated or impregnated with a mixture of an acrylic resin and a stiffening agent. The improved roll cover can be dyed to a particular desired color and will retain its color over extended use.
Claims11
In a flat work ironer of the type including a plurality of rotatable cylindrical rolls received in a series of semi-cylindrical parallel recesses of a heated chest, the improvement therein of a roll cover assembly for at least some of the cylindrical rolls comprising:
- a compressible pad for surrounding said roll, and a roll cover adjacent said pad for surrounding said pad, each of said pad and roll cover attached at one of its edges to its cylindrical roll with its other edge in freely trailing relationship about its roll as the roll rotates,
- said roll cover comprising a sheet of thermally resistant fabric coated with a mixture comprising an acrylic resin and a stiffening agent.
An ironer roll cover comprising a sheet of thermally resistant fabric coated with a mixture comprising an acrylic resin, a stiffening agent and a coloring agent, said fabric sheet having a width substantially equal to the length of said ironer roll and a length sufficient to wrap around said ironer roll at least one time.
In a flatwork ironer of the type having a heated chest defining semi-cylindrical parallel polished recesses for receiving rotatable ironing rolls, a rotatable ironing roll positioned in each recess, a compressible pad attached to each ironing roll at one edge of the pad and surrounding its ironing roll, a roll cover attached to each ironing roll at one edge of the cover and surrounding its ironing roll and pad, the improvement therein of:
- said cover comprising a woven aramid fabric coated with a mixture comprising an acrylic resin, a stiffening agent and a coloring agent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.