Shirt cuff pressing assembly
AssigneeUnipress Corporation
InventorsMichael K. Harrod, Charles E. Devrick
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Abstract
A shirt cuff pressing assembly comprising an upper and lower cuff chest. The cuff chests have a forwardly protruding pressing surface defined by a protruding portion and a cut-out portion in which the cuff and pleated portion of a shirt sleeve may lay flat. The cut-out portion provides relief for the unpleated portion of a sleeve so that it is not pressed and the protruding portion allows the pleated portion of the sleeve to be pressed upon closure of the upper and lower cuff chests.
Claims20
A shirt cuff pressing assembly for pressing a shirt cuff and adjacent sleeve portion of a shirt, said sleeve portion having a pleated portion and an unpleated portion, said shirt cuff pressing assembly comprising in combination:
- a lower and an upper cuff chest, said lower and upper cuff chests having mating arch-shaped pressing surfaces allowing said lower cuff chest to be dressed with the shirt cuff and the shirt cuff pressed by said pressing surfaces upon mating closure of said cuff chests;
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- said pressing surfaces of said cuff chests including forwardly protruding pressing surfaces, said forwardly protruding pressing surface of said lower cuff chest being defined by a protruding portion and a cut-out portion, said cut-out portion providing relief for gathering of the unpleated portion of the sleeve portion when said lower cuff chest is dressed with the shirt cuff, thereby allowing the pleated portion of the sleeve portion to be pressed by said forwardly protruding pressing surfaces of said cuff chests upon closure of said cuff chests without pressing of said unpleated portion of the sleeve portion.
A method of pressing a shirt cuff and adjacent sleeve portion of a shirt, said sleeve portion having a pleated portion and an unpleated portion, said method comprising the steps of:
- placing said shirt cuff on a shirt pressing assembly comprising in combination:
- a lower and an upper cuff chest, said lower and upper cuff chests having mating arch-shaped pressing surfaces allowing said lower cuff chest to be dressed with the shirt cuff and the shirt cuff pressed by said pressing surfaces upon mating closure of said cuff chests;
- and said pressing surfaces of said cuff chests including forwardly protruding pressing surfaces, said forwardly protruding pressing surface of said lower cuff chest being defined by a protruding portion and a cut-out portion, said cut-out portion providing relief for gathering of the unpleated portion of the sleeve portion when said lower cuff chest is dressed with the shirt cuff, thereby allowing the pleated portion of the sleeve portion to be pressed by said forwardly protruding pressing surfaces of said cuff chests upon closure of said cuff chests without pressing of said unpleated portion of the sleeve portion;
- aligning said pleated portion on said protruding portion;
- gathering said unpleated portion at said cut-out portion;
- closing said upper and lower cuff chests such that said pressing surfaces are mated;
- pressing said shirt cuff and said pleated portion without pressing said unpleated portion of the sleeve portion;
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- opening said upper and lower cuff chests such that said pressing surfaces are no longer mated, whereby the shirt cuff and the sleeve portion may be removed from said shirt cuff pressing assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.