Shirt pressing machine for long or short sleeve shirts

For use with shirt pressing apparatus comprising a buck for receiving a shirt to be pressed, a sleeve expander assembly adapted to be mounted on a side of the buck for movement from a sleeve loading location away from the buck to maintain said sleeve tensioned during a pressing operation, said sleeve expander assembly including lower arm means adapted to be mounted at its lower end for movement away from and back towards said buck, upper arm means, coupling means connecting the upper end of said lower arm means to the lower end of said upper arm means, cuff clamp means connected to the upper end of said upper arm means, said coupling means being constructed so as to enable said upper arm means to be rotated approximately 180° about its longitudinal axis with respect to said lower arm means and thereby to be adjusted from a first position in which said upper arm means is in axial alignment with said lower arm means for use with a long sleeve shirt to a second position in which said upper arm means is angled inwardly with respect to said lower arm means toward the buck for use with a short sleeve shirt.