Abstract:
An ironing press of the type wherein the stationary ironing board is heated by a heating plate lowered onto it by an arm pivotally secured to the press body. To allow freedom of movement in all directions of the heating plate with reference to the ironing board, there is associated with a central multidirectional pivotal connection between the heating plate and the carrier arm, an elastic connection constituted by coaxially bored bosses raised on the plate, the bores in said bosses being engaged by pivots elastically fitted on the carrier arm at points lying with the pivotal connection on a line parallel with the pivotal axis between the heating plate and the carrier arm.
Abstract:
An ironing press wherein the heating plate suspended to a pivoting arm is adapted to be lowered onto and raised above the ironing area, and wherein a hand-operable lock may be rocked into a position wherein a bolt carried by it engages a groove in the arm so as to lock the lever in the position it assumes inside the groove when it urges the arm downwardly. Furthermore, the lowering of the arm acts mechanically through the lever or through said lock on an electric circuit so as to disconnect the latter from the heating means which it energizes inside the heating plate and to connect it with an alarm circuit. A delay system is advantageously incorporated with said circuit to delay said switching operation a few seconds after the lowering of the arm and plate.
Abstract:
In an ironing press a common knob controls simultaneously the adjustment of a thermostat in accordance with the temperature to be reached by the ironing plate according to the material to be ironed and the progression of a tape which is thus caused to move between a source of light and a panel provided with a translucent strip and with symbols corresponding to the temperature required for these different materials. A line separating two successive transparent and opaque sections of the tape is thus automatically brought into registry with the symbol corresponding to the temperature for which the thermostat is adjusted at the same time.
Abstract:
A sewing machine includes a stud carried by a journal surrounding a tubular needle bar having a lateral opening. A link connected to the journal normally drives the needle bar when the stud is engaged within the needle bar opening. A disconnecting rod within the tubular needle bar is axially displaceable and includes a ramp engageable with a control member, also within the needle bar, to drive the stud from the needle bar opening and thereby disengage the journal from the needle bar.
Abstract:
The needle bar (1) engaged in a pivoting cradle (2) is integral with a journal (3) connected by a connecting member (8) to a link (4) driven from the drive shaft (12) of the machine. In order to permit the head (23) of a loop holding member (25), mounted in the pedestal of the sewing machine, to engage in a loop (29) of the needle thread (27) during the ascending course of the needle (22), whatever may be its decentration, the connecting member (8) is formed by a bent extension of the crank pin of the link (4) engaged in a bore (7) of the journal (3).
Abstract:
An ironing press of the type wherein the stationary ironing board is heated by a heating plate lowered onto it by an arm pivotally secured to the press body. To allow freedom of movement in all directions of the heating plate with reference to the ironing board, there is associated with a central multi-directional pivotal connection between the heating plate and the carrier arm, an elastic connection constituted by coaxially bored bosses raised on the plate, the bores in said bosses being engaged by pivots elastically fitted on the carrier arm at points lying with the pivotal connection on a line parallel with the pivotal axis between the heating plate and the carrier arm.
Abstract:
1,156,420. Sewing machines. MEFINA S. A. 13 June, 1968 [6 July, 1967], No. 28079/68. Heading D1G. A sewing machine comprises a motor pivotally mounted in the machine frame, manually operable means enabling the motor to be tilted into any one of three positions, in the first position a motor drive wheel being disengaged from a handwheel and from a spoolwinding shaft, in the second position the drive wheel being drivingly engaged only with the handwheel, and in the third position the drive wheel being drivingly engaged only with the spool-winding shaft, and means for locking the handwheel in a predetermined position when the motor is in the first position. A motor 3 is pivotally mounted on a pair of fixed pins 6 within the hollow standard 2 of a sewing machine. plate 19, carried by motor 2, is formed with a cam follower finger (23) biased by a spring 28 into engagament with an axial cam 17 rigid with a knob 15 journalled in standard 2. In a second angular position of knob 15, follower (23) engages a recess 25 in cam 17, whereby motor 8 tilts to a position II in which a friction wheel 8 on the motor shaft drivingly engages a handwheel 7 on the arm shaft 41. In a third position of knob 15, follower (23) engages a lobe 26 of cam 17, whereby motor 8 tilts to a position III in which wheel 8 is disengaged from handwheel 7 and drivingly engages a wheel (12) on a vertical spool-winding shaft (9). A radial cam 18, rigid with knob 15, co-operates with a follower finger 32 on a lever 30 pivoted at 31 on the machine frame and biased by a spring 36 to engage finger 32 with cam 18. When knob 15 is turned to the second and third positions, finger 32 enters respective notches 39, 40 in cam 18. When knob 15 is turned to a first position, follower (23) engages a portion 27 of cam 17 and motor 3 assumes an upright position 1 in which wheel 8 is disengaged from wheels 7 and (12). The thread take-up lever of the machine is then in a withdrawn position, and a finger 34 on lever 30 enters a notch 35 in handwheel 7.
Abstract:
The needle bar (1) engaged in a pivoting cradle (2) is integral with a journal (3) connected by a connecting member (8) to a link (4) driven from the drive shaft (12) of the machine. In order to permit the head (23) of a loop holding member (25), mounted in the pedestal of the sewing machine, to engage in a loop (29) of the needle thread (27) during the ascending course of the needle (22), whatever may be its decentration, the connecting member (8) is formed by a bent extension of the crank pin of the link (4) engaged in a bore (7) of the journal (3).
Abstract:
A sewing machine includes a stud carried by a journal surrounding a tubular needle bar having a lateral opening. A link connected to the journal normally drives the needle bar when the stud is engaged within the needle bar opening. A disconnecting rod within the tubular needle bar is axially displaceable and includes a ramp engageable with a control member, also within the needle bar, to drive the stud from the needle bar opening and thereby disengage the journal from the needle bar.