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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8161670 | Ironing roller An ironing roller includes a first annular chamber in communication with an inlet and an outlet arranged to rotate about a longitudinal axis, where the first annular chamber forms a passage through which a heat carrying fluid heated by heating device located inside ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 7578082 | Roller ironing machine for articles of clothing A roller ironing machine for articles of clothing includes a heated ironing roller supported, guided and rotated in a frame, a floating pressure roller parallel to and in contact with the ironing roller and endless belts mounted to satellite rollers to cover part of... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7178269 | Insole for footwear An insole for footwear comprising silicone with a filler material, having a selected region of a silicone-cork mixture with a sufficiently high proportion of cork that the height thereof can be formed by grinding. ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 6975047 | Temperature-based cooling device controller apparatus and method A temperature-based cooling device controller is implemented in an integrated circuit such as a microprocessor. The temperature-based cooling device controller includes a register to store a threshold temperature value, a thermal sensor, and clock adjustment logic t... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6961628 | Method and apparatus for tuning compensation parameters A method and apparatus for tuning a feedforward compensation parameter in a motion control system is provided. According to one such embodiment, the method includes the acts of determining an initial value of a feedforward compensation parameter and commanding an in... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6889453 | Method for controlling the moisture content of linen leaving a drying ironer and drying-ironer implementing this method To control the moisture content of linen leaving a drying ironer, this content is measured by means of a sensor (18). The measurement signal is then transmitted to a variable gain amplifier (30). A circuit (32) automatically adjusts this gain so... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6341436 | Dryer-ironer with heated ironing cylinder and heat carrying fluid In a dryer-ironer, the cylinder (10) of which is heated from inside, the cylinder is built so as to define between two concentric walls (18, 22), a closed annular chamber (26) containing a heat carrying fluid. The fluid is set into motion through a stirri... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6000156 | Structure of a heating drum for ironing machines A heating drum for ironing machines includes a metallic hollow cylindrical body having two enlarged ends to form two water reservoirs and two coaxial tubular necks at the two enlarged ends, the metallic hollow cylindrical body having a plurality of invert... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5933988 | Ironing machine with heating cylinder and circulation of air In an ironing machine with a rotary ironing cylinder (14) comprising heating means (42) housed in an intermediary space (40) between the cylinder (14) and a fixed internal tube (34), air circulation is ensured inside the cylinder. Two ventilators (62, 68)... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5848486 | Line of sight temperature control and method for laundry ironers An apparatus and a method controls a heating device in a laundry ironer. The apparatus includes a frame and an ironer cylinder. The ironer cylinder rotatably connects to the frame and has an interior surface and an exterior surface. The interior and exter... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5551175 | Removing lint from flatwork ironer temperature sensors Pressurized air is received from a supply source through a timed air valve and is conducted by fixedly mounted copper tubing to locations adjacent flatwork ironer temperature sensors. The tubing directs the intermittent timed bursts of air onto the interf... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5551176 | Roll cover for flat work ironer 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 impro... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5075990 | Battery separator fabric method for manufacturing A battery separator fabric comprising a nonwoven fibrous web of thermoplastic fibers having top and bottom surface fibers and inner fibers. The surfaces of the top and bottom surface fibers of the fibrous web are seared and fused together to form film-lik... | 12/31/1991 |
| 5022169 | Apparatus for ironing laundry An apparatus for ironing laundry comprising at least one semi-circular open dished bed (1), provided with a double wall with feed (5) and outlet (6) opening for passage of a heating medium, such as steam, and a roll (2) rotatably driven in each dished bed... | 06/11/1991 |
| 5010663 | Low permeability fabric and method of making same A strong, lightweight, thin, flexible fabric of low permeability comprising an uncoated woven cloth characterized by a permeability of not more than one cubic foot of air per minute per square foot of cloth (0.5 cm3 /sec/cm2) at a pr... | 04/30/1991 |
| 4998359 | Automatic wax lubricator for flatwork ironer A flatwork ironer for the ironing of sheets, including a housing, having a series of troughs, and a roll associated with each, spray device in proximity with each roll, for the timed spraying of lubricating wax thereon, the spray includes a spray conduit,... | 03/12/1991 |
| 4965920 | Fluid heated roll apparatus and method An apparatus and method are provided wherein a cavity defined by a rotating hollow member, such as a draw roll in a fiber processing system, is supplied with a hot fluid so as to heat the exterior surface of the hollow member. The fluid is withdrawn from ... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4688335 | Apparatus and method for drying fibrous web material A dryer for paper and similar fibrous web materials including a dryer roll having an outer cylindrically-shaped wall, a radiant heat source within the dryer roll adapted to heat the wall substantially uniformly about the entire periphery thereof, and nip-... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4677773 | Heated rotary flatwork ironer A rotary cylindrical drum used in a commercial laundry flatwork finisher, having a jacket type construction so as to provide an annular fluid cavity for uniformly heating the exposed surface of the drum. The flatwork finisher includes fluid circulating sy... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4535230 | Variable profile roller particularly for the paper making industry The invention concerns variable contour rollers for use in calendering or pressing devices, printing presses and like applications. The rollers include an external element of cylindrical form, for example of cast iron, and in their interior a number of tr... | 08/13/1985 |
| 4485573 | Flat work ironing roll with stress relieving axial expansion support A commercial laundry flatwork finisher in the form of a rotatable hollow cylinder providing a circumferentially extending fuel cavity and a stationary self-contained interior heat source for heating the fluid in the cavity which in turn will uniformly hea... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4485571 | Hot air recovery system for a laundry mangle A heated trough mangle comprises a frame, at least one mangle unit situated inside the frame and including a mangle cylinder with a perforated mangle surface and at least one heated mangle trough partially surrounding the mangle cylinder, an exhaust devic... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4428133 | Heat exchanger for flatwork ironer's A heat exchanger, by which the entire ironing surface of a commercial laundry flatwork finisher is uniformly heated, includes a chest ironing surface backed by a fluid cavity that is in turn externally heated by a gas burner. A temperature control element... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4418486 | Heated smoothing roll A rotatable cylinder is provided having an interior cylindrical passageway defined in part by the inner surface of the outer periphery of such rotatable cylinder and the outer surface of an inner, centrally positioned cylinder. Headers having liquid passa... | 12/06/1983 |
| 4388141 | Apparatus for fusing strips Straps or belt loop strips are formed with the apparatus and method of the present invention by folding a strip of fabric about a strip of fusible material, threading the folded, combined strip back and forth between two side-by-side, counter-rotating cyl... | 06/14/1983 |
| 4288934 | Ironing mangle An ironing mangle for pressing fabric includes a heating member or shoe which transfers heat to a fabric conveyed thereover. The heating member includes a concave surface which forms a substantially semi-cylindrical cut-out section over which the fabric i... | 09/15/1981 |
| 4158128 | Roller for applying uniform load across the width of processed sheet material The roller comprises a core and a shell secured to said core. The shell is made up of two coaxial pipes, i.e. an inner pipe secured to the core in the middle and an outer pipe fastened to the inner pipe in the middle and at the ends. This allows the shell... | 06/12/1979 |
| 4078323 | Method and apparatus for the continuous treatment of a web of paper, textile, synthetic material metal or the like through the application of pressure produced by magnetic force Webs of paper, textile, synthetic material, metal or the like are subjected to a continuous treatment through the application of pressure produced by magnetic forces exerted via pressure bodies perpendicularly to the web. The web is guided over a straight... | 03/14/1978 |
