Pants press

Claim 1

PANTS PRESSING APPARATUS HAVING A PRESSING STATION, AN OPERATOR STATION AND A LONGITUDINAL AXIS EXTENDING THROUGH SAID STATIONS FOR PRESSING A GARMENT HAVING TUBULAR PORTIONS, COMPRISING A FRAME, A VERTICALLY ELONGATED STATIONARY PRESSER HEAD HAVING A FIRST SET OF PRESSING SURFACES ON ONE TRANSVERSE SIDE OF SAID AXIS AND A SECOND SET OF PRESSING SURFACES ON THE OPPOSITE TRANSVERSE SIDE OF SAID AXIS, AT LEAST SOME OF THE AFOREMENTIONED PRESSING SURFACES OF EACH SET BEING INCLINED UPWARDLY IN A DIRECTION TOWARD SAID AXIS, SAID STATIONARY PRESSER HEAD HAVING AT LEAST TWO OF ITS SURFACES FOR ABUTTING AGAINST A SUBSTANTIAL AREA OF THE TORSO PORTION OF A PAIR OF PANTS, A PANTS BUCK ASSEMBLY HAVING A PAIR OF VERTICALLY ELONGATED MEMBERS EXTENDABLE INTO TORSO PORTION AND THE TUBULAR PORTIONS OF THE PLANTS, MEANS ON SAID ELONGATED MEMBERS FOR DRAWING THE TUBULAR PORTION TAUT AND RETAINING PANTS ON SAID MEMBERS, AND FIRST MEANS FOR MOUNTING SAID MEMBERS IN DEPENDING RELATIONSHIP RELATIVE THERETO, TRANSFER MEANS ON THE FRAME AND CONNECTED TO THE FIRST MEANS FOR MOVING THE FIRST MEANS BETWEEN A POSITION AT THE OPERATOR STATION AND A POSITION AT THE PRESSING STATION THAT THE ELONGATED MEMBER EXTENDS ALONG OPPOSITE SETS OF PRESSING SURFACES, A MOVABLE PRESSURE HEAD ON EITHER TRANSVERSE SIDE OF SAID STATIONARY PRESSER HEAD, AND MEANS ON THE FRAME AND CONNECTED TO THE MOVABLE PRESSER HEADS FOR MOVING EACH MOVABLE PRESER HEAD FROM A DATUM POSITION TRANSVERSELY SPACED FROM THE RESPECTIVE SET OF PRESSING SURFACES AND A POSITION ADJACENT THERETO, AND CONTROL MEANS FOR OPERATING THE PANTS RETAINING MEANS TO RETAIN PANTS ON SAID ELONGATED MEMBERS, THEN THE TRANSFER MEANS TRANSFERRING THE BUCK ASSEMBLY FROM THE OPERATOR STATION TO THE PRESSING STATION, AND THEREAFTER THE MOVABLE PRESSURE HEADS FROM THEIR DATUM POSITIONS TO POSITIONS ADJACENT THE STATIONARY PRESSER HEAD IN COOPERATION WITH THE STATIONARY PRESSER HEAD TO PRESS THE TUBULAR PORTIONS AND A TORSO PORTION OF THE PANTS DRESSED ON SAID ELONGATED MEMBERS.