Patents Assigned to The W. M. Cissell Manufacturing Company
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Patent number: 4204338Abstract: An improved laundry dryer having a novel hot air compartment structure that heats recirculated exhaust air and fresh make-up air. The novel hot air compartment structure, in preferred form, includes an attic chamber defined by the dryer's housing. The attic chamber is divided into upper and lower subchambers, a heater housing being positioned within the lower subchamber. The heat source in the heater housing serves to directly heat fresh make-up air and recirculated exhaust air simultaneously within the heater housing, and also serves to heat up the upper and lower subchambers of the attic chamber. The recirculated exhaust air is introduced into the upper subchamber, thereby pre-heating same prior to introduction into the heater housing, and is subsequently introduced into the heater housing in a vertically downward flow path fashion.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 1978Date of Patent: May 27, 1980Assignee: The W. M. Cissell Manufacturing CompanyInventor: Norman J. Bullock
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Patent number: 4190414Abstract: A fail-safe apparatus and method for controlling the sequence of gas feed and ignition, such as by an incandescent igniter, in a gas-fired appliance, such as a thermostatically controlled timer activated clothes dryer. When the appliance is activated by the timer, the control apparatus energizes the igniter and opens a gas valve only after the igniter is energized for a period that is sufficient to heat the igniter to the temperature required to kindle the gas. If the gas is ignited, the control apparatus holds the gas valve open so that the gas continues to burn. If, however, the gas is not ignited, the control apparatus inhibits any further attempt at gas feed and ignition. If a temporary electrical power outage occurs, if the gas supply is interrupted, if the thermostat cycles on and off, or, in the case of a clothes dryer, if a loading/unloading door is opened and then shut again, the control apparatus repeats the gas feed and ignition sequence in an attempt to rekindle the gas.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 1978Date of Patent: February 26, 1980Assignee: W. M. Cissell Manufacturing CompanyInventor: Richard A. Elmy
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Patent number: 4166331Abstract: A steam finishing platen having a work surface through which steam and air can pass. The platen includes up-steam piping within a chamber defined by the platen, and a vacuum port to that chamber. A steam damper is movable between a normally open position where the vacuum port is open to a vacuum source, and a closed position where the damper closes the vacuum port when steam is provided to the up-steam piping. A steam piston, located within the platen chamber, is connected by a spring loaded linkage to the steam damper, and is connected by a steam line to the up-steam piping. When steam is provided to the up-steam piping for steaming a fabric workpiece on the platen, the steam actuated piston closes the steam damper, thereby automatically closing the vacuum port to that steam within the platen chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 1978Date of Patent: September 4, 1979Assignee: W. M. Cissell Manufacturing CompanyInventor: Marshall E. Wallace
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Patent number: 4137645Abstract: A laundry dryer structured to recirculate and reheat a portion of the warm exhaust air, and admix same with newly heated make-up air. A novel hot air compartment positioned within the dryer's housing includes a heat transfer air duct disposed immediately above, and as a part of, a heat transfer chamber. The heat transfer chamber includes a roof above a heat source, that roof comprising the floor of the heat transfer air duct and that roof being heated by the heat source. Recirculated air is directed over the exterior surface of the heat transfer air duct (which is heated by reason of its being proximate to and a part of the heat transfer chamber), and thereafter is directed through the heat transfer air duct. The make-up air heated in the heat transfer chamber exhausts from a port in that chamber's roof into admixed flow with the already preheated, recirculated air as the recirculated air passes through the heat transfer air duct.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 1977Date of Patent: February 6, 1979Assignee: W. M. Cissell Manufacturing CompanyInventor: Norman J. Bullock
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Patent number: 4065253Abstract: A laundry dryer structured to recirculate and reheat a portion of the warm exhaust air, and admix same with newly heated make-up air. A novel hot air compartment positioned within the dryer's housing includes a heat transfer air duct disposed immediately above, and as a part of, a heat transfer chamber. The heat transfer chamber includes a roof above a heat source, that roof comprising the floor of the heat transfer air duct and that roof being heated by the heat source. Recirculated air is directed over the exterior surface of the heat transfer air duct (which is heated by reason of its being proximate to and a part of the heat transfer chamber), and thereafter is directed through the heat transfer air duct. The make-up air heated in the heat transfer chamber exhausts from a port in that chamber's roof into admixed flow with the already preheated, recirculated air as the recirculated air passes through the heat transfer air duct.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 1976Date of Patent: December 27, 1977Assignee: W. M. Cissell Manufacturing CompanyInventor: Norman J. Bullock
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Patent number: 4018327Abstract: A hanger conveying system which routes hangers from a main screw conveyor onto a conveyor branch where they are transported through a processing station and thence returned to the screw conveyor at a point downstream from that where they were initially removed. Included in the conveyor branch is an endless conveyor of hinged links each having a plurality of hanger hook receiving slots or apertures. Also provided is a downwardly inclined input slick rail which picks off hangers from the main screw conveyor, and a cooperating peripherally notched disc which is spaced in close proximity to a curved section of the input slick rail located at the lower extremity thereof. The disc captures, in its notches, hanger hooks which have been picked off the main screw conveyor and are stacked at the bottom of the inclined input slick rail, and individually feeds the captured hangers in spaced relation to an output slick rail which is upwardly inclined.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 1976Date of Patent: April 19, 1977Assignee: W. M. Cissell Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Walter P. Goodman, Laddie A. DePas
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Patent number: 3982623Abstract: An improved pick off device adapted to transfer open mouth hook type work supports (e.g., hangers) from an extended length screw conveyor onto a branch support member (e.g., a slide rod), the support member branching off from the screw conveyor at an angle relative thereto. In preferred form, the improved device includes a helix concentrically fixed in place to the screw conveyor, the major diameter of the helix being substantially greater than the major diameter of the screw conveyor's threaded rod. A pick off finger is positioned generally longitudinally of the screw conveyor, and is positioned between the helix and the conveyor's threaded rod. The pick off finger is pivotally connected at one end to the branch support member, that pivotal connection permitting the finger's free tip to move between a pick off position where same is closely adjacent the surface of the conveyor's threaded rod and a pass-through position where same is elevated above that surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 1975Date of Patent: September 28, 1976Assignee: W. M. Cissell Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Laddie DePas, Stanley T. Wheeler
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Patent number: 3964185Abstract: The apparatus includes an elongated buck having an upper convex surface which supports the seam with the edges thereof outboard, and a portable iron having a concave bottom surface and a pointed nose which cooperates with the convex buck to simultaneously open and press the seam sandwiched therebetween as the iron moves in a forward direction thereover. The bottom edge of the iron is recessed on either side of the nose to permit the opened edges of the seam forward of the nose to flow smoothly beneath the iron as the iron advances thereover, preventing bunching of the seam forward of the iron as it advances. A jet of steam directed downwardly and forwardly is emitted from the nose of the iron to moisten the opened seamed edges and thereby enhance the permanency of the overbusting operation.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 1975Date of Patent: June 22, 1976Assignee: W. M. Cissell Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Norman J. Bullock, Frank A. Wendt, Laddie A. DePas, Walter P. Goodman
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Patent number: RE30017Abstract: The apparatus includes an elongated buck having an upper convex surface which supports the seam with the edges thereof outboard, and a portable iron having a concave bottom surface and a point nose which cooperates with the convex buck to simultaneously open and press the seam sandwiched therebetween as the iron moves in a forward direction thereover. The bottom edge of the iron is recessed on either side of the nose to permit the opened edges of the seam forward of the nose to flow smoothly beneath the iron as the iron advances thereover, preventing bunching of the seam forward of the iron as it advances. A jet of steam directed downwardly and forwardly is emitted from the nose of the iron to moisten the opened seamed edges and thereby enhance the permanency of the overbusting operation.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 1978Date of Patent: June 5, 1979Assignee: W. M. Cissell Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Norman J. Bullock, Frank A. Wendt, Laddie A. DePas, Walter P. Goodman