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A manually operable device for pressing fabric comprising two triangular-shaped jaws, each of which has a flat surface portion. These surface portions face each other and constitute the working surfaces of the device. The two jaws are each secured to a handle. These handles are pivotally joined by a

A manually operable device for pressing fabric comprising two triangular-shaped jaws, each of which has a flat surface portion. These surface portions face each other and constitute the working surfaces of the device. The two jaws are each secured to a handle. These handles are pivotally joined by a hinge so disposed that the two flat surface portions are separated from each other or are in parallel pressure engagement. The separated position of the surface portions constitutes the loading position of the device for inserting fabric between the two jaws and the other position constitutes the pressing position for pressing fabric inserted between the two jaws. Springs coacting with the handles bias the same into one or the other of the two positions. One of the jaws is hollow and incorporates an electric heating element for heating its flat surface portion, an adjustable thermostatic control for selectively adjusting the heat output of the heating element and an indicator lamp for indicating the state of energization of the heating element. The other jaw comprises a solid flat metallic plate.

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A manually operable device for pressing fabric, said device comprising: a pair of jaws, each of said jaws having a flat surface portion, said surface portions constituting the pressing surfaces of the device, one of said jaws being hollow and the other being a flat solid plate; an elongate handle fo

A manually operable device for pressing fabric, said device comprising: a pair of jaws, each of said jaws having a flat surface portion, said surface portions constituting the pressing surfaces of the device, one of said jaws being hollow and the other being a flat solid plate; an elongate handle for each of said jaws, each of said handles being secured at one end to a respective one of the jaws; hinge means pivotally joining said handles so that said flat surface portions face each other for selectively pivoting the jaws into the positions in which the flat surface portions of the jaws are in parallel pressure engagement, said positions constituting the working position of the device or into positions in which said flat surface portions are separated from each other, said latter position being the loading position for inserting fabric to be pressed between said flat surface portions; spring means coacting with said handles for biasing the flat surface portions into one of said two positions; electric heating means included in the hollow one of said jaws for heating the flat surface portion thereof; an electric connecting cable extending lengthwise through the handle secured to the hollow jaw including the heating means; adjustable thermostatic control means mounted on the hollow jaw and coacting with said heating means for selectively adjusting the heat output thereof; and indicating means for indicating when said heating means in energized, said electrical heating means comprising a tunnel structure in the hollow jaw and a resistance wire in the tunnel structure, said electric connecting cable comprising a three wire cable, one end of the first and second wires being adapted to be connected to an electric outlet and one end of the third wire being adapted to be grounded, the second ends of said first and second wires being connected to the end of said resistance wire and the other end of said third wire being connected to the hollow jaw, said adjustable thermostatic control means comprising a thermostat connected electrically in series with said first wire and in thermal contact with the hollow jaw, said indicating means comprising the combination of a neon bulb in series with a resistor, said combination being in parallel with said resistance wire, said jaws being of triangular shape, said handle for each jaw extending therefrom at the base of the respective jaw of triangular shape, said hollow jaw having an upper surface remote from the solid jaw, said adjustable thermostatic control means further comprising a control dial disposed at said upper surface, said neon bulb being mounted adjacent said dial and visible from above said hollow jaw, said hollow jaw comprising a sole plate having a flat pressing surface and provided with said tunnel structure, an intermediate cover member on said sole plate and covering said thermostat, a housing member on said intermediate cover member and integral with said handle for the hollow jaw, and attachment means securing said housing member, said cover member and said sole plate together as a unitary assembly to form said hollow jaw, said upper surface of the hollow jaw being constituted by the upper surface of the housing member.