iron pressing
textiles
Also known as: flatiron, hand iron, iron
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clothing manufacture
- In clothing and footwear industry: Pressing and molding processes
…major divisions: buck pressing and iron pressing. A buck press is a machine for pressing a garment or section between two contoured and heated pressure surfaces that may have steam and vacuum systems in either or both surfaces. Before 1905 all garment pressing was done by hand irons heated directly…
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home appliances
- In home appliance: Appliances for cleaning.
Electric mangles and other ironing machines were early home-laundry developments, but they did not achieve the universal appeal of automatic washers and dryers, in large part owing to the marketing of increasingly sophisticated electric irons. These latter appliances offered a wide range of temperature controls and gave the user…
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