both easily and rapidly in a half folded position the towel is then adjusted to insure accurate ironing smoothed and rotated from a vertical orientation to a horizontal orientation for initial folding by folder 27b and ironing in ironer 26 this transverse feed in combination with the touch bar and the remaining apparatus of the present invention provides a significant improvement in speed and quality of ironing work the resulting system allows for plural independent feeds to an ironer plural stations for each train and simple easy accurate operation of an ironing system in an alternative embodiment depicted in fig6 a and 6b a french folder such as 27a of fig1 is used in place of or with the reorientation apparatus in this apparatus woven belting is utilized for the feed conveyor and the articles are positioned by the use of a touch bar as in the prior systems however in this operation feed conveyor 100 terminates at roller 102 and the article is positively fed to the french folder through nip roller 104 and guide 106 the french folder 27a is preferably formed of elongated rollers 108 which are provided with plural gripping conveyors 110 to grasp the article and convey it toward ironer 26 as the article is conveyed toward ironer 106 it comes in contact with first guide 112 which initiates folding of one side of the article by curling it over on itself after this is initiated the opposite side of the article is folded over by second french folder guide 114 the article then exits the french folding section between rollers 116 which are rotated by conveyors 110 and enters ironer 26 in this manner the plural station feeders of the present invention may be utilized to french fold articles prior to.