IMPROVEMENTS IN MANGLES AND WRINGING MACHINES FOR SMOOTHING AND WRINGING CLOTHES AND WOVEN FABRICS
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Enoch Oldfield Tindall, of Scarborough, in the County
of York, Ironfounder, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MANGLES
AND WRINGING MACHINES FOR SMOOTHING AND WRINGING CLOTHES AND WOVEN
FABRICS."
Sealed the 13th March 1855, and dated the 5th October 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Enoch Oldfield Tindall at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th October 1854.
I, ENOCH OLDFIELD TINDALL, of Scarborough, in the County of York, Iron-
founder, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MANGLES AND WRINGING MACHINES FOR SMOOTHING AND WRINGING CLOTHES
AND WOVEN FABRICS" to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to certain improvements upon my well-known vertical
and imperial mangle and wringing machines, and consists, in the first place,
in employing two rollers instead of three. These two rollers are carried in
bushes, fitted into a pair of slotted cast-iron side standards, which are tied
together by a cast-iron cross head above and a single wrought rod below. The
rollers are actuated by means of a spur wheel and pinion, the former being
fixed on the overhanging spindle of the lower roller, whilst the spindle of the

page_text: latter is carried in bearings fixed to the framing, and has a winch handle fixed
upon it for turning it by. Pressure is exerted upon the rollers by a strong
spring, the two ends of which act upon the bushes of the upper roller, these
bushes being made sufficiently long for the purpose. The pressure of the
spring is put upon and taken off the rollers by means of a lever, working
on a joint in the cross head of the frame, and acting on the centre of the
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Enoch Oldfield Tindall in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 4th April 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ENOCH
OLDFIELD TINDALL, of Scarborough, in the County of York, Ironfounder, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of 'October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Enoch Oldfield Tindall, Her special license that I, the said Enoch
Oldfield Tindall, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Enoch Oldfield Tindall, my executors, administrators, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
.Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MANGLES AND WRINGING MACHINES FOR SMOOTHING
AND WRINGING CLOTHES AND WOVEN FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Enoch Oldfield Tindall, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Enoch Oldfield Tindall, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following

page_text: statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings, and to the
letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say:-—
My said Invention relates to certain improvements upon my well-known
"vertical" and "imperial" mangles and wringing machines, and, consists, in
the first place, in employing two rollers instead of three, as usually fitted into
machines of this class. These two rollers are carried in bushes or bearings,
fitted into a pair of slotted cast-iron side standards, which are tied together
by a cast-iron cross head above, and one or more wrought-iron rods. below.
The rollers are actuated by means of a spur wheel and pinion, the former
being fixed on the overhanging spindle of the lower roller, whilst the spindle
of the latter is carried in bearings fixed to the framing, and has a winch handle
fixed upon it for turning it by. Pressure is exerted upon the rollers by a
strong spring, the two ends of which act upon the bushes or bearings of the
upper roller, these bushes being made sufficiently long for the purpose. The
pressure of the spring is put upon and taken off the rollers by means of a lever,
working on a joint in the cross head of the frame and acting on the centre
of the spring, and provision is made for throwing the wheel-and pinion of the
driving arrangement out of gear, so that when the mangled clothes are with-
drawn from the machine, the driving winch is not caused to rotate.
And in order that my said Invention may be properly understood, I shall
now proceed to describe the explanatory Figures on the Sheet of Drawings
hereunto attached.
Figure 1 on the Sheet of Drawings is a side elevation of one modification
of my improved mangle, as looking on the driving gear details; -and Figure 2
is a back elevation, corresponding to Figure 1, and at right angles to that
Figure. The framing of the mangle is composed of the two cast-iron side
standards A, each formed with a pair of feet, set well apart, so as to give a
sufficient base to the structure. These side standards are tied together by a
cast-iron cross head B above, and a pair of wrought-iron-tie rods C near their
lower extremities. The mangling of the clothes is effected by means of two
wooden rollers D, E, the lower one E of which is mounted on spindles, and
revolves in fixed bearings at F in the standards A. The spindles of the upper
roller D are entered into slots G in the side standards, and are pressed down-
wards by bearing pieces H, which are capable of traversing vertically in the
slots G.. The bearing pieces H rise slightly above the top surface of the
roller D, and are pressed upon by or sustain the points of the compound blade
spring I. This spring I is held by means of a pin J, acting upon its centre,
and passing through a perforation in the cross head B. Above the cross head

page_text: the pin J is formed with a slot, through which passes a lever K, jointed at L
to the cross head B, and having a handle M fixed upon its free extremity.
When the spring is in action, the lever K is brought down to the position
shewn in my. Drawings, the outer end of the lever being entered in between a
pair of snugs N, cast upon; the upper end of the side standard, the lever being
secured in this position by a pin O, entered across the top of it through the
snugs N.
On taking out, the pin O, the spring I raises the pin J and the
lever K, and relieves the roller from the spring pressure. The rollers are
driven by means of a spur wheel P, fixed on the spindle of the lower roller E,
and in gear with a pinion Q, upon the spindle of which last is fixed a winch
handle R, for working the machine. The spindle of the pinion Q may revolve
in bearings fixed in or to the framing. I have, however, represented in my
Drawings an additional contrivance, by means of which the pinion Q is dis-
engaged from the spur wheel P when the lever K is released, so that, when
the clothes are drawn off the roller after having been mangled, the winch
handle R is not caused to whirl round, as it would if the pinion and spur wheel
were not disengaged. In working out this contrivance, the pinion is carried
in a small moveable box S, fixed to the lower end of a rod T, which passes up
through guide brackets U, fixed to the side standard. A helical spring V is
passed upon the rod T above the upper bracket U, and acts between this
bracket and a collar or button on the top of the rod, so as to have a tendency
to lift the rod up, and thereby raise the pinion out of gear with the spur wheel.
The top of the rod T is immediately under the end of the lever K, and when
this lever is brought down to put the spring pressure upon the rollers, it at the
same time depresses the rod T, and puts the pinion Q into gear with the spur
wheel P; then when the clothes are sufficiently mangled, the lever K is
released, and the rod T is at the same time raised by the action of the spring V,
so as to lift the pinion out of gear with the spur wheel, and thus prevent the
handle from being turned by the rotation of the rollers in drawing out the
clothes. A mangling cloth W is fixed to the lower roller E, and when
unwound this cloth lies upon a slightly inclined board X, hooked or fixed to
the framing, and the clothes to be mangled are introduced between the folds
of the cloth W as it is wound up by the rotation of the roller.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried
into effect, I may observe, in conclusion, that I do not confine or restrict
myself to the precise details or arrangements which I have had occasion to
describe or refer to, as many variations may be made therefrom without

page_text: deviating from the principles or main features of my Invention. But what I
consider to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured
to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent, is,-
First, the general arrangement and construction of machinery, apparatus,
or means for mangling, smoothing, or wringing clothes and woven fabrics, as
herein-before described.
Second, the application and use in mangling or wringing machines of a lever
and sliding pin for depressing the spring by which the operating rollers are
compressed together, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Enoch Oldfield Tindall, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Third day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
ENOCH OLDFIELD TINDALL. (L.S.)