IMPROVE- MENTS IN CLOTHES WRINGERS
Year: 1873

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frederick Curtis at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 27th
May 1873.-A communication from Cornelius Edward Haynes,
residing at Boston, in the County of Suffolk, State of Massa-
chusetts, United States of America.
I, FREDERICK CURTIS, of Boston, in the County of Suffolk, and State
of Massachusetts, in the United States of America, do solemnly and
sincerely declare that I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN CLOTHES WRINGERS," which Invention I believe will be of great
public utility, that it is a communication to me from Cornelius Edward
Haynes, a person resident at Boston, in the County of Suffolk, State of
Massachusetts, United States of America, and I do hereby declare the
nature of the said "Invention for Improvements in Clothes Wringers"
to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a simple, inexpensive, and effective manner
of constructing the standards or frames of clothes wringing machines,

page_text: and consists of a furcated base or clasp for attachment to a tub, provided
with a peculiar clamping latch or cam, and an S shaped spring for
supporting the rolls, and pivoted to a furcated base by means of a
vertical bolt, the entire device with the exception of the spring being of
cast metal, and the parts being of such form, that no fitting is requisite
to bring them together in their proper relation to each other.
The Drawings accompanying this Specification represent in Figure 1
an edge view, and in Figure 2 a vertical and central section of one of
the supporting end standards of a clothes wringer, containing this
Invention.
In these Drawings A denotes a stout furcated block or clasp, the two
arms or jaws a, b, of which embrace the side or wall of a tub. In the
lower part of the outer jaw a is created a slot c, and within this slot is
disposed loosely a latch or curved bar C, whose head e is situated within
the fork of the block A, the outer face of such head being excentrically
or obliquely disposed with respect to the inner jaw b, a tooth or
shoulder f being formed upon the latch, which engages with the lower
boundary of the slot as shown in Figure 2 of the Drawings. When the
block A is placed astraddle of the side of the tub, the handle of the latch
C is depressed, which forces the head e upward and inward against the
outside of the tub, and clamps the whole device firmly to the tub.
B in the accompanying Drawings represents a compound or duplex
spring, composed of thick ribbon steel bent into the form substantially
of a letter S, this spring being swiveled or pivoted to the upper part of
the base or block A by a vertical bolt g, which passes through one end
or bow of the spring and the upper part of the block A, and is secured
in place by a key which passes through a slot formed in the lower end
of the bolt, and bears upon the adjacent part of the base. Each end of
the spring B terminates in semicircular or concave bend h, as shown in
Figure 2 of the Drawings, these bends being disposed opposite each
other, and being for reception of the journals of the two rolls.
The entire device above explained with the exception of the spring,
which of course is to be of steel, is to be cast in metal with each part
complete, so that no filing, boring, or finishing, is requisite to attach
them properly together. For this reason the standard can be finished at
very low cost.

page_text: The peculiar form of the spring B gives great variations in order to
adapt the rolls to great irregularities in size or bulk of articles passed
between them, as each bend is in itself a spring.