Improvements in or relating to Wringing, Mangling, and similar Machines.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 17th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 14th Dec., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Wringing, Mangling, and similar
Machines.
I, HENRY SAMUEL TAYLOR of 68 Derby Street, Hulme, Manchester, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
These improvements relate to machines for wringing, mangling or calendering
clothes, and consist essentially in the application to such machines of a porcelain,
glass or similar vitreous bottom roller in lieu of the present wooden or metal
roller.
The said porcelain roller may either be formed solid, say for wringing
purposes, or may be hollow for mangling or calendering purposes and heated by gas,
oil, steam, hot air, or by other means.
In making the improved roller it is moulded either as a tube and afterwards
fitted with end blocks for carrying the roller shafts, or it is moulded with the ends
closed, with the exception of small holes for the shaft, and with internal partitions to
strengthen it.
When in the "biscuit" state it is turned up in the lathe in order that it shall be
perfectly true after enamelling and firing.
Instead of heating the improved roller externally and to prevent any of the products
of combustion (if heated by gas or oil) coming in contact therewith a metal plate is
inserted directly beneath the roller.
By so making the lower roller of porcelain or vitreous material the life-time of
such roller is materially increased by reason of the non-absorbent nature of the
porcelain, and the surface of the rollers being hard and smooth produces a gloss on
the clothes equal to ordinary ironing.
The upper roller may also be made of porcelain, but it is preferred to make it of
wood.
Datadhin 14th day of Lonu 1895
Improvements in or relating to Wringing, Mangling, and similar
Machines.
I, HENRY SAMUEL TAYLOR of 68 Derby Street, Hulme, Manchester Engineer,
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 statement :--
These improvements relate to wringing, mangling, calendering, and similar
machines, and consist essentially in the application to such machines of a porcelain
bottom roller in lieu of the present wooden or metal roller.
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page_text: And in order that my said invention shall be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect I have hereunto annexed a sheet of drawings and will
now proceed to describe the same with the assistance of the various figures and
letters of reference marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a vertical section, and Fig. 2 a front view of a wringing machine with
my invention applied thereto.
Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view of my improved porcelain roller in section,
and shewing more clearly the method of its mounting on the bottom roller shaft.
In all the views (A) is my improved roller made of porcelain and with the
usual glaze or enamel to give it a smooth surface. The said roller may be formed
solid throughout, with the exception of a central opening for the shaft (B), but I
prefer it to be of the section shewn in Fig. 3, with the roller only bearing on the
shaft at its central portion, and with cavities (C) at either end. This method of
mounting gives to the roller a certain amount of elasticity on its bearing, and
ensures of its accommodating the various thicknesses of clothes passing between
the rollers without fracture, or without any shock after a thicker part of the clothes
has passed through, which might tend to damage the clothes. To prevent the
roller thus mounted from moving end wise on its shaft I provide a sleeve or
tube (D) at each end, one end of each of such tubes abutting against the shoulder
of the roller recess, and the other against the machine frame. To also prevent the shaft
wearing loose in the roller with the constant turning, I employ metal bushes (D¹)
with snugs (D2) fitted or moulded into the roller as illustrated more clearly in
Fig. 3.
The aforesaid recesses (C) besides affording an elastic bearing for the roller afford
accommodation for heating the roller by gas, oil, steam, or by other quitable means,
a: by means of a pipe shewn in dotted lines in Fig. 1, either of these heating
media can be introduced. In lieu however of heating the improved roller internally
and to prevent any of the products of combustion coming in contact with the objects
passing between the rollers, I prefer to heat the roller externally and for that
purpose I employ a gas jet (E) situated beneath a special form of drip tray (F),
having a copper deflector plate (G) against which the gas flame may impinge.
Owing to the conductivity of the copper plate the heat penetrates the tray and
heats the roller, and thus without the risk of the clothes being soiled or singed.
The gas to this jet is supplied through a flexible tube from an ordinary gas
pipe. Oil or steam may be used where gas is not available. To bring the tray
in closer contact with the roller, and permit of its more rapid heating I provide
a rod (H) having cams (I) and handle (J) which on being turned raises the tray to a
horizontal position.
By so making the lower roller of porcelain its lifetime or durability is materially
increased, and by reason of its hard and smooth surface such roller produces a gloss
on the clothes equal to ordinary ironing.
My improved roller is made in any convenient manner and turned up when in
the biscuit" state, so that after glazing and firing it shall be as near truth as
possible. In lieu of making the roller of the section shewn in Fig. 3 it may be
made in the form of a tube or pipe, and staked on to bosses or bearing blocks on
the shaft (B).
Although hereinbefore described as applied to machines for domestic uses it is
equally applicable to machines of a larger nature for use in bleach, dye & similar
works.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is :-
1st. In wringing, mangling, calendering and similar machines the use and employ-
ment of a porcelain bottom roller, arranged and mounted (with or without means for
heating) as set forth and illustrated.

page_text: 2ndly. The use and employment of the drip tray (F) with plate (G), in combination
with rod (H), cams (I) and handle (J), and gas jet (E) as and for the purposes set
forth.
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1805
HENRY SAMUEL TAYLOR,
By John G. Wilson & Co.,
Agents.