An Improved Machine for Squeezing or Wringing the Starch from Collars and the like..
Year: 1893

page_text: te of Application, 15th May, 1893—Accepted, 17th June, 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Machine for Squeezing or Wringing the Starch from
Collars and the like..
I ADELBERT WARREN CUMMINGS, of 207 Central Avenue, Dunkirk, New
York, United States of America, Manufacturer of Laundry Machinery, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My invention relates to an improved machine for simultaneously smoothing and
wringing or squeezing the starch out of collars and cuffs after being dipped in the
starch, all of which will be fully and clearly hereinafter described.
In the accompanying drawing
Figure 1, is a side elevation of the machine complete.
Figure 2, is a front elevation of the same the cloth which is connected with the
rollers when in operative condition being omitted.
Figure 3, represents a cross section through one of the perforated wringing or
squeezing rollers.
The object of this invention is to provide the means whereby the starch is
prevented from being forced between the several thicknesses composing a collar
or cuff to the end of the same and then bursting it before finding a sufficiently free
outlet.
The side frame pieces, 1, are both substantially alike and are held together at
the front and back by binding rods, 2, 2 and 2°.
In each side of the frame of the machine is a guideway 3, inclined from a vertical
position, (but they may be arranged so as to be vertical if desired).
In these guideways are two boxes 4 and 42, in which is mounted two hollow
perforated squeezing rollers, 5, and 5ª.
To hold the squeezing rollers 5 and 5ª, in contact or toward each other with a
uniform pressure, whether they are close together or separated by different thick-
nesses of material passing hetween them, I employ two counter weights 6 and 6ª
each mounted adjustably on arms 7, pivoted by pins 7 to the top of the machine
frame.
Opposite the car or part, 8, (see Fig. 1) at the top of the machine is another
similar part and between them is pivoted the arms, 7, by the pins 7ª, so that they
may be moved on said pivots without moving laterally. There is also another
opening in the top at each side of the frame, which is made in the usual way, and
acts as a guideway for the arms, 7, at the point 9, see Figure 1.
The counterweights 6 and 6ª, being mounted on the arms 7, so as to be movable
along them, are easily adjustable and are secured when adjusted by the set screws 10,
and it is apparent that the farther they are away from their pivots, 7ª, the greater they
will force roller, 5, toward the roller 5ª, and the greater will be the pressure exerted
when the machine is in operation.
Some collars are composed of four or five thicknesses others of two or three and
the advantage of these counter-weights is that all receive the same pressure.
At each side of the front of the machine is another guide-way, 11, in which is
located a box, 12.
In these two boxes is mounted an elastic roller 13, made of india-rubber, or
other similar elastic material.
The object of this roller, 13, is to provide the means for squeezing the surplus
starch which accumulates on the wringing or squeezing rollers out of the way so as
to leave said rollers comparatively clean as the collars are fed in between them.
The boxes in which the rubber roller 13 is mounted are secured in place by

page_text: caps 14, (see Fig. 1) held to the frame by thumb screws 15 and 15 the thumb
screw 15, when loosened, acting as a pivot for the cap, 14, and the opposite
end of the cap being cut at the side so as to form a hook 15, which catches over
the thumb-screw, 15, in which position the thumb-screws 15 and 15%, may be
tightened so as to secure the caps rigidly in place. The roller, 13, is then adjusted
to or from the squeezing or wringing rollers 5 and 5ª, by the thumb screw 16,
(shown in Figure 1).
The squeezing or wringing rollers 5 and 5ª, are made hollow and are provided
with a series of perforations 17, and over these perforations is secured one or more
thicknesses of cloth 18, a cheese cloth will answer a good purpose.
Each of these rollers is provided with a shaft, 19, and 19ª, which is mounted so
as to turn easily in the boxes 4 and 4ª.
It will be noticed that the rollers 5 and 5", are set so that one end is lower than
the other. The object of this construction is to have the rollers set on an incline
so that the starch which is forced through the cloth 18, and the perforations 17,
into the interior of the rollers, will run out at one end and be caught in a suitable
receptacle.
The advantage of the perforations in the rollers 5 and 5ª, is that they allow the
starch to pass through the cloth and within the cylinder instead of being forced to
one end of a collar or cuff and bursting it.
The operation of the machine will be easily understood from the foregoing
description and drawing.
The collars or cuffs are fed into the machine or between the rollers 5 and 5ª,
while they are saturated with the starch, the rollers being turned by the handle 20,
on the fly wheel, 21.
The rollers are not geared together because the friction between them is sufficient
for the moving roller to turn the other.
In place of the counter-weights 6 and 6º, springs may be used in any well known
way for holding the squeezing rollers in contact.
Having now 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 is :-
1. In a machine for squeezing the starch out of collars, the combination of two
hollow perforated squeezing rollers mounted in boxes in a suitable holding frame
so that one roller rests on the other, two pivoted counter-weighted arms for holding
the upper roller down in contact with the lower roller with a yielding force, a
covering of cloth over the perforations in the face of the squeezing rollers and a
means for turning said rollers substantially as described.
2. In a machine for squeezing the starch out of collars, the combination of two
hollow perforated squeezing rollers mounted in boxes in a suitable holding frame, a
means for holding said rollers together with a yielding force, a covering of cloth
over the perforations in the face of the squeezing rollers, an elastic roller
mounted in boxes in the frame of the machine and made adjustable to or from
one of the squeezing rollers and a means for turning said roller, substantially as
described.
1
1000
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.