IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF DRIVING AND REVERSING GEAR FOR WASHING, WRINGING, AND MANGLING MACHINES."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Taylor (of the Firm of Thomas and Taylor), of
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Salford, in the County of Lancaster, and Stockport, in the County of Chester,
for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF DRIVING
AND REVERSING GEAR FOR WASHING, WRINGING, AND MANGLING MACHINES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Taylor at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th July 1880.
"
EDWARD TAYLOR (of the Firm of Thomas and Taylor), of Salford, in the County
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
of Lancaster, and Stockport, in the County of Chester.
CONSTRUCTION OF DRIVING AND REVERSING GEAR FOR WASHING, WRINGING,
AND MANGLING MACHINES."
This Invention relates to improvements upon the driving and reversing gear
for which Letters Patent were granted to me bearing date the 8th day of July,
A.D. 1874, No. 2393, the object of the present Invention being to render the
reversal of the gear automatic, so that the box or tub shall revolve so many times
in one direction, and then without any movement on the part of the attendant
the direction of its motion shall be reversed for as many revolutions, and so on
alternately.
In the first place I substitute friction cones for the clutches mentioned in the
Specification of my former Patent above referred to, and I dispense with the long
boss or sleeve.
A double cone slides on a long key or feather on the driving shaft, and is moved
into contact with either of the hollow cones (attached to the two bevil wheels) by
means of a lever, the upper end of which carries a weight to keep the cone in
contact to whichever side it may be thrown.
The lower end of the lever is acted upon by a pin or stud projecting from a
worm wheel, which latter is driven by a worm connected with the box wheel.
Supposing the friction cone to be in gear with the right hand bevil wheel, the
box or tub continues to revolve in the same direction till the projecting stud on
the worm wheel comes against the lever and withdraws the cone.

page_text: As soon as it has passed the centre the weight throws the lever over and the
cone comes into gear with the left hand bevil wheel, thus reversing the direction of
revolution of the gear and the box or tub.
The movement of the worm wheel being thus reversed also, the pin commences to
recede from the lever, which remains in the same position till the pin comes against
it on the other side and again reverses it, and so on alternately.
In some cases I propose to dispense with the three bevil wheels and to employ
two strap pulleys in place thereof, one being provided with a crossed strap and
the other with an open one, the pulleys being loose on the shaft and provided with
hollow cones, the double cone sliding on a key between the two, and moved from
one to the other by means of the weighted lever actuated by the pin on the worm
wheel as in the former case.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuanco of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Edward Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 7th
January 1881.
EDWARD TAYLOR (of the Firm of Thomas and Taylor), of Salford, in the County
of Lancaster, and Stockport, in the County of Chester. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
CONSTRUCTION OF DRIVING AND REVERSING GEAR FOR WASHING, WRINGING,
AND MANGLING MACHINES."
This Invention relates to improvements upon the driving and reversing gear
for which Letters Patent were granted to me bearing date the 8th July, A.D. 1874,
No. 2393, the object of the present Invention being to render the roversal of
the gear automatic so that the box or tub shall revolve so many times in
one direction, and then without any movement on the part of the attendant
the direction of its motion shall be reversed for as many rovolutions, and so on
alternately.
Such being the nature and object of my said Invention, I will now proceed to
describe in detail the manner in which the same is to bo or may be performed or
carried into practical effect; and in order that the same may be clearly understood
I have annoxed hereunto a Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof, and have
marked the same with figures and letters of reference corresponding with those in
the following explanation thereof :-
Fig. 1 in the annexed Drawing is a sectional elevation, and Fig. 2 a sectional
plan view of the driving end of a washing, wringing, and mangling machine
constructed according to my Invention.
Fig. 3 is a front viow, and Fig. 4 a horizontal section of the same.
a, u, is a portion of the framing of the machine, and b, b (Fig. 3), is the washing
box or tub.
In the first place I substitute in the larger machines or those driven at a high
speed, friction cones for the clutches mentioned in the Specification of my former
Patent above referred to, and I dispense with the long boss or sleeve.
A double cone c, c, slides on a long key or feather d, d, on the driving shaft c, c,
and is moved into contact with either of the hollow cones (attached to the two bovel
wheels ff) by means of a lever 7, g, the upper end of which carries a weight h, h,
to keep the cone in contact to whichever side it may by thrown.
The lower end of the lever g, g, is acted upon by a pin or stud i, i, projecting
from a worm wheel k, l, which latter is driven by a worm l, l, fixed on a
shaft m, m, at the other end of which is a spur pinion n, n, in gear with the box
wheel o, o.
The lever g, g, is connected to the double cone c, c, by means of the horizontal
lever 1, 2, carrying a bowl q, q, acting between the two cones, r, r, is a movable
pin for holding both cones out of gear and the lever g, g, in a vertical position
when required.
This is the position in which the apparatus is shown in the
Drawing. Supposing the friction cone c, c, to be in gear with the right hand
bevel wheel f, Fig. 4, and the worm wheel k, h, revolving in the direction of the
arrow (see Fig. 3), the box or tub continues to revolve in the same direction till
the projecting stud i, i, on the worm wheel h, k, comes against the levor g, g, and
withdraws the cone c, c, as soon as it has passed the centre of the weight h, h,
throws the lever g, g, over, and the cone c, c, comes into gear with the left hand
bevel wheel thus reversing the direction of revolution of the gear and the box or
tub b, b.
The movement of the worm whcel k, k, being thus reversed, also the pin i, i,
cominences to recede from the lever g, g, which remains in the same position till
the pin i, i, comes against it on the other side and again reverses it, and so on
alternately.

page_text: In some cases I propose to dispense with the three bevel wheels and to employ
two strap pulleys in place thereof, one being provided with a crossed strap and
the other with an open one, the pulleys being loose on the shaft and provided
with hollow cones, the double cone sliding on a key between the two, and moved
from one to the other by means of the weighted lever actuated by the pin on the
worm wheel as in the former case.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention, together
with the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into
practical effect, I wish it to be understood that I claim as my Invention the
arrangement of mechanism hereinbefore described and illustrated by the Drawings
annexed.for rendering automatic the reversing gear of a washing, wringing, and
mangling machine, so that the box or tub shall revolve so many times in one
direction, and then, without any movement on the part of the-attendant, the
direction of its motion shall be reversed for as many revolutions, and so on
alternately.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Taylor, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fifth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty one.
EDWARD TAYLOR. (L.S.)