Improvements in Wringing Machines.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 21st July, 1896-Accepted, 22nd Aug., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wringing Machines.
We JAMES WHITTLE and EDWARD WHITTLE Eugiueors and Machine
Makers of Mitchel Street Iron Works Newton Heath Manchester. We do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
1st. There are 2 cast iron frame sides which are fixed together with 2 stays and
bolted together.
2nd. There are 4 sliding box bearings which slide in the frame sides, in the said
4 sliding boxes are fixed 3 cast iron bowls each bowl fitted with steel axle the
said 3 bowls revolve in each sliding box bearing.
3rd. There are 2 wood rollers fitted with 2 iron axles which axles revolves on
the 3 bowls in each of the sliding box bearings.
4. The top board on machine is made in three parts which are fitted together
by 4 hinges which enables the board to fold up to half the width.
No. 2 and No. 4 are our claims of invention.
JAMES WHITTLE.
EDWARD WHITTLE.
We JAMES WHITTLE and EDWARD WHITTLE both of Mitchell Street,
Newton Heath, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Engineers and Machine
Makers, 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 :-
The nature of our said invention and the manner in which the same is to be
performed or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference
to the sheet of drawings hereunto anuexed and the following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1 on the drawings is a partial sectional end view of a wringing machine
constructed according to our invention and Fig. 2 is a partial sectional front view
of the same.
The improved machine is constructed as follows:-
Two cast iron end frames a are connected together by stays and bolted as usual
to form the framework.
bb¹ are four box bearings (two on each side) the lower ones b¹ of which are fixed
and the upper ones b slide in vertical openings in the frame side.
In each of these box bearings there are three cast iron antifriction bowls co²
fitted with steel axles d d' and so mounted that they can revolve freely within the
said bearings.
e e' are the two wooden rollers each provided with an iron axle ff running
between the antifriction bowls, the bowls a boing above the axle of the top rollere
and the bowls c being beneath the axle ƒ¹ of the bottom roller e'.

page_text: Downward pressure is given to the axle ƒ of the top wooden rollère by the
spring g or in any other convenient known manner, and the top board h of the
machine is made in three parts which are fitted together by four hinges (two at
each end) which enables the said board to be folded up to half its width.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the samo is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
First. The combination with the axles of the wooden wringing rollers of the
box bearings fitted with antifriction rollera substantially in the manner and for the
purposes hereinbefore set forth, and
Secondly. We claim making the top board of three pieces hinged together
substantially as and for the purpose described.
Dated this 20th day of July 1896.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.