An Improved Washing and Mangling Machine.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 2nd July, 1896-Accepted. 2nd Oct. 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Washing and Mangling Machine.
I, JOSEPH SMITH of 31 Dicconson Street, Wigan in the County of Lancashire,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The machine is for the purpose of washing, wringing and mangling clothes.
The novelties introduced in it are in connection with the spring of the wringer or
mangle, and are as follows:-
The spring is in the form of a lever and is a straight.bar of tempered steel (A B)
varying in thickness from inch to inch, or of any other thickness according as
the size of machine requires. G is the fulcrum of the lever. The block D fits
over the rim of the frame of the machine and moves in the direction g to h.
This block is tapped for the admission of the screw (E F). By turning the screw
at E the block is forced in the direction g to h, and by means of the fulcrum G
the weight acts at B upon K. K is a moveable step which fits over the shaft M
of the upper roller of the mangle.
The side (P N) of the step rests against, and fits over the rim of the frame of
the machine and may move in the direction P to N.
The step R into which the shaft of the lower roller fits is rigidly fixed.
I also claim the right to make a machine, embodying the above principles, with
india-rubber rollers, as well as with wooden ones, on a proportionate scale to
the above.
Dated this 30th day of September 1895.
JOSEPH SMITH.
An improved Washing and Mangling Machine.
1, JOSEPH SMITH, of 31 Dicconson Street, Wigan, in the County of Lancashire,
Engineer, 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 invention is in connection with a machine for washing, wringing and
mangling clothes.
The novelties introduced in it are in connection with the spring of the wringer,
or mangle, and are as follows:-
The spring is in the form of a lever and is a straight bar of tempered steel (A B),
varying in thickness from inch to inch, or of any other thickness according as
the size of machine may require. Ġ is the fulcrum of the lever. The block D
fits over the rim of the frame of the machine and moves in the direction 9 to 'h.
This block (D) is tapped for the admission of the screw (E F). By turning the
screw at E, the block is forced in the direction 9 to h, and by means of the
fulcrum, G, the weight acts at B upon K. K is a moveable step which fits over
the shaft M of the upper roller of the mangle.
The side, P N, of the step rests against, and fits over the rim of the frame of the
machine and may move in the direction P to N.

page_text: The step, R, into which the shaft of the lower roller fits is rigidly fixed.
The rollers may be made of wood (6 inches in diameter), or a smaller machine
having india-rubber rollers may be made, einbodying the above principles and on a
proportionate scale.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :
1 The spring in the form of a lever A B.
The step, R, into which the shaft of the lower roller fits is rigidly fixed.
The rollers may be made of wood (6 inches in diameter), or a smaller machine
having india-rubber rollers may be made, einbodying the above principles and on a
proportionate scale.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is:
1 The spring in the form of a lever, A R.
2. The moveable block, D, with the screw, E F.
3. The fulcrum, G, with the moveable step, K.
4. The shape of the frame of the machine, which enables the lever, A B, to act
as.a spring upon the rollers.
The letters A, B, G, D, E, F, g, h, K, M, N, P, R, mentioned above, refer in
each case to the drawings filed with the Provisional Specification.
JOSEPH SMITH.