Improved Means for Placing in Position the Pressure Springs of Wringing and Mangling Machines.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 21st June, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 21st Mar., 1900-Accepted, 21st Apr.,
1900
MARTAT T
AURDAVIMIN HAUTOT,
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Improved Means for Placing in Position the Pressure Springs of
Wringing and Mangling Machines.
I, HENRY CROFTS LONGSDON, Managing Director of the Firm of W. Summer-
scales & Sons Limited, of Keighley, in the County of York, Laundry Engineers
and Machine Makers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows, that is to say:
It is well known that to place or mount the usual kind of laminated or flat
springs in position in the machine the force of such springs has to be somewhat
overcome and to effect this within the workshop, well known means are employed
that answer their purposes efficiently, however as said means are somewhat cun-
bersome and cannot be readily moved from place to place, I have devised simple
means that are portable and may be made use of under almost any conditions
either within or outside of the workshop.
These means consist of a suitably formed cramping device wherein the screw
is made to press its jaw (which is pivotally secured upon it) upon the bowed
cross bar of a machine while the lower jaw lays hold of the spring so that by
turning the screw this said spring is forcibly compressed and so brought into
position to be placed upon the machines' pressure bar in a simple and easily
effected manner.
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Improved Means for Placing in Position the Pressure Springs of
Wringing and Mangling Machines.
I, HENRY CROFTS LONGSDON, Managing Director of the Firm of W. Summer-
scales & Sons Limited, of Keighley, in the County of York, Laundry 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 ascer-
tained in and by the following statement, that is to say:--
It is well known that to place or mount the usual kind of laminated or flat
springs in position in the machine the force of such springs has to be somewhat
overcome and to effect this within the workshop, well known means are employed
that answer their purpose efficiently, however as said means are somewhat cum-

page_text: bersome and cannot be readily moved from place to place, I have devised simple
means that are portable and may be made use of under almost any conditions
either within or outside of the workshop.
In the accompanying sheets of drawings, which are illustrative of my inven-
tion:-
Figure 1 represents a front elevation of a portion of a wringing or mangling
machine showing my improved means for placing or forcing in position the
laminated pressure spring mounted thereon.
Figure 2 represents a section on line A-B Fig. 1 as seen in the direction of
the arrow x.
Figure 3 is a similar view to Fig. 1 but shows the spring fixed in its operating
position.
Figures 4 and 5 represent front elevation and part sectional elevation of my
improved cramping device.
Figure 6 represents a plan view on line CD of Fig. 4.
Similar letters and figures of reference indicate similar parts throughout the
several views.
In carrying my invention into effect I secure one end of the bowed cross bar a
to the framework E of the machine by means of the bolts b (see Fig. 1) and place
thereunder the pressure spring which will rest upon the pressure bar d. I
then mount the cramping device e upon the machine in such a manner that its
lower or fixed jaw f takes under the pressure spring c and its movable jaw f¹
rests upon the cross bar a, as shown by Fig. 1. The movable jaw f¹ is then
advanced along its framework by means of the rotation of the screw 9, in this
manner the cross bar a is forced down into the position indicated by Fig. 3 to
be fixed to the framework E by the bolts 61 in the well known manner, after
which the cramping device e may be removed as the laminated spring c is thus
firmly mounted in its proper position in the machine.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
Means for placing or mounting in position the pressure springs of wringing
or mangling machines, the same being constructed and arranged to operate sub-
stantially as herein specified and as illustrated by the accompanying sheets of
drawings
Dated this 20th day of March 1900.
HENRY C. LONGSDON,
Per Samuel Hey,
Agent.