IMPROVEMENTS IN IRONING, MANGLING, AND WRINGING MACHINES
Year: 1884

page_text: I, WILLIAM NORMAN, of 41 Burns Street, in the Town and County of the Town
of Nottingham, Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN IRONING, MANGLING, AND WRINGING MACHINES," to be as
follows:-
I construct each machine of the following parts; a pair of standards connected
by tie bars, and provided with brackets or slides to carry a receiving table, on
either side the standards form bearings for or bearings are carried by them for a
pair of rollers which are revolved simultaneously by a handle projecting from a
fly wheel carrying a toothed wheel forming one of a train of wheels, these rollers
I either form of wood covered with brass, copper, or other suitable metal; or else
of cast metal turned up true and covered with brass, copper, or other suitable
metal, one or both of these rollers, I heat by means of gas and air jets conveyed
to the interior by means of a pipe, passed through the axle at one or both ends,,
the axle being bored out for that purpose. The rollers are capable of adjustment
to or from each other. By such means I am enabled to iron and mangle articles,
or fabrics simultaneously in less time and with less labour, and consequently at a
less cost than heretofore."

page_text: Figure 2 is a front view of the same.
my improved machines, and
Each machine consists of a pair of standards A connected by tie bars B, the
standards are provided with brackets to carry a receiving table, C, the standards
also carry bearings for the axles of a pair of metal rollers D which are caused to
revolve simultaneously by a handle projecting from a fly wheel carrying a toothed
wheel E forming one of a train of wheels for driving the lower roller which carries
a toothed wheel on the left end of its axle, which gears into a similar toothed
wheel on the left end of the axle of the upper roller.
The axle of the upper roller has each end passed through holes in the lower end
of links F, the upper ends of which are slotted and pass through holes in the top
tie bar on the upper side of which they receive the ends of a flat bar G, which is
provided with a handle by which it can be turned either edge up thereby raising
the upper roller quite clear of the lower one to enable the attendant to place any
article to be ironed between them, or for other purpose. Either or both rollers, I
heat by means of gas and air jets, which may be conveyed to the interior either
by means of a perforated pipe passed through the axles at the left end, or the axles
may be drilled out their whole length and perforated within the rollers for the
required number of jets.
In either case the mixture of gas and air is supplied to the interior from supply
pipes H of the usual construction and provided with a stop cock so as to admit of
one or both rollers being heated.
The supply pipes may be connected to a gas pipe by either a fixed or elastic.
pipe..
By such means I am enabled to iron and mangle articles or fabrics simultaneously
in less time and with less labour and consequently at a less cost than heretofore.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I.declare that what
I claim is:
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An ironing machine, the rollers of which are heated by jets of a mixture of gas
and air substantially as described and illustrated in the Drawings annexed.
Dated this Ninth day of July 1001