Improvements in and relating to Machinery for Wringing Clothes.
Year: 1889

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Machinery for Wringing Clothes.
1, SYDNEY CROW of Whiteley Bottom, Milnsbridge, Huddersfield in the County of
York, Warehouseman, 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 :-
My invention relates to wringing machines constructed to be fixed and operated
upon the edge of a washing tub, in order that the soap suds or water wrung from the
clothes may be returned to the tub.
The principal features of my invention are the appliances used instead of springs to
press the rollers together, and the device for fastening the machine upon the edge or
side of the tub.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood, I will proceed to describe
the same with reference to the accompanying drawings in which,
Figure 1 represents a sectional elevation of the machine, showing one side or end
thereof, both sides or ends being similar in construction and operation.
Figure a general isometrical view of the machine.
Similar letters refer to similar parts in both figures.
The rollers A and B are by preference made of vulcanized indiarubber, the
elasticity of which compensates for the absence of springs, and allows various
thicknesses of material to be passed between the rollers.
The rollers are mounted upon iron shafts J J, the bottom roller B having a bearing
at one end of the lever E E, and the upper roller A being carried in a bearing at the
upper end of the lever D.
A shaft K secured to the end plates C passes through both the levers D and E,
forming a fulcrum upon which they work.
The guide board H, over which the clothes pass from the rollers, has an iron plate
screwed to each end thereof, to which plate is fixed the cam F carrying the
stud G, which cam and stud respectively operate in recesses formed in the
levers E and D.
When the guide board H is pressed downward, into an approximately horizontal
plane, the cam F presses down the end of the lever E which is in contact with it, and
simultaneously the stud G presses up its end of the lever D thereby bringing together
the rollers A and B which are carried by the levers, and by the same movement the
legs C and D which form continuations downward of the end plate C and the
lever D respectively, are caused to grip firmly the edge or side of the tub L thereby
fixing and securing the machine for working.
A crank handle M fixed upon the end of one of the roller shafts is employed to give
motion to the machine, one roller actuating the other by friction.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is,
1. In a machine for wringing clothes, the levers D and E carrying the rollers A
and B respectively, and pressing such rollers together when the cam F and the
stud G are brought into operation by forcing down the board H, by means of
which they are actuated, also the aforesaid cam F and stud G, all these various parts
being constructed and operating substantially for the purpose and in the manner
described, and as represented in the accompanying drawings.
2. In a machine for wringing clothes, the legs and D, which form parts of the
end plate C and of the lever D respectively, and which legs grip the edge of the
washing tub L, being actuated by the motion of the board й at the same time

page_text: that the rollers are pressed together, substantially in the manner described and
represented in the accompanying drawings.
3. In a machine for wringing clothes, the combination of the mechanism for
pressing together the rollers and simultaneously, fixing the machine to the edge
or side of the washing tub, substantially in the manner described and represented.
4. In a machine for wringing clothes, the general arrangement, combination,
construction, and operation of the various parts in the manner described and
represented in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Eighteenth day of December 1889.
WILLIAM JAMES BAKER,
2, New Street, Huddersfield, Agent for the Applicant.