Improvements in Towel Rollers.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 17th Oct., 1889-Accepted, 23rd Nov., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Towel Rollers.
GEORGE HUMPHREY, 4 Barton Road, Heeley, Sheffield, Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
A mangle towel roller. Two or more rollers being applied instead of one, as in
the present towel roller.
Construction as follows-I procure a piece of planed wood, say 18 in. or 19 in. long,
by 4 in. wide, and ğ in. thick (or iron of similar or thinner dimensions would do) for
a foundation. To this I firmly affix, by means of screws, or otherwise, two small
galleries, or supports, of cast or other iron, or brass, at distances of 16 in. or 17 in.,
or more, from each other. I then procure two, or more, turned wood, or iron, or
brass rollers, about 14 in. diameter each. These rollers, by means of small iron, or
brass, or wood pins fastened in the ends, I loosely suspend, one upon the other, on
the galleries or supports aforesaid, in small holes made to receive them.
Thus are the two, or more, rollers fixed as in the fashion of a mangling or wringing
machine.
Again, to the wood foundation I permanently fix, near to each end, two small
springs, which may be flat, spiral, or otherwise, in such a manner that they bear upon
the two end projecting pins of the uppermost roller. This uppermost roller is thereby
forcibly kept in its seat on the under roller, or rollers, and the towel when placed
between the rollers, for the bottom roller may be lifted off and on for that purpose,
continually undergoing, when used, a pressing or mangling process, thus keeping it
straight and aired.
The rollers may be fashioned either round, hexagon, octagon, grooved, or
otherwise.
Dated this Talavanth day of 1000
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Towel Rollers.
GEORGE HUMPHREY, 4 Barton Road, Heeley, Sheffield, Manufacturer, 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:
A Mangle towel Roller. Two or more rollers being applied instead of one, as in
the present towel roller.
Construction as follows-I procure a piece of planed wood, say 18 in. or 19 in. long,
by 4 in. wide, and in. thick (or iron of similar or thinner dimensions would do)
for a foundation. To this I firmly affix, by means of screws, or otherwise, two small
galleries, or supports, of cast or other iron, or brass, at distances of 16 in. or 17 in.,
or more, from each other. I then procure two, or more, turned wood, or iron, or
brass rollers about 1 in. diameter each. These rollers, by means of small iron, or
brass, or wood pins fastened in the ends, I loosely suspend, one upon the other, on the
galleries or supports aforesaid, in small holes made to receive them.
Thus are the two, or more, rollers fixed as in the fashion of a mangling or wringing
machine.
Again, to the wood foundation I permanently fix, near to each end, two small
springs, which may be flat, spiral or otherwise, in such a manner that they bear upon
the two end projecting pins of the uppermost roller. This uppermost roller is thereby
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page_text: forcibly kept in its seat on the under roller, or rollers, and the towel when placed
between the rollers, for the bottom roller may be lifted off and on for that purpose,
is continually undergoing, when used, a pressing or mangling process, thus keeping
it straight and aired.
The rollers may be fashioned either round, hexagon, octagon, grooved or
otherwise.
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―
The improved towel roller consisting of more than one roller, and being the
principle of two or more rollers acting or revolving together as manglers; the towel,
when in use, moving between the rollers either with compression from one or either
of the rollers (by springs or otherwise) as after the process of mangling, or loosely,
without compression from one or either of the rollers.
Dated this Fifteenth day of October 1889.
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