IMPROVEMENTS IN MANGLES
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Benjamin Barber, of Tring, Wood Turner, John
Butterfield, of Great Berkhampstead, Saddler, and Thomas Austin, of the
same Parish, all in the County of Hertfordshire, Plumber, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MANGLES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Benjamin Barber, John
Butterfield, and Thomas Austin at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 13th September 1855.
We, BENJAMIN BARBER, of Tring, Wood Turner, JOHN BUTTERFIELD, of
Great Berkhampstead, Saddler, and THOMAS AUSTIN, of the same Parish, all
in the County of Hertfordshire, Plumber, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MANGLES," to be as follows:-
Our said Invention consists in peculiar arrangements of wood or other rollers
to be used for the purpose of mangling. The rollers may be in setts of 3, 4,
or more as required. In one arrangement of our improved mangles, we place
horizontally in a suitable frame two driving rollers side by side, one inch apart
or thereabouts, and one cloth roller centrally above and touching each of the
lower rollers. The top part of the frame is connected by a metal bridge, in
which a screw working vertically through the centre is made to press on a
strong spring stretching across the full width of the mangle, its ends pressing
on the gudgeons of the cloth roller by the action of metal slides in the side
frame. This cloth roller can be removed by releasing the spring, and then
passing one gudgeon through a slot in the side frame for that purpose.
In another arrangement, we have three lower or driving rollers and two
upper cloth rollers; or the driving rollers may be placed one above and one

page_text: below, with one cloth roller on each side, in which latter case two springs and
two screws will be required, one on each side, to press the cloth rollers up to
the driving rollers. In all cases the rollers are driven by spurr wheels and
pinions geared to rotate the rollers in the direction desired.
We do not limit ourselves to the dimensions, number, or material of the
several parts, as mangles may be constructed on the principle of our said
improvements in considerable variety.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Benjamin Barber, John Butterfield, and Thomas Austin in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 7th January 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, BENJAMIN
BARBER, of Tring, Wood Turner, JOHN BUTTERFIELD, of Great Berkhampstead,
Saddler, and THOMAS AUSTIN, of the same Parish, all in the County of
Hertfordshire, Plumber, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Benjamin Barber, John Butterfield, and Thomas Austin, Her special
licence, that we, the said Benjamin Barber, John Butterfield, and Thomas
Austin, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the
said Benjamin Barber, John Butterfield, and Thomas Austin, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein ex-
pressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, 'an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MANGLES," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that we, the said Benjamin Barber, John Butterfield,
and Thomas Austin, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Benjamin Barber, John Butterfield,
and Thomas Austin, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-

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letters refer to like parts throughout.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS..
Figure 1 is a front elevation of one arrangement of our improved mangle
with three rollers; Figure 2 is a left-hand inside end elevation of one standard,
of the frame; and Figure 3 is a right-hand outside end elevation of the oppo-
site standard of Figure 1. Figure 4 is a front elevation of another arrange-
ment of our improvements applied to four rollers; Figure 5 is a right-hand!
outside end elevation of one standard of Figure 4.
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A, A', are the standards of the framing, connected at top by means of the,
metal bar or bridge B, secured at its ends a, a, with screw nuts; C, C¹, a
wheel with handles for turning the tightening screw D, working through B,
and carrying at its end 6 the strong bent spring bar E, E, the ends of which:
at c, c, are inserted in a slot c¹, cut to receive them in two sliding metal blocks,
formed like F, Figure 2, which works in two grooves d, d, on the within side:
of each standard, serving when screwed down to press on the axes of the
cloth roller G, G', and when drawn upwards by D allowing the same roller.
to be taken out through the side slot d' whenever required: H, H¹, H", are
both the driving as well as the smoothing and polishing rollers, of which there.
are two in Figure 1 and two in Figure 4. These mangles are operated by-the
winch handles I, I'; of these, I works direct from the axis of a toothed pinion
secured to the outside of the end standard of the frame, and is geared into
toothed pinions K, K, attached to the elongated axes of two driving rollers H,
passing through the standard A'; but in Figure 4 the action of the handle I'
is transferred to the left-hand end by the axle L rotating the toothed pinion
M, geared into the spur wheel M, keyed on the axis of the lower driving
roller H; and as the opposite end axes of H', H", have toothed pinions
K', K", keyed on them outside the standard A" of the framing, it is only
requisite to attach to the standard itself other two toothed pinions O, O, geared
so as to transfer the rotation of K¹ to K". The driving rollers H, H¹, H",
alone have toothed pinions on their axes; and the cloth rollers G, G', have
their axes free, so as to be easily taken out and replaced for winding clothes
on or for removing them after being mangled.
It will thus be observed, that in one arrangement of our improved mangles,
we place horizontally in a suitable frame two driving rollers side by side, one

page_text: inch apart or thereabouts, and one cloth roller centrally above and touching
each of the lower rollers. The top part of the frame is connected by a metal
bridge, in which a tightening screw working vertically through the centre is
made to carry and press on a strong bowed spring bar, stretching across the
full width of the mangle, its ends pressing on the axes or gudgeons of the cloth
roller by the action of metal slides or blocks in the side frame. This cloth
roller can be removed by reversing the press screw, which then releases the
spring, and allows the passing of a gudgeon through a slot d', Figure 2, cut in
the side frame for that purpose.
In another arrangement we have three lower or driving rollers and two
upper cloth rollers; or the driving rollers may be placed one above and one
below, with one cloth roller on each side, as in Figure 4, in which case two
bar springs with one pressing screw to each will be required, one placed on
each side parallel to the outside of the cloth rollers, their use being to press
the cloth rollers as close up to the driving rollers as may be needful. In
all cases the rollers are worked by suitable toothed wheels geared to rotate
the rollers in the direction desired. By our arrangements every pair of
driving rollers when their axes are on a horizontal line are intersected by
one cloth roller; but when the axes of the driving rollers are on a vertical
line, then each pair of driving rollers may have one intersecting cloth roller on
cach side thereof.
Having thus fully described our said improvements, we would remark that
we do not limit ourselves to the precise dimensions, numbers, or materials of
the several parts, as mangles may be constructed on the principle of our said
improvements in considerable variety; and we do declare that what we claim
as our Invention is, namely, the peculiar methods of arranging and working
rollers in mangles, and the modes of tightening and removing the same, as
described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Benjamin Barber, John Butterfield, and
Thomas Austin, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-
fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord 1855.
BENJAMIN BARBER. (L.S.)
JOHN BUTTERFIELD. (L.S.)
THOS AUSTIN.
(L.S.)