IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOTHES WRINGERS, PARTS OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO OTHER APPARATUS OR MACHINERY
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the Firm of Haseltine,
Lake, & Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOTHES WRINGERS, PARTS OF WHICH
IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO OTHER APPARATUS OR MACHINERY." -A
communication from abroad by T. G. Corliss, of the City and State
of New York United States of America.
Scaled the 18th September 1874, and dated the 8th June 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Robert Lake
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 8th June 1874.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co.,
5 Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOTHES WRINGERS,
PARTS OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO OTHER APPARATUS OR
MACHINERY," a communication, to be as follows:-
The first part of this Invention relates to the construction and
0 arrangement of the gearing by which motion is communicated from

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one roller to the other, whereby the rollers may be separated from each
other a considerable distance without disengagement of the gearing.
The second part of the said Invention relates to connecting the rollers
to the spring acting to resist their separation by means of a strong iron
link at each end of the machine, whereby the force applied to separate
the rollers is taken by the said links and not by the frame of the
machine.
The frame of the said wringer is made preferably of wood in the usual
manner. The rollers are made of india-rubber secured on iron shafts
fitted to revolve in journal boxes held between the upright parts of the
frame. The upper journal boxes are bolted fast in their places to the
posts of the frame.
Springs, preferably of wood, are used, the ends of the lower one
resting on the journal boxes. The lower journal boxes rest in and
against the lower end of a strong iron link which extends upward and 1
around the ends of the upper spring.
Two gear wheels are secured respectively on the shafts outside of the
frame. They are made with long cogs that admit of considerable
separation of the rollers without disengagement; but in the practical
use of this machine the rollers are often forced so far asunder as to 2
disengage gear wheels having cogs of any practicable length. To meet
such exigencies I place on the roller shafts two supplemental gear or
pin wheels arranged face to face, cach bearing a series of pins or studs
so placed that when the rollers are so far separated that the cogs of the
gear wheels disengage these studs will engage, and thus continue the 2
connection of the rollers.
It is evident that this peculiar construction and combination of gear
wheels, and the supplemental pin or stud wheels are applicable to all
shafts where it is desired to separate the shafts while in motion.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Robert Lake in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 8th December 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Robert Lake, Her special
licence that I, the said William Robert Lake, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Robert
Lake, my 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 expressed, 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 CLOTHES WRINGERS, PARTS OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE
APPLICABLE TO OTHER APPARATUS OR MACHINERY," a communication to me
from abroad, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William
Robert Lake, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their 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 Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Robert Lake, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, reference being had to the accom-
panying Drawing forming a part of this Specification :-
The first part of this Invention relates to the construction and
arrangement of the gearing by which motion is communicated from
one roller to the other, whereby the rollers may be separated from each
other a considerable distance without disengagement of the gearing.

page_text: The second part of the said Invention relates to connecting the rollers
to the spring acting to resist their separation by means of a strong iron
link at each end of the machine, whereby the force applied to separate
the rollers is taken by the said links and not by the frame of the
machine.
Of a Cubes winger combodying
these improvements; Figure 2 is a central vertical section of the same.
A is the frame of the said wringer, made preferably of wood in the
usual manner; B, B³, are rollers consisting of india-rubber a¹, a', secured 1
on iron shafts b, b', made to revolve in journal boxes c, c, c', c', held
between the upright posts d, d, of the frame. The upper journal
boxes c, c, are bolted fast in their places to the posts of the frame by the
bolts i, i, as shown.
e, e, are springs, preferably of wood, the ends of the lower one resting. 1
on the journal boxes c, c. The lower journal boxes c¹, c¹, rest in and
against the lower end of strong iron links f, f', which extend upward.
and around the ends of the upper spring e. By this construction. and.
arrangement it is evident that the springs acting through the links tend
to hold the rolls together, and any force applied to separate them will be 2
taken by the links and terminate on the strong bolts i, i.
C, C', are two gear wheels secured on the shafts b, b', on the outside
of the frame. They are made with long teeth or cogs that permit
considerable separation of the rollers without disengaging them; but in
the practical use of this machine the said rollers are often forced so far
asunder as to disengage gear wheels having cogs of any practicable
length. To mect such exigencies I place on the roller shafts two
supplemental gear or pin wheels h, h, arranged face to face, each
bearing a series of pins or studs arranged in such a manner that when
the rollers are so far separated as to disengage the cogs of the gear
wheels C, C', these studs will engage, and thus continue the connection
of the rollers.
It is evident that this peculiar construction and combination of gear
wheels, and the supplemental pin or stud wheels is applicable to other
machines wherein it is desired to separate shafts in motion.
Having thus fully described the said Invention, as communicated to

page_text: me by my foreign correspondent, and the manner of performing the
same, I wish it understood that I claim,—
First. The combination of the gear wheels C, C¹, with the supple-
mental pin or stud wheels h, h³, as herein set forth and for the purposes
described.
Second. The combination of the springs e, e', the rollers B, B³, and
links ff, as herein set forth and for the purpose described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of December, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four
Witness,
JA. EDWARDS,
8, Southampton Buildings,
London.
W. ROB. LAKE. (L.S.)