Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Nov., 1886.
Complete Left, 12th Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 16th Sept., 1887.
We ROBERT SMITH and SHEM PAGET, both of Parker Street Ironworks, Keighley,
in the County of York, Machine-makers, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows :-
Our invention for improvements in washing wringing and mangling machines has
for object to provide improved means for protecting the wooden or other rollers
and rendering the machines more compact when they are not in use or during
transport.
In carrying our invention into practical effect, we arrange the mangle boards to
slide in grooves formed in arms projecting from the main standards in the ordinary
way and we so form the inner ends of the sides of the said grooves and the usual
battens at the backs of the mangle boards that the said boards can be slid in place
vertically against the rollers and, if desired, be retained in position by the aid of
buttons. The rollers will thus be protected on each side of the machines by the
manglo boards.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
156, Strand, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants."

page_text: Improvements in Washing, Wringing, and Mangling Machines.
We ROBERT SMITH and SHEM-PAGET, both of Parker Street Ironworks, Keighley,
in the county of York, Machine Makers, 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:—
Our invention for improvements in washing wringing and mangling machines has
for its object, to provide improved means for protecting the wooden or other rollers
and rendering the machines more compact when they are not in use or during
transport.
In carrying our invention into practical effect we arrange the mangle boards to
slide in grooves formed in arms projecting from the main standards in the ordinary
way, and we so form the inner ends of the sides of the said grooves and the usual
hattens at the backs of the manglo boards that the said boards can be slid in place
vertically against the rollers and, if desired, be retained in position by the aid of a
button. The rollers will thus be protected on each side of the machines by the mangle
boards.
In the accompanying two sheets of drawings, Figs. 1 and 2 are, respectively, side
and end elevation of a machine constructed according to this invention, and showing
two methods of retaining the mangle boards vertically against the rollers.
Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views of the said two methods respectively; and
Figs. 5 and 6 are, respectively, side and end elevation, of a machine constructed
according to this invention, and showing a third method of retaining the mangle
boards vertically against the rollers.
In all the above mentioned three methods, the mangle boards a are arranged to
slide in grooves b formed in arms e projecting from the main standards d in the
ordinary way, and sufficient spaces e are left between the inner end portions of the
top sides of the grooves and the rollers of to allow of the passage of a thickness of
board equal to the thickness of the mangle board together with its batten g.
In the first method, figs. 1, 2 and 3, spaces are also left between the inner end
portions of the bottom sides of grooves b and the rollers f of a sufficient size to allow
of the passage of a thickness equal to the thickness of the mangle board. The inner
ends of the battens 9 on the underside of the mangle boards a are removed as shown.
It will thus be seen that when the machines are not in use the mangle boards a can
be taken from their usual horizontal position shown in dotted lines, and placed
vertically with their front sides bearing upon the rollers and their inner ends passed
between the ends of the sides of the grooves and the rollers ƒ of the lower sides of the
grooves b.
In the second method, figs. 1, 2 and 4, the bottom sides of the grooves b are formed
with slots l. In this arrangement when the machines are not in use, the boards a
which have the inner ends of their battens removed are placed with their battens
bearing against the rollers and the ends of the battens bearing against the ends m
of the lower sides of the grooves.

page_text: In the third method, figs. 5 and 6, the boards are placed with their front sides
against the rollers, and are passed behind the ends of the top sides of the grooves
and rest upon the bottom sides. The boards are retained in position by a button n
the outer ends of the battens being removed as clearly shown.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :-
1. In washing wringing and mangling machines, forming the sides of the grooves
in which the mangle boards slide and the battens at the back of the said boards in
such manner that the boards can be placed and retained vertically against the rollers
substantially as described.
2. In washing wringing and mangling machines, the constructions and arrange-
ments substantially as described with reference to figs. 1, 2 and 3, or to figs. 1, 2
and 4, or to figs. 5 and 6 for retaining the mangle boards against the rollers when
the said machines are not in use.