Improvements in Mangling and Wringing Machines.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 19th Sept., 1889-Accepted, 26th Oct.,
1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Mangling and Wringing Machines.
I GEORGE MATTHEWS of 9 Aldis Terrace Merton Road Tooting Graveney in the
County of Surrey, General Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
My invention has for its object the provision of a suitable automatic arrangement
in Mangling and wringing Machines.
It consists of two Tables of a suitable size attached to Mangle one at the back and
the other in front so that at the will of the Operator the Clothing will when placed
on the one Table pass between the rollers backward and forward automatical.
The two Tables referred to, I supply each with two rollers with pulleys and a
endless cloth. The Tables provided fitted with the rollers and pulleys; the endless
cloths place round the Tables griping the rollers so that by the revolving of the
rollers the endless cloth revolves over the Table carrying the Clothing being mangled or
wrung in and out backward and forward between the rollers of Machine as many
times as the Operator may desire.
1 supply the rollers of Mangling and Wringing Machine with the like pulleys as
provided for the rollers of the Tables before referred to.
I attach them in both cases to the spindles or axles.
This being done
I now fit the Tables before fitted with the endless Cloths and rollers to the
machine by the pulleys together with endless or circular chains or a like substitute.
The machine being now fitted with my improvements. The action is as follows. I
place the Clothing on one Table and begin work by turning the Machine. The
Clothing is carried along the Tables to the Machine passing through or between the
rollers laying the same down on the Tables the opposite side. The motion being
reversed the Clothes return in like manner back I may use self pulleys which is
merely a grove cut in the ends of the rollers and will serve the same purpose as the
before mentioned pulleys I may use cog wheels in place of pulleys or both.
21st day of November 1888.
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GEORGE MATTHEWS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Mangling and Wringing Machines.
I, GEORGE MATTHEWS, of 9, Aldis Terrace, Merton Road, Tooting Graveney, in the
county of Surrey, General Agent, 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 and mangling machines, the object being to
provide means for automatically carrying the clothes to the rollers of the machine
and causing the clothes to pass and re-pass between the said rollers as often as may
be required.
In the accompanying drawing-
Figure 1 is a transverse section, and,
Figure 2 is a plan of a wringing and mangling machine provided with my
improvements.
Similar letters in both the figures indicate similar parts.
In carrying out my invention I attach to the front and back of a wringing and
mangling machine of ordinary construction, frames a, a in which are mounted
rollers 6, 6, 6, 6' carrying endless aprons c, c. On the ends of the spindles a¹, a¹ of
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page_text: the rollers 6, 6' are mounted chain wheels d, d driven by a chain e from a chain
wheelf keyed on the spindle c¹ of the usual lower wringing and mangling roller g.
g' is the usual upper wringing and mangling roller. The frames a, a are supported
on brackets h, h cast on the frame i of the machine as shewn, or bolted or otherwise
fitted thereto, and the said frames are adapted to be turned up into a vertical position,
as shewn by the dotted lines in figure 1, when the machine is not in use, for the
purpose of economising space, and they are further provided with suitable means such
as hooks, bolts or their equivalents for securing them to the brackets h, h when the
machine is required for use.
The action is as follows
The clothes to be wrung or mangled are placed upon one of the endless aprons or
travelling tables c and, the handle j of the machine being turned in the proper
direction, the clothes are carried to the wringing and mangling rollers g, g¹ and, when
they have passed through them, they are received by the other endless apron c; the
handle is then turned in the opposite direction and the clothes are thereby again
passed through the rollers g, g¹. By continuing in this manner to reverse the direction
of motion of the handle, it will be evident that the clothes can be caused to pass
through the rollers as many times as may be required.
Instead of employing chain gearing to impart motion to the travelling tables c, e I
can obviously use toothed gearing or pulleys and cords or bands.
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) A wringing and mangling machine provided with means such as those set
forth for automatically carrying the clothes to the rollers of the machine and causing
the clothes to pass and re-pass between the said rollers, substantially as hereinbefore
described.
(2) The use, in combination with a wringing and mangling machine, of endless
aprons or travelling tables adapted to automatically carry the clothes, upon the usual
handle being operated, to the rollers of the machine and to cause the clothes to pass
and re-pass between the said rollers, substantially as hereinbefore described.
(3) The manufacture and use of the improved wringing and mangling machine
hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying drawing.
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G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.