Improvements in or connected with Machines for Mangling, Wringing and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Oct., 1899-Accepted, 11th Nov., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION (AMENDED).
Improvements in or connected with Machines for Mangling, Wringing
and the like.
We, ROBERT NEWSHOLME SMITH and SHEM PAGET, Engineers, and SAMUEL
HERBERT HORSEMAN, Mechanic, all of the Crown Works, Keighley, in the County
of York, 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:-
This invention has for its object to enable the motion of the rollers of mang-
ling, wringing and the like machines to be stopped or run in either a forward
or backward direction at the will of the operator without changing the direc-
tion of rotation of the driving handle and consists essentially of a set of pinions
mounted on a carrying plate capable of being rotated to a limited extent about
the driving roller axis, the pinions being so arranged that either of two trains
gearing with the spur wheel on the driving roller may be caused to gear with
a wheel in the driving train and so cause the roller spur wheel to rotate in
either a right or left hand direction as desired.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings:
Fig. 1 is an elevation of part of the frame of a mangling or wringing machine
with driving gear constructed according to this invention the gearing in front
of the plane A B Fig. 2 being removed.
Fig. 2 is a front sectional elevation of the same.
Fig. 3 is a face elevation of the carrying plate and
Fig. 4 is a similar view of a cam lever for manipulating the said carrying
plate.
Three pinions abc which may be of equal diameter are mounted on studs def
carried by the plate g itself mounted or suspended on the shaft of the bottom
roller of the machine so as to be capable of turning about it while a slot / in
the lower part of the plate passes over a bearing stud me carrying the spur pinion
and wheel o which are secured together and driven by the driving pinion P
secured to the hand wheel q mounted loosely on the shaft of the bottom
roller i.
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The carrying plate g is capable of a small angular travel sufficient to bring
either of the pinions b or c into gear with the pinion n such travel being limited
by the slot and stud m. The pinion gears directly with the wheel h while
the pinion gears with it through the idle pinion a so that the direction of
rotation of the wheel right or left handed according as the pinion b or c is in
gear with the pinion n the direction of rotation of the hand wheel 9 remaining
constant.
The requisite motion is imparted to the carrying plate g by means of a lever r
whose end s is pivoted to the frame t by a bolt or stud while a bolt or stud w
secured in the hole x slides in a slot y in the carrying plate. It will thus be

page_text: seen that as the lever r is raised or lowered the plate is carried to the left or
right hand.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we are aware that in
wringing and mangling machines it has previously been proposed to reverse
the direction of rotation of the rollers, without reversing the direction of revolu-
tion of the handle, by oscillating into and out of gear intermediate pinions
through which the notion is transmitted, and we wish it to be understood that
we lay no claim to the use of this principle generally, but we declare that what
we claim is:-
Driving gear for mangling, wringing and the like machines arranged, con-
structed and operating substantially as described in the foregoing specification
and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 5th day of October 1800
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.