IMPROVEMENTS IN WRINGING AND MANGLING MACHINES
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Herbert John Haddan, of Kensington, Middlesex, for
an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WRINGING AND MANGLING MACHINES."
A communication from abroad by John Kinleyside, of Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Herbert John Haddan at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th October 1881.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
WRINGING AND MANGLING MACHINES." A communication from abroad by John
Kinleyside, of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
This Invention relates to machines more or less portable, intended for wringing
and mangling clothes, and consists of four brackets pivoted in pairs at the ends of
a rod which passes through the machine and serves to carry the delivery shoot,
said brackets being arranged in pairs at cach side, ono bracket on each side
carrying a lever holding the upper roller, and the other brackets the lower roller,
the levers carrying the upper roller being supplied with compression springs made
to actuate them, and thereby causing a separation or bringing together of the
rollers, said levers being pivoted on the upper parts of said brackets, the brackets
carrying the levers holding the upper rollers being supplied with stops to prevent
the springs bringing the rollers too closely together.
To the lower parts of the brackets are fixed adjusting screws, which when the
machine is fixed to a tub or table serves to regulate the amount of tension in the
spring by separating or bringing together the brackets.
When used as a wringer flexible rollers preferably of rubber are used; when as a
mangling machine wooden or wooden and metal rollers are substituted, the rest of
the machinery being the same.
The various parts are best inade of metal which may be galvanized.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Herbert John Haddan in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
14th April 1882.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
WRINGING AND MANGLING MACHINES." A communication from abroad by John
Kinleyside, of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
My Invention relates to that class of wringers in which the removal of the same
from the tub releases the pressure of the rollers on each other, thus preventing the
formation of flat places on the rollers, and it consists in the peculiar construction
and arrangement of the parts hereinafter more fully described, and pointed out in
the claims.
Figure 1 is an end view of the wringing machine, and Figure 2 is a perspective
view of the same with apron J shown in dotted lines.
In the Drawings A, A, represent the frame of the machine connected together by
the cross-bar I, to which both these parts are firmly secured by nuts at each end.
Swinging on this bar are tho levers B, each having a bearing for the roller G, and
their lower arms forming in connection with the screws La clamp for securing the
machine to the tub, as shown in Figure 1. At the upper part of the frame are two
levers C working in fulcrums D attached to or forming part of the frame A. One
end of each of these levers is provided with a bearing for the roller F, and the
other ends have hooks or projections h to receive the ends of the springs K, tho
other ends of which rest on corresponding projections a on the frame A.
When the machine has been placed on the tub, as shown in Figure 1, the turning
of the screws L will fasten the wringer in place and bring the rollers in contact
with each other. The more the screw is turned the harder will the rollers bear on
cach other, so that the pressure of the rollers may be increased at will to suit tho
varying material to be passed between the rollers.
It will be observed that the pivots D and I of the two sets of levers B, C, are so
arranged that the pivots of each set of levers will be in the same horizontal planc,
or nearly so, with the journals of the roller the set of levers carry when the
machine is in operative position, so that after the wringer has been placed on the
Lub and the upper roller adjusted, by turning the screws L the lower ends of
the levers A will be moved outwardly, and the upper ends in an opposite direction,
thus moving the levers C and the rod they carry horizontally, or nearly so,
whereby the pressure of the rollers is more gradually increased.
When the machine is taken off the tub the lower roller G which works in the part
of the frame B drops down from the upper one (there being a bearing H on the upper
part of the frame A for the beam C to rest on to prevent its following the roller G),
so that the rollers cannot be flattened and the machino weakened by being
constantly under pressure; but when the machine is placed on the tub and the
adjusting-screw L brought up to the outside of it, the machine is in working order
all ready to pass the clothes through, but by tightening up the screws L the
pressure will be increased; but this is only necessary when the thinnest texture of
articles are to be wrung. The back part of the frame B is flanged to cover the
space between the ends of the rolls and their bearings in the frame to protect the
clothes in wringing. The apron J is hinged around the lever-bar I on which it
works. The object of this apron is to carry the clothes away from the outside of
the tub to keep them from being soiled.
The machine is put together as follows:-The parts of the frame A and B being
placed on the lever-bar I with the rollers in their bearings, and the apron T on the

page_text: compressed aud sprung into their bearings and the machine is complete.
CLAIMS.
1. The combination with a wringer frame A, I, of two sets of levers B, C, each
set of levers being pivoted to said frame on axes, each in substantially the same
horizontal plane with the axis of the roller carried by said set of levers when said
rollers are in working position, and spring K, substantially as described, and for
the purpose set forth.
2. The combination of the wringer-frame, consisting of the artus A rigidly attached
to the cross bar I, and having a clamping device and two sets of swinging-
levers B, C, both pivoted to the rigid frame, ono. set of lovers B carrying the
roller G, and the other set C, the roller F and the spring K connected at their
opposite ends to the swinging levers C and rigid frame, whereby a rigid frame is
provided, and both rollers allowed to swing independently of the rigid frame,
substantially as described.
3. The combination with the arms A, A, connected together by the cross-bar I,
and each provided with a stop H, projection a, and clamp-screw L of the lovers B
swinging on the cross-bar I, and carrying the roll G, levers C pivoted to the arm A,
and carrying the roll F, and provided with the projections h and spring K,
substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Herbert John Haddan, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of April, A.D. 1882.