Improvements in Wringing and Mangling Machines, also applicable to other similar Machines.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Mar., 1893-Accepted, 2nd June, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wringing and Mangling Machines, also applicable
to other similar Machines.
I, HARRY BESWICK of 20 Chalfont Street, Trafford Road, Salford, Mosaic
Worker, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists in means whereby the wooden rollers of wringing and
mangling machines may be reversed from time to time-the upper one taking the
place of the lower one or vice versa-so that they may be worn away evenly and
thus last considerably longer than heretofore.
In accordance with my invention each frame side of the machine is formed with
a circular opening the bottom of which is provided with a brass or bearing to
support the lower roller shaft whilst the top of such opening leads into the usual
vertical guiding slot fitted with a brass or bearing which projects into the circular
opening and supports the top roller shaft.
The top roller shaft instead of being continued as heretofore to support the fly
wheel and driving pinion only projects a little beyond the frame side and is provided
with a spur wheel gearing with a spur wheel of the same size and proportions on the
bottom roller shaft. The fly wheel and driving pinion are mounted on a short axle
supported by a bracket affixed on a stud bolted to the frame side and on which
stud the intermediate spur wheel and pinion are mounted, the latter being made
hollow to allow room for the said bracket.
Each of the spur wheels aforesaid on the top and bottom roller shafts is provided
on its face with a smaller spur wheel which when either of such the larger wheels
is at the bottom of the opening gears with the intermediate driving pinion.
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Between the roller ends and the frame sides I employ a circular plate or "hanger
which is suspended from the ordinary bow spring of the machine and is provided
with an opening corresponding to the opening in the frame side and within which
a metal ring is situated fitted with bowls or pulleys which run on the edge of the
opening in the said plate and which ring is formed with two slots through which
the top and bottom roller shafts pass.
In order now to reverse the rollers, that is, cause the top one to take the place
of the lower one and vice-versa, the pressure screw of the machine, which is
connected to the spring, is unscrewed lifting the plate aforesaid and with it the
brass or bearing of the top roller shaft which is bolted to it until the bottom of one
of the slots in the plate reaches the top roller shaft which lifts the same bringing
the top roller away from the bottom roller.
Upon continuing to raise the plate by means of the screw the lower roller shaft
is lifted by the second slot in the plate and thus such shaft is brought clear of its
bearing and into the circular opening.
The rollers are now free to change places the top one being brought down whilst
the bottom one is pushed up to the top in so doing each roller describing an arc of
a circle.
The pressure screw is now screwed down lowering the plate and shafts to their
relative positions and thus the machine is made ready for working.
To determine the height to which the plate and rollers may be raised I affix a
stop on the frame side.
These improvements are equally applicable to other machines with a set of
rollers.
Dad th: 001 1 of Tumo 1000
JOHN G. WILSON,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wringing and Mangling Machines, also applicable
to other similar Machines.
I, HARRY BESWICK of 20 Chalfont Street, Trafford Road, Salford, Mosaic
Worker, do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 consists in means whereby the wooden rollers of wringing and
mangling machines may be reversed from time to time, the upper one taking the
place of the lower one or vice-versa, so that they shall be worn away evenly and
thus last considerably longer than heretofore.
On the accompanying drawing
Fig. 1 represents a sectional view of so much of a wringing or mangling machine
as is necessary to shew my improvements as applied thereto and Fig. 2 an exterior
view of one of the frame sides.
In carrying out my invention I provide each frame side of the machine with a
circular opening A, the bottom of which is provided with a brass or bearing B to
support the lower roller shaft B' whilst the top of such opening leads into the usual
vertical guiding slot fitted with a brass or bearing C which projects into the circular
opening and supports the top roller shaft C¹.
The top roller shaft C¹ projects a little beyond the frame side and is provided
with a spur wheel D, gearing with a spur wheel E of the same size and proportions
on the bottom roller shaft B¹.
The fly-wheel F and driving pinion G are mounted on a short axle H supported
by a bracket (seen also in Fig. 3) affixed on a stud K bolted to the frame side and
on which stud the intermediate spur wheel L and pinion L' are mounted the said
intermediate spur wheel being dished as illustrated to allow room for the said
bracket I.
On the top and bottom roller shafts C' and B' are mounted spur wheels M and N
which are smaller than the before mentioned spur wheels D and E and that one of
the said smaller spur wheels, which is on the bottom roller shaft, gears with the
intermediate driving pinion L'.
Between the roller ends and the frame sides I employ a circular plate or hanger O
(seen more clearly in front detail view Fig. 4) which is suspended from the ordinary
bow spring T of the machine and is provided with an opening corresponding
to the opening A in the frame side within which a metal ring P is situated which
is capable of turning on the edge of opening in the said plate O and may be fitted
with bowls or pulleys to facilitate the same and which ring P is formed with two
slots R through which the top and bottom roller shafts C¹ and B' pass.
In order to reverse the rollers, that is to cause the top one to take the place of
the lower one and vice-versa, the pressure screw S of the machine which is connected
to the spring T is unscrewed lifting the plate O aforesaid and with it the brass or
bearing C of the top roller shaft, which is bolted to it, until the bottom of one of
the slots in the plate O reaches the top roller shaft C' which lifts the same bringing
the top roller away from the bottom roller.
Upon continuing to raise the plate O by means of the screw S the lower roller
shaft B' is brought clear of its bearing B and into the circular opening A.
The rollers are now free to change places, the top one being brought down
whilst the bottom one is pushed up to the top, each roller describing an arc of a
circle.
The pressure screw S is now screwed down lowering the plate O and shafts B' & C¹
to their relative positions and thus the machine is made ready for working.
These improvements are equally applicable to other similar machines with a set
of rollers.

page_text: Having thus 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 :-
1st. A wringing or mangling machine with sides having openings formed in them
to permit of the rollers being reversed substantially as set forth and illustrated.
2nd. In a wringing and mangling machine the use and employment of a hanger
plate O or its equivalent capable of being raised and lowered by the pressure
spring or screw of the machine and fitted with a revolving ring P substantially
as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated on the accompanying
drawing.
3rd. The combination and arrangement of toothed gearing, supporting bracket,
and roller bearings all mounted and operating substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated on the accompanying drawing.
TL: od 1 of Mach 1002
JOHN G. WILSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.