Machines for Wringing and Mangling Cloths or Fabrics.
Year: 1885

page_text: Machines for Wringing and Mangling Cloths or Fabrics.
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We HENRY LEACH WILSON and JOHN CLEGG both of Atlas Works, Clayton-le- .
Moors, in the County of Lancaster, Washing and Wringing Machine Makers, do
hereby declare the nature of our said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
DRIVING GEAR AND IN FOLDING TABLES OF MACHINES FOR WRINGING AND
MANGLING CLOTHS OR FABRICS to be as follows:-
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This invention consists of improved gearing for machines wherein three rollers
are employed To an improvement in gear wheels, for such machines and to an
improved combined attachment and hinge for the folding table of such machines.
In machines baving three wheels we mount upon the axis of the centre roller a
plate wheel having internal rim gear on the same axis is placed a pinion enclosed.
in a guard or covering piece from which extends a pendant arm, having a slot
formed thereon, which by stud, carries an intermediate wheel; gearing with the
teeth of the rim wheel and with the teeth of the pinion the slot admits of adjusting
the carrier to gear with the rim and pinion, when by reason of clothes or fabrics,
passed between or around the roller or rollers the latter are increased in diameter
or moved further from each other, the ordinary "star" gear wheels are dispensed
with and the fly or hand wheel is kept in centre of the machine.
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Gear wheels which are required to revolve on their axis or shaft we bore out the
boss and bush the same with hard wood for purpose of reducing or dispensing with
the lubricating heretofore necessary.
The table is carried upon two г shaped carrying and hinging arms the horizontal
ends of which have a bore or eye thereon so as to be received and free to work on
the axis or shaft of one of the rollers the table is secured to the said arms and
when in position for use is held by means of a peg or pin passed through the frame
of the machine and when not required for use folds under the machine and is out
of the way and especially during transit is convenient as occupying little room.
Dated this second day of June 1885

page_text: Machines for Wringing and Mangling Cloths or Fabrics.
We, HENRY LEACH WILSON, and JOHN CLEGG, both of Atlas Works, Clayton-
le-Moors, in the County of Lancaster, Washing and Wringing Machine Makers do
hereby declare the nature of our invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE DRIVING
GEAR AND IN FOLDING TABLES OF MACHINES FOR WRINGING AND MANGLING
CLOTHS OR FABRICS" 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 of improved gearing for machines wherein three rollers
are employed. To an improvement in gear wheels for such machines, and to an
improved combined attachment and hinge for the folding table of such machines.
Such being the nature and object of the said invention, the following is a
complete description of same reference being had to the accompanying drawings
forming a part of this specification in which :-
Fig. 1. is a front elevation of the improved gear, part of the fence, or cover of
same being broken off.
Fig. 2. is side elevation partly in section of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3. 4. 5. are views of the several parts detached in order to clearly illustrate
construction of the same.
Fig. 6. is a side elevation showing the improved attachment for folding board.
According to this our invention at 1. is the internal gear wheel keyed fast on the
roller axis 2.-At 3. is a stud fixed in the wheel guard plate 4.-and on the stud 3
is the carrier wheel 5.At 6. is the fly, or hand wheel, loose on the axis 2, its boss
forming a pinion wheel 7. and which pinion through the rotation of the hand
wheel 6. gives motion to the wheel 5 and so drives the wheel 1. and roller on axis
of wheels the wheel 1 is keyed.
The wheel guard 4 is provided with a slotted finger 8. which receives the stud 9,
the slot and stud prevent the carrier wheel 5 circling round the wheel 1 whilst the
slot also provides for any vertical movement of the rollers and gear occasioned by
inequalities in the thickness of the fabrics operated upon.
In combination with table or mangling board 10 we employ shaped carrying
and hinging arms 11.-the ends 12 of which have an eye, or hole, so as to be passed
over the axis of the roller 13. and is free to move or work thereon, the arms 11 are
by screws secured to the board 10, there being one of such arms 11 on each side of
the machine, and each arm is provided with a pin 14 passed through the frame
work of the machine and through a hole in the end of the arms 11 so as to support
the table-When table is not required in position for folding fabrics the pins 14-14
are withdrawn whereon the table may be lowered and folded close to the machine.

page_text: 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. The general construction and combination of parts and gear for purpose set
forth and substantially as such parts are illustrated in and by the annexed
drawings.
2. The shaped arms in combination with the table 10, supporting pins 14, 14.
for purpose herein described and as illustrated by annexed drawings.
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.