AN IMPROVED CLOTHES WRINGER AND MANGLER APPLICABLE TO PRESSING THE LIQUID FROM CLOTHES IN THE PROCESS OF WASHING AND OTHER PRESSING PURPOSES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Bradford, of the Cathedral Steps, Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster, and Fleet Street, London, Washing Machine
Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED CLOTHES WRINGER
AND MANGLER APPLICABLE TO PRESSING THE LIQUID FROM CLOTHES IN THE
PROCESS OF WASHING AND OTHER PRESSING PURPOSES."
Sealed the 28th April 1863, and dated the 12th November 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Bradford at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 12th
November 1862.
I, THOMAS BRADFORD, of the Cathedral Steps, Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, and Fleet Street, London, Washing Machine Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
CLOTHES WRINGER AND MANGLER APPLICABLE TO PRESSING THE LIQUID FROM
CLOTHES IN THE PROCESS OF WASHING AND OTHER PRESSING PURPOSES," to be as
follows:
I make or construct a spring of wood or other suitable material consisting
of a bar sawn or slotted from each end as near to the centre as may be found
desirable in one or more slots, representing a music liner, with one or more
tangs, in which slots I insert sheet india-rubber of suitable thickness.
In the centre or solid part of such bar or spring I make a hole, through which
the plane or unscrewed part of a compressing screw passes and upon which
its shoulder rests. I make the knob of the compressing screw of an acorn
shape, the worm part of the said compressing screw being received by a cross

page_text: stay which is applicable to either wood or metal framework and which on
account of its convenience and utility is specially applicable to washing,
wringing, and mangling machines. The ends of the said spring bar are
(by working the screw) compressed by means of a T-head connecting bolt to
any required degree upon the journals of the rollers for wringing, or liquid
pressing purposes, when such rollers are made or covered with india-
rubber or other elastic material, and also for various other purposes,
such as calendering when the rollers are made of wood or similar
material. This improved spring bar will give way or reciprocate to the
various irregularities of the articles required to be acted upon.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Bradford in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
12th May 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
BRADFORD, of the Cathedral Steps, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
and Fleet Street, London, Washing Machine Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Thomas Bradford, Her special license that I, the said Thomas
Bradford, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Thomas Bradford, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term: therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED
CLOTHES WRINGER AND MANGLER APPLICABLE TO PRESSING THE LIQUID FROM CLOTHES
IN THE PROCESS OF WASHING AND OTHER PRESSING PURPOSES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that. I, the said Thomas Bradford, my..executors or admi-
nistrators, by an instrument. in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe'and... ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what männer.the same was to: .be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great, Seal Patent! Office
within six calendar months next and immediately. after the date of the said
Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Bradford, 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 (that is to say) :-
1
I employ a spring of wood or other suitable material, consisting of a bar
having one or more slots sawn or slotted in it from each end to as near the
centre as may be found desirable similar to a music tuner with one or more
tangs. In these slots when required I insert sheet india-rubber of suitable.
thickness and in the centre or solid part of the bar or spring I make a hole,'
through which is passed the plain or unscrewed - part of a compressing screw
having the head or knob of an acorn shape, the bottom part of which is loose
upon the shank for antifrictional purposes, from which acorn knob I give the
name or title to the apparatus. The shoulder of the head or knob presses upon
the bar or spring and the worm or thread is received in a nut held in a cross
stay fixed to either wood or metal framework, and which on account of its
convenience and utility is specially adapted to washing, wringing and mangling
machines. By turning the screw with the acorn head or knob inwards, the ends
of the spring bar are compressed to any required degree upon T-head bolts
forming the communication between the ends of the spring bar, and the journals
of the upper roller for wringing, or liquid pressing purposes, when such. rollers
are, made or covered with india-rubber or other elastic material; and also for
various other purposes, such as calendering, when the rollers are made of
wood or other suitable material. The great advantage of the improved spring
bar consists in its yielding or reciprocating to the various inequalities of the
articles required to be operated upon.
This Invention will be clearly understood by referring to the Figures and
letters on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a front
elevation and Fig. 2 a transverse section of my improvements applied to a
wringer and mangler arranged for being attached to or removed from a wash-
ing vessel or machine.
The side frames of the apparatus are shewn at a, they are held together
by the cross stay b and the bars c. At the back of the side frames a there are
legs d having threads cut in them for receiving the screws e by which the
apparatus is held to a washing tub or other vessel. The wringing and
mangling rollers are shewn at f, 9 the spindle of the bottom roller working in
bearings h, fixed to the side frames and the pivots of the top rollers in
journals i fitted in the slots k cut in the side frames. In connection with the
journals i there are bolts or pins l, with T-heads m, in contact with the ends
of the spring bar n, having in it a number of slots o, which are either

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open or filled with sheets of india-rubber or other suitable material as may
be required. In the centre of the spring bar there is a hole through which
is passed the screw p, with an acorn head or knob q, having its bottom
part loose for antifrictional purposes resting on the spring bar outside the hole.
The worm of the screw fits a nut r held in the cross stay 6 by the plate s,
screwed to the stay, so that when the screw is turned inwards the ends of the
spring bar shall press on the T-heads m and exert pressure upon the rollers
f, g, in proportion to the extent in which the screw is lowered and the elasticity
of the ends of the spring..
Having now fully described the nature and particulars of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire
it to be understood, that I do not claim the wringing and mangling rollers
nor the system generally of applying them to a washing vessel or machine.
But what I claim is, the improved general arrangement and mode of exerting
pressure upon the wringing and mangling rollers by means of a spring bar
and screw with an antifrictional acorn head or knob in connection with
T-headed bolts between the ends of the spring bar and the journals of the
upper roller, as all such improvements are herein described and illustrated in
the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Bradford, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of May in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by
the within-named Thomas Brad-
ford, in the presence of
E. J. HUGHES,
THOMAS BRADFORD. (L.S.)
Patent Agent,
Manchester.