IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO WASHING. WRINGING AND MANGLING MACHINES
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Woolfall and Thomas Turner Mercer both of
Blackburn in the County of Lancaster for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN OR APPLICABLE TO WASHING. WRINGING AND MANGLING MACHINES
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Woolfall and
Thomas Turner Mercer at the Office of the, Commissioners of Patents on the
17th July 1883.
THOMAS WOOLFALL and THOMAS TURNER MERCER both of Blackburn in the
County of Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO WASHING, WRINGING
AND MANGLING MACHINES
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These improvements relate to that class of washing machine in which a dolly is
employed working in an upright position and which dolly is actuated by a hand
lever at the side of the machine-Hitherto this dolly has been driven by gearing
mounted upon the cross-bar above the wringing and mangling rollers which has
necessitated the removal of the dolly before commencing to wring or mangle.
In accordance with this invention we mount the shaft under the drip board thus.
leaving the wringing and mangling rollers clear and we impart revolving motion to
the same by means of a toothed quadrant working beneath and gearing with the
pinion such quadrant being mounted upon a stud secured to the side of the
framework and being itself actuated by a hand lever.
Instead of actuating the shaft so mounted as aforesaid by a quadrant and lever it
might be actuated by a winch handle and be assisted by a fly-wheel or by
equivalent mechanism."
And in order to facilitate the withdrawal of the dolly we mount the drip-board
on horizontal pivots so that the same can be lifted up when it is required to
withdraw the dolly-a catch being arranged on one of the sides of the machine to
lock the drip-board in position. The top end of the dolly spindle is in this case
mounted in a brass bush carried by a cross-bar and which bush is simply raised
up when it is required to remove the dolly.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Thomas Woolfall and Thomas Turner Mercer in the Patent Office on
the 17th January. 1884.
THOMAS WOOLFALL and THOMAS TURNER MERCER both of Blackburn in the
County of Lancaster "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO WASHING, WRINGING
AND MANGLING MACHINES
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These improvements relate to that class of washing wringing and mangling
machine in which a dolly is employed working in an upright position and which.
dolly is actuated by a hand lever at the side of the machine. Hitherto this dolly
has been driven by gearing mounted upon the cross-bar above the wringing and
mangling rollers, which has necessitated the removal of the .dolly before
commencing to wring or mangle.
And in order that this our said invention may be the more readily understood
and carried into practical effect we have hereunto annexed a drawing illustrative
of our improvements and will now proceed to describe the same with the assistance
of the letters of reference marked thereon.
Fig 1 is a front view of a washing, wringing and mangling machine with our
improvements applied thereto, and Fig 2 is a side view of the framework.
In accordance with this invention we mount the shaft A. which gives motion to
the dolly under the drip-board B and thus we leave the wringing and mangling
rollers C clear and unobstructed. We impart the necessary revolving motion to
this shaft A by means of the toothed quadrant D mounted upon a stud secured to
the side framework E as illustrated. .
This quadrant D is secured to the hand lever F and works beneath and gears.
with the pinion G upon the outside extremity of the shaft A-the other extremity
of which shaft is geared by bevil gearing H to the dolly.
Instead of actuating the shaft so mounted as aforesaid by a quadrant and lever
it might be actuated by a winch handle and be assisted by a fly-wheel or by
equivalent mechanisın.
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And in order to facilitate the withdrawal of the dolly we mount the drip-
board B on horizontal pivots J. and provide the same with a stud projecting into a
segmental slot L formed in the side framework E as seen in Fig 2. And thus the
drip board B can be tilted or lifted up when it is required to withdraw the dolly-
a catch K being arranged on one of the sides of the machine to lock the drip-board
in position.
The top end of the dolly spindle is in this case mounted in a brass bush M
carried by a cross-bar N and which bush is simply raised up when it is required to
remove the dolly...
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of this our said
invention together with the best methods with which we are acquainted for
carrying the same into practical effect, we wish it to be distinctly understood that
we do not confine ourselves to the precise details, relative proportions or dimensions
of the various parts of our improved mechanism hereinbefore described and
illustrated on the accompanying. drawing as the same may be considerably varied
without departing from the invention but we claim as our improvements in or
applicable to washing, wringing and mangling machines
1st Mounting the shaft which imparts revolving motion to the dolly beneath the
drip board and actuating the same substantially as hereinbefore described.

page_text: 2nd Pivotting the drip-board and dolly in such a manner as to facilitate the
removal of the dolly substantially as herein before described
In witness whereof we the said Thomas Woolfall and Thomas Turner Mercer
have hereunto set our hands and seals this 15th day of January in the year of
our Lord One Thousand, Eight Hundred and Eighty four..
THOMAS WOOLFALL
(IS:)
THOMAS TURNER MERCER (L.S.)