Roller Bearings for Washing and Wringing Machines.
Year: 1885

page_text: Roller Bearings for Washing and Wringing Machines.
RICHARD MOORE, WILLIAM HENRY MURTON, WILLIAM SAGAR VARLEY Washing
Machine Manufacturers Anchor Iron Works Keighley, Yorkshire do hereby declare
the nature of our invention for ROLLER BEARINGS to be as follows:-
To apply Roller bearings to the ends of shafts or arbors used in Washing and
Wringing Machine Rollers, to do away with friction in the working of same.
These bearings comprise a box containing a quantity of small rollers for the
shaft or arbor end to work in, instead of the shaft or arbor working in a solid cast
iron neck, four of these boxes are used in each machine, one for each end of shaft
or arbor, which we claim to do away with friction.
RICHARD MOORE.
WILLIAM HENRY MURTON.
WILLIAM SAGAR VARLEY.

page_text: We, RICHARD MOORE, WILLIAM HENRY MURTON and WILLIAM SAGAR VARLEY,
all of the Anchor Iron Works, Keighley in the County of York, Machine Makers,
do hereby declare the nature of our invention for ROLLER BEARINGS FOR WASHING
AND WRINGING MACHINES and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object the reduction of the friction in some of the
working parts of washing, wringing, and mangling machines in order to render
the same more easily manipulated. This is accomplished by mounting each end of
the shafts of the wooden rollers thereof, in bearings that carry a series of small.
metal or other kind of rollers for direct contact with the said shafts; but in order
that the same may be more clearly understood we will proceed to describe it in
connection with the sheet of drawings hereunto appended, fig. 1 in which is an end
elevation of a sufficient portion of a machine to illustrate our invention.
Fig. 2 is a drawing of one of the bearings or boxes with the outer cap or covering
removed so as to more clearly shew the mountings of the series of rollers. Fig. 3
is a sectional plan of tig. 2.
Each end of each of the shafts a a' of the rollers A A' are mounted so as to
revolve on a series of rollers b b¹ which are mounted loosely so that their axle-pins c
which project from each end thereof may revolve in a groove d made in each of the
caps or coverings e which are placed on each of the sides of the boxes f.
From this it will be seen that as the shafts a a¹ revolve, the rollers b b¹ revolve,
and not only so around their own axles but also around the shafts a a¹, thus
avoiding the friction incident to the slipping of a revolving shaft over a stationary
surface, as will readily be understood.
And by the pins c working in the grooves d in each box covering e the rollers
bbare kept in proper position, even though their respective shaft be withdrawn
from contact with them.
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:-
The use and employment of roller bearings in connection with the shafts of the
rollers of washing, wringing and mangling machines fully as herein set forth and
described, and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 8th day of July 1886.
RICHARD MOORE.
WILLIAM HENRY MURTON.
WILLIAM SAGAR VARLEY.