Improved Driving Gear for Wringing and Mangling Machines.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Dec, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 29th Sept., 1897--Accepted, 13th Nov., 1897
Improved Driving Gear for Wringing and Mangling Machines.
I, GEORGE WHALLEY of Tower House Keighley in the County of York, Machine
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows, that is
to say:
It relates to driving gear applicable for use in connection with wringing and
mangling machines and consists of an improved construction and arrangement of
these parts whereby all the gearing wheels may he mounted on one side of the
machine, any desired ratio of speed and power relatively with the hand or fly wheel
and the machine's rollers may be obtained, and thoroughly efficient, though
comparatively cheap, driving gear mechanism may be produced.
To attain this object I secure rigidly upon one or the other of the roller's shafts
(preferably that of the lower roller) a plate, disc or arm which I arrange to carry an
intermediate gear wheel to run loosely upon a stud or pin fixed therein. Gearing
with this intermediate wheel on one side, is the pinion secured to the hand or fly wheel
which runs loosely upon the roller's shaft carrying the plate or disc, while the said
intermediate wheel meshes, on the other side with an internally tooth wheel arranged
to overhang the plate or disc and run loosely upon its (said plate's) hub or upon the.
roller's shaft to which said hub is secured.
On the opposite side of the internal wheel to that upon which said internal teet li
are formed, is secured, or integrally constructed, an ordinary spur-wheel which is:
geared by an intermediate wheel, mounted in bearings carried by the machine's
framework, with a spur wheel secured to the other or upper roller's shaft.
When the hand or fly wheel, is rotated, rotary motion is transmitted by its pinion.
to the intermediate wheel carried by the arm, disc or plate, thence to the internally
toothed wheel which by the several intervening wheels inparts such motion to the.
upper roller, and since tliis upper roller is thus geared through the several wheels to
the one carried by the disc on the lower roller's shaft, it follows that this said lower
roller must be rotated through the same space as is the upper, the power on the.
hand wheel being divided between the two, while the ratio as to power and speed
can be altered by altering the relative sizes of the pinion, intermediate and
internally toothed wheels.
As an alternative method and one whereby I am enabled to have the roller's shafts.
of equal length so that on one roller (which is usually the lower one in the machine).
becoming more worn out than the other I can interchange them, I mount the hand
or fly wheel and its pinion upon a stud or bearing secured to the machine's framework.
On this bearing I also mount the disc or plate, but in this case its 'hub is made to
extend into contact with a holding piece or device upon said framework, by which it.
is prevented from rotating, while I further mount the internal wheel upon this stud
or the hub of the disc it carries so that as the hand wheel is rotated its pinion
transmits motion to the internal wheel through the intermediate wheel mounted
upon the now stationary disc, from which internal wheel motion is imparted by,

page_text: suitable gear wheels, to the machine's rollers and as these latter have only their own
and respective gear wheels to. carry their shafts may be of equal length.
Dated this 28th day of December 1896.
GEORGE WHALLEY,
Per Samuel Hey,
Agent.
I, GEORGE WHALLEY of Tower House, Keighley in the County of York, Machine
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this 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:-
It relates to driving gear applicable for use in connection with wringing and
mangling machines and consists of an improved construction and arrangement
of these parts whereby all the gearing wheels may be mounted on one side of the
imachine, any desired ratio of speed and power relatively with the hand or fly wheel
and the machine's rollers may be obtained, and thoroughly efficient, though compara-
tively cheap, driving gear mechanism may be produced.
In order that my invention may be more readily understood, I have hereunto
appended sheets of drawings illustrative thereof, in which :-
Fig. 1 is an end elevation of a sufficient portion of a wringing or mangling
machine to shew the application thereto of my invention.
Fig. 2 is front elevation, partly in section of parts illustrated by Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a similar view to Fig. 1 but is partly in section.
Fig. 4 is top view of parts shewn by Figs 1 and 2.
Figs. 5 and 6 are end and sectional top views respectively of certain parts of a
wringing or mangling machine illustrating a portion of my invention hereinafter
referred to.
Figs. 7 and 8 are similar views to Figs. 2 and 3 but illustrate a modification of my
invention.
Similar letters and figures indicate similar parts throughout the several views.
To attain the object of my invention I secure rigidly upon one or the other of the
rollers' shafts a and b (preferably that of the lower roller d) a plate, dise or arm e
which I arrange to carry an intermediate gear wheel el to run loosely upon a stud or
pin e² fixed therein. Gearing with this intermediate wheel e on one side, is the
pinion f secured to the hand or fly wheel which runs loosely upon the shaft b of
the roller d carrying the plate or disc e, while the said intermediate wheel e¹ meshes
on the other side with an internally toothed wheel g arranged to overbang the plate
or disc e and run. loosely upon the hub es of said plate e or upon the shaft b to which
said hub is secured.
On the opposite side of the internal wheel g to that upon which said internal teeth
are formed, is secured or formed integrally therewith, an ordinary spur-wheel h which
is geared by an intermediate wheel, mounted in bearings carried by the
framework A of the machine as shewn by Figs. 5 and 6, with a spur wheel m secured
to the other or upper shaft a of the roller c.
When the hand or fly wheel f is rotated, rotary motion is transmitted by its
pinion f¹ to the intermediate wheel el carried by the arm, disc or plate e, thence to
the internally toothed wheel g which by the several intervening wheels h, k and m
imparts such motion to the upper roller c, and since this upper roller c is thus
geared through the several wheels g, h, and m to the one el carried by the disc e.
on the shaft b of the lower roller it follows that this said lower roller d must be

page_text: rotated through the same space as is the upper one c, the power on the hand wheel f
being divided between the two, while the ratio as to power and speed can be altered
by altering the relative sizes of the pinion f, interinediate wheelte' and internally
toothed wheel g.
As an alternative method and one whereby I am enabled to have the rollers'
shafts a and b of equal length so that on oue roller (which is usually the lower
one d in the machine) becoming more worn out than the other I can interchange
them, I mount the hand or fly wheel fand its pinion f upon a stud or bearing n
secured to the machine's framework A (see Figs. 7 and 8). On this bearing n I also
mount the disc or plate e but in this case its hub is made to extend into contact with
a holding piece or device upon said framework A by which it is prevented from
rotating, while I further mount the internal wheel g upon this stud n.or the hub e³ of
the plate or disc e it carries, so that as the hand wheelfis rotated its pinion transmits
motion to the internal wheel through the intermediate wheel e mounted upon the
now stationary disc e, from which internal wheel g motion is imparted by the gear
wheels h, k and m to the rollers c and d and as these latter have only their own
respective gear wheels and m to carry their shafts a and b may be of equal length.
To enable the mounting of the interinedinte wheel on the framework of machines
as ordinarily constructed I form the bearings as shown by Figs. 5 and 6 which
construction is comparatively cheap while it answers its purposes efficiently.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In driving gear for wringing and mangling machines the several parts
constructed as herein described the same being arranged to operate in combination
substantially as specified.
2. In driving gear of the class described, a hand-wheel carrying its pinion, a plate
secured to the shaft to be driven, an intermediate wheel mounted on said plate, and
an internally toothed wheel carrying a pinion for transmitting motion to the other
parts of the mechanisin, the same being arranged in combination substantially as
herein specified.
3. In driving gear of the class described, a hand-wheel carrying its pinion, a plate
or arm fixed on the machine's framework, a pinion on said plate or arm and an
internally toothed wheel and its pinion mounted to revolve about said plate or arın
the same being arranged in combination to operate substantially as herein specified,
Dated this 28th day of September 1897.
G. WHALLEY,
Per Samuel Hey,
Agent.