IMPROVEMENTS IN MANGLES AND CLOTHES WRINGERS." MANGLES AND CLOTHES WRINGERS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Washington Bacon, of No. 127, Strand,,
in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MANGLES AND CLOTHES WRINGERS."
MANGLES AND CLOTHES WRINGERS."
Sealed the 21st September 1875, and dated the 24th March 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Washington
Bacon at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 24th March 1875.
I, GEORGE WASHINGTON BACON, of No. 127, Strand, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN MANGLES AND CLOTHES WRINGERS," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is the production of cheap and portable
mangles and clothes wringers suitable for family use.
My improved mangle consists of two wooden rollers, by preference
two feet long by four inches in diameter, though rollers of any suitable.
size may be employed. Each roller is provided with journals, the said
journals being turned in the usual manner. The said rollers are carried

page_text: by suitable bearings in head pieces or frames, the lower extremitics
of which are formed as clamps for securing the mangle to a table or
board. The bearings for the lower roller are cast solid with the head
pieces or frames, the bearings for the upper roller being made separate,
and held in position by springs and by grooves turned in the journals of
the roller, there being corresponding projections on the insides of the
bearings, which prevent their slipping off the journals.
The springs I employ are of a peculiar construction, of the lyre form,
and perform two offices, viz., that of pressing the rollers firmly together,
and holding the bearings of the upper roller in position. I prefer to
make the said springs of ordinary flat spring steel of sufficient temper,
and provide them at their tops with thumb screws for regulating tho
pressure on the rollers. I gear the rollers together by means of cog
wheels in the ordinary manner, or gearing may be dispensed with. I
adapt this principle to a clothes wringer by modifying the form of the
head pieces, springs of the above description being used, which press the
rollers together and keep the bearings of the upper roller in position in
the manner above described.
My improved mangles or wringers are operated by handles or cranks
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Washington Bacon in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 24th September 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
WASHINGTON BACON, of No. 127, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, 2
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc- 3
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said George Washington Bacon,
Her special licence that I, the said George Washington Bacon, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said

page_text: the usual manner. The said rollers A are carried by suitable bearings
in head pieces or frames D the lower extremities of the said head pieces
being provided with peculiarly shaped clamps D' for securing the mangle
to a table or board, from which it can readily be removed when not in
use. The bearings E for the lower roller are cast solid with the head
pieces D, the bearings F for the upper roller being made separate. The
said bearings F are cach provided with a tongue or projection F" on
their inner sides, as shown in Figure 7, the said tongue or projection F¹¹
fitting into a groovo formed in the journal of the upper roller. These
tongues and grooves and the springs G retain the bearings F in position
and prevent their slipping off the journals.
The springs G are of a peculiar construction, of the lyro form, and
perform two offices, namely, that of pressing the rollers together and
holding the bearings F in position. I prefer to make the said springs
of ordinary flat spring steel of sufficient temper, and provide them at
their upper extremities with thumb screws G¹, or other suitable means
for regulating the pressure on the rollers. The lower ends of the
springs G catch under the bearings E of the lower roller. The form of
the said springs may be modified without departing from the spirit of
my Invention, a modified form of spring being shown in Figure 8. The
rollers may be geared together by the toothed wheels H, or the said
toothed wheels may be dispensed with. I adapt this principle to a
clothes wringer by making the head pieces D of the form shown in
Figures 5 and 6, the portion E forming the bearing for the lower roller,
the springs G and bearings F for the upper roller being of the same
description and acting in the same manner as those employed for my
improved mangle.
My improved mangles and wringers are operated by handles or cranks
in the usual manner.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Washington Bacon, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Second day of September,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-