Improvements relating to Wheel Guards or Covers for Washing, Wringing, and Mangling Machines.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 19th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 26th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Wheel Guards or Covers for Washing,
Wringing, and Mangling Machines.
I, TOM DICKINSON of 54 Willows Lane Accrington in the County of
Lancaster Commercial Traveller do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to attach wheel guards or covers to the frames
of washing, wringing and mangling machines without the use of screws and bolts
so that they may be easily and readily removed for oiling, examination, repairs &c.
and again replaced in position.
This may be done in various ways. I may cast lugs on the sides of the guard
or cover and provide corresponding ways or guides on the frame in which the said
lugs may slide, the lower part of the rim of the guard or cover being cut away, if
necessary, to allow of this vertical movement. I may hinge the guard or cover
at one end or side and secure it over the gearing by means of a pin or cotter.
Or 1 may cast lugs on the sides of the guard or cover and cause one of these lugs
to take into a closed staple on the frame and the other into a catch or open staple,
in which it is further held by means of a pin or cotter if necessary. I
may cast
the sides of the guard or cover with the frame and make the front plate of the
cover separately and attach it to the frame by any of the methods above
described.
Dated thin 91st da
November 1801
Improvements relating to Wheel Guards or Covers for Washing,
Wringing, and Mangling Machines.
I, TOM DICKINSON, of 54 Willows Lane, Accrington, in the County of
Lancaster, 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 :—
The object of this invention is to provide for the attachment of wheel guards
or covers to the frames of washing, wringing or mangling machines without the
use of screws and bolts and for the removal of the boss on the bottom of cover
and the boss on the frame of the machine through which the bolts have hitherto
been passed so that the covers may easily be lifted off for oiling, examination,
repairs etcetera and again replaced in position.
The invention consists essentially in constructing the cover or guard with a lug
or its equivalent on the sides in combination with a corresponding guide or way on
the frame with which the lug engages or the reverse of this a lug on the frame
and a guide or notch in the cover, the bottom of the cover being cut away where
necessary to allow of a vertical movement.

page_text: The invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings in
which various ways of carrying it out are illustrated.
The several figures represent front elevations, sectional elevations and sectional
plans of the frame and cover of a wringing or mangling machine constructed
according to one of the methods I have designed for carrying out the invention.
In Figs. 1, 2, and 3 upon the sides of the guard or cover A are cast lugs B and
upon the framing C there are cast or otherwise attached projecting pieces Dat
the end of each of which is a notch or grooved into which the lugs B slide. The
uge B may be of cast iron in one piece with the cover A or they may be of wrought
iron or steel secured in position by cast metal run round them or they may be
attached by rivetting or screwing. The projecting pieces D on the framing C with
which the lugs B engage are preferably of wrought iron secured in the casting but
may be cast onto the side and the notch or grooved which forms the way or slide
for the lug B may then be cast therein.
The
In Figs. 4, 5, and 6 the cover A has lugs B preferably of wrought iron cast into
or otherwise attached to the sides thereof. These lugs B are formed on their
underside with a notch by which the cover is secured to the framing.
framing C is cast with a slot d corresponding with the lug B on the cover into
which the lug slides the notch 6 therein fitting over the bottom edge of the slot.
In Figs. 7, 8, and 9 to the sides of the cover or guard A are attached lugs B of
approximately shape the bent part 6 being horizontal; and to the framing C
there are attached projecting pieces D of corresponding L shape the bent part d
being upright over which the bent part of the lug B slides. The lugs B and
projecting pieces D are preferably wrought iron secured by being cast in position
but may be otherwise secured as found most desirable.
Instead of the bent part of the lug B being horizontal and the part d of the
projections Dupright the part d may be horizontal and the part 6 may be bent
downwards into a vertical or approximately vertical position. Or the projections
on the framing may be provided with a hole or slot into which the bent end of the
lug B will enter.
In Figs. 10, 11, and 12 the cover A is provided with lugs B with bent parts or
ends 6 very similar to that described with reference to the preceding figs., and the
casting C is cast with slots or grooves c at each side with an inclined lip or
projection d over which the bent end 6 of the lug B slides.
In
In Figs. 13, 14, and 15 the cover A is provided with lugs B at each side with
bent ends band the framing with projecting pieces D provided with holes or slots d
into which the ends of the lugs B slide. At one side the slot d in the projection D
is vertical and enclosed both top and sides and at the other side the slot d is
T shaped enclosed at the top but cut away in front to allow the lug to enter.
placing the cover A in position the lug B at one side is first slid into the vertical
slot d from the side and then the lug at the other side is slid in from the front.
By this construction the cover A is more firmly secured as the lifting or raising of
it vertically does not remove it consequently it will not be easily displaced by an
accidental movement.
In Figs. 16, 17, and 18 lugs B are attached to the cover A provided with
longitudinal slots & enclosed on all sides the lower part of the slots being wider
than the upper part to slide over the head of a projecting stud or the like and to
the framing are secured projecting studs D with heads d. The slot b in the lug B
slides over the head d of the stud D and the cover moves down until the narrow
part of the slot embraces the shank of the stud. This arrangement also prevents
the accidental displacement of the cover by a vertical movement only.
Instead of the precise arrangement illustrated in these figs. any modification may
be adopted which would merely be the reverse of these by placing the lug upon
the framing and the corresponding projection or slot upon the cover.
Further I may cast the sides of the cover or guard with the frame and make the
front plate of the cover separate and attach it to the frame by any of the methods
above described.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a washing, wringing or mangling machine a wheel guard or cover in which
the use of securing bolts is dispensed with constructed with lugs on the sides in
combination with projections, slots or the like on the frame (or vice versa) forming
ways or guides into or upon which the lugs may slide to secure the cover in
position substantially as described.
2. In a washing, wringing or mangling machine a wheel guard or cover
constructed with lugs and framing constructed with ways or guides into which the
said lugs slide or with which they engage to maintain the cover in position arranged
in combination substantially as described and shown with reference to either
Figs. 1 to 3, Figs. 4 to 6, Figs. 7 to 9, Figs. 10 to 12, Figs. 13 to 15 or Figs. 16
to 18 of the drawings.
Dated this 17th day of August 1895.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.