IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND APPARATUS FOR WASHING, SCOURING, WRINGING, AND MANGLING
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Storer, of the Town and County of the
Town of Nottingham, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY AND APPARATUS FOR WASHING, SCOURING, WRINGING, AND
MANGLING:"
Sealed the 17th July 1874, and dated the 24th March‍1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Storer at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 24th March 1874.
I, WILLIAM STORER, of the Town and County of the Town of Not-
tingham, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND APPARATUS FOR WASHING, SCOURING, .
WRINGING, AND MANGLING," to be as follows:
The vessel to receive the goods to be washed or scoured is carried on
suitable standards and is pivoted on its bottom in the centre of its
length and 'oscillated by a stud secured on one side, said stud takes into
a slot in a lever which has its fulcrum secured to the standard and

page_text: lying between the stud and pivot above named. The standards carry
one or more springs on which the ends of the vessel alternately fall.
The oscillating motion of the vessel is communicated by the lever above
named operated by hand direct, or by a connecting rod attached to a
crank driven by hand or other power.
The wringing and mangling I effect by extending the standards
upwards to receive or form bearings for two rollers driven by suitable
gearing; said rollers are made of earthenware, stoneware, porcelain,
or glass.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said William Storer in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 19th September 1874..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
STORER, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, Engineer,
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-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said William Storer, Her special licence that I;
the said William Storer, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said William Storer, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND APPA-
RATUS FOR WASHING, SCOURING, WRINGING, AND MANGLING," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Storer, my executors or admi
nistrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and scals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
be performed, and 'cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent....

page_text: against the sides of the bearings in which they lie. The oscillating
motion of the vessel may be obtained by the hand lever; or by a con-
necting rod attached to a crank driven by hand or other power.
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The wringing and mangling I effect by extending the standards
upwards to receive or form bearings for two rollers I, I, the upper one of
which is shown in section. These rollers when not made of wood I
prefer to make them of earthenware, stoneware, porcelain, or of glass,
each secured on its axle by a recessed collar at each end held in
place by a collar or nut. The rollers are driven by toothed wheels
gearing into each other and arranged as follows:-The pinion wheel j
and fly wheel are cast together and run loose on the axle of the bottom'
roller, the pinion j gears into and drives a toothed wheel K which is
cast with a pinion wheel on it which gears into a toothed wheel L keyed
fast on the axle of the lower roller which carries a second toothed
wheel M keyed fast on the other end, which gears into a toothed wheel
N secured on the axle of the top roller; the wheel N may be of larger
diameter than the wheel M, so as to produce a callendering action of the
rollers on the articles, materials, or fabrics passed through them, or, the
wheels may be of the same diameter. The fly wheel is provided with a
handle to operate the machine; the requisite, pressure of the upper
roller is obtained by means of a coiled spring which is hooked upon the
upper ends of two doubled ended levers O, the shorter ends of which
take into the slots or loops of Ṭ pieces P which are secured by nuts on
the lower screwed ends of bent rods or links, which at their upper ends
lie in notches on the inner ends of short pressing levers P¹, the outer
ends of which rock on axles carried by the upper ends of the standards;
these pressing levers bear upon blocks P2 which are recessed at their
lower ends to receive the bearings of the upper roller. By this arrange-
ment when the rollers are separated beyond a certain limit, by the
thickness of any, substance being passed between them, the upper ends of
the levers O. will assume such an inclination that the ends of the spring
will slip down them, and all pressure of the spring will be taken off them;
and for the purpose of preventing sudden concussion of the rollers upon.
each other I employ-stop pieces P³ interposed between the axles of the
upper and lower rollers. These pieces are recessed at the top. and
bottom so as to bear upon the axles and prevent the rollers from quite
touching each other. When only a washing and scouring machine is
required I employ standards of the shape shown at Figure 5.

page_text: Having thus fully described my said Invention, and the manner of per-
forming the same, I declare that I claim,―
First. For a washing and scouring machine constructed and operated
as above described.
.
Second. For a wringing and mangling machine having rollers of
earthenware, stoneware, porcelain, or glass; the pressure of the said
rollers upon the goods being obtained by means of the spring levers and
apparatus, as shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Storer, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this
day of
in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
Witness,
H. W. GOUGH, O.E.,
Nottingham.
WILLIAM STORER. (L.S.)