Improvements in or appertaining to Washing, Wringing, and Mangling Machines.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Oct., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 4th July, 1900-Accepted, 4th Aug., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or appertaining to Washing, Wringing, and
Mangling Machines.
I, HENRY CROFTS LONGSDON, Managing Director of the Firm of W. Summer-
scales and Sons Limited, of Keighley, in the County of York, Machine Makers,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows, that is to say:
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It relates to improvements in or appertaining to washing wringing and mang-
ling machines and has for its object the formation or construction of the drip-boards
or mangle-boards (or parts in connection with same) used therein or in connection
therewith, so that said boards may perform their functions in a more desirable
manner than is the case with those of ordinary construction.
To attain the object of my said invention I mount a roller or rollers to extend
longitudinally in bearings formed at or towards the front of said drip board or
mangle-board, or in other words at that part of said board farthest from the
wringing or mangling rollers when it (said board) is in its operating position.
Or instead of mounting said roller or rollers in the drip board or mangle board
as above described it or they may be mounted in bearings fixed to the framework
of the washing, wringing or mangling machine, said bearings being so arranged
as to allow said roller or rollers to operate in any desired position relatively with
the drip board or mangle board.
It will thus be seen that by arranging a roller or rollers in the manner above
described the clothes or like 'articles being drawn through the rollers of the
wringing or like machine and which are of such a length as to reach into prox-
imity with or beyond the front part of the drip board or mangle board will pass
over said roller or rollers instead of over the front edge of said drip board or
mangle board as in the ordinary way, hence the drag on such clothes or like
articles at the part above referred to is considerably reduced, and their passage
to the machine's rollers is more easily carried into effect than heretofore.
Dated this 3rd day of October 1899.
Improvements in or appertaining to Washing, Wringing, and
Mangling Machines.
I, HENRY CROFTS LONGSDON, Managing Director of the Firm of W. Summer-
cales and Sons Limited, of Keighley, in the County of York, Machine Makers,
lo hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is
[Price 8d.1

page_text: to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say:--
It relates to improvements in or appertaining to washing wringing and mang-
ling machines and has for its object the formation or construction of the drip.
boards or mangle-boards used therein or in connection therewith, so that said
boards may perform their functions in a more desirable manner than is the caso
with those of ordinary construction. In the accompanying sheets of drawings,
which are illustrative of my said invention:-
Fig. 1 represents a front elevation of a portion of a wringing and mangling
machine, showing my improved drip-board mounted in position therein.
Fig. 2 represents a sectional end elevation of parts illustrated by Fig. 1.
Figs. 3 and 4 represent a front elevation and plan view respectively of my
improved drip-board.
Figs. 5 and 6 represent an end and sectional end elevation respectively of my
said drip-board.
Similar letters and figures of reference indicate similar parts throughout the
several views.
To attain the object of my said invention I mount a roller a (or there may be
more than one of such rollers if desired) to extend longitudinally in bearings a¹
formed at or towards the front of the drip-board b, or in other words at that
part of said board 6 farthest from the wringing or mangling rollers c, d when it
(said board b) is in its operating position, as shown by Figs. 1 and 2.
It will thus be seen that by arranging a roller or rollers a in the manner above
described, the clothes or like articles being drawn through the rollers c, d of the
wringing or like machine, and which are of such a length as to reach into
proximity with or beyond the front part of the drip-board 6 will pass over said
roller or rollers a instead of over the front edge of said drip-board as in the
ordinary way, hence the drag on such clothes or like articles at the part above
referred to is reduced considerably, and their passage to the machine's rollers e,
d is more easily carried into effect than heretoforc.
Although I have herein before described and illustrated my improvements
as applied to drip-boards of washing wringing and mangling machines, it will
be readily seen that I may with equal advantage apply them to the mangle-boards
of such machines.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. Drip-boards for washing, wringing and mangling machines, the same being
constructed and arranged to operate substantially as herein specified.
2. Mangle-boards for mangling machines the same being constructed and
arranged to operate substantially as herein specified.
Dated this 3rd day of July 1900.
H. C. LONGSDON,
Per Samuel Hey,
Agent.