US75707A - Improved olothes-wedfgee - Google Patents

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TO ALLvWI-IOM IT MAY GONGERN:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM MONT STORM', of the city and State of New York, have invented a certain fnew and useful Machine for Wringing Clothes, of which tlic following specification, in connection with lthe accompanying drawings, embraces a full and clear description.

As is wel] known, the most popula-1" wringers of the present d'ay depend upon the use of twomade-up trolls of India rubber, not only costly iu'the'rst instance, both in regard to material and manufacture, but of little dura-bility; the rolling action upon the clothes, vaided by the heat and soap in the water to be expressed from the latter, too frequently causing the rolls to blister on their exterior and peel off.'

My derice'is intended to obviate these defects and others, while at the same time reducing the cost ot' an elective wringer, by employing rollers composed of a series of annular disks, of wood, metal, orother compara-l tively inelastic'material, with an elastic bushing, the series being mounted or strung, so to express it, on a rigid shaft, and thus, as a whole, constituting an elastic or flexible roll. For further explanation I will now refer to the accompanying drawing, of which- Figure 1 represents a vertical central section., reduced from full size.

1 Figure 2 one ofthe sections or disks', full size, of which my roll is composed, as shown in iig. l.

f .A A is a frame, of any ordinary or convenient form, supporting the rolls, the. B B are the rolls, composed, as before stated, ofaseries of disks, as c cc c, having :inelastic bushing, fl d, through whichis sheathed a rigid i shaft, c. The bushing ci may be a thick India-rubber tube, which may be continuous the entire length of the l roll, or divided into sections corresponding withV each disk c. `The terminal disks of each roll are attached toY 'tlieshaft c, and are compelled to rotate with it. Y To compel the intermediate disks to 'do so, rods a; 2:, clamped `to the terminal disks, as shown, pass through the entire series. 'lhc holes in each disk, through which thc rods epass, are made larger than the latter, to permit the vertical, lateral, or other pla-y of the disks, individually on their elastic bushing, and eccentrically to their bearing-shafts. Irrespective of the elasticity or llexibility of the rolls, the shaft of one of the pair, say the upper one, should be provided with adjustable spring bearings, by which it may he set as a whole into more or less proximity with its counterpart, according to the texture hof the fabrics that require wringing. One of many such devices is shown on Iig. 1 but demands no special 3 explanation, further than', perhaps, that` the turning of the set-screwsf adjusts the roll in the respect mentioned.

As the upper and lower rolls, lig. 1, are supposed to bev counterparts, it is considered unnecessary to show the rods :vx in the latter on the drawing. I

l' I propose to make the disks c of lgnum-vit er any other durable wood, not liable to check. They may be made of metal, say zinc, either cast or struck upf In either case the disks-would be freed from each other, except near their peripheries, and these portions by attrition will constantly, during use, adjust themselves.

The legs z' ofthe frame of the wringer are supposed' to be provided with some proper kind of clamps, for fastening it to a wash-tub or its substitute. 'i

For ease and elliciency of action in a -\vringer, the greater the diameter of the rolls within a certain extent, the better itwould be; but if this diameter is to be obtained, as it must be, by the use of more rubber, `as in the ordinary rubber rolls, it much enhances the expense, and hence the rolls of wringers nthev market are made too small. By my device this is obviated.

In the case of a wringer with rubber rolls, as now made, or any other, `the elasticity of the rolls to pass over buttons, inequalities in the folds of the fabric, 85e., is only called into action at the points of`contact, and the range of this elasticity is more than supplied by my elastic bushing, whereas the elasticity, as a mass, of the ordinary roll entirely of rubber, is wasted. Hence by my device I getan elicient wringer with larger rolls at far less expense. My bushing has to perform the function of a spring only.

l Operation.

The machine being clamped in place, and the rollers adjusted according to the fabrics to be wrang, the latter are entered `between the rolls, and by turning` the crank .1, they are p assed through and come out in a conditionready to be hung up to dry. If, when the machine is at rest, the disks on the counterpart rolls stand opposite each other and very slightlyapart, then, owing to the resistance to their rotation offered by the clothes,

a certain amount of torsion will be produced, ofthe India-rnbber bushing, and tothatextent a shortening on the shaft of it, and of the roll as a whole, will take place. To permit this, the pin passing through the hubs of the terminal disks and the shaft, traverses in a slot in the latter, as shown at fc x', and this being,r the case at one end only of each roll, and also the end non-correspondent to that of the other, the disks will be forced into such position as to break joints somewhat as shown in thel drawing; but Ido not consider this essential to the propel` action of the wringer. l

A I have anticipated that a Wringer of vtolerable efficiency may bc produced with only one roll divided into. disks, the other being a plain cylinder over an elasticl bushing, or evenl fixed upon -its shaft, without the interposition of any bushing Whatever; but ofcourse that both rolls should he as before described, ispreferable.

Having now fully described the nature of my invention, what I claim therein, and desire to secureiby Letters Patent, is i Constituting the roll or rolls of a series of inelastic annulrn-` disks, having an elastic bushing of India rubber or its equivalent, the whole mounted on a shaft or shafts, and operating substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.

WM. MONT STORM.

Witnesses:

THOMAS SMITH, LOUISE SMITH.

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