US113347A - Improvement in clothes-wringing presses - Google Patents

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2 Sheets-Sheet 1. 0. ROBINSON. CLOTHES WRINGING PRESS.

.No. 113,347. Patented Apr. 4-, 18'71.

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No. 113,347. Patented Apr. 4, 1871.

Wibnesse '5 not one CHARLES ROBINSON, obi-BOSTON;- MASSACHUSETTS.

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' IMPROVEMENT IN cron-lss-wamemegPRESSES;1

The Scheduie'refened to in: thseietter's Patent and making part:- been lape- To all whom it may concern *Be it known 'thatiI, Gnsnn'ns Ronmson, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massaolm.-' s'etts, have invented an Improved Press 'for W inging f =Clothes and Ida hereby'declare-that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to, the accompanying drawing making part of this specification- 0 f v Figure l'beinga t piview of the press;

-Eignre 2, a transveise'rvertical; section of thesanne;

Figure 3, a side elevationthereof Figure 4, a horizontal'se'ction'of the boxin a plane indicated by the line at I, fig. 3. i

" hc gflr v v Int-his invention I. use a pressing-box, 'A, to con-. tain the clothes, for subjecting them to compression by means of a follower, B, which is forced downupo'n the-clothes by means of a screw, 0, asthe'fsiinplest and" most, convenient ineans of applying the co n--- ipressurefl e The pressing-boa is mounted in a frame for the purpose of applying the compressure'and of c'onven *ie'n'tly' locating and manipulating the pressingboxitself; and'- that this frame may be assiniple and cheap as possible I find that two. side standards, a a,- with broad feet to sustain, them, and two connecting rails or' bars, I: 0, one near the bottom to sustain the V pressing-box, and the other near thetop to hold the" not (I of-the screw 0, are all that is necessary'to' corn pose the frame. I a

' First, the pressing-box A isof peculiar ton ues,

.tion. It has a perforated or grated fa se bottom, f, at some distance above the real bottom g,.which. is tight and holdsthe water drained ,or'sqneezed; from the '(othes in a chamber, h, beneath the false bottom, the water passing freely down into the same;

"'Th s', chamber h is emptied of its water atany time, either by a spigot, in the side ofthe box, or,

preferably, by means of a flexible pipe, 41, shown' in the drawi g, the outer end thereof being Ol'dl.

narily. held up by a hook, it, and loop Lorthcir equivalents, in the position shown; and when the water is to l-- drained from the'char nber h, this pipe is let downinto the position indicated by dotted lines in figs. 2 and 3, so as toconduct the water to a tub or other vessel set to receive it. V I

A hole, s", in one I side of the pressing-box, may serve to indicate when the drip-chamber h is full and requires to be emptied.

"he pressing-bog: isprei'erably set some distance above the floor, for convenience in catching the water ir'om the diip-chamber.v

Lik letters designate corresponding parts in all of Second, the pressing-box is arranged sons to makeitconvenient :as'possible' to put in the clothes and 'take them' out'thereof. .1. 1 V v For thisvpurpose I I'hinge' or otherwise mount it upon the cross-bar b, as 'at'm figs, 2= and 3, so that, whenupressing -the clothes, the box may be in an upright and firm position to receive -'the pressure of "the screw upon the follower, as shown, by' thelfnll lines in the,- di'awin'g --but wlien nottpressmg the box :may be tilted'forward: into a position, indicated \by dotted' linesin fig; 3, for convenience in throwing .in the clothes. while washing, and in taking out the; clothes pressing them, without impediment from the screw or the cross-bar c inwhicli ,the sorew '-tnrns-.-

a A button, it, or its equivalent, is generally to be usedto hold the pressing-box forward in 'its. tilting position, and tobe turned up out of theway when 'the'hox is t'o-bejturned back into an upright position forpressin'g. r j j i Y Also, in 'order to avoidturning the screw .0 down and up a long distancein pressing-the follower B is not attached tothejl screw,"bnt hasfa'silnple central bearing,.'p, fig-,2, to receive the lower end of the screw," sothat, bfmerely" turning 11 screw :1} 'distancethe box can 'be tilted forwalr and the -followerremoved,fheingiprdvided with a handle, r, for the purpose; 'It-oan' as "readilybe replaced before pressing while the box remains tilted forward, a

The pres'sing box may be square, round, or of other convenient form, and be made'of wo'od,1z'in'c, or other. suitable material.- i -he bottom must be strong-and A sfast as: the clothes are washed and rinsed they are simplythrowninto the tilted pressing box till the whole washing has been completed, or' until a sufficient quantity has accumulated therein for a'single pressing, much of the waterdraining from the clothes-.-

down into the drip-chamber h. 'When the clothes are to be pressed they are evened on the top, the follower is putin place, the

box tilted back into an upright-position, and'the.

screwtnrned down.

The whole pressing is but-the workpf a minute,

and then the screw is raised a little, the box "tilted forward again, the follower removed, and the'elothes are ready to be hung out .to dry;

1, What I claim as my invention, and desire to securelby Letters Patent, is-- The press simple 'and che ap, and :th'e cldthes can be wrung morequickly, completelfland with less" injury therebv than by any other means known to" 1. The combination and. ai rangement of tiie hinged D, inwhich the other parts eremounfiedlso as to obor tilbingpressing-box A, oross bar or support b, and crate together substantially'as'herein specified. pressing-screw 0, substantially as and for the purpose Specification signed by me this 23d dayof Decemherein specified. her, 18110. g 1

2. A o1othes-wringing press, having the following CHARLES ROBIIISQN. elements in one combination, namely: a pressing-box i o1 receptacle, A, having a perforated or openfalse Witnesses v bottom, fiend a close drip-chamber, h, below, a. re S. O. DEARBORN,

movable follower, B, a. pressing-screw, 0, and a frame, G. EDMUNDS.

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