US1710224A - Clothes wringer - Google Patents

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April 23, 1929. G. R. KELTIE 1,710,224

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ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 23, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE R. KELTIE, F WOONSOCKET, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO .AMERICAN WRINGER COMPANY, INC., A CORPORATION OF RHODE ISLAND.

CLOTHES WRINGER.

Application led September 22, 1927. Serial No. 221,195.

My invention relates to wringers for clothes and the like, and its essential objects are to afford an area upon which to spread clothes; to enable the delivery of -clothes from either side of the wringer to different trays or other receptacles without remounting or other change of position of the wringer; to guard the hand of the operator from accidental injury by the rolls; i0 to provide means for collecting the expressed water; to direct the collected water from either side of the wringer; and to attain these ends in a simple, strong, and compact structure.

To the above ends primarily my invention consists in such parts and in such combinations of parts as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings which form a part of this specification,

Figures 1 and 2 are a' plan view and a side elevation respectively of my wringer,

Figures 3 and 4, end views of the same,

Figures 5 and G, a section of the same on iine 5 5 and a partial section on line 6--6 respectively of Figure 2, and

Figure 7, an enlarged fragmentary section on line 5-5 of Figure 2.

Like reference .characters indicate like parts throughout the views.

My wringer comprises a supporting yoke indicated in a general way by the reference numeral 10, comprising a horizontal bar or body portion 11 and vertically disposed fiat legs, plates, or end portions 12 and 13. In this instance threaded studs or screws 15 upon the portion 12 are shown adapted for engagement with a washing machine or other usual or preferred object. In the portions 12 and 13 is journaled an operating shaft 17 driven from any usual or convenient source of power. Fast to the shaft is a large rubber or rubber covered roll 19, in this instance consisting of a hollow metallic drum 20 with a soft rubber covering 21.

A frame represented generally by 23 is mounted to swing upon the shaft 17. This frame includes hollow side pieces 24, and a top member 25. In detail the lower eX- tremities of the side pieces are rounded, as at 27, and near these portions are openings 28 to loosely receive the shaft 17. These pieces are provided with longitudinal slots 30 to slidably receive the sha t 32 of a rubber wringer roll 33 of much less diameter than the roll 19 with which it contacts. Slidably mounted in the side pieces above the shaft 32 are bearing blocks 35, having curved cavities 36 in which the shaft ends register. Upon these blocks rest the end portions of an arched spring 38. In detail the top or cross member 25 comprises a central longitudinal arched portion 40 having in this case downwardly bent ends 41 attached to the end pieces by screws 42 or otherwise. Integral with the longitudinal portion 40, upon opposite sides thereof, are transversely curved depending guard shields 44 provided upon their lower ends with transversely bent edges or beads 46 near the periphery of the roll 19. In the center of the member 25 is a threaded perforation 48 through which extends the shank 49 of a set screw having a flat head 51, and a bearing foot 52 resting on the renter of the spring 38, which in turn presses the roll 33 against the roll 19.l

The frame 23 may be manually swung, upon the shaft 17 as its axis, to diferent angular or radial positions. During this movement the roll 33 moves bodily in the arc of a circle along the peripheral face of the roll 19. It is desirable that at the end of its travel iny either direction the frame be vertically inclined rather than approximatea horizontal position. To insure, therefore, against excessive travel stops are provided. The stop members 54 herein illustrated consist of projections cast u y on the inner faces of the parts 12 and 13. ach projection consists ot fiat side sections 55 and 56 inclined relatively to each other, and tending to converge in a downward direction. The central portion or 'apex 57 of the projection is slightly curved or concave when, as in this case, the ends of the pieces 24 are curved. In Figure 6 the frame 23 isshown in full lines resting against the section 55, and, in broken lines, the section 56. f

A metal trough 59 encloses the lower portion of the roll 19. This comprises a semicylindrical body 60 and end walls 61. The trough Vis supported `by the bar 11, and is provided with a central hole 63 in its bottom in which is threaded a discharge pipe 64 passing through a hole- 65 in the bar 11. Swiveled upon the lower end of the pipe is a horizontally disposed discharge spout comprising a ody portion 67 having an upwardly directed inner end 68, and a downwardly directed mouth 69. In detail the swivel joint is formed, as shown in Figure 7 as follows. The pipe 64 has an inner shoulder 71 upon its lower end, and a convex or ground end face 72. The shoulder has a thread 73 engaging a thread 74 in a union nut 75 which slidably encloses an annular shoulder 77 upon the upper end of the spout. This shoulder has a concave face 78 to receive the face 72. In Figures 2 and 4 the spout is shown in broken lines disposed at different angles of adjustment.

In operation the frame 23' is placed against its stop or rest at the side of the wringer from which it is desired to discharge the clothes. The tilted position of the frame and the magnitude of the roll 33 affords an area upon the top of the former roll, as at 80, to form a table for' the spread of the clothes before entering between the rolls. lf it is desired to discharge the clothes into a receptacle adjacent the first, the frame 23 is manually swung against the adjacent stop. The used or dirty water accumulated in the trough 59 may be discharged by the spout into differently located receptacles because of its circular. adjustability, adapting the discharge of such Water to any position rendered more convenient by any changed position of the swinging roll frame. The shields 44 and their outwardly curved edges 46 are, in any position of the frame, in such close proximity to the periphery of the large lower roll 19 that they initially express some of the water from the clothes prior to their entrance between the rolls, and, aided by the outwardly curved edges of the shields, preliminarily smooth out hunched portions of the clothes. rlhe pressure of the shields holds the clothes against the roll 19 and increases the traction of the roll whereby the clothes are led to the bite of the rolls.

l. In a clothes wringer, a support, a driving shaft journaled in the support; a-large wringer roll upon the shaft, a swinging frame comprising a top member, end pieces pivotally mounted upon the shaft, a small wringer roll carried in the end pieces in Contact with the irst roll, and a guard member including outwardly flaring depending guard shields enclosing the top roll and out of contact therewith terminating adjacent the large roll.

2. In a clothes wringer a support comprising a horizontal bar provided with a hole, and upright legs upon the ends of the bar, an operating shaft .journaled in the legs, a wringer roll mounted upon the shaft above the bar, a frame mounted upon the shaft between the legs, a second wringer roll carried by the frame above the bar, a trough enclosing a segment of the first roll supported by the bar provided intermediate its length with a hole, a depending discharge pipefiXed in the bar and trough in the holes, and a horizontally disposed' discharge spout pivotally supported by the discharge pipe.

3. In a clothes wringer, a support, a driving shaft journaled in the support, a large wringer roll upon the shaft, a swinging frame comprising end pieces pivotally mounted upon the shaft, a top member connected to the end pieces, and a small wringer roll supported by the end pieces in contact with the large roll, said top member including depending guard shields, and outwardly directed edges upon the shields in close proximity to the large roll.

4. In a clothes wringer, a stationary support comprising a horizontal bar, upright spaced legs upon the bar provided with openings, a shaft rotatably mounted in the openings, a wringer roll upon the shaft, inwardly projecting stops upon the adjacent faces.

of the legs at opposite sides of the shaft, a swinging frame rotatably mounted upon the shaft between the legs and stops and engageable with the stops, and a roll carried by the frame in contact with the first roll.

in testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature.

GEORGE R. KELTIE.

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