US1882364A - Starch pan for wringers - Google Patents

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1932- w. c. LAIRD 1,882,364

STARCH PAN FOR WRINGERS Filed April 6. 1951 Patented Oct. 11, 1932 UNITED STATES WARREN O. LAIRD, OF ALGONA, IOWA STARCH PAN FOB, WRINGERS Application filed April 6,

The object of my invention is to provide a starch pan for wringers which is simple, durable and comparatively inexpensive to manufacture.

A further object of my invention 1s to provide a pan especially adapted for use with clothes wringers of washing machines, with a novel means for supporting the pan relative to the wringer so that it can be conveniently detached therefrom or attached thereto in position to receive the starchy water wrung from the clothing and in convenient position with respect to the wringer for the purpose of dousing the clothing in the starch and then feeding it to the wringer.

More particularly, it is my object to pro vide a starch pan for wringers having a bottom, front and rear walls and side walls. with a pair of hooks pivoted to the side walls of the starch pan and adapted to coact with parts of the wringer frame for the purpose of supporting the pan relative to the wrin er.

A further object is to pivot the supporting hooks to the starch pan at points on the side walls closer to the front wall than the back wall, whereby the front wall may engage an under surface of the wringer frame and tho overhanging portion of the starch pan, with the supporting hooks as a pivot, will cause firm engagement of the front wall with the wringer frame for thus rigidly supporting the starch pan in a most advantageous posi-' tion with respect to the wringer.

With these and other obiects in view my invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of the various parts of my device. whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a back elevation of a wringer and of my starch pan attached thereto.

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view on the line 2-2 of Figure 1 showing the coaction of the starch pan with the wringer.

Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 1 showing the supporting hanger arms for the starch pan connected with a feeder board of the wringer.

1931. Serial No. 527,979. 4

" Figure 4 is an end elevation of the wringer shown in Figure 3 and a vertical sectional view of the starch pan.

Figure 5 is a similar sectional view showing still a different method for attaching the supporting hanger arms to the wringer frame.

Figure 6 is a rear elevation of another type of wringerframe showing the starch pan hanger coacting with a notch therein;

and for reversing its operation. A wringer drive shaftis indicated at 14.

The wringer A has end members 16 and feeder boards 18, the shapes of which are best shown in Figure 2 of the drawing. The wringer rolls are indicated at 20 and 22.

My starch pan construction B comprises a pan having a bottom 24, a front wall 26, a back wall 28 and side walls 30. Hanger arms 32 are pivoted to the side walls 30 by loops, which extend through perforations 34 in the side walls 30. The upper ends of the hanger arms 32 are hooked, as indicated at 36.

The hanger arms 32, as shown in Figures 1 and 2, extend up over the outer surface of one of the feeder boards 18 and the hooks 36 extend over the upper edge thereof. It will be noted that the perforations 34 are relatively closer to the front wall 26 than they are to the back wall 28. The front wall 26 is adapted to engage an under surface of the wringer frame and the overhanging portion of the starch pan, especially when starchy water 38 is contained therein, effectively maintains engagement between the frontwall 26 and the wringer frame. Thus by means of the pair of hanger arms 32 and the weight of the starchy water 38, the starch pan is rigidly positioned with respect to the wringer frame.

It will be noted that the position of the starch pan is such that clothing can be doused in the starchy water 38 and then lifted up over the feeder board 18 and wrung between the rolls 20 and 22. The starchy water wrung from the clothing will flow down a drain board 40 and back intoithe starch pan B, thus economizing in the use of the starch.

It is thus obvious that from a convenience and economy standpoint, the starch pan issupported in the most desirable and advantageous position with respect to the wringer and may be easily disconnected therefrom or applied thereto.

' In Figures 3 and 4, I have illustrated hanger arms 32a having hooks 36a, which are adapted to engage a pivoted-type of feeder" board 40 on a different type of wringer A.

The front wall 28 engages under a drain board 42 of this type of wringer. The rolls of this type of wringer are indicated as 20a and 22a. 2 This particular type of wringer has a flange 44 provided with an opening-4 (see Figure As shown inFigure 5, a hanger arm 326 may have a hook 3% adapted to engage in the opening 46. I have been referring to only one hanger arm in Figures 3, 4 and 5, but it will be understood that the hanger arm at the other end of the wringer is identical.

In Figure 6, a hanger arm 320 is illustrated having a hook end 360. The hook 360 engages with a notch 48 formed in the frame of the wringer A. y

Figure 7 shows an end view of the wringer A illustrating how the hanger arms 2320 extend along the frame of the wringer and en gage with the notch 48. V

The front wall 26 of the starch pan B engages the bottom of this wringer frame and extends over a rotatable drain spout 50 extending downwardly from the wringer.

I have shown several different types of wringer frames and hanger arms having each a slightly differentishape for coaction with the different wringer frames. It will therefore be obvious that my device can be made for any type of wringer by merely providing the necessary shape of hangerarm. In each instance, the starch pan B is the same and overhangs the same way for the short portion of the starch pan to engage a bottom surface of the wringer and the long overhanging-portion maintaining such engagement.

The shape of the starch pan can be modified if desired and other changes may be made without departing from the real spirit and purpose of my invention and it is my intention to cover by my claims, any modified forms of structure or use of mechanical equivalents, which may be reasonably included within their scope.

I claim as my invention:

1. In combination with a clothes wringer, a device of the class described comprising. a starch pan having a bottom, a front wall, a

back wall and side walls, hanger arms therefor, each having an upper end attached to the frame of said wringer and a lower end pivoted to said side walls of said starch pan at points spaced closer to the front wall than to the back wall thereof, the upper edge of said front wall being adapted for engagement with a bottom surface of the frame of the wringer.

2. In combination with a clothes wringer, a: device of the class described comprising a starch pan having a bottom, and walls, hanger arms therefor, each having an upper end attached to the frame of said wringer and a lower end pivoted'to said walls of said starch pan at a point closer to one side than the other thereof whereby starchtherein will tend to tip said pan about its pivotal connections with said hanger'arms and thereby keep the lesser side of said pan against a bottom surface of the frame of said wringer.

3. In adeviceof'the class described, a pan and a pairof hanger arms constituting the sole means ofsupport' therefor and'having lower ends pivoted thereto closerto one side than to the other thereofsaid hanger arms having upper ends provided with hooks for attachment'with the frame of a wringer, and being of such'length whereby when the lesser portion thereof is-engaged with said wringer the pan is rigidly supported in level position.

WARREN C. LAIRD. I

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