US234653A - Bench for wringing-mach ines - Google Patents

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(No ModeL) J; B. BRAOKETT & J. R. BAILEY.

Bench for wringing Machine.

' No. 234,653. Patented Nov. 23, 1880.

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JEFFERSON B. BRAGKETT AND JOSEPH R. BAILEY, OF WVOONSOOKET. RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNORS TO SAID BRAOKETT AND ARCHIE L.

TALBOT, OF LEWISTON, MAINE.

BENCH FOR WRINGING-MACHINES.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 234,653, dated November 23, 1880,

Application filed Juno 9, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JEFFERSON B. BRACK- ETT and J OSEPH R. BAILEY, of Woonsocket, ot' the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful ImprovementinBenches for \Vringing-Machines; and we do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is afront elevation, Fig. 2 an end view, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, of a bench having our invention. Fig. 4 is a top view of the water-board, while Fig. 5 is a horizontal section of it and its supporters, to be hereinafter described. Fig. 6 is hereinafter explained.

The nature of our invention is defined in the claims hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings, A denotes afolding bench.

At the middle part of it there are two wringer-- supporters, B, such consisting of two arms, a a, and a connecting cross-bar, 1), arranged as shown. Each supporter straddles the top frame, 0, of the bench, and is pivoted thereto so as to be capable of being turned down upon such frame and into the position as shown by dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 2, or up against its fellow, in manner as represented in said figures. Each supporter, when up, inclines toward the other, their two cross-bars being then'in contact, as shown in Fig. 3. Thus one supporter serves as a brace to the other, especially when a wringer is fastened to their two cross-bars, which is accomplished by applying and securing it to them in the manner in which it is usually applied and secured to a tub at its edgethat is to say, by causing it to straddle the bars and to be held to them by its clamping devices.

Fig. 6 is an end view of a wringer so applied to the cross-bars of the two supporters. One or each of the said supporters has on the inner edges of its arms bearings f, for receiving the journals g of the water-board G, which, projecting from the ends of the board at their middles, enter such bearings and turn therein, and are kept in place by the supporters when elevated and against each other. On turning (No model.)

one of the supporting-arms from the other the water-board may be separated from them. This water-board is to cause the water from the wringer to be discharged into a tub whenon the bench.

The top frame of the bench is composed of two pairs of bars, h, and intermediate bar, 6, and two cross-bars, it", all being arranged as represented. Each leg-frame of the bench is composed of two legs, m, and connecting crossbars 12 0, arranged as represented. Each of the legs, at its upper part, is inserted between a pair of the bars h, and is pivoted to them, in order that when the legs are folded or turned up to the top frame they may enter or fold into the space between the said bars. Struts p p, pivoted to the medial bar t" of the top frame and notched at their outer ends, serve to hold the leg-frames out when the legs are bearing against the inner edge of the cross-bars k.

In using the wringer it is customary to do so with two tubs placed on the bench, the wringer being above and between such tubs. The clothes, while the water is being expelled from them by the wringer, pass from one tub between the squeeze-rollers of the wringer to and into the other tub, the water discharged being caused to flow back into the tub from whence the clothes are taken.

A bench provided with asingle wringer-supporter is shown in the patent to S. Wiswell, entitled Reissue No. 4,097 consequently such does not constitute our invention.

We are aware that a wringer by means of arms extending from and permanently fixed to it and pivoted to the bench is not new.

It will be seen that we do not have the plied relatively to each other and the bench arranged between such arms and the wringer- 10 substantially in manner and to operate as and supporters are up and in contact with each for the purpose set forth, each pair of the said other, all being substantially as set forth. ar ns and its connecting-bar constituting a l JEFFERSON- 13. BRAOKETT. winger-supporter, as explained. JOSEPH P BAILEY 2. The four arms a, (of the wringer-supporrers B B,) pivoted to the bench A, and provided Witnesses: with bearings, as represented, to grasp and HENRYiL. PARKER, receive the journals of the water-board when CHARLES F. STEVENS.

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