US2406109A

US2406109A - Rinse wringer

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Publication number: US2406109A
Application number: US393522A
Authority: US
Inventors: Schellenberg Albert
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1941-05-15
Filing date: 1941-05-15
Publication date: 1946-08-20
Anticipated expiration: 1963-08-20

Description

A118- 2Q, 1946- A. s'cHELLE'NBl-:RG 2,405,109

'RINSE WRINGER Filed May l5, 1941 Patented Aug. 20, 1946 UNITED STATES PATENT fo-1=Flfcle.r *I N 2,406,109 RINsE WRINGER Albert Schellenberg, Joliet, Ill.

Application May 15, 1941, Serial No. 393,522

(Cl. (iS-22) 6 Claims. 1

This invention relates to wringers of the type used in connection with motor driven domestic washing machines, and particularly to that type of wringer wherein a rinsing operation is performed. This application is an improvement on my co-pending application, No. 368,159, filed December 2, 1940, now Patent No. 2,358,256, granted Sept. 12, 1944.

The particular object of the present invention is to provide improved conveyor and rinsing means in the rinse chamber of the wringer.

Other objects and benefits will be disclosed in the following descriptions and drawing, in which the figure is a cross-sectional elevation view of a rinse wringer having a conveyor belt over the lower rolls and a large intermediate roller coacting with the belt to agitate and rinse garments passing between the two sets of rolls.

It will be understood that the Wringer, shown somewhat diagrammatically inv the foregoing drawing, employs the reversible gear head driving the rolls and conveyor mechanism, the safety pressure release for the upper frame, the clutch to stop operations of the rolls and conveyor When pressure is released, the rinse basin overflow, and generally all necessary mechanical structure shown in my prior application, Serial No. 368,159, filed December 2, 1940, now Patent No. 2,358,256, granted Sept. 12, 1944, together with any necessary modications of this structure as could be 30 accomplished by skillful mechanics experienced in the art. It will be appreciated that the present application deals with detailed modifications of structure with the basic mechanism of the wringer remaining practically the same as shown in the aforesaid application.

Now referring to the drawing, I designate the lower frames yby the numeral I and the upper frames by the numeral II. The dual pairs of driving rolls in Fig. 1 are designated III-I5 and I B-I'L The water level in the rinse chamber in each case is designated by the letter L.y

Now referring to Fig. 1, the belt I8 over the lower rollers I4, I6 co-acts with a large intermediate roller 20 resiliently mounted on bearings 22 by compression springs 23. It will be appreciated that by this mounting the roller 20 is permitted to move upward when :thick portions of clothing pass thru the rinse chamber. The roller 20 may be either plain or corrugated as shown at 20. Mounted interiorly of the roller 20 are baffles 2| which pick up water from the rinse basin, as well as that sprayed'by the spray tube SI and deliver it through the perforations 2| as will be readily understood.

I also provide an automatic release when unusually thick garments are fed in the wringer. By referring to the description of the release mechanism R in the application Serial No. 368,159, it will be appreciated that when the roll 20 is raised @to the point Vwhere it strikes the release mechanism R at P, the top.y frame will be released and the drive to the rolls I4--I5, IIS-I1, and 2 will be stopped.

rIlhe intake rolls I4 and I 5 are adapted to receive the clothes therebetween which are then transmitted over the belt I8 beneath the roller 20, to the discharge rolls I6 and II. The flexibility of the belt allows the clothes to be deflected by the corrugated periphery ofthe roller 20 so that the clothes are ydeflected laterally of their direction of movement during their passage through the rinse water, and thus are thoroughly saturated withthe rinse water to obtain an effective rinsing operation.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. In a rinse wringer having a rinsing chamber, means for conveying garments through said rinsing chamber including an impeller roll mounted in the rinsing chamber, said roll being hollow and cylindrical with a corrugated peripheral Wall having perforations at intervals therein.

2. In a rinse wringer having a rinsing chamber, means for conveying garments through said rinsing chamber including an impeller roll mounted in the rinsing chamber, said roll being hollow and cylindrical with a corrugated peripheral wall having perforations at intervals therein, and radially extending bailies within said roll at the peripheral wall thereof.

3. In a rinse wringer having a rinsing chamber, means for conveying garments through said rinsing chamber including an impeller roll mounted in the rinsing chamber, said roll being hollow and cylindrical with a corrugated peripheral wall having perforations at intervals therein, radially extending bafles within said roll at the peripheral wall thereof, and means within said roll for applying a rinsing spray toward the peripheral wall thereof.

4. In a rinse wringer having a rinsing chamber, means for conveying garments through said rinsing chamber including an impeller roll mounted in the rinsing chamber, said roll being hollow and cylindrical with a corrugated peripheral wall having 'perforations at intervals therein, and means Within said roll for applyinga rinsing spray toward the peripheral Wall thereof.

5. In a rinse wringer, a rinsing chamber, an upper frame mounted on the rinsing chamber, a

pair comprising upper and lowerl intake rolls at one side of the rinsing chamber, a pair comprising upper and lower discharge rolls at the oppo-l site side of the rinsing chamber, a conveyor belt extending between the lower rolls of said pairs n of rolls, and roller meansmounted on the upper frame between the pairs of rolls coacting with said belt to agitate and rinse garments, said roller meanscomprising a hollow irripeller Vroll having peripheral corrugations, said corrugated periphery being perforated at intervals there-5 around. o t

6. In a rinse wringer, a lower frame, an upper" frame releasably locked on the lower frame and.

coacting therewith to form a rinsing chamber, a pair of upper and lower intake rolls at one end of the rinsing chamber, a pair of upper and lower discharge rolls at the opposite end of the rinsing chamber, a conveyor belt extending over the lower rolls of said pairs of rolls and being driven thereby, and roller means mounted on the upper y frame between the pairs of rolls coacting with A said belt to agitata and rinse garments, said roller means comprising a hollow impeller roll having peripheral corrugations, said corrugated periphvery being perforated vat intervals therearound.

iff ALBERT SCHELLEN'BERG.