US330984A

US330984A - Clothes-wringer

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Publication number: US330984A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-11-24
Anticipated expiration: 1902-11-24

Description

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CLOTHES WRINGER,

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JAMES LEONARD KIRBY, OF BOSTON, ASSIGNOR TO THE COLBY VVRINGER COMPANY, OF HIGHLANDVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

CLOTHES-WRINGER.

SPECIFICATION fcrming part oi' Letters Patent No. 330,984, dated November 24:, 1885.

Application filed July 7, 1884. Serial No. 137.002.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JnMns LEONARD KIRBY, ofBoston, in the county of Suffolk, ofthe Colnnionwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clothes- Wringers; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a top View, Fig. 2 an end elevation, and Fig. 3 a transverse section through the middle, of a wringer provided with my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claims hereinafter presented. Fig. 4 is a top view, and Fig. 5 an end elevation, of the actuator or arched shelf and its journals and two eccentrics to each of such journals. Fig. 6 is an inner side view of one of the end portions, A, of the frame, the jawed lever, and the lever for supporting the lever of the squeeze-rollers, such View also representing the bearing and one of the springs of the upper roller. Eig. 7 is a longitudinal section of the wringer, it being taken through theaxes of the two rollers.

My invention relates to the class of clotheswringers of which that shown and described in the United States Patent No. 158,369, dated January 5, 1875, is a representative.

In my present wringer I have each ofthe two end portions, A, of its frame provided with a stationary extension or jaw, a, projecting down from it, as represented, and there is in the upper part of each of such end portions a niche, b, at the bottom of which is a bearing, c, for support of one of thejournals d of the upper squeeze-roller, B. Vithin each niche is a metallic saddle, e, that straddles and rests on the journal d, and is socketed to receive and support a cylindrical rubber spring, f, inserted in it and encompassing a spindle, g, projecting upward from such saddle. The spindle extends above the spring and through and above a rnetallic washer, z', placed on top of the spring. The two end portions, A A, of the frame are at their upper parts connected by an arched bar, D, extending into the two niches, and provided with cylindrical tenons Z, to go into corresponding-shaped holes m in the crowns of the niches. ScrewsEhavingtubularshanksmare screwed into and down through the arched bar D, and bear at their lower ends on the washers (Model.)

t of the springs, the spindles g, on which the springs are placed, entering within the bores of the said shanks. When the screws are turned against the washers, the arched bar will be forced upward, so as to keep its tenons firmly in their sockets in the crowns of the niches, and thus it will be seen that the screws serve not only to contractthe springs, but with them, and the tenons of the arched bar, to hold such bar in close connection with the end portions, A A, ofthe frame. Within each ofsuch end portions, A, and adapted to turn on a stationary fulcrum, n, projecting therefrom, are two levers, F and G, which cross each other, as represented. The tail of the lever G is a jaw disposed in rear of the stationary jaw a. The

journals o of the shaft H of the lower squeezej roller, C, are pivoted in the inner arms of the levers F, the shaft being extended through one of the end portions, A, and provided with a crank, I, for revolving the roller. The actuator (shown at K) is a pivoted shelf provided at its ends with journals p, to project through and somewhat beyond the two end portions, A A, and to turn in bearings q therein. Pins r, going diametrically through such journals in the parts thereof projecting beyond the end portions, A, serve, with the' actuator, as an auxiliary connection of the said parts A A. Between each journal and the next adjacent end of the actuator are two eccentrics or cams, s t. Those marked s work against the upper arms oftwojawed levers, G, while those marked t operate against the tails of the levers F on the actuator being turned from an upright down into a horizontal position, or about so.

From the above it will be seen that on the Wringer being placed on atub in the usual way, with the upper part thereof between the two sets of jaws of the wringer, a person by turning the actuator downward will cause the eccentrics to move the fourlevers on their fulcra, so as not only to clamp the wringer to the tub, and bring the actuator into position for use, but to force upward the lower of the squeezerollers. Each squeeze-roller is elastic radially, like such as usually employed in clotheswringers.

On turning the actuator upward the movable jaws will readily loosen their hold on the tub, in order to admit of the wringer being IOO raised out of connection therewith. At the same time the levers F will be free to move on their fulcra in a manner to allow the lower squeeze-roller to move downward away from the upper one.

I do not claim the combination of an actuator, two sets of j awed levers, two springs, and roller-supporting levers, all arranged on a pivotal shaft and applied to two squeeze-rollers, substantially as specified, and represented, in the aforesaid United States Patent No. 158,369, as I have in my wringer but one set of jawed levers, and with them have stationary jaws eX- tending from the end portions of the frame.

When the actuator is up, the springs are relieved from strain; but when the actuator is I down the lower roller will be forced upward against the upper one, so as to cause its journals to bear upward against the supportingsaddles of the springs. When down, the actuator will receive the clothes as they may pass from the rollers, and prevent the said clothes from falling into the tub.

In my wringer the actuator, with the pins going through its journals, answers as an additional connection for the end portions, A A, of the frame.

I herein make no claim to what is claimed by me in an application for a patent having the serial number 137,001, filed by me on July 3o 7, 1884.

I claim- 1. In the clothes-wringer, the combination of the arched bar D, having the tenons Z, with the frame end portions, A, provided with the 35 spring-carryingnichcs, and having such tenons extended upward into the crowns thereof, and also with the springs in the niches, and the screws screwed through the arched bar and against the said springs therein, all being sub- '4o stantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the frame end portions, A, provided with stationary jaws a, with the two jawed levers and thelower roller-supporting levers pivoted to such end portions, 45 and with the actuator journaled in such end portions and furnished with the four eccentrics, to operate with the aforesaid levers, all being substantially as represented.

J AMES LEONARD KIRBY.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT.