US398793A

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Publication number: US398793A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-02-26
Anticipated expiration: 1906-02-26

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L. 0. PARKER.

GLOTHES WRINGER.

No. 398,793. Patented Feb'. 26, 1889.

WIS 67186561:

Nv PETERS. Plumb-Lithographer, Washington. D, c.

UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEIVIS Cl PARKER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ROBERT SIMPSON, JR, OF SAME PLACE.

CLOTHES-WRINGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,793, dated. February 26, 1889.

Application filed June 9, 1888.

To (LZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEwIs C. PARKER, a eitizen of the United States, residing at Cincini nati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Clothes-\Vringers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to improvements 5 in that class of elothes-wringers known as the U -spring.

The object of my invention is to provide devices for separating the rolls when not in use, and thereby prevent the permanent flattening of their contiguous surfaces incident to their being loi'lgpressed together in one position.

My invention consists of the devices illusl trated in the accompanyin drawings, as hereina'fter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference in dicate like parts, Figure 1 is an end elevation of so much of a clotheswringer as will serve to illustrate my invention, and in which the apron is turned down for use; Fig. i, a sii'nilar elevation with the apron raised to separate the rolls; and Fig. 3, a plan of one end of the apron, pivot,

and cam.

The rolls A A are mounted on axles (1 u,

respectively, for which the curved ends I.) h of the U-spring 1- constitute bearings, the

tension of the spring serving to press them I together. These springs are united with simi lar spi as on the opposite ends of the rolls by a bar, to which the clamps by which the wringer is attached to the tub (parts of which, I), are shown) are bolted. Interposed at each end of the rolls, between them. and i the springs, are cheek-pieces E, having a cirenlarhole for the axle of the upper roll, and

t a slot for the axle of the lower roll, to permitthe rolls to separate vertically.

From the edge of each cheek-piece E to ward the bow of the springs B projects a lug, c, curved downward at its outer end, its lower edge being rounded inward to form abearing for the pivots f of the apron 15.

The apron F is of the usual form used in wringers of this class, and consists of a narrow boa-rd interposed between the springs b v and sustained by pivots f, which pass under the lugs c and rest on the lower arm of the spring when the apron down, as shown in Fig. 1. At the outer end otf each pivot f is a small cam, G, with its greatest eccentricity opposite and in the line of the apron. Hence by swinging thcapron up, as shown in Fig. 2, these cams encounter the lower arms of the sprin l3, and by means of the cheek-pieces E force them apart, thereby separating the rolls.

I claim In a wring-er of the class speeiticd, the combination, with cheek-pieces, each having a hole for the axle of one roll and a slot for the axle of the other, and a pivot-bearing adjacent to one arm of the spring, of an apron having end pivots resting in said bearings, each pivot bearing a cam arranged to engage one arm of the spring when the apron is swung upward for the purpose of separating the rolls, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the above I hereunto set m v hand.

LEWIS PARKER.

, In presence of t P. HUMPHREY, i F. H. STUART.