US566604A

US566604A - munson

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Publication number: US566604A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-08-25
Anticipated expiration: 1913-08-25

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(No Mdel.)

A. M. MUNSON.

STARGHING MAGHINB.

No. 566,604. PatentedAug. 25, 1896.

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ANDRIIV M. MNSON, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, ASSI-GNOR OF ONE-FOURTH TO NELS G. MUSON, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 566,604, dated August 25, 1896. Appligfm filed June 21,1895. Serial No. 553,600` (No modei.)

T @ZZ whom it muy concern: bers are formed with a guideway l?, extend- Be it known that I, ANDREW M. MUNSON, ing in the direction of their length. The a citizen oi the United States, residing at outer end of the rubber 13 is provided with a Rockford, in the county of Winnebago and lengthwise groove I8 on its inner face, and 55 State. of Illinois, have invented certain new from its outer face extends a stud i9. A pit-- and useful Improvements in Starching-Maman 2O connects the stud 19 with one of the chines, ot which the following is a speoilicacranks of the driving-shaft tion. A guide 2l, fitted in the guideway of the The obj eet of this invention is to construct rubber 13, has a connection with the station- 6o io a starching-machine in which two reciprooatary portion of the starch-receptacle by a p in ing rubbers are employed. 22 passing through the parts.

In the accompanying drawings, Figurel is a The rubber li, at its outer end, hes a proH plan view of my improved starchingniachinejection 23 fitted to enter the lengthwise Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 groove 1S, thus forming a connection be- 65 is an isometrical representation or' the rubtween the two rubbers, and from the outer ber having a connection with the movable face of this rubber extends a stud 2l. A pittop of the starch-receptacle. Fig. e is an man 25 has a connection with the stud 2i at isoinetrical representation of the inner face one end, its other end connected to one 0E the of one of the rubbers. Fig. is an isometcranks ofthedrivingshait. Thisrubber has 7o 2o rical representation of the other end of the a guide 26,si1nilar to the guide 2l, and, instead rubber. Fig. G is a top view of the pitman of being connected to the starch-receptacle, connected to the movable top and its crank. has a connection with the movable cover. by Fig. 7 is a `side elevation of such connection. a link 27, one end of which hasa pivotal con The starclrreceptaele lis of the usual connection with the guide, its other end being 7 5 2 5 struction, having a portion 2 of its top staconnected with the under face of the cover tionary and provided with an opening 3, by means of the spring 2S, and from the centhrough which the shirts to be starched are ter portion of the link rises a stud 29, which passed. The upper edges ot the receptacle is connected to the cover. on its ends are provided with outwardly-ex- The connection between the pitman and 8o 3o tending flanges 4, and the movable portion its crank is shown in dota-il at Figs. G and 7. of the top has its ends in hook form, which Around the crank is located a box-bearing receive the ilan ges, thereby forming a sliding 230, having vertical studs 3l, and around these connection between the cover and receptacle. studs is secured the end of the pitnran7 so that The starch-receptacle is supported by a a universal-joint connection is formed. pedestal 6, and has an extension 7, support- In the rotation of the cranks a reciproeating the means for reciprocating the rubbers. ing movement is imparted to the rubbers by F rom the upper face and outer end of the means of their pitinan connection with. the vextension 7 rise bearings 8,within which is cranks, the guides holding the rubbers in supported a shaft i), having that portion beproper alineinent, and by reason of the rub- 9o 4o tween the bearingsin double-crank form7 and bers having a connection with each other to one end of the shaft outside of the bearings through the medium of the groove IS and are secured tight and loose pulleys IO and ll. projection 23 their outer ends will be sup From the edge of the movable portion of ported as the upward and downward tendency the cover next the driving shaft extends a is equalized, consequently holding them in a 45 belt-shifter l2, in order that the outward horizontal position. The spring 2S, acting movement of the cover will shift the belt from upon the rubber 14, serves to hold it in a the tight pulley IO onto the loose pulley ll. yielding manner.

Nithin the starch-receptacle are located Upon moving the cover the belt is shifted two rubbers 13 and 14, having ltheir meeting from one pulley onto the other pulley to stop loo 5o faces l5 Jformed with vertical corrugated ruband start the movement of the rubbers, and bilig-surfaces 16. The (interfaces of the rubwhen the cover is opened the rubber connected ment to the rubbers, one of the rubbers having :t sliding connection With t guide pivoted to the reeeptuele, and the other rubber having' t sliding Connection with a guide pivoted to the movable cover through the medium of L11 i arm, :t spring Connecting the arm and-Cover. and the rubbers having a sliding tongue-muli groove connection with ezteh other outside or receptacle.

ANDRE'W M. MUNSON. Wftnesses:

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