US93488A - Improvement in clothes-wringer - Google Patents

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GILBERT` sMrrHQor HIGHLAND FALLS, NEW YORK.

lLetters Patent'No. 93,488, dated August 10, 1869.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it 'may concern p Be it known that I, GILBERT SMITH, of Highland Falls, in Orange county, inthe State of New York, have invented certain new and useful vImprovementsv in Clothes-WVlingers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof'.

'Of late, inventors have given attention mainly tol and uniform compression of the whole articles being wrung. A net, or open fibrous casing, receives the goods, and a twisting action-applied thereto expresses the water, which is led back into the tub by the inclined trough in which it is mounted.

My machine is adapted to be placed on the edge of an ordinary tub. p L 'l There are several novel features of 'my invention, as will be enumerated at the' close of the description. One conspicuous novelty lies in the capacity to introduce the goods through a ring, or hollow rigid frame, at the lower end of the net-work.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through the machine, represented as clamped upon the edge of a tub.

A portion of the supporting-leg is represented, which aids in supporting the outer end of the machine. .It

will be understood that this leg is of a length adapted to Vproperly support the machine on a tub' of average height.' If the tub is a little higher or a little lower,

the leg will still contribute to steady and support the' work.

Figure 2 is a cross-section on the line s s in fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in both figures.

A is an ordinary 'wash-tub.

`B is a trough, of rectangular section, and provided with jaws B1, of which there are two, one each side of `the trough, as will be readily understood.

preference, of hard wood, with two wing-pieces D1 D2, which fit loosely'within the interior of the trough, and sustain it in properposition as it slides backward and v forward therein.

The top piece, or strip B2, acts against the upper edge of thewing DZ.

E is a stout disk, of har wood or other suitable maf terial, mounted on the s aft G, and adapted to be turned by a4 handle or levergH, arranged as represented.

The pawl I, mounted in the edge of the trough B,

acts on teeth ein the periphery of the revolving disk E, to hold it in any position iu Vwhichit may be left. M mis a net-work, extending from the periphery of the ring D to the periphery of the disk E.

'.It is made by 'extending a cord, M, back and forward throughholes, and tying them together at short intervals by smaller cords m, which extend nearly .around,'but are disconnected at the top. In other words, the net-work may be opened along its upper side to remove the clothing after being wrung.

Wet clothing maybe introduced through this topopening when necessary, but I prefer to introduce it,

in all ordinary cases, through the ring I).

To the ring Dis attached' a stout cord, J, .which extends downward around a pulley, K, then backward The wringing-machine is applied and made fast by, turning the screws O. The supporting-leg` B3 isilitroduced, either before or afterv the turning of the screws y(l, 'and a suitable' weight,'say two flat-irons, is hung upon the hook j.

Now, the clothing is lifted b y one hand, and iutrol duced through the ring D.

In many cases an entire washing may be introduced at once into the ordinary small and cheap machine', in

which caseit maybe allowed to drain as long'as may be desired, after the compressive force is applied.

In other cases-a part only of the clothing will be I introduced, and the remainder left for a subsequent operation.

A quantity of clothing having been thus introduced into the net-work, and the pawl I being allowed to drop upon the teeth e, the two hande are applied to the handle H, and it is gradually and forcibly turned.

The turning twists the net and compresses the clothing, and in'doing so shortens the net, and the sliding ring'D travels upward inthe inclined trough.

This motion is resisted uniformly by the weight de` i pendent on the hook j.

The water is discharged at first plentifully, and afterward more slowly, into the trough B, and is by it conducted back into the tub.

Holes b are provided in the lower end of the trough, to discharge the water.

After atinie the net is untwisted .by a reversed motion, and the clothing is removed through the top, while fresh wet material is introduced again through the ring.

Sonie of -the advantages due to certain features of my invention maybe separatelyenumerated, as follows:

First, by reason of my hollow ring D, as arranged, I am able to introduce the clothing more easily, and with less risk oi' wetting the floor and other adjacent objects, than with lany previously-known construction.

Second, by providing the jaws B1 and set-screws C, under my inclined trough B, as represented, I support the net-work, and its operating means, in'position, and receive and dispose of thc water with more convenience and less cuinbrous machinery than has been heretofore employed with this class of wringer.

Third, by reason of the cord J, pulleys K L, and weight NV, arranged as represented relatively to the trough B, sliding ring D, and twisting means E, and its connections, I am able to offer a constant and easilygraduated resistance to the contracting as the wringer progresses.

The springs heretofore employed to perform this function have been more expensive, more 'subject'to derangement and failure, are less easily repaired or new ones substituted, and particularly are certain to increase the resistance as the work progresses, offering either too little resistance at the commencement, or too much near the end of their motion.

g Vhat I claim as new, and as my invention, is as follows:

1. I claim, in a twisting wringer, the hollow sliding ring D, adapted to receiveV the clothing through its interior into the net-work M m, as herein specified. 2. I claim, in combination with a twisting wringer, the inclined trough B, jaws B1, and set-screws C, adapted `to support the parts B Bl Bz, M m, and twisting means E G H, all combined and arranged as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GILBERT SMITH. lVitnesses:

\V. C.' DEY, M. A. Down.

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