Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1871 — How to Purchase a Clothes Wringer. [ARTICLE]

How to Purchase a Clothes Wringer.

In purchasing a clothes wringer we prefer one with cog-wheels, as they greatly relieve the rubber rolls from strain that would otherwise occur, and add much to the durability ■of the machine. The next point is to see that the cog-wheels are so arranged as not to fly apart when a large article is passed between the rollers. It matters not whether the cog-wheels are on one end or both ends of the shaft; if large 1 articles disconnect them, they are entirely useless. This is very important, for as the larger the article the greater the strain, therefore if the cog-wheels separate so as to disconnect, they arc of no service when most needed. We have taken some pains to examine the various wringers, and much prefer the “Universal,” as lately improved, because it has long and strong gears (Rowell’s Patent Double Gear), and is the only wringer with “patent stop” for preventing the cog-wheels from separating so far as to lose their power.— New England Farmer. [Having used the kind of wringer mentioned above, we fully endorse all that is said of it by our New England contemporary.—Editors Scientific American. A crowd of “horsemen,” and others, daily throng the stores in country and town for Sheridan’s Cavalry Condition Powders. They understand that horses cannot be kept in good condition without them, and with them can be on a much less quantity of grain.