Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 10th July, 1836
Complete Left, 7th Apr., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 21st June, 1887.
I AMBROSE SAMSON Licensed Victualler of "The Sugar Loaf Tavern " Little
College Street Upper Thames Street in the City of London do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improvements in washing machines in which fixed and
revolving brushes are arranged and adjusted upon or in combination with a suitable
tank or tanks and revolved by means of cranks or otherwise whilst the water is boiling
in such manner that a constant stream of boiling water is passed through the articles
required to be washed. The clothes passing between the brushes the dirt already
loosened by the stream of boiling water is pressed out but is not brushed or scrubbed
out so that the most delicate lace or other fabrics can be cleansed by this process
without being in any way damaged as is so frequently the case by the present method
of brushing and scrubbing. The tank is advantageously arranged in combination
with a stove or apparatus for heating the water.
The tank being divided into two or more separate sections the clothes after under-
going one cleansing can be passed through the wringer (advantageously adjusted on
the dividing partition if desired) and dropped forthwith into the second tank of clean
boiling water to undergo a second operation.
By this means a constant stream of boiling water is passed through the clothes-a
continuous ebullition being kept up by means of the revolving and stationary brushes
with complete absence of wear and tear, the brushes being so adjusted as to press the
dirt out while the ebullition is going on.

page_text: I AMBROSE SAMSON, Licensed Victualler of "The Sugar Loaf Tavern," Little
College Street, Upper Thames Street, in the City of London do hereby declare the
nature of my invention for WASHING MACHINES and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
Revolving brushes A are arranged and adjusted upon or in combination with a tank
or tanks B or any other suitable washing tub or tubs and revolved by means of
cranks Cor otherwise whilst the water is hot or boiling in such manner that a constant
stream of hot or boiling water is passed through the articles required to be washed.
The Clothes passing between the Brushes the dirt already loosened by the stream of
hot or boiling water is pressed out but is not scrubbed out so that the most delicate
lace or other fabrics can be cleansed by this process without being in any way
damaged, as is so frequently the case by the present method of brushing and scrubbing.
The tank or tanks if desired may be advantageously arranged in combination with a
stove or apparatus for heating the water by means of Coal, Gas, Paraffin or any
other suitable method.
The tank or tanks being divided into two or more separate sections the Clothes after
undergoing one cleansing can be passed through the wringer (advantageously adjusted
on the dividing partition E if desired) and dropped forthwith into the second tank of
clean hot or boiling water to undergo a second operation.
By this means a constant stream of hot or boiling water is passed through the
Clothes, a continuous agitation being kept up by means of the lower revolving brush
with complete absence of wear and tear, the brushes being so adjusted as to press the
dirt out while the ebullition is going on.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is
Cleansing the clothes by passing them through revolving brushes so adjusted and
held in tension by means of india-rubber or other suitable springs in order to press
out the dirt without scrubbing the material, the operation being performed if desired
in boiling water where a constant agitation is going on by means of the revolving
brush.