Improvements in Machines for Washing, Cleaning and Starching Clothes and Linen and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Apr., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 24th Jan., 1898-Accepted, 24th May, 1898
Improvements in Machines for Washing, Cleaning and Starching
Clothes and Linen and the like.
ANNIE BARRETT, Engineer, Haynes Road, Uppingham Road, Leicester, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
It relates to improvements in machines employed in the process of washing,
cleaning & starching clothes or linen, & consists of a rotary barrel or box.
Inside the rotary barrel or box I fix lifters or shelves on the sides, extending from
the bottom to the top, or partly as desirable, or they may take the form of short
projections suitable for lifting or working against the clothes.
I flute the wood-work inside barrel or box as desirable.
At one end of the barrel or box I have an opening extending in size as desirable, &
on this is placed a suitable lid. At the opposite end to opening I fix a plate with
shaft, this shaft is inserted into a socket or the plate may form the socket, the shaft
& socket are made to tilt forwards & backwards so that the barrel or box when washing
is leaned forward at an angle suitable to give the greatest agitation to the water and
clothes or linen being operated upon. Also that the barrel or box when required may
he placed in an upright position, so that the clothes or linen may be taken out while
the barrel or box is in this position.
When desirable I use ball-bearings in connection with the socket and shaft.
To hold the barrel or box in an upright position, I use a foot-lever, which, by its
own gravity lays hold of the shaft or socket to hold barrel or box in an upright
position.
I also fix a stand holding the socket and shaft to a plate, which I fix to the cross-bar
of an ordinary mangling or wringing machine, or, I arrange the cross-bar of the ordinary
mangling machine to receive the socket shaft and lever, so that the barrel or box may
receive when in an upright position, or thereabouts, the water or suds back again,
which will be squeezed out of the clothes or linen.
At the outer end of the barrel or box, or, at the outer edge of the end, I fix a handle,
by which means I rotate the barrel or box.
For the purpose of emptying the barrel or box, I fix near the bottom of the barrel
or box an outlet, on to this outlet I fix a metal plate or flange, on the inside of flange
or plate is a single thread or two half-threads, a space of which is cut away between
the half-threads. I insert into the hole a metal plug having two lugs, which lugs pass
through the part where the thread is cut away, so that when the plug is turned
slightly round these lugs bind themselves against the threads, and bring the flange of
the plug against the flange of the plate, between which is a suitable washer made of
leather or suitable material is placed.
Dated this 22nd day of April 1897.

page_text: Improvements in Machines for Washing, Cleaning and Starching
Clothes and Linen and the like.
ANNIE BARRETT, Haynes Road, Uppingham Road, Leicester, Engineers' Clerk, I do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in machines for washing, cleaning &
starching clothes & linen & the like & consists of a barrel or box, inside of which I
place lifters or shelves extending from the bottom to the top or partly as desirable, or,
they may take the form of short projections, suitable for lifting, or working against
the clothes.
I flute the wood-work inside the barrel or box as desirable. At the end of the
barrel or box, I have an opening extending in size as desirable, & in this I place a
suitable lid. At the opposite end to opening I fix a plate with its shaft, the shaft
is placed in a socket, which carries the shaft, so that it is held in an upright position
or allowed to tilt forward as desirable.
To hold the barrel or box in an upright position, I fix a weighted foot lever or
equivalent, which by its own gravity lays hold of the shaft, to bold barrel or box in
upright position.
Near the top or on the top of the barrel or box, & extending above the top, I fix a
handle by which means I rotate the barrel or box. When desirable I use balls or
roller bearings in connection with the shaft & plate carrying the barrel or
box.
The shaft & socket holding the barrel or box I fix to the cross-bar of an ordinary
mangle or I arrange the cross-bar to receive the socket, shaft & lever, so that the
barrel or box may receive when in an upright position or thereabouts the water or
suds back again which may be squeezed out of the clothes or linen being
washed.
I place for the purpose of emptying at the bottom, or near the bottom of the barrel
or box a plug made of suitable material. Or I fix on to the barrel or box a plate
with a hole in it, inside the hole & slightly outside I place a single thread, out of
which I have cut parts away. And on the plug is placed two projections which
enter past the parts cut away, and, when turned into position for stopping the water
or liquid, engage themselves against the parts of threads not cut away, thus binding
the outer flange of plug against the face of the brass plate, in between which plate
& flange of plug, I place a suitable leather washer or washer made of any suitable
material, see Figures 4 & 5.
The accompanying drawings illustrate this invention :---
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the machine.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation of same.
Fig. 3 is a section of socket & holder showing axle shaft & ball or roller bearings
drawn to a larger scale.
Fig. 4 is a front & side elevation of plug for outlet.
Fig. 5 is a front & side elevation of flange for outlet.
In all the drawings, the letters of reference represent like parts.
The barrel or box A is rotated by the handle G and carried by bottom plate &
shaft E running in socket C on trunnions C ), with ball or roller bearings H, contained
in holder B, this is blocked, see dotted line b Fig. 2, so that the axle shaft E cannot
get out too far or beyond its tilted position, the latter secured to the cross-frame D,

page_text: and carrying the shaft E secured by collar to the bottom plate of the tub, see
sectional view Figure 3.
The tub is in close proximity to the rollers N of mangling machine.
To hold the barrel or box A in the upright position the weighted foot lever F is
pivoted to the frame of the holder B and impinges against the bottom of the axle shaft,
as seen in Figures 1, 2 & 3 of the drawings.
To relieve the barrel or box A the foot lever is lifted, when the inner end frees
itself from the bottom of the shaft E, the barrel or box is tilted over, see dotted line
Fig. 2.
On the bottom or near the bottom of the barrel or box A is an emptying plug I
with lugs J, which pass through parts of thread cut away K in plate L & which
engage with lugs J, between which I place a suitable washer M, see Fig. 4 & 5.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, & in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a washing, mangling or starching machine the combination of a barrel or
box A, a holder B, a socket C, trunnions C 1, the holder fitted on rail or cross-bar D,
the whole coming under the roller N, or in the proximity to any ordinary wringing
& mangling machine, as shown in Fig. 1 & 2 of the drawings.
2. The combination of the box or barrel A with plate & shaft E attached to the
bottom, thereof fitting in socket C on trunnions C 1 & mounted in holder B,
attached to cross-bar D, rotated with handle G attached to top of barrel or box A,
the axle shaft E & socket C, fixed in holder B & weighted foot lever F allow of the
barrel or box A to be placed at an incline, or upright, operated substantially as
described & illustrated.
3. The combination of a barrel or box A with suitable opening, rotated with handle G,
fixed at the top of the barrel or box A, carried by plate and axle shaft E & working
in socket. C, held in position either upright or angular by the weighted foot lever F
or substitute substantially as described.
4. In a combination receptacle such as A carried with plate & axle shaft E in
socket C, with ball or roller bearings H, the tub operated by handle G held at an
angle or upright position by weighted foot lever F, or its equivalent, secured to holder,
this latter to framework, or attached to cross-rail D of an ordinary wringing &
mangling machine.
5. In a combination receptacle A carried with plate & axle shaft E in socket C
with ball or roller bearings H in suitable stand held angular, or in the upright
position as desirable.
6. The plug I with lugs J passing through parts of threads cut away K in plate L
which engage themselves with the lugs J. Between plate L and flange I is inserted
a washer M made of leather or other suitable material, with reference to Figures 1, 2,
4 & 5 of the accompanying drawings.
TIL OLL
1000