IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING AND WRINGING MACHINES
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Summerscales, of the Firm of William Summerscales
and Sons, of Keighley, in the County of York, Machine Makers, for an Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING AND WRINGING MACHINES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Summerscales at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th December 1880.
JOSEPH SUMMERSCALES, of the Firm of William Summerscales and Sons, of
Keighley, in the County of York, Machine Makers. IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING
AND WRINGING MACHINES."
This Invention consists in combining with a wringing machine apparatus for
washing clothes, and for this purpose I employ a tub or other receptacle placed
under the rollers of the wringing machine, such tub having a rocking or oscillatory
motion imparted to it by means of an arrangement of horizontal and vertical levers
attached to the bottom part of the tub at two opposite sides, and also to the framing
of the machine, being operated by crank, eccentric, or similar mechanism.
Rotary motion is given to the crank by means of a spur wheel from the fly wheel
of the machine, and when required the wheel may be thrown out of gear and
the tub rocked or have its oscillatory motion given to it by hand power.
Within the said tub are projections for breaking the action of the water.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Joseph Summerscales in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th June 1881.
JOSEPH SUMMERSCALES, of the Firm of William Summerscales and Sons, of
Keighley, in the County of York, Machine Makers. "IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING
AND WRINGING MACHINES."
This Invention consists in combining with a wringing machine apparatus for
washing clothes, and for this purpose employ a tub or other receptacle placed
under the rollers of the wringing machine, such tub having a rocking or oscillatory
motion imparted to it by means of an arrangement of horizontal and vertical levers
attached to the bottom part of the tub at two opposite sides, and also to the framing
of the machine, being operated by crank, eccentric, or similar mechanism.
Rotary motion is given to the crank by means of a spur wheel from the fly
wheel of the machine, and when required the wheel may be thrown out of gear
and the tub rocked or have its oscillatory motion given to it by hand power.
Within the said tub are projections for breaking the action of the water.
In order that my Invention may be more fully understood, I herein give reference
to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof.
Fig. 1 represents a front view of the machine, and Fig. 2 is sectional side
elevation; A are the rollers of a wringing machine, under which is placed a vessel B
mounted upon pedestals C, which are carried upon centres D fixed to the bottom
rail of the machine. Under the box is a crank shaft E connected by rod F to one
of the pedestals C. Rotary motion is given to the shaft E by means of toothed
gearing from the hand wheel G, and this imparts a rocking motion to the vessel B.
The band wheel G slides on a feather on the shaft H, so that it can be readily
thrown into or out of gear with the wheel J, as required. A hand wheel K is also
fixed on the shaft E.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, I would have it understood
that I claim,-
The construction and use in combination with a wringing machine of a rocking
vessel or tub B, in manner substantially as herein shewn and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Summerscales, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
JOSEPH SUMMERSCALES. (L.S.)