Improvements in or Connected with Washing Machines.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application; 28th Feb., 1887
Complete Left, 25th Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 27th Dec., 1887
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Connected with Washing Machines.
I RIOHARD LAWs of Cherrytree Hall, New Road, Chatham Kent, Engineer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to so construct the internal part of the box or
washer of a washing machine that the clothes under operation are expeditiously
cleansed without being knocked about or injured as is a common practice by existing
machines.
According to my invention I form a square or rectangular shaped box or case the
inner surfaces or walls of which are corrugated, fluted or ribbed wholly or partially
from side to side or some of said walls only may be so shaped-The bottom which
preferably corresponds has on one portion an inclined board-set at such an angle
against one of the walls to serve as a suction board said board being ribbed and also
perforated or slotted for a portion only or over the entire surface a chamber being
left behind it.
The box is gumballed on standards and has a rock motion by hand or other
power.
This 28th day of Faber 1007

page_text: I, RICHARD LAWS, of Cherrytree Hall, New Road Chatham, Kent, Engineer 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 :-
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The object of this invention is, to so construct the internal part of the box or
washer of a washing machine that the clothes under operation are expeditiously
and effectually cleansed without being knocked about or injured as is a common
practice by existing washing machines.
the
According to my invention, I form a square or rectangular shaped box or case,
inner surfaces or walls of which are corrugated, fluted, or ribbed wholly or only
partially from side to side, or one of the said walls only may be so shaped. The
bottom which preferably corresponds has on one portion an inclined board, set at such
an angle against one of the walls to serve as a suction board, said board being
ribbed and also fluted, perforated, or slotted for a portion only of its length, or over
the entire surface, a chamber being left behind it.
The box is gimballed on a standard and has a rock motion by hand or other
power.
My invention will be understood by the annexed drawings, Figure 1 being a
transverse section and Figure 2 a plan showing the interior.
A, B, C, D), represent the four side walls of an oscillatory or vibratory box
gimballed, or hung on bearings E, E, of uprights F, F, constituting the supporting
frame thereof.
The walls A, B, are shown corrugated by a grooving of the wood but the same
result can be obtained by affixing ribs to the inner surfaces of the walls to break up
the water and to act as beaters to the clothes while tossed to and fro in the box from
the oscillations. G is the inclined board set at an angle against the side wall A
from the bottom H, and I is the chamber behind the board into which the water can
rush by the apertures in said angled board or partition G, the water being forced into
the chamber I by the weight of clothes as they approach the board while the
oscillations to one side is going on, the reverse motion of the clothes by the change of
direction of oscillation producing a suction action to draw the water from the
chamber I, said chamber forming a reverse suction to draw the water from the clothes
as they recede from the board under the oscillatory movement of the box.
The inclined board or partition G in the box may be set at an angle so arranged
nearly vertical as at dotted lines G¹ and said board inay be perforated in sections as
indicated and the ends J, J, may be plain with ribs K, K, at intervals, or the end
at J, J, may be open, the angled partition G stopping short as at L L Figure 2 from
the side or end walls.
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page_text: The apertured partition G may be in one or a number of pieces and have slits
between instead of holes.
In or near the top opposite corner of the box I arrange a baffle or splash board, or
it may be a roller M as at Figure 1 against which the clothes beat and the water is
broken, this assisting to remove the dirt from the clothes under operation.
The box is closed by a lid N as in the perspective view Figure 3, said lid being
pinched in the opening P in a water tight manner by the cross plank Q locking
under the claws R, R, by a side thrust action or by bolts. The lid may if desired be
in two pieces.
S is the handrail by which the box is oscillated, but any other appliance may be
fitted for the purpose either for moving the box by hand or other power.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
In an oscillatory box or washing machine the inclined openwork partition termed
a suction board G set at an angle from the bottom to the side or end wall thereof
and forming a chamber I as and for the purpose or purposes set forth and substantially
as shown by the annexed drawing Figures 1 and 2.
The 5th d... of Novemba 1007
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Richard Laws.