Steam Washing Machine.
Year: 1894

page_text: Steam Washing Machine.
ARTHUR LIONEL BROOK, Engineer, Highfield House Newtown Leeds, Yorks
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
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This invention has reference to that class of machines known as steam washers,"
and its object is to produce a machine, in which the clothes, wool, or other inaterials
are subjected to the combined actions of washing, steaming, possing or dipping,
peggying or dollying.
According to this invention within a rectangular or other suitable shaped
receptacle is mounted in suitable bearings, a cylinder, or drum, in which the clothes
or wool to be washed are placed, motion for rotating the cylinder or drum, may
be imported, either by hand, through a handle, with or without additional gearing
or by power.
The periphery of the cylinder is formed of lays, or strips or of other suitable
shape, preferably triangular in cross section fixed to two end discs at suitable
distances apart, so as to provide openings parallel or nearly so with the axis of the
cylinder for the water in the receptacle to enter the cylinder. One or more suitable
openings, closed with one or more hinged or slotted doors, is provided in the
cylinder, for the admission of the clothes, wool, or other material to be washed.
Within the cylinder are provided two jointed levers, that is to say, a lever
formed in two parts, jointed together, there is provided for each end a disc,
one portion of each jointed lever is fixed to its respective end piece at a tangent to
the axis of the cylinder, whilst in the extreme end of each of the other portions of
the said jointed levers is mounted a carrier.
In the carrier are mounted a number of rollers, four for preference, arranged in
the form of a square or circle, & covered with india rubber, canvas, or other
suitable material.
To one end of the carrier, in which the rollers are mounted, a rotary motion is
imparted, by means of suitable gearing and chains, or their equivalents, for causing
the rollers to revolve, as well as trail, upon the inner periphery of the cylinder,
at or about the same surface speed, as that of the cylinder.
That by this means, the clothes or wool, in the cylinder is passed under & over
the said rollers, & in so doing, are submitted to a rubbing and other actions similar
to that in hand washing.
Dated this 19th day of June 1894.
ARTHUR LIONEL BROOK.

page_text: 1, ARTHUR LIONEL BROOK, of Highfield House, Newtown, Leeds, in the
County of York, 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 :-
This invention has reference to that class of machine known as steam washer.
The object of my invention therein is to produce a machine in which the clothes,
wool or other material will be subjected by automatic mechanism to the combined
actions of washing, steaming, possing, dipping, peggying or dollying.
Such being the nature and object of my invention, I will now proceed to describe
the same more fully, and for that purpose make reference to the accompanying sheet
of drawings wherein
Fig. 1 is cross section of a steam washer having any improvements applied thereto,
and Fig. 2 is longitudinal section of same.
Fig. 3 is part end view of the driving end of the machine.
A represents a stationary box or chamber which contains boiling water or liquor,
such said chamber being provided with a door B. Within the said chamber A
there is mounted a revolving cage composed of lnths C. This cago runs loosely
upon stationary axles D, but it is made to revolve by means of gear wheels E and F,
the former being driven by a swaife or handle G or it may be driven by power.
The toothed wheel F is mounted upon a sleeve I secured by means of a flange
to the disc of the cage C therefore as the said cnge revolves, hot water an
steam lodging in chamber A. enters between spaces K of the laths C so that the
said cage is always partially filled with water. A door L is provided in the cage
in which to introduce the materials to be washed.
I will now describe my improvements in such steam washers, which consist of
an arm M secured in any convenient manner to the stationary axle D.
To the forward end of the said arm M, I mount a grooved pulley N which by
means of cord or chain receives rotary motion from the grooved pulley secured
to and revolving with the disc J. On the stad Q of the grooved pulley N, I mount
a second grooved pulley R which by means of cord or chain S imparts rotary
motion to another grooved pulley T carried on the end of arm shown on an
enlarged scale in Figs. 4 and 5. The grooved pulley T is secured to a tube or
pipe U on each end of which are discs V made to revolve through the medium of
pulley T and on the said dises V I mount four or other number of rollers W
covered with india rubber or other suitable material for possing the fabrics or fibres.
I wish it to be understood that as the cage C revolves the grooved pulley P
attached to the side of the said cage (through the medium of the grooved
pulleys N, R, T cords or chains O, S,) imparts a rotary motion to the discs
causing the said rollers W to revolve at the same or about the same surface speed
as the internal sides of the cage C consequently as the possing rollers W revolve
upon the clothes there is less tendency to tear or use the clothes roughly than
would be the ease if the possing rollers were rotated at a different speed to the cage
whilst the arm Z is stationary.
I wish it to be understood that the said arin M is free to rock upon the axis Ya0
that the series of rollers W can rise and fall to adapt themselves to the varying
quantity of clothes lying in the revolving cage and that the said rollers W aro
free and at liberty to drop with their full weight upon the clothes which will
materially assist in pegging, possing, and squeezing the clothes or materials being
washed. It is also evident that the clothes or other material are passed under and

page_text: over the said rollers whereby they are subjected to a rubbing and other actions
similar to hand washing.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
Firstly. In a steam washer, the use therein of rollers such as W arranged and
operating substantially in the manner herein shewn and described and for purposes
set forth.
Secondly. In a steam washer, the use therein of rollers such as W having
rotary motion imparted to them, arranged and operating in the manner substantially
as herein shewn and described and for purposes set forth.
Dated this 13th day of March 1895.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Patent Agents.