IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING MACHINES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Edmondson, of Queenwood, in the County
of Southampton, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING
MACHINES."
Sealed the 5th September 1862, and dated the 8th March 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Edmondson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 8th
March 1862.
I, GEORGE EDMONDSON, of Queenwood, in the County of Southampton, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING
MACHINES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in certain improvements upon the Invention for
which Letters Patent were granted to me for "Improvements in Washing
Machines," dated April 1st, 1861, No. 798. In that machine I employed a
single chain for giving motion to the feeding and delivery rollers and a number
of guide rollers. I now substitute two chains for the single chain, and drive
the feed and delivery rollers independently of each other by means of separate
chain pinions cast with the large toothed wheel, which arrangement enables
the stretching pulleys to be dispensed with, and saves expense in the fitting. I
employ spiral springs for exerting the required pressure upon the delivery
rollers, and also dispense with the guide rollers unless the machine is of such
dimensions as to require them.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Edmondson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
6th September 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
EDMONDSON, of Queenwood, in the County of Southampton, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said George Edmondson, Her special licence that I, the said George Edmondson,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George
Edmondson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING
MACHINES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George
Edmondson, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in
the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Edmondson, do hereby declaro
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say):-
This Invention consists in certain improvements upon the Invention for
which Letters Patent were granted to me for improvements in washing
machines, dated the First day of April, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
one, No. 798. In that machine I employed a single chain for giving motion
to the feeding and delivery rollers and a number of guide rollers. I now
substitute two chains for the single chain, and drive the feed and delivery
rollers independently of each other by means of separate chain pinions, which
arrangement enables the stretching pulleys to be dispensed with; and saves
expense in the fitting. I employ spiral springs for exerting the required
pressure upon the delivery rollers, and also dispense with the guide rollers
unless the machine is of such dimensions as to require them.

page_text: This Invention will be clearly understood by referring to the figures and
letters on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, representing in Fig. 1 a longi-
tudinal elevation, and in Fig. 2, a transverso section, of the main parts of a
washing machine, having my improvements attached. The feed roller a and
delivery roller bare each driven by separate chains c, d, gearing into pinions
ef, at the sides of the large toothed wheel g, and cast with it, by which means
the two rollers work independently of each other. The beaters h have galva-
nized wire stems i, between which the tappets k work for raising the beaters,
and afterwards allowing them to fall. Beyond the delivery roller 6 there is a
small roller, which assists in preventing the return of the clothes. The
pressing or squeezing roller m is acted upon by a spiral spring n at each end,
for giving pressure and squeezing the clothes.
Having now described the nature and particulars of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be understood
that I claim as my Invention, and which to the best of my knowledge and
belief has not been bitherto used within the realm, the improvements in
washing machines herein described and illustrated in the accompanying Sheet
of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Edmondson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Witness,
JOHN HAAS,
Queenwood.
GEO. EDMONDSON. (L.s.)