Year: 1894

page_text: We, CHARLES LLOYD BRAITHWAITE and EDWARD O'BRIEN, of the Firm of
Isaac Braithwaite and Son, of Kendal, in the County of Westmoreland, Merchants
and Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to machines for washing clothes or other fabrics such as
are employed by laundrymen dyers and in similar trades.
In the small machines at present in use where the water is not heated or kept
hot in the machine it is customary to employ a single barrel rotated about its axis
by hand or power into which the clothes and washing solution are placed; where
however 'the water or washing solution are heated or maintained heated in the
machine by steam and a certain amount of pressure required the more usual
arrangement has been to provide an outer fixed case or barrel for the water fitted
with inlet and outlet pipes for water and steam and an inner revolving cylinder to
receive the clothes or fabrics.
Our invention is designed to provide a machine in which a second inside cylinder
is dispensed with and consists in constructing the case or barrel to revolve upon its
own axis and fitted internally with a transverse partition extending across it
thereby providing two chambers into one of which the clothes are placed and int>
the other the water can drain at each revolution.
This transverse partition is made of any suitable material, either perforated or
in bars, or otherwise arranged to allow free passage for the water or washing
solution through it while preventing the passage of the clothes.
It is placed in the case or barrel preferably parallel to the axis upon which the
case revolves, and at such a distance from the bottom, at the point of its revolutions,
when the door by which the clothes are entered is in its proper position for filling
or emptying it, that it will also be parallel to the surface of the water in the
machine and at a distance of one or two inches above the usual water level.
This partition may extend from end to end of the case, or it may stop short of
one end by the amount of space required for the water and steam pipes where it is
desired that these should be stationary or not revolving with the case. It would
then be carried from this point at right angles till it joined the case so as to prevent
the clothes from touching the pipes. In this arrangement the pipes may be brought
through a stuffing box at one end and bent down at right angles so as to reach the
lowest part of the case, thus securing that whatever position the cylinder may be
in the steam will always be admitted at the lowest part of the washing solution so
as to give the best results in heating it.
By means of these improvements we secure easier access to the interior of the
machine and the clothes are more thoroughly washed being carried in and out of
the water continually which is caused to flow over and through them in various
directions.
Dated this 23rd day of May 1904.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.

page_text: Improvements in Washing Machines.
We, CHARLES LLOYD BRAITHWAITE and EDWARD O'BRIEN, of the Firm of
Isaac Braithwaite and Son, of Kendal, in the County of Westmoreland, Merchants
and Engineers, 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 machines for washing clothes or other fabrics such as
are employed by laundrymmen dyers and in similar trades.
In the small machines at present in use where the water is not heated or kept
hot in the machine it is customary to employ a single barrel rotated about its axis.
by hand or power into which the clothes and washing solution are placed; where
however the water or washing solution is heated or maintained heated in the
machine by steam, and a certain amount of pressure required the more usual
arrangement has been to provide an outer fixed case or barrel for the water fitted
with inlet and outlet pipes for water and steam and an inner revolving cylinder to
receive the clothes or fabrics.
Our invention is designed to provide a machine in which a second inside cylinder
is dispensed with and consists in constructing the case or barrel to revolve upon its
own axis and fitted internally with a transverse partition extending across it
thereby providing two chambers into one of which the clothes are placed and into
the other the water can drain at each revolution.
The invention, will be fully described with reference to the accompanying
drawings.
Fig. 1. Longitudinal section.
Fig. 2. Transverse section.
Fig. 3. Transverse section of modified form of apparatus.
The machine is constructed with a single barrel A and one or two transverse
partitions B B¹ extending across from side to side.
The transverse partition B is made of any suitable material, either perforated or
in bars, or otherwise arranged to allow free passage for the water or washing
solution through it while preventing the passage of the articles being washed.
It is placed in the case or barrel A preferably parallel to the axis upon which
the barrel revolves, and parallel to the surface of the water in the machine when
the door by which the clothes are entered is in its proper position for filling or
emptying it and a sufficient distance above the usual level of the water.
The partition B may extend from end to end of the case A; but if it is desired
that the steam pipe D should be stationary, that is not revolving with the case, but
always discharging at the lowest point, then the partition must stop short at one
end by the space required for the pipes, and the protecting partition may be fixed
parallel to the end of the case. The pipes. D and E may be brought into the case
through a stuffing box in the end, or where steam pressure is not required through
a hollow, journal.
In Fig. 3.a modified arrangement is shown in which two perforated partitions B
and B are fitted to the case or barrel A.
The lid C may be placed in any convenient position for removing the articles
from the barrel.
The partition B-may be made of the shape shown on the drawings, or it
may be
made perfectly straight or curved, either partially or throughout, or bent at one or
more angles; in fact of whatever shape may be convenient for particular
cases.
By means of these improvements we secure easier access to the interior of the
machine and the clothes are more thoroughly washed being carried in and out of

page_text: the water continually which is caused to flow over and through them in various
directions.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
A washing machine constructed with a single barrel or case and one or two
transverse perforated partitions substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 11th day of January 1895.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool, and London, Patent Agents.