Improvements in Apparatus for Washing Textile Fabrics and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Apr., 1895-Accepted, 24th May, 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Washing Textile Fabrics and
the like.
I, HERMANN SCHIEDGES of 6 Monheims Allee Aix la Chapelle, in the Empire
of Germany, Mechanical 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:-
My invention relates to apparatus for washing textile fabrics and the like.
The improved washing machine represented in longitudinal section in the
accompanying drawings possesses the advantage of economising to a very great
extent the expenditure of time necessitated by existing apparatus of the kind for
the washing process, whilst it effects a more thorough cleansing than apparatus
hitherto adopted.
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These advantages are gained by causing the woven tissue or fabric G to pass
through not only the ordinary pair of squeezing rollers a b, but also between a
further series of roller-pairs c and d lying one over the other, whereof the rollers o
of the upper set are journailed in a frame e in such manner as to be capable of
yielding or having a slight amount of free movement in a vertical direction they
rest upon the peripheries of the rollers d of the lower set which simply rotate in
their bearings; the upper set receive a reciprocating and rolling movement and
subject the tissue, here alternately loose and strained, in consequence of its up-and-
down movements to a thorough wringing and rubbing tension.
The driving of this part of the apparatus is effected by the driving shaft g by
means of the crank arm engaging in the slot i of a lever and causing that lever
to oscillate to and fro on the stud or pink of the main frame on which it is mounted,
whereby the lever arm p (of the bell-crank lever op pirotted on the stud or pin n
and connected with the rocking lever ) engaged with a pin g of the frame e is
caused to reciprocate and move the said frame and the upper row of rollers c to
and fro. For the purpose of effecting a quicker and more thorough cleansing, the
tissue or fabric G can, as shown by the thick doubled line in the drawing, bo
returned through the two series of rollers c d. In case this be not desired the
tissue will pass in the direction shown in the drawing by a thick dotted line G' and
over the roller r.
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 ;-
1. A washing machine wherein the washing process is accelerated by passing the
tissue in a single or double layer between two series of rollers (c and d) whereof
the rollers of the one row or series have a rotating motion and those of the other
row or series a rolling and reciprocating motion on the circumferences of the first-
named series and thus the tissue is subjected to a mechanical treatment with
alternating changes of tension and strain substantially as and for the purpose
described.
2. A washing machine constructed and operating substantially as and for the
nurnose described and illustrated in the accompanwing drawings
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.