An Improved Machine for the purpose of Combining the various processes of Rubbing or Washing, Boiling, Wringing, and Mangling, employed in Cleansing Linen and other Fabrics, Raw Materials, and the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Mar, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 30th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 15th Feb., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Machine for the purpose of Combining the various
processes of Rubbing or Washing, Boiling, Wringing, and
Mangling, employed in Cleansing Linen and other Fabrics, Raw
Materials, and the like.
I EDWARD THOMAS HUGHES, of 5 Chancery Lane, London, W.C. Patent Agent,
(a communication from William Vaile, of the City of Auckland, New Zealand,
Draper), do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved machine for the purpose of combining the
various processes of Rubbing or Washing, Boiling, Wringing and Mangling,
employed in cleaning linen and other fabrics, raw materials and the like, and is as
follows:
I construct my improved machine with the washing apparatus in the boiler,
so that it is capable of being worked while the linen or the like is being boiled.
The boiler can be made of any desirable shape or size, and either as a fixture or a
portable article, with a furnace attached.
The washing or rubbing apparatus is placed inside the boiler as aforesaid, and is
worked by cranks with moveable or swinging arms placed at different heights so as
to rub the whole mass while it is boiling."
The wringing or mangling machine is formed of rollers attached to the supporting
frame of the boiler.
CML 1000
HUGHES & SON,
5, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Machine for the purpose of Combining the various
processes of Rubbing or Washing, Boiling, Wringing, and
Mangling, employed in Cleansing Linen and other Fabrics, Raw
Materials, and the like.
I EDWARD THOMAS HUGHES, of 5 Chancery Lane, London, W.C. Patent Agent,
(a communication from William Vaile, of Auckland, New Zealand, Draper,) 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 an improved machine for the purpose of combining the
various processes of rubbing or washing, boiling, wringing, and mangling, employed
in cleansing linen and other fabrics, raw materials and the like; and has for object the
better washing of linen and other clothes, raw materials and the like, in a thorough
manner, in one handy machine.
In carrying my invention into effect, I construct my improved machine with the
washing apparatus in the boiler, so that the linen or other material in the boiler, is
being rubbed and washed, by means of moveable cranks or arms, whilst being boiled.
The rubbing or washing arms are so arranged that they produce a rubbing effect
similar to the human hand.
The boiler of my improved machine may be made of any suitable form and size,
either as a fixture or a portable article, with a furnace attached.
I provide rollers, attached to the supporting frame of the boiler, which serve as
a wringing or mangling machine.

page_text: And in order that my invention may be more readily understood, I have shown
the same on the accompanying drawing, wherein :-
Fig. 1 is a front elevation, Fig. 2 is a back view shewing the smoke stack;
Fig. 3 is a side view of the apparatus; Fig. 4 is a view shewing the other side of the
machine; Fig. 5 shews the form of rubber arms I use; Fig. 6 is a view shewing
the form of shaft for working the rubber arms, and Fig. 7 is a plan of the bottom of
the furnace shewing the line of draught.
A. is the space under the furnace; B is the furnace for heating the boiler; C is
the boiler made of any suitable material, having a tap M for draining off the spent
water. E are the bent shafts for working the rubbing or washing arms D.
The said shafts E are actuated by means of cog-wheels F worked by means of the
crank G, the treadle driving shaft H, and the treadle 1. But I can dispense with the
cog-wheels if desirable or couvenient.
A fly-wheel J is provided for the purpose of working the apparatus by steam or
other power. K. are the wringer rollers, worked by wringer wheel L. N is a
moveable bar over the wringer. O is a spring over the wringing apparatus. P. is a
fixed bar over the spring. A screw Q is provided for the purpose of tightening the
wringer. R. is the top frame of the machine. S. (fig. 2) shows the smoke stack at
the back of the machine.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. The new action of the rubbing or washing arms or cranks, as hereinbefore
described and shewn and for the purpose set forth.
2. The rubbing or washing arms, the complete washing and finishing of articles in
one machine, and the combination of the parts as hereinbefore described and shewn
and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 20th dow of N^-1000
HUGHES & SON,
5, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.