IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING MACHINES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frank Kinder, of Cambridge, in the County
of Cambridge, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING
MACHINES." A communication from abroad by J. Sidney Kinder,
of the Township of Amherst, in the County of Cumberland, and
Province of Nova Scotia, Trader.
Sealed the 17th Juno 1873, and dated the 5th March 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frank Kinder at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th March 1878.
I, FRANK KINDER, of Cambridge, in the County of Cambridge, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
WASHING MACHINES," a communication to me from abroad by J. Sidney
Kinder, of the Township of Amherst, in the County of Cumberland,
and Province of Nova Scotia, Trader, to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the construction of a machine for washing
clothes, to be used in combination with a wash tub, wherein the clothes

page_text: are cleansed between a fixed and a revolving horizontal rubbing disc.
The upper disc revolves on a fixed central vertical spindle firmly secured
in the lower fixed disc, which is held removeably in the bottom of a tub.
The under face of the lower disc is provided with slots to raise it from
the bottom of the tub, and may be pierced with holes to allow of the
circulation of water. The upper face of this lower disc is supplied with
a series of raised ribs radiating from the centre. The upper disc is
provided with the usual series of holes and radiating ribs on its rubbing
surface, and operated by a horizontal cross lever supported on standards
affixed in foot plates attached to the upper face of the disc. The :
advantages of a machine thus constructed are that the tub can be used
independently of the washing appliance, which may be applied thereto
or removed therefrom when required, thereby admitting the use of the
tub for other purposes, and thus are combined cheapness of manufacture,
economy in use, with efficiency of operation. The lower disc is held
removeably in the tub by screws or other contrivance. When the clothes
aro to be inserted the top disc is removed and the clothes placed around
the spindle and on the lower disc.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frank Kinder in the Great Scal Patent Office on
the 4th September 1878.,
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANK
KINDER, of Cambridge, in the County of Cambridge, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of March, in the year of 2
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, givo
and grant unto me, the said Frank Kinder, Her special license, that I,
the said Frank Kinder, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Frank Kinder, my executors, administrators,
or 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 Iroland, the Channel Islands,

page_text: And in order that the said Invention may be fully understood, I
shall now proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that
purpose shall refer to the several Figures on the annexed Sheet of
Drawings, the same letters of reference indicating corresponding parts in
all the Figures.
Figure 1 of the Drawings is an elevation of a machine when not in
use, embodying this Invention; Figure 2 is an elevation of the same
when in use, showing the clothes between the rubbing surfaces;
Figure 3 is a top view of the bottom rubbing disc; and Figure 4 is a
bottom view of the top rubbing disc.
1
A is the lower disc having slots K attached underneath to raise the
disc from the bottom of the tub and allow the circulation of water
through the holes C when the machine is in operation. The diso A is
provided with a series of raised ribs E arranged to radiate from the
central spindle D, which is firmly secured to the disc A. B is the upper 1
disc having a central hole and collar G to receive the spindle D on
which it revolves. It is provided on its under face with a series of raised
ribs E¹ radiating from the centre hole. A series of the holes O' are
bored through the disc, by preference two between each rib, to allow of
the circulation of water to the clothes. To the upper face of the disc B 2
are affixed into foot plates attached thereto standards F, which support
a horizontal lever H, through which passes the spindle D, one of the
handles of the lever H being by preference mado longer than the other
to allow of the machine being operated in the tub by one hand only if
required.
2
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of the
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or
carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider to
be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to
me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the peculiar 8
washing device capable of being used in combination with an ordinary
tub, and comprising the spindle D affixed to a disc A, which disc is
provided with slots K on the under side, radial ribs E on the surface,
and holes C through it in combination with a revolving disc B provided
with radius ribs E' and holes C', and operated by a horizontal lever H, 8

page_text: substantially as herein-before described and illustrated by the Drawings
annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frank Kinder, have to this my
Specification set my hand and seal, this Second day of September,
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.