AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF WASHING MACHINE
Year: 1859

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Newton,
ems,
66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughts-
man, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF WASHING
MACHINE." A communication from abroad by David Parker, of Shaker
Village, New Hampshire, in the United States of America.
Sealed the 16th August 1859, and dated the 23rd May 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Vincent Newton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 23rd May 1859.
I, ALFRED VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION
OF WASHING MACHINE," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the arrangement of two, three, or more washing
compartments on one frame, so that a series of two, three, or more rubbers
upon a moving frame may act in their respective compartments simultaneously,
which arrangement admits of clothes of different qualities and under different
degrees of heat being washed at one and the same time, without allowing
the water of one quality to mingle with or dash over into that of another
quality.
In carrying out this Invention, a long box is subdivided into any suitable

page_text: number of chambers by partitions, the tops of which overhang so as to turn
the water thrown up against them back into its own special compartment.
A long rectangular frame rests and slides on suitable ways or guides on
top of the box, and is fitted with a series of rubbers (one for each compart-
ment), composed of slats, with openings between them. The slats increase in
width from the top to the bottom of the rubber, so as to conform to the
inclination of the partitions, and allow the whole inclined surfaces of the
rubbers in rising to come close up to them. In the bottom of each com-
partment is an opening for drawing off the water, and over these holes are
fitted valves connected to rock shafts, which have their journals in the under
frame of the box. To these rock shafts are connected levers, so that the
attendant may readily open or close the valves.
The rubbers may be operated by stean or any other power. The frames
which carry the rubbers may be suspended by cords or chains from gallows
frames (by which arrangement the friction of the frames upon the top of the
boxes is avoided), and vibrated by cranks on the driving shaft.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alfred Vincent Newton in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 16th November 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord
1859, in the twenty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs
and successors, give-and grant unto me, the said Alfred Vincent Newton,
Her special license that I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred Vincent
Newton, 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 of "AN
IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF WASHING MACHINE," being a communication
from abroad by David Parker, of Shaker Village, New Hampshire, in
the United States of America, upon the condition (amongst others)

page_text: that I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say) :-
Fig. 1 represents a side view, and Fig. 2 a vertical longitudinal section
thereof.
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This Invention relates to the arrangement of two, three, or more washing
compartments in one frame, so that a series of two, three, or more rubbers
upon another frame, resting and moving on the first-named one, may act in
their respective compartments simultaneously, which arrangement admits of
clothes of different qualities and under different degrees of heat to be washed
at one and the same time, without allowing the water of one quality to mingle
with or dash over into that of another quality.
A represents a long box, which may be subdivided into any suitable number
of chambers, two or more, by partitions or walls B, B, B, the tops of which
overhang, so as to turn the water thrown up against them back into its own
special compartment; C is a long rectangular frame, which rests and slides
on suitable ways or guides on top of the box A. This frame carries a series
of rubbers D, one for each compartment, said rubbers being composed of a
series of slats a, b, c, d, with a series of openings e, f, g, between them. The
slats increase in width from the top to the bottom of the rubber, so as to
conform to the inclination of the walls B, and allow the whole inclined
surfaces of the rubbers to come up close to said walls or partitions. The suds
or water, as the clothes are forced up against the partitions, flows back
through the spaces e, f, g. Each compartment may have an opening h, h,
in its bottom part for drawing off the water, and over these holes may fit a
valve i, connected to a rock shaft E, which has its journals resting in the
frame of the box underneath. To these rock shafts are connected levers F,
so that the attendant or operator may readily open or close said valves.
The rubbers may be operated by steam or any other power, the machine
being designed for hotels, hospitals, or elsewhere where steam power is
generally used, and where much and many varieties of things are to be

page_text: washed which should not be put in the same compartment, or have any con-
tact with each other. Various degrees of heat or different cleansing materials
may be used with the different qualities of things being washed, without
affecting those that are otherwise treated. And although the machine is
mainly designed for extensive establishments, yet it may be advantageously
constructed and used in private houses or families, and thus enable them to
wash table linens and such like articles by themselves, and in a compartment
reserved for such special purpose, and without mixing, them with bed linen
or, wearing apparel. Besides, different alkalies or leys can be thus used
for different articles, without injuring finer articles whilst cleansing coarser
ones.
In Fig. 3 is represented one of these machines as arranged for large esta-
blishments, in which the frames C which carry the rubbers are suspended by
cords or chains m from gallows frames H, by which arrangement the friction
of the frames upon the top of the boxes is avoided. The two boxes A are
divided into a suitable number of independent compartments, and the two
frames C are vibrated by cranks upon the driving shaft s.
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the driving shaft s. Hot and cold
water are brought to the boxes by the pipes p and r, and are delivered to the
different compartments by cocks t and w.
Having now set forth the nature of this Invention, and explained the
manner of carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that,
under the above recited Letters Patent, I claim the arrangement of two or
more washing chambers with a vibrating frame carrying two or more rubbers,
one for each chamber, for the purpose of washing several kinds or qualities of
clothes at the same time, without allowing the suds or water in the adjacent
chambers to commingle, as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Fifteenth day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
Witness,
J. W. MOFFATT,
66, Chancery Lane.
A. V. NEWTON. (L.S.)