In- PROVEMENTS IN WASHING LINEN OR WOOLLEN FABRICS AND ROOTS, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick John Reeves, of 298, Liverpool Road,
in the Parish of St. Mary, Islington, for the Invention of "In-
PROVEMENTS IN WASHING LINEN OR WOOLLEN FABRICS AND ROOTS, AND
APPARATUS THEREFOR.”
Sealed the 29th August 1878, and dated the 4th March 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick John Reeves
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 4th March 1873.
I, FREDERICK JOHN REEVES, of 298, Liverpool Road, in the Parish
of St. Mary, Islington, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING LINEN OR WOOLLEN FABRICS AND ROOTS, AND
APPARATUS THEREFOR," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of a vertical shaft made of wood, iron, or other
metal, on which is cut a single, double, or treble spiral groove or grooves,
or a single, double, or treble rib or ribs is raised. Upon the lower end
of the shaft a washer is attached a plate of wood or iron with pro-
jecting arms, which is made to describe a circle (more or less) backwards

page_text: and forwards in a tub or other vessel by means of a boss worked on the
shaft by alternately raising and depressing a lever handle; on the top a
vertical bar made of iron or wood having an horizontal arm, in which is cut
a slot, is fixed on the tub or other vessel and secures the top of the shaft.
The lower part of the shaft works in a hole made in a second or falso 5
bottom placed in the bottom of the tub or other vessel which contains
the clothes or roots. The washer to be raised and lowered to the quantity
of clothes or roots to be washed by means of a set or lock screw.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frederick John Reeves in the Great Seal Patent 1
Office on the 3rd September 1878.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
JOHN REEVES, of 293, Liverpool Road, in the Parish of Saint Mary,
Islington, send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 1
Letters Patent, bearing date the day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Frederick John Reeves,
Her special licence that I, the said Frederick John Reeves, my ex- 2
ecutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Frederick John Reeves, 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 for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING LINEN OR
WOOLLEN FABRICS AND ROOTS, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Frederick John Reeves, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, 3
or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascer-
tain 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 Scal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
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page_text: that it can be worked by steam or other power by the addition of working
gear.
I do not confine myself to the precise details given, as I may use
different designs in the shape of several of the parts, also in the materials
used in the construction thereof; but what I claim and desire to be 5
secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the
improvements in washing linen or woollen fabrics and roots, and
apparatus therefor, as constructed and arranged as herein-before described
and illustrated in the Drawings, or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick John Reeves, have hereunto 10
set my hand and seal, this Third day of September in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.