An Improved Washing Machine.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Dec., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 18th July, 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 24th Aug., 1888
An Improved Washing Machine.
A communication to me from abroad by EMIL MARTIN, of Duisburg, in the Empire
of Germany.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the firm of Edwards and Co., Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 35, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to machines used for washing linen. It consists of a wooden
or other vessel preferably cylindrical and supported upon its side by suitable
supports.
The ends are closed, and a hinged opening is provided near the top by which access
can be had to the interior.
Inside this vessel is arranged a second also preferably of wood, of somewhat less
length than the outer vessel and having a strong central pivot at each end passing
through and turning in the ends of the outer vessel, a driving pulley or other equiva-
lent device being fixed upon one of the pivots by which the inner vessel can be turned
either continuously in the same direction or backward and forward. The inner vessel
is triangular in cross section, the sides being preferably slightly curved out instead of
The inner vessel
flat and it is also provided with an opening having a hinged cover.
as well as the cover are perforated with a large number of holes.
The outer vessel is partially filled with soap and water so that the inner vessel or
drum dips into it. The inner vessel is partially filled with dirty linen and, and the
cover being closed, is turned round its pivots by any driving mechanism either
continuously in the same direction or alternately backward and forward.
By this ineans the dirty linen is lifted by each corner of the inner drum and falls
down, as soon as it reaches its highest position, upon the opposite side of the drum.
In this way the dirty linen is to a great extent cleaned but the essential and new
cleaning action is produced by the strokes or blows given by each side of the inner
drum upon the soap and water contained in the outer vessel.

page_text: By these strokes or blows the soap and water is forced through the holes in the
inner vessel and coming with force against the dirty linen cleans the latter in a very
quick and effective way.
Dated this 1st love of Danam 1007
EDWARDS & Co.,
Agents for the Inventor.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Washing Machine.
A communication to me from abroad by EMIL MARTIN, of Duisberg, in the Empire
of Germany.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the firm of Edwards and Co., Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 35, Southampton Buildings,, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, 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 and accompanying drawing (that is to say):
This invention relates to machines used for washing linen.
In the accompanying drawing which is in illustration of the invention; figure 1 is
a front view of the machine, figure 2 is a vertical and longitudinal section on the
line c d (figure 3), and figure 3 is a vertical and transverse section on the line a; b,
(figure 1).
The improved washing machine consists of a wooden or other vessel A preferably
cylindrical aid supported upon its side by suitable supports. The ends are closed, and
an opening with a hinged cover B is provided near the top by which access can be
had to the interior.
Inside this vessel is arranged a second vessel or druin C of shorter length also
preferably of wood, of somewliat less length than the outer vessel and having a strong
central pivot D, D; at each end passing through and turning in the ends of the outer
vessel A, a driving pulley or other equivalent device being fixed upon one of the
pivots by which the inner vessel C can be turned either continuously in the same
direction or backward and forward. The inner vessel C is triangular in cross section,
the sides being preferably slightly curved out instead of flat and it is also provided
with an opening having a hinged cover E. The inner vessel as well as the cover are
perforated with a large number of holes F.

page_text: The method of operation of the improved machine is as follows:-
The outer vessel A is partially filled with soap and water so that the inner vessel or
drum C dips into it. The inner vessel C is partially filled with dirty linen and the
cover E being closed, is turned round its pivots D, D, by driving mechanism either
continuously in the same direction or alternately backward and forward. By this
means the dirty linen is lifted by each corner of the inner drum C and falls down, as
soon as it reaches its highest position, upon the opposite side of the drum.
In this way the dirty linen is to a great extent cleaned but the essential and novel
cleaning action is produced by the strokes or blows given by each side of the inner
drum C upon the and water contained in the outer vessel A. By these strokes
or blows the soap water is forced through the holes F in the inner vessel C and
spurting with force against the dirty linen cleans the latter in a very quick and
effective way.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
The combination of the perforated rotating three-sided drum C, containing the
linen or articles to be washed, with the external vessel A, substantially as described
and shewn.