IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING MACHINES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Warsop, of No. 73, Mount Street, Notting-
ham, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING MACHINES."
Sealed the 3rd July 1868, and dated the 7th January 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Warsop at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 7th January 1868.
I, GEORGE WARSOP,. of No. 73, Mount Street, Nottingham, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING
MACHINES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in washing machines.
For this purpose I employ a hollow box or case by preference of a
rectangular form and having in one of its sides an opening fitted with
a cover by which it can be closed fluid tight, and through this opening
the clothes or other articles to be washed are introduced into the box
as is usual. This box I mount on horizontal axes, so that it can be
caused to revolve or oscillate thereon; in place, however, of fixing
the axes at the centre of each end of the box so that their central

page_text: line would be parallel with the sides of the box as heretofore I
place the axes eccentrically to the ends of the box, and so that their
central line would pass through the box diagonally. By this means
when the box is caused to rotate the clothes or other articles in
addition to being rolled over and over as heretofore usual in rotary
washing machines, will fall from one end of the box towards the other
according as the ends of the box are alternately brought above
and below the horizontal axes. In the interior of the case are ribs
In place
or corrugations which pass around the sides of the case.
of the box being rectangular as above described it might be of a
cylindrical or other form.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said George Warsop in the Great Seal Patent Office
. on the 7th July 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
WARSOP, No. 73, Mount Street, Nottingham, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty, Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of January in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said George Warsop, Her special licence
that I, the said George Warsop, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said George Warsop, 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 MACHINES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said George Warsop, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Warsop, 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 thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in washing machines.
For this purpose I employ a hollow box or case, by preference of a
rectangular form, and having in one of its sides an opening fitted
with a cover by which it can be closed fluid-tight, and through this
opening the clothes or other articles to be washed are introduced into
the box as is usual. This box I mount on horizontal axes so that
it can be caused to revolve or oscillate thereon; in place however of
fixing the axes at the centre of each end of the box; so that their central
line would be parallel with the sides of the box as heretofore, I place
the axes eccentrically to the ends of the box, and so that their central
line would pass through the box diagonally. By this means when
the box is caused to rotate, the clothes or other articles in addition
to being rolled over and over as heretofore usual in rotary washing
machines will fall from one end of the box towards the other according
as the ends of the box are alternately brought above and below the
horizontal axes. In the interior of the case are ribs or corrugations
which pass around the sides of the case. In place of the box being
rectangular as above described it might be of a cylindrical or other
form.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawings
Figure 1 shows a side view, and Figure 2 an end view, of a washing
machine constructed as above described.
a is the rectangular box having an opening in one of its sides fitted
with a cover a¹; b, b, are the axes upon which the box is supported,
these axes are supported by the side frames c of the framing of the
machine, on one of the axes is a lever arm d which by a connecting
rod e is connected to a crank f, on the axis of which is the crank
handle by which the crank be caused to revolve. An oscillating
motion will thus be imparted to the axes which carry the box a.
The above described arrangement is the one which I prefer to employ

page_text: for giving an oscillating motion to the box, but other arrangements might
be employed for the purpose, the box might also if preferred have a
rotary motion imparted to it either by a crank handle fixed upon a
prolongation of one of its axes or otherwise, I prefer in all cases to fix
ribs or corrugations around the sides of the interior of the box or case,
the ribs being parallel with the ends of the box.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Warsop, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
GEORGE WARSOP. (L.S.)