Improved Washer for Cleaning Clothes and other Materials.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Apr., 1896
Complete Specification Left. 8th Jan. 1847--Accented 10th Aar 1807
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Washer for Cleaning Clothes and other Materials.
EDWARD WILLIAM MARGETTS Architect and Contractor "Rockholm " The
Heath Stourbridge Worcestershire England do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
A clothes washer, or rubbing machine composed principally of wood, in the shape
of a box, filled in with revolving rollers and bearers, parallel with each other,
which may be fixed in semicircle position, with ears either side box, with slots to
allow the framing or segment to rise as required, which swing on pivots, and
worked to and fro over the clothes etc. Springs to be fixed, and hinged brass
ears, to press the said segment down. A number of pegs, or stumps, fixed in a
block, underneath, and forming part, of the said segment, hinged wood lids, on
the top, or over the said washer, or box, a turn tap, to run off water, an iron
framing, with four legs, underneath the said washer, or box.
Dated this 11th day of April 1896
EDWD. W. MARGETTS.
Improved Washer for Cleaning Clothes and other Materials.
EDWARD WILLIAM MARGETTS Architect and Contractor "Rockholm " The
Heath Stourbridge Worcestershire England 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 :-
The clothes washer or washing and rubbing machine may be composed of
wood or metal, or both, any part thereof. The machine 1 is constructed in the
shape or form of a box or square tub A any size in length, width, depth, and
thickness, having ears with slots B, one on each side thereof, fixed, or hinged
with, or without springs C and thumb screws D attached thereto. Handles E are
fixed, one on each end of the said square tub or machine, for lifting or carrying
it. A pair of swing handles F may be attached at one end thereof for the purpose
of wheeling it. A movable, or fixed framing or stand G with four legs and casters I,
or wheels are underneath the bottom of the said machine. A turn tap, or plug J
is at the bottom of the said machine for running off, and washing out the
used water. The interior of the said machine is filled in on the bottom and
partly up the ends, with a number of either concave and convex K or straight L
revolving rollers, these being three sixteens of an inch more or less apart, and
parallel with each other in a semicircle position M the ends of the said rollers are
resting at their ends in bearers N, which may be screwed to the sides of the said
machine, or the said revolving rollers may rest in a movable framing O to fit the
inside, and on the bottom of the said machine-framings, herein to be called. The
segment 2 may be composed of a top and bottom Q framings, having a cross

page_text: revolving handle P, and four flat sides Q and round cross bars, with a centre cross
bar, or fixed roller, having metal centre pivots R projecting at each end, these
pivots rest in the said ears or slots to allow the said 2 segment to rise up or
down, and to swing to and fro over the said revolving rollers. A segment
block is fixed at right angles in the middle S, at the ends thereof, on the bottom
ends of the said flat sides Q of the said segment bottom: frame, underneath the
said S block are a number of long or short dollies or stumps T which project
downwards therefrom, and running through the rounded ends of these dollies,
may be round rods or bars U from dolly to dolly and parallel with each other,
these said dollies and rods correspond in a semicircle shape M with the said
revolving rollers in the said machine I there being one quarter of an inch more or
less space between the said rollers, and the ends of the said dollies and rods. The
clothes or articles to be cleaned are placed upon the rollers K and L the said
segment ⚫ which include the said block S with dollies T projecting underneath.
These are placed upon the clothes, and the whole is worked to and fro, swinging on
the said centre pivots, R being worked with the top handle, in a semicirele manner
upon the said revolving rollers, 3. Two lids V may be attached with centre pivots
or hinges W at the ends of the said machine which cover the top thereof, having
supporting brackets X in order to convert the said lids into shelves when desirable.
A movable, 4 flat cross bar Y is placed in the said ears or slots, with thumb
screws Z to which is attached a pair of wringer rollers, thereto, or upon one end of
the said machine.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
-claim is
An improved washer for cleaning clothes and other materials.
EDWARD WILLIAM MARGETTS.