IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING MACHINES FOR WASHING CLOTHES, LINEN FABRICS, & SIMILAR ARTICLES."
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Hambleton Sharp, of Swineshead, in
the County of Lincoln, Farmer & Auctioneer, &c., and Robert
Parkinson, of Swineshead, in the County of Lincoln, Builder,
Carpenter, & Joiner, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
WASHING MACHINES FOR WASHING CLOTHES, LINEN FABRICS, & SIMILAR
ARTICLES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Hambleton
Sharp and Robert Parkinson at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 16th June 1873.
We, CHARLES HAMBLETON SHARP, of Swineshead, in the County of
Lincoln, Farmer & Auctioneer, and ROBERT PARKINSON, of Swineshead,
in the County of Lincoln, Builder, Carpenter, & Joiner, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING MACHINES
FOR WASHING CLOTHES, LINEN FABRICS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES," to be as
follows:-

page_text: suitable size, & at such distances apart as we think advisable, upon
which we place the clothes or materials to be washed.
Secondly. We use a corrugated board of suitable size, with which we
rub the clothes or materials, and giving the above-mentioned board a
horizontal sliding or swinging motion backwards & forwards by means
of a sheave composed of wood, iron, brass, or other metallic substance,
or by wood springs or cranks, the said sheave working between two
bars of brass, iron, or other metallic substance. The corrugated board is
connected and worked by means of two uprights fixed to an oblique
handle which works the corrugated board backwards & forwards upon
the wooden rollers in the bottom of the machine.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Hambleton Sharp and Robert Parkinson in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 15th December 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, CHARLES
HAMBLETON SHARP, of Swineshead, in the County of Lincoln, Farmer
and Auctioneer, &c., and ROBERT PARKINSON, of Swineshead, in the
County of Lincoln, Builder, Carpenter, and Joiner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of June, 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 us, the said Charles Hambleton Sharp and Robert
Parkinson, Her special licence that we, the said Charles Hambleton
Sharp and Robert Parkinson, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said Charles Hambleton Sharp and Robert
Parkinson, our 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 FOR WASHING CLOTHES, LINEN FABRICS,
AND SIMILAR ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said Charles Hambleton Sharp and Robert Parkinson, our exccutors or

page_text: manifest modification of the before-mentioned arrangements, and for the
purpose of allowing the vertical space between the corrugated board and
the rollers to be varied according to the thickness of the clothes and
materials submitted to the operation of the machine, gudgeons or
projections may be attached to or placed in connection with the said
corrugated board, the same being capable of moving vertically in slots
attached to or formed in the sides of the before-mentioned tub or
receptacle, spiral or other springs being so arranged (as will be well
understood) as to regulate the pressure of the said corrugated board
according to the mass of clothes or materials which may be placed
between the same and the rollers.
Having thus declared and ascertained the nature of our said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we would observe, in
conclusion, that what we consider novel and original, and therefore claim
as constituting the Invention secured to us by the said herein-before in
part recited Letters Patent is, the combination and arrangement of
parts and mechanism, substantially as and for the purposes herein-before
described and set forth.
In witness whereof, wc, the said Charles Hambleton Sharp and
Robert Parkinson, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
28th day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-three.