IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING MACHINES
Year: 1884

page_text: We HORACE ST GEORGE VOULES, 49 Victoria Street, S.W. Gentleman and
RICHARD HARVEY LOWE, Laundry Manager of 196 Ebury Street, S.W. both in
London; Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of our said invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING MACHINES"" to be as follows:-
The especial feature of this machine is the construction which causes the
clothes to be lifted up and dropped back again as the machine revolves so that
they get well turned over.
The machine is of the box class revolving upon a central axis but instead of
having obtuse angles or none at all as is customary we find that more satisfactory
results may be obtained by making the box square in cross section; all the angles
being right angles.
Corrugations or equivalent projections are provided inside, as by fastening on
strips of wood or other material or forming them in the walls of the machine.
Dated this 10th day of Decombo 1001

page_text: The machine is of the box class revolving upon a central axis, but instead of
having obtuse angles or none at all as is customary we find that more satisfactory
result may be obtained by making the box square in cross section; all the angles
being right angles.
Corrugations or equivalent projections are provided inside, as by fastening on
strips of wood or other material, or forming them in the walls of the machine.
In the accompanying Drawings Figure 1 is a general perspective view of a
washing machine embracing this invention and Figure 2 is a cross section.
The machine shown in Figure 1 is divided into three compartments separated
from each other but any suitable number of compartments may be used.
By this arrangement different qualities of clothes may be separated, all those in
any one compartment being of similar quality and different strengths of liquor
may be employed in the different compartments, the proper strength of liquor
being thus always available for the various qualities of clothes.
The box A carried in suitable standards D is revolved or oscillated upon its
axis B by any suitable means say by the belt and pulley shewn; in cross section
the box is square, the angles A¹ being right angles. By this arrangement of square
corners a suction action is produced and the clothes are lifted up as the box revolves,
in a manner which is not obtained with ordinary shapes where the clothes simply
lie on the sides of the washer and slide off. C represents the corrugations or
equivalent which are placed all over the interior of the box A so that the clothes
are subjected to the rubbing action of the laths C wherever they may touch
the sides.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
claim is
we
1. In an apparatus for washing clothes and the like a box such as A adapted to
be revolved or oscillated upon its axis and so constructed that its angles A¹ in the
plane of revolution are right angles substantially as specified.
2. In an apparatus for washing clothes and the like the method of separating
the different strengths of liquor and the qualities of articles they are adapted to
cleanse by dividing the box A into compartments substantially as specified.
3. In an apparatus for washing clothes and the like the covering the whole of
the interior of the box A with corrugations or equivalent such as C substantially
in the manner and for the purpose specified.
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J.
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