IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING MACHINES
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Thorne, of Austin Friars, in the City of
London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING MACHINES."
Sealed the 5th May 1865, and dated the 11th November 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Thorne at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 11th
November 1864.
I, JAMES THORNE, of Austin Friars, in the City of London, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING MACHINES,"
to be as follows:-
In constructing a washing machine according to this Invention the vessel is
divided into three divisions or compartments. In two of these divisions or
compartments the washing waters or fluids are contained, and the articles or
garments to be washed are raised alternately out of one and deposited in the
other by a pair of rollers covered with vulcanized india-rubber. These rollers
are placed above the central compartment or division of the vessel, so that as
the articles or garments are moved from one of the outer or end compartments
or divisions to the other they pass over the middle or central compartment.or
division of the vessel, and consequetly the dirty water squeezed out of the
articles or garments by the rollers descends into the central compartment or
division of the vessel, and is not allowed to pass back to the other divisions or
compartments. Covers are provided for the divisions or compartments of the

page_text: ressel, and the flexible rollers are removeable, so that they may be removed
and others introduced between their uprights; the machine may then be used
as a roller mangle.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Thorne in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th May 1865.
.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, J, JAMES
THORNE, of Austin Friars, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said James Thorne, Her special licence that I, the said James
Thorne, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said James Thorne, 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN WASHING MACHINES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said James Thorne, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Thorne, 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 fol-
lowing statement thereof, that is to say :-
to this Invention the vessel
In two of these divisions or
contained, and the articles or
In constructing a washing machine according
is divided into three divisions or compartments.
compartments the washing waters or fluids are
garments to be washed are raised alternately out of one and deposited in the
other by a pair of rollers covered with vulcanized india-rubber. These rollers
are placed above the central compartment or division of the vessel, so that as

page_text: the articles or garments are moved from one of the outer or end compartments
or divisions to the other they pass over the middle or central compartment or
division of the vessel, and consequently the dirty water squeezed out of the
articles or garments by the rollers descends into the central compartment or
division of the vessel, and is not allowed to pass back to the other divisions
or compartments. Covers are provided for the divisions or compartments of
the vessel, and the flexible rollers are removable so that they may be removed
and others introduced between their uprights; the machine may then be used
as a roller mangle.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a perspective view of a machine combined according to my
Invention; Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of the same.
a and b are the two compartments into which the washing waters or fluids
are placed, and from and to which the articles or garments which are being
washed are alternately moved by the rollers d, d, which are by preference
covered with vulcanized india-rubber; c is the third compartment below the
rollers d, d; hence the liquid pressed out of the articles which are being
pressed between the rollers d, will descend into the compartment c. To
each of the compartments a, b, c, there is a plug or outlet e, e, for the passage
of the wash waters or fluids, therefore when the machine is to be used for
mangling the elastic rollers d, d, are to be removed and a suitable pair of
pressing or mangling rollers introduced in place thereof and the compart-
ments a, b, c, are to be covered over.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I claim the combined
arrangement herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Thorne, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
JAMES THORNE. (L.S.)