IMPROVEMENTS IN DOMESTIC WASHING MACHINES
Year: 1885

page_text: I FRANCIS HELM, Iron Founder, Machine Maker, Spa Foundry, Padiham
Lancashire, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
DOMESTIC WASHING MACHINES to be as follows:-
The application of an Improved kind of Dolly also an Improved method of
setting the same in motion.
In place of the Disk with projecting pegs or pins I fix a shaft with its axes at
right-angles to the axes of the machine rollers, and to this same shaft I attach
projecting pegs or pins to give the desired motion to the clothes. This same shaft
with projecting pegs or pins I designate as the Dolly.
I also give motion to the Dolly by means of a shaft, fixed with its axes in a
diagonal position to the axes of the Machine Rollers, and thereby dispence with the
use of a carrier wheel.

page_text: I FRANCIS HELM, Iron Founder and Machine Maker, Spa Foundry, Padiham,
Lancashire, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
DOMESTIC WASHING MACHINES and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :--
The application of an improved kind of Dolly, also an improved method of setting
the same in motion. In place of the Disk with projecting pegs or pins, I fix a shaft
with its axis at right angles to the axis of the machine rollers, and to this same
shaft I attach projecting pegs or pins to give the desired motion to the clothes.
This same shaft with projecting pegs or pins I designate as the Dolly.
I also give motion to the Dolly by means of a shaft fixed with its axis in a
diagonal position to the axes of the machine rollers and thereby dispense with the
use of a carrier wheel.
The particulars of my improvements will be understood by referring to the
accompanying drawings.
No 1 is the elevation of a Washing and Mangling Machine, B B are the rollers,
C. the Fly Wheel or hand Wheel, D. the second Motion Wheel, E. the diagonal
shaft for driving or revolving the Dolly.
No 2 is a section of No 1. on line A. F is the Dolly. Hitherto it has been the
practice to have a Disk close by the side of the box at G which had pins or pegs
projecting towards the centre of the box. In place of this Disk I make a shaft or
Dolly, F to extend across the box which same shaft or Dolly may have one or
more projecting pegs or pins as desired. Also it has been the practice hitherto to
drive the Disk by means of a shaft, having its centre as represented by the dotted
line H. and in order to give motion to this shaft H there was a carrier wheel fixed
between a wheel at the end of this shaft H and the wheel D.
I dispense with the carrier wheel by fixing the shaft in a diagonal position as
shewn by E and by putting a bevel Wheel on the end of this shaft suitable for
gearing into the wheel D.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is,
1st The fixing of the shaft E for driving the Dolly, or Disk of a Washing
Machine in a diagonal position relative to the position of the Disk or Dolly Shaft
centre, and the centre line of the roller.
2nd The fixing of a Dolly with its centre Shaft extending from G. to I.