Improvements applicable to Washing, Churning, and like Machines.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements applicable to Washing, Churning, and like Machines.
I, WILLIAM LITLER BRADFORD. of the Crescent Iron Works, Salford, in the
County of Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The improvements which form the subject of this invention consist in con-
structing within an outer fixed water tight compartment or cylindrical casing,
an inner revolving compartment that is suspended within and between the
ends of the outer compartment by spindles mounted eccentrically so as to impart
an eccentric movement to said inner compartment, and is primarily intended
for application to washing machines such as are described in the Specifications
of the Patents Nos. 3.106 of 1890, and 14562 of 1890, but is also applicable to
other machines in which articles or substances require to be subjected to fluid
agitation. The eccentric movement of the inner compartment each time the
periphery that is farthest away from its rotating centre passes downward into
the liquid contained in the outer compartment causes the liquid to be forced by
the wedge like action of the perforated surface of the inner compartment, into
the interior of said compartment, and when applied to a washing machine into
the articles contained therein, and in the latter part of the movement poured
upon the articles, thereby increasing the cleansing power of the machine. This
effect is further increased by a midfeather that is placed within the inner com-
partment. The articles are partially lifted out of the liquid when the opposite
or least eccentric portion of the periphery is at the bottom, and at each rotation
the articles are alternately steeped into and drained out of the liquid.
The access door is placed in the most eccentric portion of the periphery. so
that when the articles are lifted up as herein before described they may be more
accessible to the operator.
Dated this 22nd Joy of M 1900
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I, WILLIAM LITLER BRADFORD, of the Crescent Iron Works, Salford, in the
County of Lancaster, Engineer, 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:―
This invention is intended for application to washing machines such as are

page_text: described in the Specification of the Patents Nos. 3,106 of 1890 and 14,562 of
1890, but is also applicable to other machines in which articles or substances
require to be subjected to fluid agitation. In the accompanying drawings to
which I hereinafter refer, Fig. 1 is a transverse section of a washing machine
constructed according to this invention, and Fig. 2 is a part sectional elevation
of the same.
The improvements which form the subject of this invention consist in fitting
within an outer fixed water tight compartment or cylindrical casing as a an
inner compartment as b that is formed with a perforated surface and capable
of being revolved; said inner compartment is suspended between the ends of
the outer compartment by spindles c that are fixed eccentrically to the ends of
the inner compartment so as to impart an eccentric movement thereto when it
is revolved. This eccentric movement, causes the periphery of the inner com-
partment each time that it is farthest away from its rotating centre to pass
downward into the liquid contained in the outer compartment a and by the
wedge like action of the perforated surface of said inner compartment to force
the liquid into the interior thereof, and when applied to a washing machine
into the articles contained therein, the latter part of the movement causing
the liquid also to be thrown upon the articles thereby increasing the cleansing
or effective power of the machine. This effect is increased by a midfeather as d
that is placed longitudinally within the inner compartment.
The articles are partially lifted out of the liquid when the opposite or least
eccentric portion of the periphery of the inner compartment is at the bottom
and at each rotation the articles are alternately steeped into and drained out of
the liquid.
The access door e to the inner compartment is placed in the most eccentric
portion of the periphery so that when the articles are lifted up by the action of
the machine they may be more accessible to the operator.
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
1. In a washing, churning, or like machine the combination with an outer fixed
water tight compartment of an inner compartment formed with a perforated
surface and suspended between the ends of the outer compartment by spindles
that are fitted eccentrically to the ends of the inner compartment by which said
inner compartment when caused to revolve will have an eccentric movement
substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
2. In a washing, churning or like machine the combination with an outer fixed
water tight compartment of an eccentrically mounted inner compartment having
a perforated surface, an access door in the most eccentric portion of the periphery
thereof, and a midfeather in said inner compartment all substantially as described
and shown in the drawings.
Dated this 3rd day of February 1900
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
Agents for the Applicant, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.