A NEW OR IMPROVED WASHING MACHINE
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Paterson, of the City and County of Edinburgh,
North Britain, Engineer, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED WASHING
MACHINE."
Sealed the 27th February 1880, and dated the 25th November 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Paterson at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th November 1879.
JOHN PATERSON, of the City and County of Edinburgh, North Britain, Engineer.
"A NEW OR IMPROVED WASHING MACHINE."
This Invention, which relates to a new or improved washing machine is, designed
to be used in combination with an inclined washing board placed in the ordinary
manner in a wash tub.
.
The machine consists of a rectangular framework fitted with handles in its upper
side, and this framework has in it transversely two or more grooved or otherwise
roughened rollers made of wood, caoutchouc, or other suitable material. The frame-
work with the rollers is attached by a caoutchouc or equivalent elastic connexion
to the side of the tub, the effect of which connexion is to pull the framework and
rollers up over the inclined washing board after it has been pushed or forced down
over the clothes lying thereon by the hands of the person using the machine.
In the lower part of the framework a hollow is formed which on the upward
or return stroke of the machine lifts in it a sufficient quantity of water to be
discharged over the rollers and clothes during each downward stroke.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Paterson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 25th May
1880.
JOHN PATERSON, of the City and County of Edinburgh, North Britain, Engineer.
"A NEW OR IMPROVED WASHING MACHINE."
My Invention relates to a new or improved washing machine, and is designed
to be used in combination with an ordinary wash board.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents a plan, and Figure 2 a side
elevation of the said washing machine; Figure 3 represents the said machine in
combination with a wash board in position ready for use.
The said washing 1
machine consists of a framing a fitted with handles at its sides, in which framing
are mounted transversely grooved or equivalently formed rollers c made of wood,
caoutchouc, or other suitable material, projecting beyond the underside of the
framework, as shewn in Figure 2, and capable of turning in bearings in the sides
bo 1
of the framing a, which bearings may be of brass. To the machine is or may
fastened one end of caoutchouc or other elastic strip d, the other end of which is to
be fastened to the upper part of the wash board, or to the side of the wash tub,
when the machine is in use. In the top side of the lower part of the framework a
a recess e is or may be formed. In using the machine the wash board f is placed
in the wash tub g, as shown in Figure 3, and the clothes to be operated upon are a
placed thereon; the machine is then attached by its connecting strip & to the wash
board, or to the tub, either of which is provided with a hook for this purpose. The
clothes being soaped, and the tub supplied with hot water, the machine is placed
upon the clothes, as shewn in Figure 3, and is passed to and fro over them, the
rollers c giving a rubbing action thereupon by which they are thoroughly cleaned,
fresh portions of the clothes being successively operated upon. The strip dis
extended as the machine is pushed downwards, and pulls, or assists in pulling, back
the machine for the next downward stroke. The recess e forms a lifter by which,
in the upward or return stroke, a quantity of water is lifted and discharged over
the clothes. Although I have shewn but two rollers c yet I do not confine myself
to that number as more than two may be employed.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said In-
vention, and the system, mode, or manner in or under which the same is or may be
used or practically carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I
consider to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured
to me by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is,-
The new or improved washing machine, constructed essentially as hereinbefore
described with reference to the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Paterson, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty second day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty.