Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 25th- Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 25th July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 26th Aug., 1887,
We ROGER ARTHURE GARTSIDE of 67 Princess Street, Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Solicitor, and WILLIAM HENRY TIPLADY of Earl Terrace Crumpsall, in
the same County, Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Our said Invention has reference particularly to the plungers used in certain types
of washing machines, such plungers for example as are used in the washing machine
for which Letters Patent No. 8384 of the year 1885 were granted to William Henry
Tiplady and Charles Wood. In machines constructed in accordance with the said
invention, hollow plungers attached to levers or arms are caused to rise and fall
alternately in a revolving tub whereby the articles in the tub are beaten or squeezed
and cleansed. Our present invention is intended to render these plungers more
thorough in their cleansing effect by giving them a rotatory as well as a reciprocating
motion. We form the shank of each plunger as a quick threaded screw, working in
a fixed boss or nut or we cut one or more spiral grooves in the shank, into which a
fixed stud or fixed studs enter in such a manner that as each plunger rises and falls
it is at the same time rotated first in one direction and then in the other whereby a
number of conflicting currents is set in motion so as to cleanse the goods in the tub
more rapidly and thoroughly. To prevent shocks or breakage of parts we may fit the
levers which actuate the plungers with springs arranged in such a fashion as will
allow the levers to give way when the plungers encounter any extraordinary resistance.
One or any greater number of plungers may be used and they may be rotated by
means analogous to or other than the means described, for example we might use a
reciprocating rack acting on a pinion secured by a slip feather and groove on the
plunger shank. The tub may either revolve or it may be fixed. Our improved
plungers may be used either in conjunction with the patented arrangement of washing
machine herein before referred to or they may be used in combination with other types
of machines wherein reciprocating beaters or plungers are employed.
Dated this 02-1
1000
DUTTON & FULTON,
1, St. James Square, Manchester,
Agents.

page_text: We ROGER ARTHURE GARTSIDE of 67 Princess Street, Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Solicitor, and WILLIAM HENRY TIPLADY of Earl Terrace Crumpsall,
in the same County, Agent, 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 and accompanying drawings:-
Our said Invention has reference particularly to the plungers used in certain types
of washing machines, such plungers for example as are used in the washing machine
for which Letters Patent No. 8384 of the year 1885 were granted to William Henry
Tiplady and Charles Wood. In machines constructed in accordance with the said
Invention, hollow plungers attached to levers or arms are caused to rise and fall
alternately in a revolving tub whereby the articles in the tub are beaten or squeezed
and cleansed. Our present invention is intended to render these plungers more
thorough in their cleansing effect by giving them a rotatory as well as a reciprocating
motion.
And in order that our said invention may be properly understood we will now
proceed more particularly to describe the same with reference to the annexed sheet
of drawings which contains a view of our improved reciprocating and rotating
plunger.
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In the said drawing a is the hollow plunger which is secured to the lower end of
a shank b. The shank 6 is capable of sliding and rotating in an eye or boss c formed
at the outer end of a lever d pivotted or secured by a bolt or stud e to the end of a
rocking lever factuated from the mechanism of the washing machine. The shank b
is prolonged above the boss c and is formed with a quick threaded screw or spiral
groove as shown which engages with a nut g which is fixed by suitable means to the
framing of the machine or may be pivotted to the frame in such a manner as to turn
slightly so as to follow the movements of the rising and falling plunger shank.
A pin or it might be a ruff or collar on the shank maintains the plunger shank in
its proper position relative to the boss or eye c and against the downward push of the
helical spring which is compressed between the boss c and the top of the plunger a.
The spring is intended to allow the plunger to give way and avoid shocks and breakage
when it encounters any extraordinary resistance to its downward stroke. The nut g
being fixed it will be evident that as the plunger is reciprocated up and down by the
side lever the shank b and plunger a will be rotated first in one direction and then
in the other by the screw rotating in the nut. A number of conflicting currents is
thus set in motion so as to cleanse the goods in the tub more rapidly and thoroughly
than usual. One or any greater number of plungers may be used and they may be
rotated by means analogous to or other than the means described, for example we
might use a reciprocating rack acting on a pinion secured by a slip feather and groove
on the plunger shank. The tub may either revolve or it may be fixed. Our improved
plungers may be used either in conjunction with the patented arrangement of washing
machine herein before referred to or they may be used in combination with other types
of machines wherein reciprocating beaters or plungers are employed.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we claim is:―
(1) In a washing machine plunger or dolly of the indicated or of a similar nature
providing means whereby the said plunger or dolly shall be rotated as well as
reciprocated substantially as described and shown.
(2) The hollow plunger or dolly a reciprocated by the lever d and having a prolonged
shank b formed with spiral threads or grooves and working in a nut g in such a
manner that the plunger a is rotated backward and forward while being reciprocated
substantially as described and shown.