CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR THE PURPOSES OF CHURNING, PARTS OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO WASHING AND CLEANSING
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Taylor, of the Firm of E. Taylor and Coy
of Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Washing Machine Manu-
facturers, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR THE PURPOSES OF CHURNING, PARTS OF
WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO WASHING AND CLEANSING."
Sealed the 13th October 1864, and dated the 27th April 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Taylor at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 27th
April 1864.
I, EDWARD TAYLOR, of the Firm of E. Taylor and Coy., of Salford, in the
County of Lancaster, Washing Machine Manufacturers, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS TO BE. EMPLOYED FOR THE PURPOSES OF CHURNING, PARTS OF WHICH
IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO WASHING AND CLEANSING," to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists in the employment and use of a rotating box,
chamber, or receptacle of any suitable and required shape, to contain the milk
or cream to be churned, and so arranged that the centre of motion or rotation
is eccentric to the central axis of the said box, by which means the milk or
cream is dashed from end to end of the box as it rotates, causing great agita-
tion or churning power, by which means the butter is produced. This may
be effected by mounting the box at each end on a short stud or shaft, the
central line or direction of which is diagonal or oblique to the central or

page_text: parallel axis of the box, by which means an eccentric rotation is imparted
thereto. The rotatory motion may be obtained by means of a curved link
chain gearing with a pinion on the said diagonal shaft (which I prefer), or by
ordinary gearing.
A second part of the Invention consists in the use of a bar turning on a
central stud on the lid or cover to the opening, and which is tightened down by
screws secured to the chamber and winged nuts. It will be evident that this
apparatus is equally applicable for washing clothes, in which instance solid
balls of wood are employed to mingle with the clothes and water in the
chamber, the balls may also be used perforated for churning.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th
October 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
TAYLOR, of the Firm of E. Taylor and Company, of Salford, in the County of
Lancaster, Washing Machine Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Edward Taylor, Her special license that I, the said Edward
Taylor, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Edward Taylor, 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR THE PURPOSES OF
CHURNING, PART OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO WASHING AND
CLEANSING," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward Taylor,'
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 per-
formed, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Taylor, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to' be per
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):
My Invention consists in the employment and use of a rotating box,
chamber, or receptacle of any suitable and required shape, to contain the milk
or cream to be churned, and so arranged that the centre of motion or rotation
is eccentric to the central axis of the said box, by which means the milk or
cream is dashed from end to end of the box as it rotates, causing great agita-
tion or churning power, by which means the butter is produced: This may
be effected by mounting the box at each end on a short stud or shaft, the
central line or direction of which is diagonal or oblique to the central or
parallel axis of the box, by which means an eccentric rotation is imparted
thereto. The rotatory motion may be obtained by means of a curved link
chain gearing with a pinion on the said diagonal shaft, which I prefer, or by
ordinary gearing.
1.
A second part of the Invention consists of a bar turning on a central stud
on the lid or cover to the opening, and which is tightened down by screws
secured to the chamber and winged nuts. It will be evident that this
apparatus is equally applicable for washing clothes, in which instance solid
balls of wood are employed to mingle with the clothes and water in the
chamber, the balls may also be used perforated for churning.
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in
detail, I have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings made upon a scale of
about three inches to the foot, similar letters of reference being marked upon
corresponding parts of the apparatus.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the washing machine complete, shewing the
eccentric chamber or receptacle mounted on suitable bearings secured to the
framing; Fig. 2 is a detached end view of the chamber or receptacle shewn
in its extrenie diagonal position; Fig. 3 is a front view of the same; and
Figs. 4 and 5 are respectively front and plan views of the lid or cover with the
swivel bar and screws employed for covering the opening in the eccentric
chamber or receptacle.
In Fig. 1 a, a, is the rotating box, chamber, or receptacle, of any suitable
and required shape, having secured to either end a short stud or shaft b, the
central line or direction of which is diagonal or oblique to the central or
parallel axis of the box a. The projecting studs or shaft when the box is
mounted on the framing bears on the bushes or steps c, and by turning the
fly-wheel e a rotating or revolving motion is transmitted to the box a through

page_text: the chain and wheels .9, 9', thereby giving the desired rise and fall
to the opposite ends of the said chamber or box with each revolution of
the wheel g¹; h is a bar secured to and turning on. the lid i, moving upon
the pivot k, the bar h is supplied with an open slot 1 at each end, which when
the lid is placed on its seating over the opening in the chamber or box a is
caused to turn on the centre k, and embraces the bolts m secured to the said
box, the winged nuts n are then tightened down on the said bar h, thereby
firmly securing the lid (water-tight) to the box a.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly
understood that I claim the novel employment and use of the arrangement
and construction of mechanism as herein-before described, set forth, and fully
illustrated in the Drawings attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Taylor, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
EDWARD TAYLOR. (L.S.)