Centrifugal Washing Machine for Cloth at Width.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 17th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 19th Oct.,
1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
· Centrifugal Washing Machine for Cloth at Width.
I, ROBERT CAMPBELL ROSS of Kildrum Ballymena Ireland Dyer and Finisher
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to centrifugal washing machines for cloth at width.
i The machine consists of a cylinder or tube of malleable iron or other suitable..
metallic substance and having a hollow journal at each end and mounted
horizontally on a frame. The journals extend beyond the outside of the frame,
one being longer than the other to allow pulleys or other suitable gearing to be
attached by means of which to cause the cylinder to revolve at a high speed..
Water is introduced into the cylinder through the hollow journals & these are
connected to the water pipes by means of packed glands. The water supply must
be somewhat above the level of the machine to allow of a continuous flow of water
under less or more pressure.
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Around the circumference of the cylinder numerous small holes or perforations
are bored at uniform distances from each other. The cloth to be washed is guided.
around the cylinder at a proper distance from it by means of small rollers, and is
passed from one side of the washing machine to the other by means of draw rollers
which must be driven independently of the cylinder and arranged to admit of
variable speeds. In working this washing machine, the water supply being turned
on the cylinder is made to revolve at a high speed and the velocity imparted to the
cylinder dashes the water from the perforations with violence against the cloth in
its passage around the cylinder. The machine may be enclosed in a casing with
movable doors:
Dated this 14th day of December 1894.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Centrifugal Washing Machine for Cloth at Width.
I, ROBERT CAMpbell Ross of Kildrum, Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland,
Dyer and Finisher, 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 relates to centrifugal washing machines for cloth at width and is
shown in the accompanying drawings, in which
Figure 1 is side elevation in section and
Figure 2 a transverse section of Figure 1.
The machine consists of a water chamber such as a hollow cylinder or tube A
of malleable iron or other suitable material, provided with a hollow journal Bat
each end and mounted horizontally on a frame having suitable bearings. The
journals extend beyond the outside of the fraine, one being longer than the other
to allow pulleys C or other suitable gearing to be attached for the purpose of
rotating the cylinder at a high speed.

page_text: Water is introduced into the cylinder A through the hollow journals which are
connected to water pipes D by means of packed glands E. The water supply
must be somewhat above the level of the machine to allow of a continuous flow of
water under more or less pressure.
The periphery of the cylinder is bored or provided with numerous small holes or
perforations preferably at uniform distances from each other.
The cloth to be washed is guided around the cylinder at a proper distance from
it by means of small rollers F suitably mounted in the frame and is passed from
one side of the washing machine to the other by any suitable means such as draw
rollers which must be driven independently of the cylinder, and arranged, to admit
of variable speeds.
In working this improved washing machine, the water supply being turned on,
the cylinder is made to revolve at a high speed and the velocity imparted to, the
cylinder dashes the water from the perforations by centrifugal force with violence
against the cloth in its passage around the cylinder. A trough G or the like
carries away the dirty water.
The machine may if desired be enclosed in a case with movable doors.
It will be readily understood that the details of construction may be modified
without departing from the spirit of the invention.
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. An improved machine for washing cloth at width, comprising a water
chamber, such as a hollow cylinder or tube, perforated on its periphery and
mounted in a suitable frame by means of a hollow trunnion at each end and adapted
to be rotated at a high speed by suitable means; pipes to feed said chamber
through its trunnions from a suitable source of water supply; and a series of
rollers mounted in the frame so-as-to guide-the-cloth at a suitable distance round.
the rotatable water chamber, substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. In a machine for washing cloth at width, a perforated chamber suitably fed
with water and adapted to be rotated at a high speed, so as to throw the water by
centrifugal force against the cloth substantially as set forth.
Dated this 16th day of September 1895.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and London, Patent Agents.