IMPROVE- MENTS IN WASHING AND WRINGING MACHINES
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN WASHING AND WRINGING MACHINES." -A communication from
abroad by Thomas Bletcher of Peterborough, Canada West.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 27th September 1865.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING AND WRINGING MACHINES," to be as follows:-
The part of this Invention relating to washing machines consists in the
following combination of parts:-In a box there is fitted a concave bed of
rollers free to revolve on their axes, a corresponding convex frame of fixed
rods is carried by arms free to move up and down, so as to increase or
decrease the space between the rods and rollers, through slots in a plate or
beam which is fitted with axes free to move in bearings supported on or in
the sides of the box. The arms are connected at top by a transverse bar,
which serves as a handle to impart to-and-fro motion to the frame of fixed
bars. I do not confine myself to any particular means of causing the frame
to move to and fro or rock, as a crank, treadle, or other like device may be
adopted.
The improvement in wringing machines, which may be conveniently fixed
on the washing machine boxes, consists in connecting or holding together the

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 27th March 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, admi-
nistrators, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING AND WRINGING MACHINES,"
(communicated to me from abroad by Thomas Bletcher, of Peterboro', Canada
West), upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard Archibald
Brooman, 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 performed, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawing here-
unto annexed, that is to say :-
The part of this Invention relating to washing machines consists in the
following combination of parts:-In a box there is fitted a concave bed of
rollers free to revolve on their axes, a corresponding convex frame of fixed

page_text: rods is carried by arms free to move up and down, so as to increase or
decrease the space between the rods and rollers, through apertures or slots in a
plate, or beam, or sockets which is or are fitted with axes free to move in
bearings supported on or in the sides of the box. The arms are connected at
top by a transverse bar, which serves as a handle to impart to-and-fro motion
to the frame of fixed rods. I do not confine myself to any particular means
of causing the frame to move to and fro or rock, as a crank, treadle, or other
like device may be adopted.
The accompanying Drawing is a perspective view, with one side removed,
of a washing machine constructed according to this Invention.
c, c, are rods
a is a box, and b, b, are rollers fitted therein so as to form a concave
bed as shown; these rollers are free to revolve on their axes.
fitted in arms d, d, and forming a convex frame corresponding to the concave
bed formed by the rollers b, b. The arms d, d, pass through a transverse
beam e, and through sockets h fitted with axes free to move in bearings f on
the sides of the box a; g, g', are transverse bars connecting the upper parts of
the arms d, d; the bar g serves as a handle by which motion may be imparted
to the frame of rods c, c.
The improvements in wringing.machines, which may conveniently be fixed
on the washing machine boxes, consist in connecting or holding together the
arms which carry the bearings of a pair of wringing rollers near both ends by
vulcanized india-rubber rings or endless belts.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
First, the combination of parts of washing machines substantially as herein-
before described and represented in the accompanying Drawings.
Second, connecting or holding together the arms which carry the bearings
of a pair of wringing rollers in wringing machines near both ends by vul-
canized india-rubber rings or endless belts substantially as herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of March, One
R. A. BROOMAN. (L.B.)

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