IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING MACHINES.
Year: 1871

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LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Newton, of the Office for
Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING MACHINES.'
-A communication from abroad by Albert Assmann, of Rahway,
in the State of New Jersey, United States of America.
Sealed the 25th August 1871, and dated the 31st March 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward
Newton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 31st March 1871.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declaro
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING MACHINES,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention consists mainly in the employment on opposite sides
of the articles to be cleaned of rotating brushes, which are revolved with
different velocitics, so that one serves as a slow feeder while the other is
a rapid rubber for cleaning the goods. The rotary brushes are con-

page_text: structed by securing the several tufts of bristles or other fibrous matter
between a series of washers fitted upon the supporting shaft. The
rotating brushes revolving at different velocities constitute a very
effective washing apparatus which will not in the least injure the
clothing. By the novel construction of the brushes the same can be 5
easily repaired and made of suitable length. The goods to be cleaned
are put between the two brushes while the same rovolve. One brush
will slowly feed them along, while the lower rapid brush will sweep
their surface, and brush them, clean suds being as a matter of course
used during the process. The brushes are sufficiently strong to remove 1
the dirt from the goods, but too soft to injure them in any way. Rotary
motion is imparted to the brushes by a crank handle or other means
connected with the supporting shaft.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Edward Newton in the Great Seal Patent ]
Office on the 29th September 1871.
TÓ ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in tho
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said William Edward Newton,
Her special licence that I, the said William Edward Newton, my :
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William Edward Newton, 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 King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man,
an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING MACHINES," being a com-
munication to me from abroad by Albert Assmann, of Rahway, in the
State of New Jersey, United States of America, upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Edward Newton, my executors