IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WASHING
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Gray and John Tate, of Newcastle-on-Tyno,
Joiners, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WASHING."
Scaled the 14th April 1857, and dated the 4th November 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Gray and John
Tate at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 4th November 1856.
We, WILLIAM GRAY and JOIN TATE, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, Joiners, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR WASHING," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in an improved method of arranging apparatus for
washing clothes and fabrics. For this purpose a frame is employed, in which
the article to be washed is fixed, and this frame is by a suitable handle worked
up and down in a tub between two sets of grooved rollers, one set on each
side of the frame. The axes of the rollers are mounted at the two ends in
inclined slots, so that the rollers have always a tendency to fall to the lower
end of the slots, and thus they press lightly by their own weight on both sides.
of the article to be washed as it is extended in the frame before mentioned.
If it is desired, a double apparatus may be constructed, consisting of two tubs
and frames, such frames being both connected with one handle, so that when
one frame is raised the other is lowered.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Gray and John Tate in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 4th May 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
GRAY and JOHN TATE, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, Joiners, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
William Gray and John Tate, Her special licence that we, the said William
Gray and John Tate, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as we, the said William Gray and John Tate, our 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WASHING," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said William Gray and John Tate, our executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or their hands and
seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them, should particularly
describo 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 Putent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said William Gray and John Tate, 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, that is to say:-
This Invention consists in an improved method of arranging apparatus for
washing clothes and fabrics. For this purpose a frame is employed, in which
the article to be washed is fixed, and this frame is by a suitable handle worked
up and down in a tub between two sets of grooved rollers, one set on each
side of the frame. The axes of the rollers are mounted at the two ends in
inclined slots, so that the rollers have always a tendency to fall to the lower
end of the slots, and thus they press lightly by their own weight on both sides
of the article to be washed as it is extended in the frame before mentioned.
If it is desired, a double apparatus may be constructed, consisting of two tubs

page_text: ono frame is raised the other is lowered.
And in order that our said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, we will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto
annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a longitudinal section; Figure 2 is a plan; and Figure 3 is an
end view, partly in section; of a double washing machine, arranged according
to our Invention. a, a', are two tubs connected together by the side frames b.
Each of these tubs contains grooved rollers c, c, c', c', having their axes mounted
in inclined guiding slots d, d, d', d'. At the ends of the tubs the rollers c, c, c¹, c³,
should be made sufficiently heavy to prevent them floating in water. e, e¹, aro
frames for holding the articles to be washed. They are worked up and down
by the lever handle f, to which they are both connected. The lever handle f
is mounted on an axis g, carried by the standards h. Figure 4 is a front view
of one of the frames e, e¹. It has at its lower part a fixed jaw e², over which
a moveable jaw e³ is placed. The jaw is capable of sliding up and down
(being guided by the two sides of the frame), so as to approach or recede from
the lower jaw e. The articles to be fixed in the frame for the purpose of
being washed are laid on the lower jaw e, and the upper jaw e³ is slid down
on to them, and is then fixed by the binding screw e. When in use, a quatity
soap and water is placed in the tubs, and the lever handle f is worked up
and down until the articles are washed. 9, 9, are plugs for emptying the
tubs a, a¹.
of
In witness whereof, we, the said William Gray & John Tate, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Thirtieth day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
PICKERING TATE,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
WILLIAM GRAY. (L.S.)
JOHN TATE. (L.B.)