AN IMPROVED WASHING MACHINE
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Capel Greenway of Grafton in the Colony of
New South Wales and temporarily of Streatham Hill in the county of
Surrey, Clerk in Holy Orders for an Invention of AN IMPROVED WASHING
MACHINE
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Capel Greenway
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th August 1882.
CHARLES CAPEL GREENWAY of Grafton in the Colony of New South Wales
and temporarily of Streatham Hill in the County of Surrey, Clerk in Holy
Orders. "AN IMPROVED WASHING MACHINE
"
My Invention consists in an improved washing machine which is simple in
construction, effective in operation and not liable to tear or injure the clothes or
fabrics submitted to its action
The machine consists of an open cage or basket working up and down within
a box or trough and compressing or squeezing the clothes which it contains against
a stationary grating corresponding to the internal area of the cage.
The
The box or trough is open at top and the cage is fitted to work up and down
like a plunger within it. The cage is constructed of a suitable frame with grated
sides or other open work to allow free passage for the water. It is open at top
and is operated from a rock shaft mounted in standards fixed to the box.
shaft is worked by a lever handle the cage being suspended by straps or other
flexible connections lapped round pulleys on the shaft. The grating or diaphragm
against which the clothes are squeezed, is held stationary within the cage by being,
attached to downwardly extending pieces attached to cross bars fixed across the
top of the box and the grating or the bars of which it is composed is removable to
allow the clothes etc to be placed in the cage beneath it and removed therefrom.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Charles Capel Greenway in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
7th February 1883.
CHARLES CAPEL GREENWAY of Grafton in the Colony of New South Wales,
and temporarily of Streatham Hill in the County of Surrey, Clerk in Holy
Orders "AN IMPROVED WASHING MACHINE.",
My Invention consists in an improved washing machine, which is simple in
construction, effective in operation, and not in any way liable to tear or injure the
clothes or fabrics submitted to its action.
The machine consists of an openwork cage or basket to contain the clothes,
working up and down within a box or trough containing the washing liquid, and
of a stationary grating corresponding to the internal area of the cage and fixed
within it, between which and the bottom of the cage the clothes are squeezed or
compressed and are at same time agitated in the washing liquid by the up and
down motion of the cage or basket.
In order that the Invention may be more readily understood, I have illustrated
it in the accompanying drawings and will proceed to describe it with reference
thereto;
.
Figure 1 is a longitudinal elevation, Figure 2 a cross section, and Figure 3 a
plan of the machine. A is the box or trough, and B is a rectangular or other
shaped cage or basket of galvanised iron wirework or other suitable grated or
openwork fabric to allow free ingress and egress of the water. This cage is of
sufficiently less area than the trough to leave room between them for the necessary
quantity of washing liquid. a is a fillet fixed along the four inner sides of the
trough near the top to close the interval between the cage and the trough and
prevent the liquid being thrown out by the motion of the cage which works up
and down like a plunger within this fillet with sufficient clearance between the two
for freedom of action. The cage is closed at top by a stationary grating C, being
a frame corresponding in shape and size (due clearance for freedom of working
being allowed) to the internal horizontal area of the cage, and having fixed upon
it wirework or lattice work or other open work, or it might be a solid lid. It is
fixed at a height corresponding to the top edge of the cage when in its lowest
position and is held stationary in this position whilst the cage works up and down
around it in the interval between its edges and the fillet a, the grating thus
forming a lid or diaphragm against which the clothes contained in the cage are
squeezed when the cage rises.
The cage is suspended from a pair of straps D or other flexible connections
attached to it, one at each end at the centre of its top edge, said straps being attached
to and lapped partially round a pair of pulleys F keyed on a rock shaft G above
the cage and mounted in suitable standards H rising from the ends of the trough A.
The shaft has a lever handle E removably fixed to it by means of which a rocking
motion is imparted to the shaft, and an up and down notion to the cage in the
trough. The grating or diaphragm C is held stationary by being fixed to the
lower ends of two pairs of downwardly extending posts K attached to cross bars L
running lengthwise of the trough over the two longer sides of the cage B and fixed,
the one to uprights H and the other to another pair of uprights M also fixed to
the ends of the trough. The grating is fitted in an outer frame c to which the
posts K are fixed, and is secured thereto so as to be readily removable for
introducing and removing the clothes. In the example shown one end of the
grating is held beneath an over-hanging lip or flange c' fixed on frame c, and at
the other end by bolts c².

page_text: I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to the means herein
described of working the cage up and down, or to the details of securing the grating
in position.
Having described the nature of my Invention and the manner of performing
the same, I declare that what I claim as my Invention to be protected by the
hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is.
1st In a washing machine the combination of an open-work cage or basket to
contain the clothes &c working up and down in a suitable trough or vessel, and of.
a stationary grating or diaphragm fitting within the cage, between which and the
bottom of the cage or basket the clothes are squeezed and at same time agitated
in the liquid, substantially as herein shown and described.
2nd The improved washing machine constructed and arranged for operation
substantially as herein shown and described.
In Witness whereof I the said Charles Capel Greenway have hereunto set
my hand and seal this sixth day of February, A.D. 1883.
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