AN IMPROVED WASHING MACHINE
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Burrell, of Stockton-on-Tees, of the Firm
of Joseph Potts Burrell and Thomas Burrell, Engineers, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVED WASHING MACHINE."
Sealed the 10th May 1872, and dated the 13th November 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Burrell at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th November 1871.
I, THOMAS BURRELL, of Stockton-on-Tees, of the Firm of Joseph Potts
Burrell and Thomas Burrell, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED WASHING MACHINE," to be as
follows:-
I construct a case or vessel with three or more legs (cylindrical by
preference), and inside the bottom thereof I provide ribs or projections
(concentrically arranged by preference). I also provide a disc or move-
able piece having on the one side which is in work, to be opposite to the
said bottom, similar ribs or projections. This disc or moveable piece has

page_text: an orifice in the middle through which an upright spindle or stalk passes,
the lower end whereof is socketted in the middle of the bottom of the
case or vessel. This cross handle is likewise provided with two uprights
which are firmly secured to it, and also to the disc or moveable
piece.
To use this machine, lift the cross handle, and thus the disc and
appendages just described may be raised out of the case or vessel; then
put in water or cleansing liquid and the clothes to be washed, when
the disc and appendages may be dropped into place, and the operation of
washing performed by giving backwards and forwards motion to the
cross handle.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Burrell in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 11th May 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
BURRELL, of Stockton-on-Tees, of the Firm of Joseph Potts Burrell and
Thomas Burrell, Engineers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Burrell, Her special licence that
I, the said Thomas Burrell, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Thomas Burrell, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 "AN IMPROVED WASHING
MACHINE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas
Burrell, 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

page_text: 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 Thomas Burrell, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :—
I construct a case or vessel with three or more legs (cylindrical by
preference), and inside the bottom thereof I provide ribs or projections
(concentrically arranged by preference). I also provide a disc or move-
able piece having on the one face which is in work, to be opposite to the.
said bottom of case, similar ribs or projections. This disc or moveable
piece has an orifice in the middle through which an upright spindle or
stalk passes, the lower end whereof is socketted in the middle of the
bottom of the case or vessel. A cross handle is likewise provided with
two uprights which are firmly secured to it, and also to the disc or
moveable piece.
To use this machine, lift the cross handle, and thus the disc and
appendages just described may be raised out of the case or vessel; then
put in water or cleaning liquid and the clothes to be washed, when
the disc and appendages may be dropped into place, and the operation
of washing performed by giving backward and forward motion to the
cross handle.
Having thus far described the said Invention, more particularly as
regards the nature thereof, which is herein-before particularly described
and ascertained, I will now refer to the accompanying Drawings, so as
with the aid of the foregoing statements to particularly describe and
ascertain in what manner the said Invention is to be performed or
carried out in practice.
Fig. 1, exterior view; Fig. 2, vertical section; Fig. 9, plan of c
disc or of the bottom (as the one corresponds to the other).
A, is the tub, case, or vessel; B, the disc rubber or moveable piece;
O, the handle for turning the rubber; D, is a guide for steadying the
motion of the disc or rubber; this rubber, having a hole in the centre
and a corresponding. hole in the guide, works freely round the upright

page_text: spindle, stalk, or central pillar E; F, are other pillars fixed in the disc or
rubber at one end and in the handle at the other, in order that by
moving the handle the disc or rubber moves with it; G, is an outlet for
the water; H, are the ribs or projections fixed on bottom of tub or case,
and also to the disc or rubber.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature and
object of my said Invention, and in what manner the same may be
performed or put in practice, I hereby declare that I claim the
Invention, the nature whereof is herein-before described and illustrated
by the accompanying Drawings, it being understood that I do not claim
the mere details of construction except as constituent parts of the said
machine.
machine.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Burrell, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this First day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
Witness,
T. CROSBY,
Solicitor,
Norton.
THOMAS BURRELL. (L.S.)