AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR WASHING, WRINGING, MANGLING, CHURNING, AND AGITATING LIQUIDS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Ephraim Taylor, Engineer and Machinist, of
Central Works, New Market Street, Blackburn, in the County of
Lancaster, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND
APPARATUS FOR WASHING, WRINGING, MANGLING, CHURNING, AND AGITATING
LIQUIDS."
Sealed the 12th November 1869, and dated the 18th May 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Ephraim Taylor at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th May 1869.
I, EPHRAIM TAYLOR, Engineer and Machinist, of Central Works,
New Market Street, Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF
AND APPARATUS FOR WASHING, WRINGING, MANGLING, CHURNING, AND AGITATING
LIQUIDS," to be as follows:-
I have one or more large tubs standing upright, in which the process
of "washing," "churning," or "agitating liquids," is carried on, and I
have a pair of rollers between which the process of "wringing" and
"mangling" is carried on; a system of framework supports and carries

page_text: the whole. In the centre of each tub is a dasher placed upright and
turning about on a pivot fixed at the bottom of the tub, the dasher
having a hole in the end for the reception of the said pivot. The dasher
is supported near the top of the tub by a bush, which drops into a
suitable hole in the framing, and which is so arranged that by lifting
out the bush the dasher can be removed at pleasure. When the dasher
is taken out the tub may be removed without disturbing any other part
of the apparatus. On the dasher shaft is a bevil wheel working into
another on a horizontal shaft, which latter shaft carries the pulley or
handle for working the dasher, and is so arranged that by rocking the
handle backwards and forwards a vibratory motion is given to the
dasher (about its centre), and by turning the handle round a rotary
motion is given to the dasher. The tub stands on the bottom rail of
the machine, which has a small projection to keep the tub in position;
or the tub may stand on the floor, and the bottom rail of the machine
be made of a semicircular shape to receive and keep the tub in position.
The rollers for wringing and mangling go crossway of the machine
and above the tub, and are furnished with the usual wheels and handle
for turning, the drag wheels being cast with square holes and the roller
shafts fitted therein. The bearings for each end of the top roller consist
(for the convenience of weighting) of a round bush, and the weighting
motion consists at each side of the machine of a metal band fixed at
one end on a stud or on the shaft of the bottom roller, and going over
and resting on the before-named round bush of the top roller and
attached at the other end to a lever having its centre on the shaft of the
bottom roller or on a stud. This lever is attached by a link to another
lever carrying a weight. I make the dasher with upright or horizontal
hars
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Ephraim Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office 30
on the 16th November 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EPHRAIM
TAYLOR, Engineer and Machinist, of Central Works, New Market Street,
Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 35
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of May, in the year of

page_text: our Lord One thousand cight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Ephraim Taylor, Her special
licence that I, the said Ephraim Taylor, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such other's as I, the said Ephraim Taylor, 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 Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN
IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR WASHING, WRINGING, MANOLING,
CHURNING, AND AGITATING LIQUIDS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Ephraim Taylor, 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 Ephraim Taylor, 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, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet
of Drawings :-
I have one or more tubs standing upright, in which the process of
washing, churning, or mixing fluids is carried on, and I have a pair of
rollers between which the wringing and mangling is carried on; a
system of framework supports or fixes the position of the whole. In
each tub is an upright dasher made with bars placed either upright,
horizontal, or at an angle, or composed of flat wings pierced with holes,
or a combination of each or any of these. This dasher turns about on a
pivot placed at the bottom of the tub, the dasher having a hole in the
end for the reception of the said pivot, or when I desire to drive from
below, a square spike or socket comes through a stuffing-box in the
bottom of the tub, and which socket or spike the dasher end fits, and
which communicates the necessary motion to the dasher. The dasher is
supported near the top end by a round or half round bush, which drops
into a suitable hole in the framing, which is so arranged that by lifting

page_text: out the bush the dasher can be removed at pleasuro. When the dasher
has been taken out the tub may be removed without disturbing any
other part of the apparatus. On the dasher shaft is a bevil wheel
working into another on a horizontal shaft, which latter shaft carrics
the handle or pulley for giving motion to the dasher, so that by rocking
the handle or pulley backwards or forwards a vibratory motion is given
to the dasher about its centre, and by turning the handle or pulley
round a rotary motion is given to the dasher; when it is desired that by
turning the handle or pulley round the dasher may still have a vibratory
motion, I fix upon the horizontal shaft in place of the handle or pulley
a pinion, which pinion works into a quadrant, into which quadrant works
an eccentric that is fixed upon the pulley or handle, so that as the
eccentric moves the quadrant backwards and forwards the dasher
vibrates about its centre, or if preferred turns a few times round one way
and then turns the reverse way. The tub stands on the bottom rail of
the machine, which rail has a small projecting flange to keep the tub
in position, or the tub may stand on the floor and the rail be made
semicircular or of a suitable shape to receive it and fix its position.
The rollers for wringing and mangling go crossway of the machine
and above the tub, and are furnished with the usual wheels and
handle for turning, but the drag wheels are cast with square holes
instead of round ones, and the roller shafts are fitted therein. The
weighting motion consists at each side of the machine of a metal
band going over the bearing of the top roller and connected to a lever
underneath, which lever is connected to another lever by a link, the
last-named lever carrying a weight or weights, or the metal band after
going over the top roller is attached to a screwed rod, which rod passes
through a box filled with cork, a small wheel or handle on the said rod
screws against a washer pressing on the cork; this arrangement serves
as a spring weighting motion.
Disson on 1 A

page_text: taking out the dasher the tub may be removed. There is a bevil wheel E
fixed on the dasher shaft and working into another one F, fixed on
the horizontal shaft G, to which shaft is also attached the handle H,
by moving which the bevils and dasher receive motion. K is the bottom
rail of the machine and serves to keep the tub in position; L and M
are the rollers for wringing and mangling; N and O are the drag wheels
which are cast with square holes in them; P, P, are the metal bands
for the weighting motion; they go over the bushes or bearings of the
top roller L, and are connected to levers R, R, having their fulcrums
at S, and cach connected by a link or bolt, T, T, to other levers U, U,
cach carrying a weight. Fig. 5 shows one end of the rollers with the
cork spring arrangement, the other end being similar. V is the aforesaid
metal band attached to a screwed rod W; there is a box X filled with
cork and a washer Y pressing on the said cork; a wheel handle Z screws
up against the said washer, by means of which the necessary pressure
is obtained. Fig. 3 shows the arrangement of the quadrant motion
for moving the dasher. A' is the pinion on the before-named horizontal
shaft; B' is the quadrant in which works the eccentric C¹, fastened on
the boss of the driving pulley D' and turning with it; as the eccentric
turns round it moves the quadrant backwards or forwards, which com-
municates the vibratory motion to the dasher through the pinion and
bevils. Fig. 6 shows the arrangement for driving the dasher from
below. E is the dasher, and F is a spike coming through a stuffing box
in the bottom of the tub G'; the two ends of the spike are shown square,
one end of which fits into the dasher and the other end into the end
of the bevil wheel II', and communicates the motion from the bevil
wheel to the dasher. The bevil wheel and the dasher, one or both of them,
may be made with a spike, and the short shaft coming through the tub
with a socket or sockets to correspond.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the
means of carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that
the improvements I claim arc,-The upright dasher for washing. The
applicability of the one machine to all the purposes of washing, churn-
ing, mixing fluids, wringing and mangling. The arrangement of
bush and framing for taking out dasher. The manner of keeping
the tub in position. Placing the pivot in the tub and the hole receiving
it in the dasher. The square holes in the drag wheels. The framing
not being supported from the tub. The tub being distinct and not
attached to the framing. After taking out the dasher being able to

page_text: remove the tub without disturbing any other part. Being able to take
out the dasher for washing without unscrewing any of the apparatus.
Making the dasher for washing with horizontal bars or upright bars
connected at their lower part with the centre stem. The cork spring
weighting motion. The quadrant motion. The manner of driving
from below. A vibrating dasher for washing, working on a pivot at
bottom.
In witness whereof, I, the said Ephraim Taylor, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of November, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nino.
EPHRAIM TAYLOR. (L.S.)