Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 28th July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 6th Sept., 1887.
I, JAMES HESELWOOD of Infirmary Street Leeds in the County of York Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In all laundries it continually happens that a portion of the clothes is so much
dirtier than the remainder that they have to be washed separately which is generally
inconvenient or the dirtier portion must undergo a preliminary treatment or partial
washing to bring them to the average condition so that all the clothes may be
thereafter washed together in the same machine.
This Invention relates to machinery or apparatus for the preliminary treatment or
partial washing of clothes hereinbefore referred to and these Improvements consist
in a combination and arrangement of an upper corrugated or fluted roller and a
lower plain or corrugated roller adjustably mounted with parallel axes and geared
together.
The rollers are by suitable gearing driven or rotated alternately in opposite
directions so that any clothes placed between them are drawn alternately to and fro
between the rollers, where they are thoroughly worked to liberate the dirt by the
action of the irregularities of surface on the roller or rollers.
Soapy or clean water is supplied to dissolve and remove the dirt either by a
perforated pipe by jets or through perforations in the periphery of the upper roller.
I have hitherto found that when a corrugated and a plain roller are employed it is
more convenient to give the corrugated roller the upper position.
Dated this 22nd day of October A.D. 1886.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
70, Market Street, Manchester,
Agent for Applicant.

page_text: I, JAMES HESELWOOD, of Infirmary Street, Leeds, in the County of York, Engineer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
In all laundries it continually happens that a portion of the clothes is so much
dirtier than the remainder that they have to be washed separately, or the dirtier
portion must undergo a preliminary treatment or partial washing to bring them to
the average condition so that all the clothes may be thereafter washed together in the
same machine.
This Invention relates to machinery or apparatus for the preliminary treatment or
partial washing of clothes hereinbefore referred to, and these improvements consist
in a combination and arrangement of an upper corrugated or fluted roller and
a lower plain or corrugated roller, adjustably mounted with parallel axes and geared
together. The rollers are by suitable and well known gearing and devices driven or
rotated continuously in the same direction or alternately in opposite directions so that
any clothes placed between them are drawn between the rollers, where they are
thoroughly worked to liberate the dirt by the action of the irregularities of surface on
the upper roller. Soapy or clean water is supplied to dissolve and remove the dirt
either by a slit or perforated pipe, by jets or through perforations in the periphery of
the upper roller.
The accompanying sheet of drawings illustrated the manner of carrying these
improvements into practical effect, and I will now proceed to describe the same:-
A is the upper roller. When a corrugated and a plain roller are employed I prefer
to give the corrugated roller the upper position as shown. B is the lower roller;
this may be either plain or corrugated, but I prefer it to have a smooth surface. Two
alternative methods of supplying water to the apparatus are shown either of which
may be used. If a perforated tube is preferred the arrangement shown in dotted
lines at C may be adopted; if the water is supplied to the interior of the roller the
arrangement shown at D may be employed in which case the roller is perforated as
at E for the escape of the water. At E a portion of the roller is represented as
broken away to show the perforations more clearly. It will be understood that these
perforations are distributed in the flutes over the whole surface of the roller. F are
the wheels gearing the rollers together. A crank or other device may be secured to
one of the roller shafts by means of which motion in opposite directions may be
imparted to the rollers.

page_text: Having now particularly ascertained and described the nature of my said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :
In washing machines for laundries the combination and arrangement of an upper
corrugated roller with a lower plain or corrugated roller, means for rotating the same
and apparatus for supplying water thereto; substantially as and for the purpose
hereinbefore set forth and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for Applicant.