AN ENTIRE NEW MACHINE CALLED A LAUNDRY, FOR THE PURPOSE OF WASHING AND PRESSING OF ALL SORTS OF HOUSEHOLD LINEN, WEARING APPAREL, AND OTHER THINGS, IN A MUCH LESS EXPENSIVE AND LABORIOUS AND MORE EXPEDITIOUS MANNER THAN ANY HITHERTO PRACTISED
Year: 1780

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROGER
ROGERSON; of Warrington, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, Merchant,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
the Fifth day of December, in the twenty-first year of His reign, give and
grant unto me, the said Rogor Rogerson, His especial licence that I, the said
Rogerson, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations
abroad, my Invention of "AN ENTIRE NEW MACHINE CALLED A LAUNDRY, FOR THE
PURPOSE OF WASHING AND PRESSING OF ALL SORTS OF HOUSEHOLD LINEN, WEARING
APPAREL, AND OTHER THINGS, IN A MUCH LESS EXPENSIVE AND LABORIOUS AND MORE
EXPEDITIOUS MANNER THAN ANY HITHERTO PRACTISED;" in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a provisoe obliging me, the said Roger Rogerson, under my
hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said In-
vention, and how the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within four calendar months after the date of the
said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto
had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
Roger Rogerson, do hereby declare that my said Invention of An Entire New

page_text: Machine, called a Laundry, for the Purpose of Washing and Pressing all
Sorts of Household Linen, Wearing Apparel, and other Things, in a much less
expensive and laborious and more expeditious Manner than any hitherto prac-
tised, is described in the manner following (that is to say):-
The machine for washing and pressing household linen, and other things,
has a frame of wood or metal, in which is a trough or cistern composed of
straight or inclined sides, and curved ends, with two or more levers or futts
hanging on centers or axes. When the machine is putt in motion, the bottom
part of the levers or futts move in a curved direction in one curved part of the
trough or cistern, pressing alternately the linen or other things in washing
against the other curved part of the trough or cistern. The levers are put in
motion by moving a winch wheel or lever by the hand, or any other power.
In the machine over the trough or cistern is fixed two hooks, over which wet
linen is hung, and by giving a circular motion to one of the hooks, presses the
water out of the linen and other things in a more compleat manner than when
wrung by the hand. In one side of the machine is a plain, which moves in a
right-line direction, over which hangs a frame that moves on its centers, which
gathers and presses the sleeve of a shirt and other household linen, or other
things, in as regular manner as if pleeted by hand, after which the linen and
other things is passed through a pair of rowlers, which presses and finishes"
both the plain and pleeted part of the linen and other things in a more
perfect manner than when ironed by hand.
In witness whereof I the said Racer Rogerson have hereunto sett my
Inrolled the Second day of April, in the year last above mentioned.