MACHINES FOR WASHING AND WRINGING OF LINNEN, WOOLLEN, WOOL, COTTON, SILE, OR ANY OTHER COMMODITY THAT REQUIRES WASHING, CLEANSING, OR SCOURING
Year: 1790

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
WOOD, of the Parish of Saint Mary, Newington, in the County of Surrey,
Mathematical Instrument Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-first day of April, in the thirtieth year of His reign, did
give unto me, the said James Wood, His especial licence that I, the said
James Wood, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of the Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "MACHINES FOR WASHING AND WRINGING OF
LINNEN, WOOLLEN, WOOL, COTTON, SILE, OR ANY OTHER COMMODITY THAT REQUIRES
WASHING, CLEANSING, OR SCOURING;" in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso obliging me, the said James Wood, under my hand and
seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and
how the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within one calendar month next 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 pursuance of the said proviso, I, the said
James Wood, do hereby declare that the several Plans or Drawings hereon
made contain the several parts necessary for the construction of, and also a
compleat form of, the said Machines for Washing and Wringing of Linnen,

page_text: Woollen, Wool, Cotton, Silk, or any other Comodity that requires washing,
Cleansing, or Scouring, and that the said several Plans or Drawings, with the
references thereto herein-after mentioned, contain a particular description of
the said Invention, and which references are as follow (that is to say):-
Fig. 1 represents an end view of tho washing machino.
Fig. 2 represents a front view of the machine.
Fig. 3 represents a machine to be worked with or without spring poles.-
See Fig. 13.
Fig. 4, a second machine, to be worked with a spring pole and slides, as
represented. See Fig. 14.
Fig. 5, a third machine, to be worked as represented by Fig. 15.
Figure 6 represents to view a double machine; one pressure advances, the
other recedes, as represented.-See Fig. 16.
Fig. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, several different constructions of the pressure-
peice, adapted to the different uses of milling and cleansing of different articles;
7, an end view of the pressure piece; 8, a front of a plain pressure; 9, a
pressure piece perforatod; 10, a ditto, groved; 11, a pressure peice with rails
horizontally; 12, a ditto, with the rails vertically; 18, a sliding pressure, to bo
applied as in Fig. 3, 4, or 5. A, an end view of a machine to stand on a
table, stool, &c. &c. B, the front view, with the handle fixed in the fly wheel.
C, a piece that is sometimes used, containing the brasses or friction rollers for
the necks and bearing of the crank to work in. D, a piece that is keyed
down in it, to keep the brasses or friction rollers in their proper places, drawn
to a larger scale.
Fig. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, are drawn to the scale G, ono inch
to a foot. Fig. 1 is the bottom of a machine, which is the above scale.
b shew's show the bottom is curved and rabbitted; 2 and 2, the hollow that
joins the curve at the bottom, as drawn before they are put together; 3 and 3
is a side of the machine; 4, the end of the machine; 5, a cross section of the
pressure piece and spring pole k; g and g shows how the pressure piece is
framed without nails or screws. Fig. 6 is the front of the pressure piece h and
spring poles ; 7 is the crank; m, the crank rod, joint, and pin; », the handle
or winch; o, the fly wheel. Fig. 8 is the frame and bearing of the crank for
one end of the innchine; the frame and bearing of the other end is exactly the
same. Fig. 9 is another bearing for the crank, as shewn at C, coutaining
brass friction rollers, &c. Fig. 10, p, p, p, is a section of the franc machine,
spring poles, and pressure piece; q is tho spring pole; r is the pressure piece;
s, the joint fastened to the spring pole; T, the crank rod, joined or annexed
to the crank at one end and to the spring pole at the other end; , the plug to

page_text: let out the suds or stop the hole of the machine when it is working; W, the
cover of the machine; X is the crank for the double machine.
The above represented machines are intended to be worked by a winch,
crank, and fly wheel or wheels, leaver or leavers, pendulum or pendulums,
heart, snail, eleptic, excentric, concentric, or spiral wheels, screws or worms,
racks and half-wheels, racks and pins, springs or spring poles, as necessity
requires, to regulate and effect the work. And in order to reduce the labor so
as to enable children to work common-sized machines, and man, horse, wind,
water or steam, those of the largest construction, friction wheels or rollers
are or may be applied to the respective motions. These machines may be
made of any size; so small as to stand on a table, or large enough to require a
most powerful force.
In order to enable mechanicks to make and use these machines at the
expiration of the grant, a scale is hereby given of the several component
parts of one.
This Invention is so constructed as to press the articles with great force,
while it cleans them without the least injury to the finest lace or muslin,
which pressure is effected so quick, by means of turning the crank and fly with
the winch, that it gradually and incessantly turns the cloaths, &c., and by that
means changes their position so as to admit the water, suds, &c. to work
through, open, and dilate the articles in the machines while they are cleaning.
After having placed such things as are intended to be washed, part on one
side of the pressure box and part on the other, put a sufficient quantity
of suds, &c. into the machine; then put on the cover, and turn the winch a
sufficient length of time to effect the first cleansing. This being done, draw off
the dirty suds, &c. by removing the plug at the end of the box, and continuing
the motion of the machine, which will ring or press the dirty suds out. Then
put the plug in again, and add a fresh supply of clean suds, &c.; repent the
motion of the machine as before, and the articles will be found compleatly
clean.
In witness whereof, the said James Wood hath hereunto set his
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and ninety.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that ou the Twentieth day of May, in the
thirtieth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the said
Janie's Wood camo before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein con-
tained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument afore-
said was stamped according to the tenor of the several Statutes mado in the.
sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary of
England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth and twenty-third years of the
reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the said Twentieth day of May, in the year abovo written.