IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING MACHINES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Ephraim Taylor, of Blackburn, in the County
of Lancaster, Machinist, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
WASHING MACHINES."
Sealed the 24th July 1874, and dated the 28th January 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Ephraim Taylor at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 28th January 1874.
I, EPHRAIM TAYLOR, of Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster,
3 Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING MACHINES," to be as follows:-
.
I form the tub in which the operation of washing is conducted with
an earthenware, glass, or enamelled metal bottom, considering the same
to be more durable than a wooden one.
The framing carrying the squeezing rollers is attached in an ordinary
manner to the tub, but I crank the said framing outwards so that the

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rollers be wider than the tub. I also crank the said framing back-
wards so that the rollers may stand away from the dasher shaft, and also
leave the greater portion of the top of the tub open and uncovered to
facilitate taking out the articles being washed.
A bearing of any suitable kind is fixed in the centre of the tub bottom 5
for the dasher shaft to turn in or upon, and another bearing is arranged
for the same purpose in the top rail of the machine. The last named
bearing is covered by a cap secured by a pin or screw.
The dasher is driven in an ordinary manner by means of two bevel
wheels working in each other. One of them is fixed on the dasher shaft ]
and the other one on a horizontal shaft, to which is attached a handle
for working it.
The bevel wheel on the dasher shaft I place below the bearing on the
top rail and below the centre of the horizontal shaft, by which means I
get the dasher shaft much shorter, and I make the horizontal shaft to 1
work in a long socket on the top rail.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Ephraim Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 25th July 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EPHRAIM
TAYLOR, of Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, Machinist, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty- a
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Ephraim Taylor, Her special license
that I, the said Ephraim Taylor, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Ephraim Taylor, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no a
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
.

page_text: Fig. 1 represents a front view of the machine; Fig. 2, an end view
and section; and Fig. 3, a full size plan of the top bearing for the
dasher shaft.
A is the tub; B, the bottom of the said tub, and is made of earthen-
ware, glass, or enamelled metal; F, F, is the framing carrying the
squeezing rollers. It is attached in an ordinary manner to the tub, but
is cranked outwards, as shewn at D, D, Fig. 1, so that the rollers may
be wider than the tub. It is also cranked backwards, as shewn at H,
Fig. 2, so that the squeezing rollers E, E, may stand away from the
dasher shaft K, and also leave the part M of the tub open and uncovered.
A bearing N is fixed in the bottom of the tub for the dasher shaft to
work in, and another bearing is formed for the same purpose in the top
rail Q.
Fig. 3 shews a full size plan of the last named bearing, which
is covered by a cap P, hinged at R, and secured by a pin S, so that by
taking out the pin S the cap P can be thrown back sufficiently to take
out the dasher shaft. T and U are the two bevil wheels for working the
dasher, the wheel U being fixed on the dasher shaft below the top
bearing and below the centre of the wheel T. A long socket X is fixed
on the top rail of the machine for the horizontal shaft to work in.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention and the
manner in which it is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I
claim as my Invention,-
1st. Forming the tub bottom of earthenware, glass, or enamelled
metal.
1 2nd. Cranking the framing outwards, as shewn at D, D, 50 that the
rollers may be wider than the tub.
3rd. Cranking the framing backwards, as shewn at H, so that the
rollers may stand away from the dasher shaft, and also that the greater
part of the tub mouth may be open.
4th. The hinged cap P secured by the pin 8.
[ 5th. The dasher shaft K being capable of instant removal in combi-
nation with the framing which supports its upper bearing being attached
to the tub.

page_text: On The Devil wheel being placed below the top bearing of the
dasher shaft and below the centre of the wheel T.
7th. The long socket X for the horizontal shaft to work in.
In witness whereof, I, the said Ephraim Taylor, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
EPHRAIM TAYLOR. (L.S.)