IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR WASHING PLATES, DISHES, CROCKERY, AND GLASS WARE
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William James Schlesinger, of Union Court,
Old Broad Street, in the City of London, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR WASHING PLATES,
DISHES, CROCKERY, AND GLASS WARE."-A communication from abroad
by J. L. Simonds, residing at Boston, Massachusetts, in the United
States of America.
Sealed the 11th January 1871, and dated the 13th July 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William James
Schlesinger at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 13th July 1870.
I, WILLIAM JAMES SCHLESINGER, of Union Court, Old Broad Street,
in the City of London, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR WASHING
PLATES, DISHES, CROCKERY, AND GLASS WARE," a communication to me from

page_text: abroad by J. L. Simonds, resident at Boston, Massachusetts, in the United
States of America, to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to certain improvements in machinery or
apparatus for the purpose of washing plates, dishes, crockery, and
glass ware.
One form of machine consists of a wooden case or box supported on
standards and lined with zinc or galvanized iron or other suitable metal,
forming a bath, and containing a tray, basket, or receptacle for the
articles; this is constructed of openwork with wire, cane, wood, or
strips of metal, as most convenient, and reaches from end to end of the
case, and is of nearly equal width with the case, leaving a space on each
side and end for the motion of a rotating paddle or dash, which consists of
two bars of wood or metal set at the extremities of two spoke arms, one
at each end of the case, clear of the inner tray, but a further series of
paddles may be used if required, or the dash may be made to force the
water from side to side or from bottom to top of the bath.
Steam may
be supplied to the bath instead of water, in which case the dash will not
be required. Outside one end of the case a crank handle is screwed to
a short shaft or axis working in a bearing and just extending sufficiently
within the bath to support and give motion to the dash, and to suspend
the tray, which has a slot cut at each end of its frame for that purpose;
a fixed stem or bearing at the opposite end of the case serves to support
the dash and tray in like manner.
The action of the machine is as follows:-Water being supplied to
the bath, and the plates, dishes, or other articles being placed in the
tray, as in a rack, the cover of the case is closed and the dash turned by
the handle, the result being that the water is driven in all directions
between the articles, thereby cleansing them in the most perfect manner.
A plug at the lower part of the case serves to draw off the water and
impurities as required. The tray, basket, or rack may be likewise made
to oscillate or rotate in the bath, but the machine described is preferred
where the rack is stationary, the Invention being based solely upon the
violent action of water caused by the motion of the dash or the tray,
or both of them, the articles being contained in an openwork receptacle
within a bath.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William James Schlesinger in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 13th January 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
JAMES SCHLESINGER, of Union Court, Old Broad Street, in the City of
London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-third year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said William James Schlesinger, Her special licence that I,
the said William James Schlesinger, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said William James Schlesinger, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR WASHING PLATES, DISHES, CROCKERY, AND GLASS
WARE," a communication to me from abroad by J. L. Simonds, resident
at Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States of America, upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said William James Schlesinger,
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 William James Schlesinger, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement
--
This Invention relates to certain improvements in machinery or.
apparatus for the purpose of washing plates, dishes, crockery, and,
glass ware.

page_text: One form of machine consists of a wooden case or box supported on
standards and lined with zine or galvanized iron, or other suitable metal,
forming a bath, and containing a tray, basket, or receptacle for the
articles; this is constructed of openwork with wire, cane, wood, or
strips of metal, as most convenient, and reaches from end to end of the
bath, and is of nearly equal width with the case, leaving a space on each
side and end for the motion of a rotating paddle or dash, which consists
of two bars of wood or metal set at the extremities of two spoke arms,
one at each end of the case clear of the inner tray; but a further series
of paddles may be used if required, or the dash may be made to force
the water from side to side or from bottom to top of the bath. Steam
may be supplied to the bath instead of water, in which case the dash
will not be required. Outside one end of the case a crank handle is
screwed to a short shaft or axis working in a bearing, and just extending
sufficiently within the bath to support and give motion to the dash, and
to suspend the tray, which has a slot cut at each end of its frame for that
purpose; a fixed stem or bearing at the opposite end of the case serves
to support the dash and tray in like manner.
The action of the machine is as follows:-Water being supplied to the
bath, and the plates, dishes, or other articles being placed in the tray,
as in a rack, the cover of the case is closed and the dash turned by the
handle, the result being that the water is driven in all directions between
the articles, thereby cleansing them in the most perfect manner. Α
plug at the lower part of the case serves to draw off the water and
impurities, as required. The tray, basket, or rack may be likewise made
to oscillate or rotate in the bath, or it may be made with horizontal
divisions and supported by vertical bearings at top and bottom of a
bath, the dash being made to rotate vertically round the rack; but the
machine described is preferred, where the rack is vertically divided and
stationary, the Invention being based solely upon the violent action
of water, caused by the motion of the dash or the tray, or both of them,
the articles being contained in an openwork rack within a bath.
Fig. 1 of the annexed Drawings is a longitudinal vertical section of
the machine, and Fig. 2 a plan. Similar letters denote corresponding
parts in each Figure.
a is the outer case or box, and b, the bath; c is the tray or rack;
d, the dash; e, e, the bearings which support the rack and dash; the

page_text: rack can at any time be lifted out, as it is suspended on the bearings
by slots cut in its frame; fis the crank handle which turns the dash;
and g, the plug for emptying the bath.
I claim the machinery or apparatus for washing plates, dishes,
crockery, and glass ware, consisting of an open tray, or rack, in which
the articles are held in a bath of water or steam, a dash being used to
give motion to the water, and being operated by a crank handle, the
whole being contained in a case or box of any suitable form, substantially
as herein specified and shewn.
In witness whereof, I, the said William James Schlesinger, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of
December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy.
WILLIAM JAMES SCHLESINGER. (L.S.)
Witness,
ALEX. PRINCE,
Office for Patents,
4, Trafalgar Square,
Charing Cross.