Washing and Rinsing Machine
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 20th July, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 11th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 18th May, 1889
I, EDWIN ROGERS of Mossy Hill Maidenhead Laundry Proprietor do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object improvements in apparatus and parts relating to
Washing and Rinsing Machines and consists mainly in employing a special form of
Tray or other device having a horizontal motion in combination with the ordinary
system of beaters or dollies.
These improvements effect a considerable saving in time, the work is more efficiently
accomplished and the most fragile, articles may be treated without being distressed
also the risk of entanglement of the articles under treatinent is entirely obviated.
These Trays may be reciprocated by any mechanism; the motion for operating the
Trays may be obtained from the usual Rack and pinion as employed to work the
reciprocating motion of the Mangle and may be driven either by hand or by steam or
by other motive power.

page_text: Improvements in Washing and Rinsing Machines,
I, EDWIN ROGERS, Mossy Hill, Maidenhead, 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 :-
My invention relates to washing and rinsing machines in which beaters or dollies
are made to alternately rise and fall within a tray containing the articles to be
. washed or rinsed.
According to my present invention I arrange the trays of such machines to receive
a rectilinear to and fro motion underneath the beaters, so that these are caused to act
successively upon all parts of the articles contained in the tray. By this means
I effect both a saving of time and a more perfect treatment of the articles, while at
the same time the most fragile articles can be treated without deterioration or risk of
entanglement.
The said reciprocating motion may be imparted to the tray by any suitable
mechanism, such as an ordinary mangle motion, driven either by hand or by
power.
The accompanying drawing shews the construction which I prefer to employ in
carrying out my said invention. Fig. 1 shews a side view of the machine and
Fig. 2 a cross section. On the beams A of the framing A¹ is placed a rectangular
tray or trough B, resting on guide rollers CC on the beams A, and also guided
laterally by other rollers CC¹ on the inner sides of the framing.
To this tray is imparted a slow to and fro movement by means of any suitable
mechanism, such as an ordinary mangle motion D as shewn, which may consist of a
rack formed of a single row of pins fixed to the underside of the tray B, with which
rack gears a pinion on a spindle E driven by a spur wheel F with which it is
connected in any known manner so that the pinion end can alternately rise and fall
to a certain extent in its bearing as the pinion passes alternately to the upper and
the lower sides of the rack, in the usual manner. The wheel F is driven by a
pinion G, on the driving shaft H, carrying fast and loose pullies I and a fly wheel J.
KK are the rising and falling beaters, which may be of ordinary construction,.
mounted on the opposite arms L L fixed on a shaft M to which a rocking motion
is imparted, so as to cause the beaters to alternately rise and fall as the tray B
passes to and fro underneath the same. This rocking motion may be imparted to
the shaft M in any suitable known manner from the driving shaft H, but I prefer
to employ for this purpose the arrangement shewn, in which the shaft M carries two
arms N N with rollers at their ends, which bear upon-a sway beam O, carried on a
pin at O¹ and receiving a rocking motion from the connecting rod P. and crank pin Q
carried adjustably in a slot on one of the fly wheel arms. Thus the beam O, in being
made to move up and down alternately presses upward the two arms N and thereby
imparts the required rocking motion to the shaft M and beaters K. The bearings
of the shaft M in the frame A' are free to slide upward and have above them springs

page_text: formed of caoutchouc blocks Q1, the object of which is to allow of any unevenness
in the layer of articles in the tray B without straining the machine, as, when in the
downward motion the beaters meet with an excessive thickness of the fabrics, while
they continue to be moved downward, the pressure will be relieved by the action of
the springs in allowing the shaft M to rise somewhat either at one or at both ends.
Thus as the beaters operate with a certain amount of freedom they will be prevented
from injuriously acting on the articles, and thus the breaking of buttons which so
generally occurs in washing machines of present construction will be prevented.
Owing to the reciprocating motion of the tray, the articles thereon are acted upon
in a very uniform manner by the beaters, and any injury thereto by entanglement or
otherwise is avoided.
Fig. 1 shows the rocking shaft and beaters in the middle position, and Fig. 2 shews
them in the extreme position.
The tray B being provided with a perforated false bottom B', it will be evident
that on withdrawing the water from below this false bottom, the machine may be
effectually used as a wringing machine, that is to say, for expressing the water from
the articles on the false bottom after the washing and rinsing has been completed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
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In a washing and rinsing machine, the combination with vertically reciprocating
beaters or dollies, of a tray or trough, containing the articles be acted upon
which tray or trough has a horizontal to and fro motion imparted to it, substantially
as herein described.
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