IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING MACHINES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Whitaker and Benjamin Lupton, Machinists,
and Christopher Catlow, Overlooker, all of Burnley, in the County
of Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING
MACHINES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Whitaker,
Benjamin Lupton, and Christopher Catlow at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 9th March
1871.
We, JOHN WHITAKER and BENJAMIN LUPTON, Machinists, and
CHRISTOPHER CATLOW, Overlooker, all of Burnley, in the County of
Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING MACHINES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to an improved apparatus for agitating the
water and clothes in the "tub" or washing box so as to secure constant
change of surface of the clothes operated upon to a rubbing and scouring
.process.

page_text: The apparatus is constructed as follows:-In the tub or washing box,,
on one end of a shaft or spindle, we mount or affix a disc of wood or
metal. On the face of the disc are a number of projecting pins; the
other end of the shaft or spindle is provided with a handle or hand-wheel
for the purpose of giving rotary motion to the disc and pins. The face à
or end of tub opposite the disc and pins is provided with a number of
ribs or corrugations.
The action of the apparatus and operation of washing is as follows :—
The tub is partially filled with water, the clothes are placed within the
tub between the pins and the ribbed or corrugated end of the tub; on 1
the handle or wheel being turned the projecting pins agitate and con-
stantly turn over the clothes, which are thus exposed to the rubbing and
scouring by frictional contact with the projecting pins and corrugated
end of the tub or washing box.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Whitaker, Benjamin Lupton, and Christopher
Catlow in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 9th September 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
WHITAKER and BENJAMIN LUPTON, Machinists, and CHRISTOPHER
CATLOW, Overlooker, all of Burnley, in the County of Lancaster, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-fourth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said John Whitaker, Benjamin Lupton, and Chris-
topher Catlow, Her special licence that we, the said John Whitaker,
Benjamin Lupton, and Christopher Catlow, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said John Whitaker,
Benjamin Lupton, and Christopher Catlow, our 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,.

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and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING MACHINES,'
upon the condition amongst others, that we, the said John Whitaker,
Benjamin Lupton, and Christopher Catlow, our executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under our, 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 we, the said John Whitaker, Benjamin Lupton,
and Christopher Catlow, do hereby declare the nature of our said.
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
and accompanying Sheet of Drawings (that is to say) :-
:-
This Invention relates to an improved apparatus for agitating the
water and clothes in the "tub" or washing box so as to secure constant
change of surface of the clothes operated upon to a rubbing and scouring
process.
:
The apparatus is constructed as follows:-In the tub or washing box,
on one end of a shaft or spindle, we mount or affix a disc of wood or
metal. On the face of the disc are a number of projecting pins, the
other end of the shaft or spindle is provided with a handle or hand-wheel
for the purpose of giving rotary motion to the disc and pins. The face
or end of tub opposite the disc and pins is provided with a number of
ribs or corrugations.
:-
The action of the apparatus and operation of washing is as follows :-
The tub is partially filled with water, the clothes are placed within the
tub between the pins, and the ribbed or corrugated end of the tub; on
the handle or wheel being turned the projecting pins agitate and con-
stantly turn over the clothes, which are thus exposed to the rubbing and
scouring by frictional contact with the projecting pins and corrugated
end of the tub or washing box.
Such being the nature and object of this our said Invention, we will
now proceed to describe the same in detail; and in order that the same
may be clearly understood we have hereunto annexed a Sheet of
Drawings illustrative thereof, and have marked the same with figures
and letters of reference, the same letter referring to the same part in
the various views or figures.

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Fig. 1 is a back elevation, and Fig. 2 an end elevation of a machine
constructed according to our Invention; Fig. 3 is a sectional plan,
shewing discs and projecting pins; Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are details,
shewing the discs and pins.
A is the ordinary framing of the machine; B is a hand-wheel, which
by the pinion C and wheels C¹ and the bevel wheels D gives motion to
the shaft and disc E, to or on the face of which is secured the pins F.
These pins, as shewn at Figs. 6 and 7, may be of greater width than
diameter, or, as at Figs. 8 and 9, a pin or board extending across the face
of the disc may be employed.
The action of the apparatus and operation of washing is as follows:-
The tub G is partially filled with water and the clothes placed within;
on the hand-wheel being turned the said pins agitate and constantly
turn over the clothes, which are thus exposed to and rubbed and scoured
by frictional contact with the projecting pins. The end of the tub or
washing box may be corrugated, but we find that the action of the
projecting pins effects the washing of clothes efficiently.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of this our
said Invention, together with the manner in which the same is to be or
may be performed or carried into practical effect, we would have it
distinctly understood that what we claim as our Invention is, the
construction, application, and use of the projecting pins F applied to
discs of washing machines for the purpose and in the manner herein
described and shewn on the various Figures of the Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Whitaker, Benjamin Lupton,
and Christopher Catlow, have hereunto set our hands and seals,
this Seventh day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
Witness,
JOHN HOLT.
JOHN WHITAKER.
BENJAMIN LUPTON.
(L.S.)
(L.S.)
CHRISTOPHER CATLOW. (L.s.)