A MACHINE FOR WASHING, CLEANSING. AND SCOWERING ALL SORTS OF LINEN, COTTON, OR WOOLLEN APPAREL, AND HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, THAT GENERALLY REQUIRE TO BE WASHED, CLEANSED, OR SCOWERED BY. FAMILIES AT HOME, CONSTRUCTED SO AS TO SAVE CONSIDERABLE LABOUR AND EXPENCE
Year: 1790

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,. WILLIAM
KENDALL, of Knightsbridge, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman; do send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third' did; by
His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain; bearing date at
Westminster; the Eiglith day of December, in the thirty-first year of His reign;
give and grant unto me, the said' William Kendall, His especial licence, full
power; sole privilege and authority, that I, the said William Kendall, during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make;- use;
exercise, and vend; within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon
Tweed, my Invention of "A MACHINE FOR WASHING, CLEANSING. AND SCOWERING
ALL SORTS OF LINEN, COTTON, OR WOOLLEN APPAREL, AND HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,
THAT GENERALLY REQUIRE TO BE WASHED, CLEANSED, OR SCOWERED BY. FAMILIES AT
HOME, CONSTRUCTED SO AS TO SAVE CONSIDERABLE LABOUR AND EXPENCE;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe obliging me, the said William
Kendall, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of my Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery, within one calendar month next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the said Letters. Patent,
reference being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear:
NOW KNOW! YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
William Kendall, do hereby declare the nature of my said: Invention, and the

page_text: manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described and
ascertained as follows, that is to say :-
My new Invention consists of the machine, and the several parts thereof,
constructed and applied on the principle and in the form and proportion as is
drawn, described, marked, distinguished, and referred to by the several numbers
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 33, 34,
and the letter 1, in Figures numbered 26 and 27 in the Plan or Drawing here-
unto annexed; and which said machine, and the several parts thereof, so drawn,
represented, marked, distinguished, and referred to as aforesaid, are to be
constructed, put, and fixed together in the manner described in the Plan or
Drawing thereof hereunto annexed, and the explanation thereof herein con-
tained; and which said machine, and the several parts thereof, are made and
constructed wholly of wood. Figure 1.represents a perspective view of a Plain
machine. Figure 2, an elevation of the end. Figure 3, an elevation of the
sile. Figure 4, a latitudinal section representing the parallel slips 8, 8, by
which the washer is suspended, the end of which is represented by the dotted
lines. Figure 5 is a longitudinal section representing the axis x, with its cogs,
9, g, by which the washer is moved from side to side of the machine. Figure
6 is the end of the washer with the axis x, and cog g, and parallel slips 8, s.
Figure 7 is a side view of the axis with its cogs. Figure 8 is a side view of
the washer; and Figure 9, a section of the machine at the end representing the
hole by which the axis is occasionally taken out or put in, and the small holes
by which the parallel slips are fixed to the end; the dotted lines represent a
groove by which the washer is made to slide horizontally when the parallel slips
are not used. Figure 10, a plan of the bottom. Figure 11, a section of the
bottom in length. Figure 12, a section of the bottom across. Figure 13, a
plug for stopping the hole in the bottom by which the suds are let out. Figure
14, a plan of the side. Figure 15, a section in length of the side. The small
letters in the above fifteen figures may be compared with each other, corre-
sponding letters always denoting the same parts of the machine. Thus, a
denotes the top or cover, c, c, the clamps of the cover to prevent its splitting,
and to serve as handles to lift it by; p, the pendulum by which the axis is
turned to move the washer; h, the handle by which the pendulum is put in
motion by the person using the machine; a, the axis; 9, 9, its cogs; 8, 8, the
parallel slips; w, the washer. The machine may likewise be worked by
leaver, or with a leaver and pendulum if it should be preferred, as in Figures
26, 27; the parallel slips 8, s, are not absolutely necessary to the working of
the machine, as it may be worked without them, as in Figure 9, and in that
case the form of the washer will be as in Figure 20. Figure 20, a section
a

page_text: latitudinally representing the end of the washer, which is suspended on a centre
above, with the axis r, and its cog 9 turned upwards; this form of the washer
is only to be used when the parallel slips are not applied. Figure 21, the side
of a washer beaded, suspended by two centres above, and the axis with one cog
turned downwards as is represented by the section, Figure 23. Figure 22 is
the end of the washer Figure 21. Figure 23 is a section of Figure 21.
Figure 24 is the end of the washer Figure 25, whose sides are mitre-fluted,
and worked with a cog at each end turned downwards. In order to render
the patent machine, above described, more generally useful, it will admit of the
addition of a ringer, as described in Figure 16, as also a sliding press, as in
Figure 26, and which may be constructed as is hereafter described. A dial
or timepiece, Figures 35 and 36, may likewise be affixed to the inachine, as in
Figure 27, in order to point out the number of vibrations necessary to cleanse
the contents of the machine. Figure 16 is the perspective view of one of the
patent machines with the addition of a ringer, which may or not be added to
the patent machine at pleasure. Figure 17 is an elevation of the end, repre-
senting the method by which one end of the ringer is fastened by th cross
bar b, laying across the two clamps c, c. Figure 18 is an elevation of the ther
end representing the method of turning the head of the ringer by the handle h.
Figure 19 is an elevation of the side of the patent machine, with the ringer
affixed thereto. In the plan of the ringer, the letter w will express the
ringer; b, the bar by which the end of it is made fast; d, the head which is
fastned to the other end and turned round on the plate p by the handle h;
c, c, the clamps on which the bar brests so as to press uniformly on the whole.
Figure 26 represents one of the patent machines with the addition of a sliding
press, which I may or not be added to the patent machine at pleasure. Figure 27
is an elevation of the end of such machine with the sliding press and a dial or
timepiece added thereto. Figure 28, an elevation of the side. Figure 29, a
longitudinal section thereof. Figure 30, a latitudinal section thereof. Figure
31, a plan of a pressing board which may be used therewith. Figure 32, a
plan of the bottom of the press, perforated that the water may pass through,
which may be used therewith. In the plan of the sliding press, the letter a
will express the screw, turned by the handle h, which moves the pressing board
p; g, the grooves by which the pressing board p is guided by the tongues t in
its motion; c, c, small channels or groves in the sides of the press for the
water to pass from the upper part of the press; 8, 8, the grooves by which the
press is guided forwards or backward to be filled. The whole of the Figures
so drawn, represented and referred to in the Plan hereto annexed, except the
Figures marked 35 and 36, are drawn according to the scale No. 1, in the said

page_text: Plan: of: three quarters of an inch, to. a, foot.; and, the. Figures-35 and 86 are
drawn, according; to, the scale in. the.said. Plan No..2.,of, two.inches to a foot.
The, mode, in which the above-mentioned patent.machine is to be, used. is,. by
putting, the linnen, &c., intended. to.be.washed,. &c.,, into, the machine: on each
side of the washer with a necessary quantity of suds of a sufficient. heat,, after.
which,, by putting the pendulum, or the leaver. if it be. preferred, or both,, in
motion, which, may, be: done with. very little, exertion,, the, washer will, be
removed from side to side of the patent machine,.and.by. pressing,, turning, and
agitating: the linen, &c.,, the: suds, will. wash,, cleanse, and, scower. the. same
without any detriment, or damage, to the linen;, &c:, washed,; cleansed, and
scowered.
In witness, whereof,, I,, the said. William Kendall;, have. hereunto set.my,
hand and affixed; my seal, the Seventh day, of. January, in the thirty.
first year of the reign of King George the Third;, and in, the year. of our.
Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-one..
Sealed and delivered (being hrst duly
stamped) in the presence of
WDAVIDSON:
FREDERICK SMITH,
No. 5, Inner Temple Lane.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventh day of January, in the
thirty-first year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the
said William Kendall came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery,
and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein
contained and specified,, in form above written. And also the Instrument
aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the several Statutes made 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 present Majesty, King George the Third.
Inrolled theseid: Seventh day of January in the year above.nuitton