Year: 1884

page_text: I, JAMES GRIFFITHS of Number 21 Charlwood Road Putney in the County of
Surrey, Commercial Clerk do hereby declare my Invention to consist of a strong
wooden frame of oblong shape across which are fitted loosely in sockets in the sides
of the frame and apart from each other some ten or twelve rollers either of plain
smooth wood or of wood covered with india rubber or similar substance.
Underneath on the sides of the frame are fitted four feet and by means of these
the frame is fitted on to the top of the wash tub or other vessel used for the purpose
of washing clothes and other fabrics. In using the Invention the articles to be
washed are rubbed with the hands backwards and forwards on the rollers and the
dirty water drains away in the process and for wringing purposes the articles aro
placed between two of the rollers and pulled through at an angle to cause pressure
sufficient to squeeze the water out of the article. To admit of larger articles
such as blankets to be wrung some of the rollers are placed wider apart than the
others.
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1 3004
ROBERT W. W. RISING,
26, Bedford Row, W.C.,
Applicant's Solicitor.

page_text: I James GriffiTHS of Number 21 Charlwood Road Putney in the County of
Surrey Commercial Clerk do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for AN
IMPROVED WASHING AND WRINGING MACHINE and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The Invention consists of a strong wooden frame of oblong shape having fitted
into it from side to side wooden roilers either of plain smooth wood or of wood
covered with india rubber or other similar substance.
To make the frame take two pieces of wood oak is preferable each two feet long
two inches wide and one inch thick planed quite smooth. Either make a groove
the whole length of each piece of wood one inch wide leaving half an inch of the
width of the wood on each side of the groove and make the groove half an inch
deep or cut round holes in the width of each piece half an inch in diameter and
half an inch deep at intervals apart varying from one inch to three inches there
being no hole nearer than five inches from either end of either of the two pieces of
wood and so that the holes in each of the two pieces of wood are equally distant
from those in the other. These two pieces of wood are to form the sides of the
'frame and are hereinafter called the sides. Now take two pieces of wood planed
smooth each 14 inches long two inches wide and one inch thick to form the ends
of the frame. One of these fits into each end of the groove cut in the sides of the
frame before described or in the case of those sides with holes in the place of the
grooves into short grooves cut at each end of each of the sides for the purpose of
receiving the ends and so that the holes in the sides or the long grooves are on the
inside of the sides of the frame thus formed and facing each other. In the case of
the sides with groves fix therein metal pins so that the pins are midway between
the top of the depth of the groove and the bottom and so that they are one inch
apart from each other, but no pin shall be nearer either end of the sides than five
inches the pins in each side to be exactly opposite the corresponding pin in the
other side. Now take a sufficient number of wooden rollers quite smooth and
either plain or covered with india rubber or similar substance and to be about
seven sixteenths of an inch in diameter, these to be fitted into the holes in the
sides of the frame with holes or to be placed between the pins in the sides of the
frame with pins in the case of the pins leaving the second space formed by the pins
at each end of each of the sides without a roller-The frame can then be screwed
together with proper screws in a workmanlike manner. The feet of the frame are
of solid wood two inches long one and a half inches wide and the same thickness
as the sides of the frame and are fixed underneath on the sides of the frame by
means of screws and equal distant from the ends of each of the sides of the frame.
These feet are intended to be either on the outside edge or inside edge of the
washing tub or other vessel used for the purpose of washing clothes and other
fabrics and will prevent the frame from slipping when being used. In using the
Invention the articles to be washed are rubbed with the hands backwards and
forwards on the rollers the frame being across the washing tub as before described
and the dirty water is thus allowed to drain out of the clothes in the process of
washing.
The Invention is used as a wringing machine by putting the article to be wrung
between two of the rollers and pulling it through at an angle and thus causing
sufficient pressure to squeeze the water out of the article. To admit of large
articles such as blankets being wrung some of the rollers wider apart than the
others can be used for the purpose of wringing. The machine before described is

page_text: one of medium size. The same machine can be made any size that is required
when each part of the machine would be increased in size proportionately.
And the same Invention may also be made in other shapes or proportions if
necessary.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. A frame capable of being attached to a washing tub which frame is fitted
with rollers that work either in grooves (in which case they are kept apart by
suitable pins) or in separate holes the rollers may be either of plain wood or wood
covered with india rubber and the arrangement of parts together with mode of
attachment to the tub being substantially as hereinbefore described.
03 1001
ROBERT W. W. RISING,
.26, Bedford Row, W.C.,
Solicitor & Agent for the Applicant.