IMPROVEMENTS CON- NECTED WITH RUBBERS USED FOR WASHING OR CLEANSING CLOTHES AND OTHER ARTICLES.”
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jane Cross, of Farnworth, near Manchester, in
the County of Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS CON-
NECTED WITH RUBBERS USED FOR WASHING OR CLEANSING CLOTHES AND
OTHER ARTICLES.”
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jane Cross at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with her Petition, on the
19th June 1872.
I, JANE CROSs, of Farnworth, near Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS CONNECTED WITH RUBBERS USED FOR WASHING OR CLEANSING
CLOTHES OR OTHER ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
:-
This Invention consists in connecting with any description of washing
rubber one or more cases or frames for holding or containing one or
more tablets of soap or other washing material, so that the clothes or
other articles can be manipulated on the rubber and soap as required

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Jane Cross in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 19th December 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JANE
Cross, of Farnworth, near Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Jane Cross, Her special license that
I, the said Jane, Cross, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Jane Cross, my exccutors, 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 CONNECTED WITH RUBBERS
USED FOR WASHING OR CLEANSING CLOTHES AND OTHER ARTICLES,” upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Jane Cross, 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 Jane Cross, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the figures on the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawings, and to the letters of reference marked
thercon (that is to say)
-:
This Invention consists in connecting with any description of washing
rubber one or more cases or frames for containing or holding with or

page_text: without fasteners one or more tablets or blocks of soap or other washing
material, so that the clothes or other articles to be cleansed can be rubbed
or manipulated on the rubber and the stationary tablet or tablets of soap
or other washing material as required, and thereby avoid the inter-
ruptions and delays arising from using the soap or other material by the
hand.
On the accompanying Sheet of Drawings Figs. 1 and 2 arc front
and end views drawn to a scale of three inches to the foot of an
ordinary rubber provided with a case or frame provided with a wedge
or fastener for containing and holding a tablet or block of soap.
Fig. 3 is a front view, and Fig. 4 a cross section of the case tablet
and wedge drawn about full size and in all the Figures a represents
the case or frame, the tablet of soap or other washing material,
and c a wedge or fastener for holding it. The case and wedge are made
of wood, earthenware, zinc, galvanized iron or other non-oxidizing
material, and one end of the case and one side of the wedge are
slightly inclined as at d, e, to keep the tablet from rising, and I also
apply this system of holding soap or other washing material stationary
in a case or frame to washing tubs or vessels and washing machines of
any kind, the cases or frames being made of any shape and dimensions
required.
Having now described the nature and particulars of my said Inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it
to be understood that I claim the attachment to rubbers, vessels, or
machines used for washing clothes or other articles of cases or frames
so formed that they can by means of wedges or fasteners or without them
firmly hold tablets or blocks of soap or other washing material as herein
described and illustrated on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jane Cross, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
Witness,
CHA. W. COLLINS.
JANE CROSS. (L.S.)