Patent Model - Improved Washing and Wringing Machine
Maker and role
Jabez Hodskinson, Patentee
O. Smith, Patentee
Production date
Oct 07 1862
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Iron, wood, paint
Measurements
10 x 9 x 9" (25.4 x 22.9 x 22.9cm)
Description
Hodskinson and Smith's patent "consists in the employment or use of an endless apron, pressure-rollers, and a reciprocating rubber arranged in such a manner that the clothes may be subjected to a requisite degree of rubbing, in order to cleanse them thoroughly from dirt, and then be subjected to a sufficient pressure between rollers so as to have the moisture expelled from them, the washing and wringing operations being performed consecutively and by a continuous operation of the machine." (Patent Number 36,615)
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Object number
2015.14.410a,b
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