Patent Model - Improvement in Washing-Machines
Maker and role
Balaam Lawson (b.1830, d.1882), Patentee
Production date
Dec 27 1870
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Wood
Measurements
12 x 10 x 4 1/2" (30.5 x 25.4 x 11.4cm)
10 1/4" (26cm)
4 1/2" (11.4cm)
13 1/4" (33.7cm)
10 1/4" (26cm)
4 1/2" (11.4cm)
13 1/4" (33.7cm)
Description
Lawson's patent consists of a tub which is "an oblong of sufficient capacity to give proper play to the dasher and contain as many clothes or other fabrics as may be successfully handled, say six sheets, or equivalent, more or less. The clothes are put into the tub, in equal parcels, in each end, or on each side of the dasher, with water sufficient to nearly cover the parcels to be washed after the same have been wet and pressed together in a roll reaching across the full width of the tub. When the machine is operated, the parcels of fabric or clothes are driven, first one and then the other, against the wash-boards or racks placed respectively in each end of the tub..." (Patent Number 110,478)
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Object number
2015.14.1256a,b
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