US Patent: 5,468X
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| Washing Machine
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Patentee:
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| Stephen Hinds (exact or similar names) - Montrose, Susquehanna County, PA |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Apr. 25, 1829 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. There are no patent drawings available. This patent is in the database for reference only.
“We wish it was universally known that all possible washing machines had been long since invented, abandoned, and reinvented, until all conceivable permutations upon every imaginable number of fluted rollers, dashers, rounds, rubbers, and squeezers, had been exhausted. We had rather visit the kitchen on a washing day, than be compelled to describe a new and useful machine for washing clothes, churning butter, and other purposes, not heretofore known or used. Unfortunately, however, the choice is with the patentee, and the duty of submission with us.
Conceive of two gridirons, hinged together at one end, and you have the form of the washing part of this machine; but, of course, it is made of wood. This frame work is put into a wooden box, with a proper dose of soap suds, and the clothes are placed between the two racks. A lever, like a pump handle, is attached by a rod to the lower rack, which is to be worked up and down until the clothes are completely cleansed. There is no claim, and of this we are glad.”
Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 5, Aug. 1829 pg. 116
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