Patent GB-780329-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to rotary washing and like machines
IPC: D06F39/08
Filed: 1954-06-19
Abstract: <PICT:0780329/IV (b)/1> A garment dyeing or like machine of the type in which a work container 5 is mounted for rotation about a horizontal axis within a stationary casing 6, such container 5 having at one end a trunnion support and at the other end, which may or may not have auxiliary supports, a central opening for loading and unloading, is characterized in that a liquid supply chamber C in or upon the upper part only of the annular end wall 10 of the casing 6 extends within the concentric opening in the adjacent end of the container 5 and is provided, directly above the axis of the latter with at least one aperture 23 through which liquid is delivered as a jet towards the farther end of the container.  Liquid is supplied through a pipe 16 connected to a cavity 15 formed by a hollow enlargement 14 of a cast frame 8 applied to the inner periphery of the wall 10.  The cavity 15 is connected by a passage 20 extending through the thickness of the frame 8 to the interior of a channelled cover member 21 screwed to the inner face of the frame 8.  The apertures 23 may be formed by saw cutting through the base and lower side of this channelled member 21.  In a modification (Figs. 3, 4, not shown) the casing end wall instead of being a casting with an integral hollow enlargement is produced as an annular stainless steel or other sheet-metal pressing and the liquid supply chamber is formed by welding a metal pressing to the inner side of the casing end wall. An angle-section ring is welded to the inner side of the pressed end wall to provide a cavity having apertures through which the liquid is sprayed, the portion of the ring having the apertures therein being defined by transverse diaphragms welded in position.ALSO:<PICT:0780329/III/1> A dry-cleaning machine of the type in which a work container 5 is mounted for rotation about a horizontal axis within a stationary casing 6, such container 5 having at one end a trunnion support and at the other end, which may or may not have auxiliary supports, a central opening for loading and unloading, is characterized in that a liquid supply chamber C in or upon the upper part only of the annular end wall 10 of the casing 6 extends within the concentric opening in the adjacent end of the container 5 and is provided, directly above the axis of the latter, with at least one aperture 23 through which liquid is delivered as a jet towards the farther end of the container.  Liquid is supplied through a pipe 16 connected to a cavity 15 formed by a hollow enlargement 14 of a cast frame 8 applied to the inner periphery of the wall 10.  The cavity 15 is connected by a passage 20 extending through the thickness of the frame 8 to the interior of a channelled cover member 21 screwed to the inner face of the frame 8.  The apertures 23 may be formed by saw cutting through the base and lower side of this channelled member 21.  In a modification (Figs. 3, 4, not shown) the casing end wall, instead of being a casting with an integral hollow enlargement, is produced as an annular stainless steel or other sheet metal pressing and the liquid supply chamber is formed by welding a metal pressing to the inner side of the casing end wall.  An angle-section ring is welded to the inner side of the pressed end wall to provide a cavity having apertures through which the liquid is sprayed, the portion of the ring having the apertures therein being defined by transverse diaphragms welded in position.