The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-08
WASHES THE DISHES.
4 NOVEL MACHINE THAT WAS DE-
SIGNED BY A CLEVER WOMAN.

The Inventor Is the Leader OF q Swell Set.
Made an Important Discovery While Do
ing Her Housework-How She Turned It
to Account.
A machine that takes dishes and washes
them, no matter how dirty, dries them
and polishes them, then passes them out
TO those In waiting on the outside such
Is the marvel that Is about to be placed In
the principal hotels of the country. The
machine, though almost novelty on the
market, has been placed In several OF the
Chicago hotels, and 1t bids fair to GUST all
those who wash dishes by hand from EN-
ployment In large places.
This dishwashing machine was invent
ed by woman who Is now one Of the
leaders of society in Chicago. Even when
she struggled with the problem of clean
ing dishes by means of machinery, she
was the leader of social set and at that
time was In Shelbyville, Ills. She is Mrs.
Josephine G. Cochrane and her husband
was once one of the leading jurists of ILL
nois-in fact 80 years ago he was mem
Der of the supreme bench.
The Judge died several years ago and for
a time Mrs. Cochrane met with adversely
and was compelled to do her own house.
work. One day while washing dishes she
watched the effect of scalding hot water
on dishes and noticed that when 1t was
thrown OH them with force 1t left them
completely dry and also gave them high
polish. She had always been of an in
yentiye frame of mind and at once set to
work to make the daily drudgery easier.
Within month she had rugged up ma
chine that caused her neighbors to talk,
but at the same time caused her work to
be much easier. This was the first dish
washing machine.
Mrs Cochrane, with true business In
stinct, secured patents upon the contrlv
ance, and then she put one or two on th'
. market and realized enough therefrom Il
remove to Chicago, which city she hal
subsequently made her home. But she Il
, a woman who knows good thing ant
likes to hold on to 1t. Several capitalist
have asked II they could not become inter
ested in her patents, but she has refuses
them and says she will make all the none.
out of them there is to be made. In TIL
way she has contracted with a manufac
tory in Chicago to turn the machines on
as rapidly as they are needed, and the en-
? tire management of their sale has bee
D directed by her. Although progressive Il
the inventive direction, she Is not reali7
: ing what might be made out of her pal
ents, because the machines have neve
been "pushed," as the word is uDderstoo
In the trade.
The machine Is a huge box with lot {
Q machinery in front 1t Is five feet
y height, and within are two tanks or
t filed with soapy water, the other wit
q scalding clear water. There are two lit
! tracks running into the machine, and
!, these ply two baskets. One Is loaded wit
:, dirty dishes, and when 1t is released an
" dragged by hidden force within, anotht
basket filled with clean china Is pushe
out.
n The main part of the machine and Il
n part that is covered by several patents Is
d | two inch pipe, along the edge Of which
o. a slot an eighth Of an inch wide. Throue
this pipe 60 gallons of water are forced
minute, and 1t is this stream, at so high
D pressure, that does the business. Firs
& soapy water is forced through the slot, al
l. the dishes are made clean; then the Gle
10 scalding water is automatically turn
in on, and 1t rinses, dries and polishes {
J. china Mt the same time.
Thus within one minute after era
laden with dirty dishes enters the machin
it comes out with the china as shiny al
as bright as II it had been polished wi
La chamois skin.
ly Mr.. Chafee says the machines have
n capacity of from 1000 to 1000 dishes
pr hour, and that one is never broken.
IL says they will even clean of an egg sta
that has been on a plate over night, al
Is he asks any housekeeper II that Is n
" pretty good work.-St. Louis Post ID
o patch.