Apparatus for Use
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Mar., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 3rd May, 1897-Accepted, 5th June, 1897
Apparatus for Use I wasn
GEORGE HEARNE, Flour Miller Crescent Cottages, Burley Wood, Leeds do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This piece of machinery which is self acting goes inside a copper or any kind of
boiling pan is for extracting the dirt out of clothes by suction-when the water boils
it goes through the four suction holes placed under cones A. fixed on the bottom B.
then through the perforated soap box C. from there through channel D. taking soap
& water up the upright pipe E (which is made with a slide to regulate it to any
height) the water pours out at the top F. over the clothes which it keeps doing, so
long as the water continues to boil leaving the dirt in the bottom of the copper
or pan.
It is made of tin or any kind of sheet metal.
GEORGE HEARNE Crescent Cottages Burley Wood Leeds Flour Miller do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to apparatus for washing clothes, is self acting & illustrated
by the accompanying drawing, goes inside and fits any ordinary copper or pot, used
for the purpose to boil clothes, and wants no fastening whatever, it can be put in or
taken out at will and needs very little room, it extracts the dirt out of clothes by
suction, when the water boils it is drawn through the clothes by passing through the
four suction holes, made through the bottom plate over which are placed cones, the
cones are placed on the top side of plate, as shown in drawing left with the Provisional
Specification marked A. being fixed by strips of tin, allowing space between the cones
and bottom plate for water to pass into the suction holes, froin there to perforated
soap box, fixed on the underside of bottom plate B. the bottom of soap box C. is loose
lid perforated, which is taken off and a piece of soap any size the person using it
might prefer placed inside and the bottom put on again, the soap gradually melting
away and along with the water going through channel D. " which as a piece of wire
netting fastened over the inlet" continuing up the upright pipe "which goes up the
side of the pot so does not interfere with putting in or taking out of clothes," this
pipe E. is made in two parts the top part to slide over the bottom part, so as to place
outlet of pipe above the water in the pot, the soap water pours out at the top
elbow F. over the clothes and continues to do so long as the water boils, at the same
time drawing the dirt out of the clothes and leaving it in the bottom of the pot, the

page_text: water continually in circulation through the pipe, and so prevents the water from
boiling over.
It is made in tin or any kind of sheet metal.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is.
Apparatus for washing and cleansing clothes with great saving of time and labour
constructed and operating substantially as described and illustrated.
GEORGE HEARNE.