Improvements in the Cleaning of Carpets and such like Articles or Materials.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 1st July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 2nd Aug., 1887
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Cleaning of Carpets and such like Articles
or Materials.
I, FLORENCE ANNIE COLLIS, Manageress of the Great Western Steam Laundry,
7 Broomhill Terrace, Partick, in the County of Lanark, do hereby declare the nature
of my Invention to be as follows:-
My Invention has reference to a new or improved process of treatment, or mode
and means of cleaning carpets, rugs, crumbcloths, and similar articles and material,
which will effect the said purpose in a more efficient manner and resuscitate the
colours, without damage to the goods operated upon, than by the methods heretofore
in use.
According to my Invention I first have the carpets thoroughly beaten, either by
hand or by machinery, to take all the dust out of them. I then spread them out
on a floor or other surface, and rub them over on the pile and pattern surface to
be exposed, or both surfaces when it is Scotch Carpets, with hot or moist hand
cloths, preferably after the latter have been wrung out of hot water. I afterwards
rub the surfaces of the carpets over, by means of a small hand brush, with an
emulsion of olive oil soap mixed with small quantities of vinegar and ammonia, and
then allow them to dry. I subsequently rub the carpet again with the residue or
thicker part of the olive oil soap to which is added some liquid borax to bring up the
colours of the carpets to the proper consistency, and 1 afterwards rub the surfaces
of the carpets over with dry cloths, or clean brushes, to remove all dry residues
of the cleaning materials, when the carpets will be thoroughly cleaned and present
the fresh appearance of their original colours.

page_text: 1, FLORENCE ANNIE COLLIS, Manageress of the Great Western Steam Laundry
7 Broomhill Terrace, Partick, in the County of Lanark, do hereby declare the nature
of my invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement in writing, that is
to say :-
My Invention has reference to a new or improved process of treatment, or mode
and means of cleaning carpets, rugs, crumhcloths, and similar articles and material,
which will effect the said purpose in a more efficient manner and resuscitate the
colours, without damage to the goods operated upon, than by the methods heretofore
in use.
And in order that my said Invention, and the manner of performing and carrying
the same into effect or practice may be properly understood, I shall now proceed to
describe the same in and by the following statement in writing
According to my Invention I first have the carpets thoroughly beaten, either by
hand or by machinery, to take all the dust out of them. I then spread them out on a
floor or other surface, and rub them over on the pile and pattern surface to be exposed,
and on both surfaces when it is Scotch carpets, with hot or moist hand cloths,
preferably after the latter had been wrung out of hot water. I afterwards rub the
surfaces of the carpets over, by means of a small hand brush, with an emulsion of
olive oil soap mixed with small quantities of vinegar and ammonia, and then allow
them to dry. This prepared compound would preferably be in the proportion of
6 pounds of olive oil soap, a tea cup full of ammonium hydrate, both desolved in an
ordinary sized pail of water. I subsequently rub the carpet again with the residue or
thicker part of the olive oil soap to which is added some powdered borax, preferably
about of a pound, to bring up the colours of the carpets to the proper consistency,
and afterwards rub the surfaces of the carpets over with dry cloths, or clean brushes,
to remove all dry residues of the cleaning materials, when the carpets will be
thoroughly cleaned and present the fresh appearance of their original colours.

page_text: 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
First. The herein described process, or mode and means of cleaning carpets, rugs,
crumb-cloths and such like articles or materials substantially as and in the manner
set forth.
Second. In the cleaning of carpets, the use of a mixture of olive oil soap emulsion
with vinegar and ammonia substantially as set forth.
Third. In the cleaning of carpets, the use of borax for brightening or resusitating
the colours in the manner and for the purpose substantially as set forth.
Dated this 1st do..
Tl., 1907