IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WASHING TEXTILE FABRICS
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Evans and William Deayman, of Walsall, in the
County of Stafford, Manufacturers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR WASHING TEXTILE FABRICS." A communication from abroad
by Josiah Brown, of Monticello, County of Sullivan, New York, in the United
States of America.
Scaled the 21st November 1876, and dated the 30th May 1876.
PPROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Evans and William
Deayman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th May 1876.
THOMAS EVANS and WILLIAM DEAYMAN, of Walsall, in the County of Stafford,
Manufacturers. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WASHING TEXTILE FABRICS."
The apparatus consists of a long tube provided at its lower end with a ball-mouth
or funnel and at its upper end with a seating for a clack valve, in the bottom of
which seating the valve is hung.
This apparatus is a substitute for the usual "dolly" used in washing by hand.
By a vertical notion or jerk of the tube when the lower end is in the wash-tub air
is drawn in through the clack valve down the tube and into and through the water,
thus forcing the water through the clothes or other fabrics, and thoroughly cleansing
them without beating or destructive action of any kind whatsoever.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Thomas Evans and William Deayman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 29th November 1870.
THOMAS EVANS and WILLIAM DEAYMAN, of Walsall, in the County of Stafford,
Manufacturers. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WASHING TEXTILE FABRICS."
A communication from abroad by Josiah Brown, of Monticello, County of Sullivan,
New York, in the United States of America.
This apparatus is a substitute for the usual "dolly" used in washing by hand,
and consists of a long tube provided at its lower end with a bell-mouth or funnel,
and at its upper end with a seating for a clack valve, in which seating the valve is
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page_text: We will now proceed to describe more fully the Invention by aid of the
accompanying Drawings, reference being had to the letters and figures marked
thereon.
Figure 1 is an elevation and Figure 2 a section of the apparatus, consisting of the
tube (a) provided at its lower end with a bell-mouth or funnel (b), and at its upper
end with a seating (c), in which seating the clack valve (d), Figure 2, is hung.
By a vertical motion or jerk of the tube (a) when the lower end or bell-mouth (b)
is in the wash-tub air is drawn in through the clack valve (d) down the tube (a)
and into and through the water, thus forcing the water through the clothes or other
fabrics, and thoroughly cleansing them without beating or destructive action of any
kind whatsoever.
Having thus described the object and nature of our said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be carried into effect, we claim, without limiting
ourselves to these precise details, the improvements in apparatus for washing textile
fabrics ns herein more fully set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Evans and William Deayman, have
hereunto set our hands and scals, this Twenty-seventh day of November,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.