Improvements in so-called "Peggy" or Dolly" Tubs or other Utensils Employed in Washing Clothes and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 14th June, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 14th Mar., 1898-Accepted, 30th Apr., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
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Improvements in so-called "Peggy" or Dolly" Tubs or other
Utensils Employed in Washing Clothes and the like.
I, EDWARD REDMAN, of Black Bull Street, Leeds, in the County of York,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In conjunction with utensils for washing clothes and the like it is customary to
employ a rubbing board, that is to say, a board or frame upon which is a corru-
ted metal plate. My invention is designed to obviate the necessity of providing
separate rubbing board and I so construct my utensils as to render them capable
of fulfilling the function of a rubbing board as well as of a tub or utensil.
In carrying my invention into effect I provide the inner walls or sides of my
utensils with corrugations or I provide them with a corrugated lining.
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In order that my invention may be readily understood however I shall now pro-
ceed to describe by way of types or examples certain contemplated forms thereof.
In one such contemplated for in the utensil consists of a short barrel shaped tub
of steel having vertical corrugations, the said corrugations being rolled or stamped
in the steel sheet by any convenient method such for example as those described
in the Specifications accompanying my Letters Patent Nos. 13,646 of 1894 and
3,885 of 1896. The bottom of this form of utensil may be formed and attached
after the manner described for the attaching of the head of a barrel in my Speci-
fication No. 13,646 of 1894.
Round the open rim of the utensil I may place an annular band bent into such form
as to present the appearance of an arch in cross-section and this annular band may
be attached to the body of the utensil by sweating rivetting or otherwise.
In another contemplated form of my invention I construct my utensil of wood
or the like and of the shape of an ordinary dolly or washing tub and I line it
internally with sheet steel corrugated in any desired manner.
The inner surface of the utensil when of corrugated metal may be coated with
tin or any other suitable material.
I desire it to be understood that I contemplate the manufacture of my utensils
in any convenient form, as for example square, rectangular, circular or elliptical in
horizontal section. I also contemplate the employment thereof of corrugated zinc,
corrugated galvanized copper and the like.
Dated this 14th day of June 1897.

page_text: Improvements in so-called " 'Peggy" or "Dolly" Tubs, or other
Utensils Employed in Washing Clothes and the like.
I, EDWARD REDMAN, of Black Bull Street, Leeds, in the County of York,
Engineer, 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:-
In conjunction with utensils for washing clothes and the like it is customary to
employ a rubbing board, that is to say, a beard or frame upon which is a corrugated
metal plate. My invention is designed to obviate the necessity of providing a
separate rubbing board; and I so construct my utensils tubs as to render them
capable of fulfilling the functions of a rubbing board as well as of a tub. er-utensil.
In carrying my invention into effect I provide the inner walls or sides of my
tubs with vertical corrugations the width of which increase with increase of the
diameter of the tub utensils-with-corrugations or I provide them with a eorrugated
lining corrugated in a similar manner.
In order that my invention may be readily understood however I shall now pro-
ceed to describe it by reference to the accompanying drawings. by-way-of-types-or
examples-certain-forms-thereof.
In-Figure-I,-I-show-in-perspective-one-form-of-my-invention. In-this-the-utensil
Referring to Figure 1 it will be seen that the tub consists of a short-tub-shaped
barrel-of-steel body of the form of the lower half of a cask or barrel proper. This
is preferably made of steel and the body has vertical corrugations the width of
which increase with increase of the diameter of the tub. The said body may con-
veniently be rolled or stamped by any convenient method such for example as those
described in the Specifications accompanying my Letters Patent Nos. 13,646 of
1894 and 3,885 of 1896. When I construct my tub body by the method described
in the Specification accompanying my Patent No. 13,646 of the year 1894 I feed
the sheet through only one half (either the right hand half or the left hand half)
of the nesting rolls so as to produce a body similar to the half of a barrel body
proper. Similarly when I employ the method described in the Specification ac-
companying my Letters Patent No. 3,885 of the year 1896 I submit the corrugated
sheet to the action of only one half of the dies. The bottom 2 of this form of
utensil may be formed and attached after the manner described for the attaching
of the head of a barrel in my Specification No. 13,646 of 1894.
Round the open rim of the tub I preferably utensil -I-may place an annular
band 3 bent into such form as to present the appearance of an arch in cross-section
and this annular band may be attached to the body of the utensil by sweating,
rivetting or otherwise. The said band is shown separately in Figure II. It is
placed in position in the same manner as is described with reference to the barrel
head in the Specification accompanying my Letters Patent No. 13,646 of the year
1894, the sides 4, 4 being compressed as are the sides y, y of the said head.
In-another-form-of-my-invention I construct--my-utensil-of-wood-or-the-like-and
of-the-shape-of-an-ordinary-dolly-or-washing-tub-and-1-line-it-internally-with-sheet
steel-corrugated-in-any-desired-manner. Sueb-a-form-is--shown-in--Figure--HI--in
which-5-is-the-wooden-tub-and-6-the-corrugated--steel lining. The--said--living--is
retained--in--position-by-the-wooden-beads--or--bands-7, S. In--this--figure--the
eorrugations-are-shown-as-running-in-a-horizontal--direction-but-they-may-run--in
any-desired-direction-necording-to-the-way-in-which-the-eorrugated-sheet-is-eut.
I-desire--t--to-be--understood--that--I--may--manufacture--my--utensils--in--any
convenient--form,--as--for--example--square, reetangular, -circular--or-elliptical--in
horizontal-section. Thus-in-Figure-IV-I-show-in-perspective a trough shaped-form,
which-may-be-manufactured-in-wood-with-corrugated-metal-sheet-lining-on-one--or

page_text: more-of-its-sides. I-may-employ-corrugated-steel,-zine,-copper or-other-metal-and
the-surface-thereof-may-be-galvanised-or-coated-with-tin-or-other-suitable-materiał:
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 :-
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1. In a so-called " peggy or "dolly" tub or-other-similar-atensil the employ-
ment of a corrugated metallic lining having vertical corrugations the width of which
increase with increase of the diameter of the tub, substantially-as-and-for-the-pur-
pose-set-forth.
2. A peggy or dolly tub consisting wholly of metal the-sides-of-which-are-so
corrugated having vertical corrugations the width of which increase with increase
of the diameter of the tub and so as to fulfil the function of a rubbing board
substantially as set forth.
3. The specific form of dolly tub substantially as set forth with reference to
Figures I, and-II.
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was
any-us-set-forth-with-reference-to-Figure 3:
Dated this 14th day of March 1898.
For the Applicant
J. G. LORRAIN, M.I.E.E., M.I.Mech. E.
Norfolk House, Victoria Embankment, London, W.C.
Chartered Patent Agent.