Year: 1895

page_text: I LOUIS ROTH of 4 Chlodwigplatz Cologue in the Empire of Germany, Master
Tinman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved device for use in washing clothes and is
illustrated in the annexed drawing in which Fig. 1 shows the device in cross section,
Figs. 2 and 3 in elevational view.
It consists of a hollow cone 1, 2, 3, made of corrugated sheet metal into which a
second hollow cone 4, 5, 6, likewise of corrugated sheet metal is arranged with its
apex downwardly.
A third inverted cone 7, 8, 9 serves to connect the two points or apex portions of
the first and second cones. Over the point 2 a cylindrical socket, 15, 16, 17, 18 is
provided for receiving the stem of handle 14, and the rigidity of this socket is
further increased by means of a conical support 10, 11, 12, 13.
For facilitating the free play of the air between the inuer chamber and the outer
air, holes & are arranged in the walls of the cone 1, 2, 3 of the socket 15, 16, 17, 18
and of the support 10, 11, 12, 13 while at the apex of the cones 4, 5, 6 and 7, 8, 9
communicating orifices are left. By the aid of this device the clothes to be washed
and placed for this purpose in a suitable receptacle partially filled with soap lye,
are worked upon with a jerking motion. Owing to these jerks the clothes cuter
the interior of the cone 1, 2, 3, which latter may be made in angular (pyramidal)
or rounded form or may also be provided with rounded off corners, and the
cone 4, 5, 6 presses from above onto the clothes, which latter are thus rubbed
against the walls of this latter cone.
During this process, the clothes forcing the air out of the space A, B, would tend
to adhere to the walls where it not for the air sucked in from outside, which then
enters the space A, B, and thus releases the clothes again. There may also if
desired be added a small valve in the upper part 2 of the cone 1, 2, 3.
Owing to the alternate sucking onto and releasing from the walls and owing to
the friction exerted by these reciprocating movements, the clothes will be readily
and completely cleaned.
The walls of the apparatus may also be made uneven without using a corrugated
form, for instance instead of the corrugations applied as at a in Fig. 2 vertical ribs
may be provided as at b or round bulges as in Fig. 3 at a' or anglugar bulges as in
Fig. 3 at .
Deted this 14th day of January 1895.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I, LOUIS ROTH, of Chlodwigplatz 4 Cologne in the Empire of Germany, Master
Tinman, 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 an improved device for use in washing clothes and is
illustrated in the drawing filed with the Provisional Specification, in which Fig. 1
shows the device in cross section, Figs. 2 and 3 in elevational view.
It consists of a hollow cone 1, 2, 3, made of corrugated sheet metal into which a
second hollow cone 4, 5, 6, likewise of corrugated sheet metal is arranged with its
apex downwardly.
A third inverted cone 7, 8, 9, serves to connect the two points or apex portions
of the first and second cones. Over the point 2 a cylindrical socket 15, 16, 17, 18,
is provided for receiving the stem of handle 14, and the rigidity of this socket is
further increased by means of a conical support 10, 11, 12, 13.
For facilitating the free play of the air between the inner chamber and the outer
air, holes are arranged in the walls of the cone 1, 2, 3, of the socket 15, 16, 17, 18,
and of the support 10, 11, 12, 13, while at the apex of the cones 4, 5, 6, and 7, 8, 9,
communicating orifices are left. By the aid of this device the clothes to be washed
and placed for this purpose in a suitable receptacle partially filled with soap lye,
are worked upon with a jerking motion. Owing to these jerks the clothes enter the
interior of the cone 1, 2, 3, which latter may be made in angular (pyramidal) or
rounded form or may also be provided with rounded off corners, and the cone 4, 5, 6
presses from above onto the clothes, which latter are thus rubbed against the walls
of this latter cone.
During this process, the clothes forcing the air out of the space A, B, would tend
to adhere to the walls were it not for the air sucked in from outside, which then
enters the space A, B, and thus releases the clothes again. There may also if
desired be added a small valve in the upper part 2 of the cone 1, 2, 3.
Owing to the alternate sucking onto and releasing from the walls and owing to
the friction exerted by these reciprocating movements, the clothes will be readily
and completely cleaned.
The walls of the apparatus may also be made uneven without using a corrugated
form, for instance instead of the corrugations applied as at a in Fig. 2, vertical ribs
may be provided as at 6 or round bulges as in Fig. 3 at a' or angular bulges as in
Fig. 3 at b¹.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
An improved apparatus for use in washing or cleaning clothes, being a conical or
pyramidal apparatus of circular or angular cross section of sheet metal provided
with corrugations or equivalent projections and consisting of a cone or pyramid
1, 2, 3, a counter cone or pyramid 4, 5, 6, and an air suction pipe 7, 8, 9, substantially
purpose described.
Dated this 15th day of February 1895.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.