IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WASHING OR CLEANING PLATES, DISHES, AND OTHER ANALOGOUS ARTICLES
Year: 1884

page_text: I THOMAS READ of the Market Place, Malton in the County of York Agricultural
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR WASHING OR CLEANING PLATES, DISHES, AND OTHER ANALOGOUS
ARTICLES to be as follows:-
:-
My Invention relates to improvements in the method of and apparatus for
washing or cleaning plates, dishes, and other similar or analogous articles, the
object being to accomplish. the said operation in a rapid and effective manner.
In carrying out my invention, according to one arrangement, I construct a box
of a size suitable to contain the desired number of plates or dishes, and provided
with a door to admit the articles. At or near the bottom of the box I fix a pipe,
one end of which passes through to the outside and is connectod with the hot water
or Steam pipes of a suitable boiler, or hot water cistern.
In an apparatus constructed to wash six plates or dishes (for example) I attach
to the main horizontal pipo, in the interior of the box, a series of vertical pipes,
seven in number, with sufficient room or space between each to admit a plate
or dish, which is supported upon its edge, upon two horizontal bars, or by other
suitable means.
The tops of the vertical pipes terminate in one or more jets or nozzils, so shaped
and cut, slit or pierced, that when the hot water from the boiler or cistern, which
must be under pressure, is admitted into the main horizontal pipe, it is forced out
of the nozzils and impinges upon the whole surfaces of the plates, both back and
front; the result being that the articles will be instantly and effectually washed
and cleaned. The water may be carried away from the interior of the box by an
ordinary waste pipe.
I do not bind myself to the number or position of the jet pipes, as it is evident
they may be varied in position without departing from my invention.
In Restaurants, and other places where large quantities of plates are required to
be constantly and quickly washed, I should arrange the washing closet to hold
several rows of plates or dishes, one above another, with suitable horizontal and
vertical pipes to operate upon them; but in all cases the articles to be washed
would be subjected to the action of a number of jets or fine streams of hot water
under pressure, or steam, operating over the whole of their surfaces as described.
ROBT F. DRURY,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I, THOMAS READ of the Market Place, Malton in the County of York Agricultural
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR WASHING OR CLEANING PLATES, DISHES, AND OTHER ANALOGOUS
ARTICLES, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement that is to say :—
My invention relates to improvements in the method of and apparatus for
washing or cleaning plates, dishes, cups and saucers and other analogous articles,
and has for its object, the accomplishment of the said operation in a rapid and
effective manner.
And in order that my invention may be clearly understood I annex a drawing
illustrating the manner in which it may be carried out, and put in practice.
In carrying out my invention according to one arrangement which is shown in
the drawings, I construct a box or cupboard of a size suitable for containing the
desired number of articles, such as plates, dishes, or other articles of crockery, and
provided with a door or doors to admit of the articles being placed in the interior.
At or near the bottom of the box or cupboard A, I fix a pipe B, one end of which
is passed through the side and is connected with the steam pipes of a boiler or hot
water cistern; a similar pipe B¹, may be fixed near the top of the box or cupboard,
in fact the number of pipes may be increased according to the size of the box or
cupboard.
I attach to the main horizontal pipes B and B¹, in the interior of the box,
a series of vertical pipes C. C. of equal or varying heights which terminate in one
or more nozzles or jets, leaving sufficient room between each to admit a plate
or dish supported on its edge in any suitable manner, such as upon two horizontal
rods D, fixed above the pipe B-at a little distance apart, but small articles like
tea cups may be hung from hooks as at E.
The tops of the Vertical pipes C, may terminate in one or more jets, or nozzles
so constructed that when hotwater from the boiler or cistern, which must be under
pressure is admitted into the main horizontal pipes B or B¹, it is forced out of the
nozzles and impinges upon the whole surface of the plates, dishes or other articles,
both back and front; the result being that the articles operated upon will be
instantly and effectually washed and cleaned.
The water may be carried away from the interior of the box by a wasto pipe F.
I do not bind myself to any particular number or to the position of the pipes B,
or B¹, or the vertical pipes C, as it is evident that they may be varied to suit
different sizes of cupboards, and the articles to be washed, for instance in establish-
ments where large quantities of plates are required to be quickly washed; the
washing cupboard would be provided with several horizontal pipes one above the
other, arranged to hold a large quantity of plates.
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
An apparatus for washing plates and other analogous articles having supply
pipes B provided with nozzles or jets C, through and from which hot water or
steain is forced so that it impinges upon the articles to be washed substantially as
herein described and illustrated.