IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR WASHING CLOTHES
Year: 1884

page_text: I EDMUND TAYLOR of 43 Canning Street, Bury in the County of Lancaster,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR WASHING CLOTHES to be as follows :-
This invention consists of a tube at the bottom of which is fitted a valve and
double valve seat opening into an open bottomed conical vessel, the object of the
apparatus being to dash amongst the clothes contained in the wash vessel and so
by forcing air through the clothes to assist in the washing operation.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-
Immediately the dasher is placed amongst the clothes the valve closes against its
upper seat and the air contained in the vessel below it is forced through the
clothes, but as soon as the dasher is lifted up again the same valve falls on to its
lower seat and so (by admitting air down the tube into the conical inverted
vessel) destroys the vacuum and thus facilitates the lifting of the dasher.
JOHN G. WILSON,
Agent for the Applicant,

page_text: I EDMUND TAYLOR of 43 Canning Street Bury in the County of Lancaster,
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention of "IMPROVED APPARATUS
FOR WASHING CLOTHES," and in what manner the same is to be performed to bo
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention consists of a tube at the bottom of which is fitted a valve and
valve seat opening into an open bottomed conical vessel, the object of the
apparatus being to dash amongst the clothes contained in the wash-vessel and so
by forcing air through the clothes to assist in the washing operation.
On the accompanying drawing Fig 1 represents an exterior view and Fig 2 a
sectional view of my improved washing apparatus.
It consists of a metallic tube A at the bottom of which is fitted by preference a
ball valve B capable of closing against a valve seating C as indicated by the dotted
lines this valve seating opening into an open bottomed conical vessel D.-The ball
valve B is enclosed in a perforated chamber E so as to prevent the same falling too
far away from its seating. The action of the apparatus is as follows:-Immediately
the apparatus or dasher is placed amongst the clothes in the peggy tub or other
washing vessel and is pressed downwards the valve B closes against its seat C and
the air contained in the vessel D below it is forced through the clothes, but as soon
as the dasher is lifted up again the same valve falls away from its said seat and so
(by admitting air down the tube A and through the perforations in the chamber EL
into the conical inverted vessel D) destroys the vacuum and thus facilitates the
lifting of the dasher.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I wish it to be understood that
I do not confine myself to the use of a ball valve as the same could be substituted
by a valve of any other suitable description and also that I am aware a conical
bottomless vessel has hitherto been employed at the end of a wooden or other
handle for washing clothes and also a similar dasher or bottomless vessel with a
flap valve at the top extremity of a hollow stem and therefore I make no claim to
apparatus so constructed but what I do claim is in the construction of apparatus
for washing clothes
The use and application of a ball or other valve mounted at the junction of the
tube and the bottomless vessel substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore
described and illustrated on the accompanying drawing.