Improvement Applicable to Machines for Beating, Brushing, or Cleaning Carpets and other Similar Articles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Jan,, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 9th Oct., 1889-Accepted, 9th Nov., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
An Improvement Applicable to Machines for Beating, Brushing, or
Cleaning Carpets and other Similar Articles.
I GEORGE WILLIAM YAPP of Lily Hill Steam Laundry Whitefield near Manchester
in the County of Lancaster Dyer and Cleaner do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates specially to that class of carpet beating machine wherein the
carpet is beaten by a series of straps attached to a shaft revolving in a suitable casing,
but it may be applied to other similar machines for beating brushing or cleaning
carpets and similar articles.
The apparatus consists of a box or chest made of any suitable metal or material
(with its upper side or surface perforated) placed at the inlet or exit opening of the
machine (or both) and extending the whole length of the said opening so that the
carpet or other article as it approaches or leaves the beater will pass over this box
or chest.
Inside this box or chest is a perforated steam pipe or pipes running the entire
length thereof and provided with a suitable valve or tap outside for turning the
steam on or off, and also with a suitable exhaust outlet.
The bottom of the box or chest is preferably made sloping, and provided with a
gutter for draining off water of condensation.
As the carpet is going into, or coming out of the machine to or from the beater
(or both at its entry and its exit) the steam admission valve (or valves) is (or are)
opened, and thus steam is admitted into the box or chest and passes out through its
perforated top, and through the carpet or other article thereby causing the pile or
nap to rise and, also by its heating and cleansing action greatly improving the
appearance and freshening the colors of the article under treatment. The intense
heat from the steam will also destroy any insect or vermin that may be in the
fabric.
The fan which carries away the dust and dirt removed from the carpet or other
article will carry away the steam as it rises through the fabric.
If preferred the top of the box or chest may be made of woven wire or other
equivalent material, and it may be provided with a cloth or other porous covering
to prevent dirt from entering through the perforations into the said steam box
or chest.
Datail this Oth
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1000
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement Applicable to Machines for Beating, Brushing, or
Cleaning Carpets and other Similar Articles,
I GEORGE WILLIAM YAPP of Lily Hill Steam Laundry, Whitefield near Manchester
in the County of Lancaster Dyer and Cleaner 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 specially to that class of carpet beating machine wherein
the carpet is beaten by a series of straps attached to a shaft revolving in a suitable
casing but it may be applied to other similar machines for beating brushing or
cleaning carpets and similar articles.

page_text: The invention will be readily understood on reference to the accompanying drawing
which illustrates the same as applied to the exit opening of an ordinary carpet beating
machine.
The apparatus consists of a box or chest a made of any suitable metal or material
(with its upper side or surface a perforated) placed at the exit opening b or inlet
of the machine and extending the whole length of the said opening, so that the.
carpet or other article indicated by the line c as it leaves the beater will pass over
this box or chest a.
Inside this box or chest a is a perforated steam pipe d or pipes running the
entire length thereof and provided with a suitable valve or tap outside for turning
the steam on or off and also with a suitable exhaust outlet.
The bottom of the box or chest a is preferably made sloping and provided with
a gutter as at for draining off water of condensation.
As the carpet is coming out of (or going into) the machine from (or to) the
beater (or both at its entry and its exit) the steam admission valve (or valves)
is (or are) opened and thus steam is admitted into the box or chest a and passes
out through its perforated top a¹ and through the carpet c or other article thereby
causing the pile or nap to rise and also by its heating and cleansing action
greatly improving the appearance and freshening the colors of the article under
treatment.
The intense heat from the steam will also destroy any insect or vermin that may
be in the fabric.
The fan which carries away the dust and dirt removed from the carpet or other
article will carry away the steam (as indicated on the drawing) as it rises through
the fabric c.
If preferred the top a¹ of the box or chest a may be made of woven wire or other
equivalent material and it may be provided with a cloth or other porous covering
to prevent dirt from entering through the perforations into the said steam box
or chest.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
The combination with the inlet or exit opening (or both inlet and exit) of a
machine for beating brushing or cleaning carpets and other similar fabrics, of a box
or chest with perforated or reticulated top applied substantially as and for the
purposes herein before described.
Dated this 8th day of October 1980
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.