An Improved Appliance for Use in and with Wells and other Apparatus wherein Glass, China, and the like is Washed.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for Use in and with Wells and other
Apparatus wherein Glass, China, and the like is Washed.
1, EMILY ALICE WOODRUFF, of 115, Hornsey Road, Holloway, in the County
of Middlesex, Gentlewoman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:--
A great evil is experienced in washing glass china and the like in wells and
other apparatus in that these fragile articles are so continually being broken
and this evil is so experienced in a variety of places whether for example in
public houses where the glass or other articles may be as little fragile as possible
but where the quantity of such articles causes the breakage or in private houses
or similar places where the extreme fragility of the glass or other articles is
the cause of the breakage. The object of my invention is to fit in and with
and apply to the wells and other apparatus of all descriptions wherein glass
china and suchlike fragile articles are or are to be washed a simple and cheap
but very efficacious appliance by the use of which the breakage of such articles
will be reduced to a minimum even it it be not entirely obviated.
To carry out this object I make a cup or bowl or other receptacle of a corre-
sponding shape and of a proper size to somewhat loosely fit in the well or other
apparatus wherein the glass china or the like is to be washed so that it can easily
and readily be placed therein and as easily and readily be lifted thereout and
round the lip or edge of this cup or the like may most conveniently and preferably
be formed an outside flange which can rest on the edge of the well or other
apparatus and when the bottom of such well or other apparatus is provided and
fitted with a discharge pipe or passage a corresponding aperture can preferably
be made in the bottom of this cup or the like. The cup or bowl or other recep-
tacle is made of any material that will subserve the necessary governing con-
ditions that is to say it must be soft and yielding so that breakage of the fragile
articles may be greatly if not entirely obviated and it must be capable of immer-
sion in water or other liquid without a too great deterioration and without con-
taminating or doing any harm to the articles washed therein. Such materials
as india rubber and waterproofed or otherwise treated felt are very suitable but
the material need not necessarily be capable of holding liquid as the walls of the
well or other apparatus can perform that function when desired.
1000
HART & Co.,
Agents, 168, Fleet Street, London, E.C.

page_text: An Improved Appliance for Use in and with Wells and other
Apparatus wherein Glass, China, and the like is Washed.
I, EMILY ALICE WOODRUFF, of 115, Hornsey Road, Holloway, in the County
of Middlesex, Gentlewoman, 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:-
A great evil is experienced in washing glass china and the like in wells and
other apparatus in that these fragile articles are so very frequently broken, and
this evil is so experienced in a variety of places and on a multitude of occasions
whether for example in public houses where the glass or other articles may be
as little fragile as is reasonably possible but where the quantity of such articles
and the consequent hurry in which they are washed causes the breakage or
again in private houses or similar places where the extreme fragility of the
glass or other articles is generally the cause of the breakage.
The object of this my invention is to fit in and with and apply to the wells
and other apparatus of all descriptions wherein glass china and suchlike fragile
articles are or are to be washed a simple and cheap but very convenient and
efficacious appliance by the use of which the breakage of such articles will be
reduced to a minimum even if it be not entirely obviated.
In order the more clearly to explain this my invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed I refer to the accompanying drawing wherein I
have shewn an ordinary public house well provided with my appliance as con-
structed and fitted in one and an extremely convenient and efficient manner.
Figure 1 is a vertical section of a well so provided and Figure 2 is a plan of
the same.
A is the well and therefor is made a cup or bowl or other receptacle B pre-
ferably of a corresponding shape and of a proper size to somewhat loosely fit in
this well A wherein the glass china or the like is to be washed so that such cup
or the like B can easily and readily be placed in such well A and can as easily
and readily be lifted out of the same and round the lip or edge of this cup
or the like B most conveniently and preferably may be constructed and formed
or thereto may be fitted and secured an outside Hange of ring (which can rest
on the edge of the well A and thus support this lip or edge of the cup or the
like B. When the bottom of the well A is fitted with a discharge pipe or
passage D provided with a plug E as is perhaps generally the case in public
house wells a corresponding aperture F can preferably be made in the bottom
of the cup or the like B.
The cup or bowl or other receptacle is made of any material that will subserve
the necessary governing conditions that is to say: it must be soft and yielding
or so comparatively soft and yielding that the breakage of the fragile articles
may be greatly if not entirely obviated and it must be capable of and proper
for immersion in water or other liquid without experiencing a too great and
undue deterioration and without contaminating or doing any harm to the articles
that are to be placed and washed therein. I may instance such materials as
india rubber and waterproofed or otherwise treated felt as being amongst many
others very suitable for use in this my invention. Again the material of which
this cup or bowl or other receptacle is made need not necessarily be capable of
holding liquid as the walls of the well can perform that function when desired
and so this material can be perforated or reticulated or otherwise similarly treated
or formed as may be preferred in each case care being taken that the perforations

page_text: or mesh or other interstices of and in the same are not too large or of an improper
and unsafe size.
In a corresponding and similar manner this my appliance can obviously be
provided for and be applied to and be fitted in and with other apparatus of
all descriptions wherein glass china and the like is washed and no further
description or explanation is or can be needed.
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:
The appliance for use in and with wells and other apparatus wherein glass
china and the like is washed substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore
described and declared.
Data inis on tay n ALUTCH
1000.
HART & Co.,
Agents, 168, Fleet Street, London, EC.