An Improved Appliance or Apparatus to be used for Washing Clothes and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance or Apparatus to be used for Washing
Clothes and the like.
We HENRY FRANKLAND Senior, HENRY FRANKLAND, Junior, and FREDERICK
FRANKLAND all of Moss Farın Brandlesome Elton near Bury, in the County of
Lancaster, Farmers and Manufacturing Chemists, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide apparatus to be applied to an ordinary
domestic copper, boiler or other vessel wherein clothes or the like can be boiled, in
order to facilitate the cleansing of the said clothes.
The appliance or apparatus consists of a dome, or other equivalent form, of
cast iron or copper or other suitable material, provided at or near its edge with
hollow bosses in or upon which may be fitted two or more pipes of suitable
diameter.
These pipes are curved or bent to correspond with the sides of the boiler or
vessel to which it is to be applied, and are of suitable length, as hereafter
described; they are also bent or curved in towards each other at their
upper ends.
The edge of the dome is so forined that when placed at the bottom of the boiler
or vessel, it is slightly raised, so as to admit a free passage for water into the space
enclosed by the said dome.
The appliance having been placed in the boiler or vessel the dome resting at
the bottom and the pipes extending upwards preferably quite close to the sides of
the said boiler or washing vessel, water is poured into the latter, and washing
material or soap is added, and the fire having been lighted (or heat being otherwise
applied to the boiler or vessel) the clothes are put therein, care being taken not to
cover the open ends of the above named pipes.
As soon as the water boils it will rise from the space enclosed by the dome up
through the pipes, from the upper ends of which it will issue in continuous con-
verging streams, the pipes being properly proportioned to the dome and the vessel
(as above described) for this purpose.
Thus a constant circulation of the water will be maintained in the boiler or other
washing vessel through the clothes or articles which will thereby be most
thoroughly and rapidly cleansed, without rubbing, dollying or other mechanical
methods.
Dated this 11th day of March 1895.

page_text: An Improved Appliance or Apparatus to be used for Washing
Clothes and the like.
We HENRY FRANKLAND Senior, HENRY FRANKLAND Junior, and FREDERICK
FRANKLAND, all of Moss Farm Brandlesome, Elton near Bury, in the County of
Lancaster, Farmers and Manufacturing Chemists, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to provide apparatus to be applied to an ordinary
domestic copper, boiler or other vessel wherein clothes or the like can be boiled, in
order to facilitate the cleansing of the said clothes.
Fig. 1 on the annexed drawings shews (in section) our invention applied to an
ordinary domestic copper or boiler and Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof.
The appliance or apparatus consists of a dome a or other equivalent form, of
cast iron or copper or other suitable material, provided at or near its edge with
hollow bosses a+ in or upon which may be fitted two or more pipes a¹ of suitable
diameter.
These pipes are curved or bent to correspond with the sides of the boiler or
vessel to which it is to be applied and are of suitable length, as hereafter
described; they are also bent or curved in towards each other (as shewn) at
their upper ends.
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The edge of the dome is so formed that when placed at the bottom of the boiler
or vessel b, it is slightly raised upon feet a² so as to admit a free passage for water
into the space enclosed by the said dome.
The appliance having been placed in the boiler or vessel the dome a resting at
the bottom and the pipes a' extending upwards preferably quite close to the sides of
the said boiler or washing vessel, water is poured into the latter, and washing
material or soap is added, and the fire having been lighted (or heat being otherwise
applied to the boiler or vessel) the clothes are put therein, care being taken not to
cover the open ends of the above named pipes.
As soon as the water boils it will rise from the space enclosed by the dome a up
through the pipes a¹ from the upper ends of which it will issue in continuous con-
verging streams, the pipes a¹ being properly proportioned to the dome a and the
vessel (as above described) for this purpose.
Thus a constant circulation of the water will be maintained in the boiler or
other washing vessel through the clothes or articles which will thereby be most
thoroughly and rapidly cleansed, without rubbing, dollying or other mechanical
methods.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
The improved appliance or apparatus for insertion in an ordinary domestic
copper boiler, or similar vessel for washing clothes and the like substantially as
hereinbefore described and illustrated by the drawings aunexed.
Dated thin both 1
CAT
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.