An Improved Drainer for Use in Washing China, Glass and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 26th May, 1898-Accepted, 9th July, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Drainer for Use in Washing China, Glass and the
like.
I, ARTHUR BAINBRIDGE, trading as Charles Topham & Co., of 11, Roscoe Street,
Bunhill Row, London, E.C., Wire Workers and Weavers, 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 for an improved drainer for use in washing china, glass and the like,
has for its object to provide an appliance to be fitted adjacent to the sink or basin
in which the washing is being performed and on which the articles are placed as they
are washed and through which all the superfluous moisture can drain away.
According to this invention a tray is formed of wire crossed diagonally and the
wires are formed undulating so that one wire at its highest point crosses another at its
lowest point the result being that a surface is obtained which permits of the ready
escape of the moisture from the articles placed thereon. The tray is preferably formed
with a central opening and is fitted over the sink or basin in which the washing is
being performed, but may also be arranged without said opening and arranged at a
convenient place adjacent to the sink or basin.
In order to more clearly describe this invention reference is had to the accompanying
drawings in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing a tray constructed according
to this invention and showing several articles draining thereon, and Fig. 2 shows a
modified arrangement of the tray. Fig. 3 is a detail view showing the arrangement
of the wire.
The tray A is formed of wires a a¹ crossed diagonally and as seen separately in
Fig. 3 they are formed undulating so that one of the wires a at its highest point
crosses one of the wires a¹ at its lowest point and similarly at every crossing point.
The articles as they are washed are placed on the tray A upside down in the usual
way, and as, owing to the undulations of the wires, the said articles only rest on the
wires at certain points, the superfluous moisture can readily drain away.
In Fig. 1 the tray A is formed with cross wires a a¹ and with edge wires b some-
what thicker and stronger to which the wires a a¹ are attached. In the centre a ring
of wire c is arranged so as to form an opening and the tray A is fitted over the sink
or basin in which the washing is being performed, the articles as they are washed
being placed on the tray at each side to drain.
In Fig. 2 there is no central opening and the tray is arranged at a convenient
place adjacent to the sink or basin in which the washing is being performed.
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
(1) An improved drainer for use in washing china, glass, and the like, com-
prising a frame work of crossed wires, the wires being formed undulating so as
to facilitate the draining away of the superfluous moisture, substantially as
described

page_text: (2) An improved drainer for use in washing china glass and the like comprising a
fraine work of crossed wires a a¹ formed undulating, side wires b and ring c of wire
forming a central opening substantially as described with reference to the drawings
and for the purposes specified.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.