IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR USE IN THE Cleansing of China, Glass, and Earthenware ARTICLES OF DOMESTIC Use
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Oharles Edward Hope-Vere, of No. 4, Norfolk
Street, Park Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR USE IN THE Cleansing of
China, Glass, and Earthenware ARTICLES OF DOMESTIC Use."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Edward Hope-
Vere at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 18th January 1875.
I, CHARLES Edward Hope-VERE, of No. 4, Norfolk Street, Park
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR USE
IN THE CLEANSING OF CHINA, GLASS, AND EARTHENWARE ARTICLES OF DOMESTIC
USE," to be as follows:-
The object of the Invention is to economize labor both in public and
private establishments as well as to obtain a more efficient cleansing of
the respective articles.

page_text: For the purpose of my Invention I employ a chamber or closet capable
of being closed by doors or shutters, and I either form this chamber of
or I line it with metal or waterproof material. Within this chamber or
closet I provide racks and partitions of different dimensions, somewhat
like what are called plate racks in kitchens and scullerics, but that the 5
bars forming the vertical and transverse supports and partitions are also
formed of metal and are hollow and perforated in various directions so
that fluid conducted thereto under pressure may be caused to impinge
upon the articles suspended in these racks and in various directions
adapted to act upon every part of each surface of plates, dishes, and 1
such like articles placed in these racks. Other parts I form to receive
and in like manner operate upon cups, saucers, wine and other glasses,
decanters, and other bottles of different forms.
For the purpose of more effectually cleansing the interiors of decanters
and other bottles I form part of the closet with a vertical tubo perforated 1
at its upper and other parts so as thereby thoroughly to cleanse the
whole interior surfaces whilst other jets act on the.exterior.
If desired these interior parts of the chamber or closet may be divided
into several sets so that any one may be used alone if desired by
employing a tap or valve from a main to each separate set of jets.
The cleansing liquid may be hot or cold water saturated with
saponaceous or other matter adapted to assist the cleansing.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filled by the said Charles Edward Hope-Vere in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 15th July 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
EDWARD HOPE-VERE, of No. 4, Norfolk Street, Park Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of January, in the 3
year of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-five, in
the thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Charles Edward Hope-

page_text: Vere, Her special licence that I, the said Charles Edward Hope-Vere,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Charles Edward Hope-Vere, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
5 time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR Use
IN THE CLEANSING OF CHINA, GLASS, AND EARTHENWARE ARTICLES OF DOMESTIC
O USE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles
Edward Hope-Vere, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
5 same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Edward Hope-Vere, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
Din and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
The object of the Invention is to economize labor both in public and
private establishments as well as to obtain a more efficient cleansing of
the respective articles.
For the purpose of my Invention I employ a chamber or closet capable
5 of being closed by doors or shutters, and I either form this chamber of
or I line it with metal or waterproof material. Within this chamber or
closet I provide racks and partitions of different dimensions somewhat
like what are called plate racks in kitchens and sculleries, but that the
bars forming the vertical and transverse supports and partitions are also
O formed of metal and are hollow and perforated in various directions so
that fluid conducted thereto under pressure may be caused to impinge
upon the articles suspended in these racks, and in various directions,
adapted to act upon every part of each surface of plates, dishes, and
such like articles placed in these racks. Other parts I form to receive
5 and in like manner operate upon cups, saucers, wine and other glasses,
decanters and other bottles, and articles of domestic use and of different
forms.

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Figures 6, 7, and 8 show jets arranged more especially to effect the
cleansing of cups, wine or other glasses, decanters or bottles, or other
vessels, and in like manner may other variations be obtained adapted to
the form of the articles to be cleansed. In these Figures 6, 7, and 8 the
perforations are formed in the upper parts of the rising tubes g, but this
may be varied. Stops may be applied, as indicated at i, to prevent the
articles under operation from being blown off by the force of the jets of
fluid employed. The tubes g are supplied from a main pipe h.
Separate taps may be applied to the various parts of such apparatus,
each connected separately to a general source of supply, in order that
any one part of the apparatus may be used without undue waste.
Having thus described my Invention and means which I adopt in
carrying the same into effect I would have it understood that what I
claim is, the arranging or combining apparatus for use in the cleansing
of china, glass, and earthenware articles of domestic use by means of
jets of fluid acting substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Edward Hope-Vere, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of July, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.