Improvements in or appertaining to Washing and Wringing Machines.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Nov., 1896-Accepted, 19th Dec., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or appertaining to Washing and Wringing
Machines.
I, HENRY CROFTS LONGSDON of the Firm of W. Summerscales & Song.
Limited of Keighley in the County of York, Laundry Engineers and Machine
Makers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows, that is
to say:-
It consists of forming or constructing the drip-boards of washing and wringing
machines so that the water flowing from the clothes or fabrics passing between
the rollers of these machines, is conducted or guided and kept from splashing in a
better and more desirable manner than heretofore.
In carrying my invention into effect I form, at the lower outer edge of the drip
board, an appropriately shaped flange which is made to extend inwardly from
said outer edge thus a kind of lateral groove or furrow is formed at this part,
by which means as the water, squeezed or pressed out of the clothes or fabrics
passing between the rollers, flows down the drip board this overhanging flange
prevents it from splashing over and falling on to the floor beneath.
By fixing the additional flange in the position above described, the drip board
is made stronger even though the usual cross pieces are reduced in size, so that
the application of my invention need not incur any increase in the cost of
production.
Dated this 1et dex of February 1896
H. C. LONGSDON,
Per Samuel Hey,
Keighley, Agent.
Improvements in or appertaining to Washing and Wringing
Machines.
1, HENRY CROFTS LONGSDON of the Firm of W. Summerscales & Sons
Limited of Keighley in the County of York, Laundry Engineers and Machine
Makers, 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, that is to say :-
It consists of forming or constructing the drip-boards of washing and wringing
machines so that the water flowing from the clothes or fabrics passing between the
rollers of these machines, is conducted or guided and kept from splashing in a
better and more desirable manner than heretofore.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings:-
Fig. 1 is a view of the board of a washing and wringing machine as seen from
above

page_text: Fig. 2 is an elevation showing said board as seen in the direction indicated by
the arrow a.
Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of said machine showing the board in
position.
Fig. 4 is a sectional end elevation of a machine showing the board in position.
In carrying my invention into effect I form at the lower outer edge b of the
board can appropriately shaped flange d which is made to extend inwardly from
said outer edge b and so overhanging the board c, thus a kind of lateral groove or
furrow e is formed at this part, by which means, as the water, squeezed or pressed
out of the clothes or fabrics passing between the rollers f g, flows down the
board c this overhanging flange à prevents it from splashing over and falling on to
the floor beneath.
By fixing the additional flange d in the position above described, the board o is
strengthened even though the usual cross pieces h h are reduced in size, so that
the application of my invention need not incur any increase in the cost of
production of the machines to which it pertains.
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 :-
1. The drip-board of a wringing and washing machine formed and constructed
substantially as herein specified.
2. In a drip-board for a washing and wringing machine a flange arranged to
overhang the part thereof where the water flows on being squeezed from the
clothes and conducted from the rollers substantially as herein specified.
Dated this 2nd day of November 1896
HENRY C. LONGSDON,
Per Samuel Hey,
Agent.
HENRY C. LONGSDON,
Per Samuel Hey,
Agent.