Improvements in Washing Boards and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application. 23rd Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Aug., 1895-Accepted, 12th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Improvements in Washing Boards and the like.
We, GEORGE CROYDON MARKS of 18, Southampton Buildings, London W.C.,
Civil Engineer, and FREDERICK WILLIAM THOMAS of 21 Queens Hill Newport,
in the County of Monmouth, Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to the manner in which we construct a washing
board for laundry purposes, the object of the invention being to produce a board
which will not damage clothing when being washed or rubbed over it, which will
economise labour and washing material; our invention is also applicable to
machines in which large quantities of clothing, and other articles have to be
washed, or cleaned, and where it is necessary to provide a support for the articles
to be scrubbed or rubbed upon.
In carrying our invention into effect when constructing a washing board for
ordinary domestic use, we make the board of any desired width and we make
within the side frames a number of rollers, these rollers forming the support upon
which the article to be cleansed is carried.
We place the rollers in a row, and we make them either to be inclined, or to lie
in parallel lines across the board fiame as may be desired.
At the lower end of our frame we may provide a trough or receptacle for the
water or other liquid to drain in, and at the upper end we may provide a receptacle
for carrying the soap and washing powder; the upper end of the frame being
made suitable for the laundress to hold in, the hand, when desired for resting
against the chest.
We prefer to make our upper trough for carrying the washing powder or soap
so that the water in draining down is carried upon the rollers and on to the article
being washed, and assists in producing a lather.
We make legs or other convenient supports. at one end when so desired, or we
leave it plain.
We make our rollers of wood, indiarubber, composition, metal, or of other
suitable material, and we make them either plain or provided with ribs, or fluted to
form grooves upon their surfaces, to suit any particular form of washing board that
is to be produced.
We sometimes mount circular brushes instead of rollers between the frames, or
we cover the rollers with flannel or other suitable material.
We do not limit the application of our invention to any particular shape of
board, number of rollers, or position of rollers within the frame; and we make the
board itself from timber, or we line it with zinc or other metal as may be
de-ired.
When applying our invention to laundry machines where large quantities of
clothing pass through or over the machine, we arrange our revolving rollers
as a support for the clothing upon the franie of the machine, similarly to the
manner hereinbefore described when mounting them upon a hand washing board.
Dated this 23rd day of November 1894.
MARKS & CLERK,
18 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.

page_text: We, GEORGE CROYDON MARKS, of 18 Southampton Buildings, Lordon, W.C.,
Civil Engineer, and FREDERICK WILLIAM THOMAS, of 116 Cottrell Road,
Roath, Cardiff, in the County of Glamorgan, Traveller, (formerly of 21 Queen's
Road, Newport, in the County of Monmouth), 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 has reference to the manner in which we construct a washing
board for laundry purposes the object of the invention being to produce a board
which will not damage clothing when being washed or rubbed over it, and
which will economise labour and washing material. Our invention is also applicable
to machines in which large quantities of clothing, and other articles have to be
washed, or cleaned, and where it is necessary to provide a support for the articles
to be scrubbed or rubbed upon.
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings-
Figure 1 is a front elevation and Figure 2 a sectional elevation of one form of
our board.
Figure 3 is a sectional elevation of our board when circular brushes are mounted
therein.
Figures 4 and 5 show detail sectional elevations of the rollers and Figure 6 shows
a similar view of our circular brush.
In carrying our invention into effect when constructing a washing board for
ordinary domestic use, we make the board A of any desired width, and we place
within the side frames a number of roilers B B, these rollers forming the support
upon which the article to be cleansed is carried.
We place the rollers B in a row, and we make them either to be inclined, or to
lie in parallel lines across the board frame A A' as may be desired.
At the lower end of our frame we may provide a trough or receptacle for the
water or other liquid to drain in, and at the upper end we provide a receptacle C
for carrying the soap, brush, washing powder, or the like; the upper end of the
frame being made suitable for the laundress to hold in the hand, or when desired,
curved for resting against the chest.
We prefer to make our upper trough C for carrying the washing powder or soap
so that the water ir draining down is carried upon the rollers and on to the article
being washed, and assists in producing a lather.
We make legs or other convenient supports a at one end when so desired, or we
leave it plain.
We make our rollers B B of wood, india-rubber, composition, metal, or of other
suitable material, and we make them serrated or provided with ribs b, or fluted to
form grooves upon their surfaces, to suit any particular form of washing board
that is to be produced.
We sometimes mount circular brushes D instead of rollers between the frames,
or we cover the rollers with Alanuel or other suitable material.
We do not limit the application of our invention to any particular shape of
board, number of rollers, or position of rollers within the frame; and we make
the board itself from timber, or we line it with zinc or other metal as may be
desired.
When applying our invention to laundry machines where large quantities of
clothing pass through or over the machine, we arrange our revolving rollers as a
support for the clothing upon the frame of the machine, similarly to the manner
herein before described when mounting them upon a hard washing board.

page_text: 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-
1. In a washing board, the arrangement and use of a number of fluted or grooved
rollers between the side frames, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore
described and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. The improved construction and arrangement of a washing board with fluted
revolving rollers B B and a back board or plate E, substantially as and for the
purposes herein before described and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of August 1895
MARKS & CLERK,
18 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.