A New and Improved Dolly for Washing Clothes and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 17th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 9th Jan., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New and Improved Dolly for Washing Clothes and the like.
I, THOMAS DAWSON, Joiner and Cabinet Maker, of 116, Eastbourne Road,
Birkdale, Southport, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
.A tool or instrument used in washing clothes and the like constructed wholly of
iron, brass, or steel, or any similar metal, or partly of any of the above named
metals & partly of wood. In appearance it is a kind of disc with knuckles &
fingers attached, and is rotated by an upright shaft with a cross handle. The iron
parts are rendered rustless. By a simple device the fingers are attached to the
iron disc in such a way as not to separate when in use.
Dated this Fifteenth day of February 1896.
A New and Improved Dolly for Washing Clothes and the like.
1, THOMAS DAWSON, Joiner and Cabinet Maker, of 116, Eastbourne Road,
Birkdale, Southport, Lancashire, 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 relates to an improved construction of laundry dolly.
Such dollies as at present constructed are liable to depreciation when stocked by
dealers for any length of time, owing to the base or disc of such dollies, from which
the legs project, becoming cracked by the weather. Such cracking of the disc is
in many cases attributable to expansion of the standard and legs in their sockets,
due to humidity of the atmosphere, and it is no uncommon experience for a dealer
to find several of his stock thus depreciated.
According to this invention I form the disc and standard of a laundry dolly
wholly of metal, with sockets for the reception of the handle and legs.
Such a dolly is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 being a side
view and Figure 2 a plan.
a is the disc, which may be formed of malleable cast iron; and b are sockets
therein, for the reception of the legs c. In order to secure the legs in their sockets
I form a web d across the latter, which imbeds itself in the wood of the leg, and I
drive a staple e over the web d and into the leg. The standard fconsists of metallic
piping, the bottom of which is screwed, soldered, shrunk into, or otherwise secured
to the disc a, whilst the top of the standard has a T coupling which receives the
handle g.
Instead of cast iron I may use brass, steel, tin, zinc, or other suitable metal for
the metallic portions of the dolly.

page_text: When iron, or steel, is used in the dolly it is thoroughly galvanized or otherwise
coated or treated for the prevention of oxidation. It will however be found in
practice that the fatty matter in soapy water will effectively protect the metallic
parts from rust.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The laundry dolly herein described, as a whole, the characteristic features of
which are, the metallic disc and standard a and f, and the means of securing the
degs e to the disc a, consisting of the socket b, web d, and staple e..
J. A. COUBROUGH,
Registered Patent Agent (Qual. by Exam.),
10 St. George's Crescent, Liverpool, Agent for the Applicant.