IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN BLEACHING, SCOURING, AND CLEANING."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Goode, of the Town and County of the Town
of Nottingham, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND
APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN BLEACHING, SCOURING, AND CLEANING."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Goode at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 6th August 1880.
WILLIAM GOODE, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN BLEACHING
SCOURING, AND CLEANING."
In bleaching and cleaning establishment what are known as fallers are
employed. Instead of fallers of the usual construction I prefer to employ one or
more fallers having the lower side concave, and in addition to such concavity I
perforate the concave side with a number of cavities vertically, each of a less
length than the depth of the faller. One or more such fallers I cause to rise and
fall vertically by a cam and lever to each (or their equivalent). When employed
for washing purposes on a smaller scale the vertical movements are effected by
forming a faller with a shaft and handle for operating it; but when employed in
bleaching and similar establishments I use steam or other power to drive the cam
or lifting shaft employed. One or more fallers constructed as above described I
employ in a dolly tub or bleacher's vat, and thereby obtain a thorough bleach or
cleanse through the agitation of the suds or other liquid employed in considerable
less time than heretofore.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Goode in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th February
1881.
WILLIAM GOODE, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN BLEACHING,
SCOURING, AND CLEANING."
In bleaching and cleaning establishments what are known as fallers are
employed. Instead of fallers of the usual construction I prefer to employ one or
more fallers having the lower side concave, and in addition to such concavity I
perforate the concave side with a number of cavities vertically, each of a less
length than the depth of the faller. One or more such fallers I cause to rise and
fall vertically by a cam and lever (or other equivalent) to each.
When employed for washing purposes on a small scale the vertical movements
are effected by forming a faller with a shaft and handle for operating it, but when
employed in bleaching and similar establishments I use steam or other power to
drive the cam or lifting shaft employed. One or more fallers constructed as above
described I employ in a dolly tub or bleacher's vat, and thereby obtain a thorough
bleach or cleanse through the agitation of the suds or other liquid employed in
considerable less time than heretofore.

page_text: of three bearings, which are let into the sides of the tub or vat, and held in position
by screws. Upon the wing headed screws being withdrawn the axle pins can be
moved inwards clear of their bearings, and the faller and operating shaft may be
lifted out of the tub or vat to remove the cleansed articles, or to put in others, or
for the purpose of fixing the axles in the higher or lower bearings, according to the
number of articles to be operated upon.
The above modifications of fallers I employ for washing purposes on a small
scale.
In bleaching and cleansing establishments I operate fallers in the manner shewn
in side view at Figure 9. Each faller A is secured to the lower end of a vertical
bar C hinged to a lever C¹ rocking on a fixed axle shaft E. The back end of each
lever is provided with a block on one side, which is pressed down by a cam or
wiper F carried by a revolving shaft driven by steam or other power. Each wiper
raises the faller, which upon being released falls by its own weight. Each faller
on its under side may be of either of the forms shewn at Figures 10 and 11,
perforated with circular or ring shaped vertical cavities, as described for the first
and second modifications. One or more fallers constructed and operating as above
described I employ in a dolly tub or bleacher's vat, and thereby obtain a thorough
bleach or cleanse through the agitation of the suds or other liquid employed in
considerable less time than heretofore.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I declare that I claim,-
The construction and employment of wood, metal, or earthenware fallers, sub-
stantially as described and illustrated in the Drawings annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Goode, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty one.
Witness,
H. W. GOUGH, C.E.,
Nottingham.
WILLIAM GOODE. (L.S.)