An Improved Copper or Washing Stick.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 9th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 21st Apr., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Copper or Washing Stick.
I ELIZA MILLAR of 128 Crown Street in the City of Liverpool situated in
the County of Lancaster, of no occupation do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide a more useful & yet simple apparatus
for use in domestic boilers or coppers than has hitherto been made.
The apparatus would consist of a stick of any convenient length, with an
enlarged end which I would call the head. A hole would run up the centre of the
head and meet a number of smaller holes drilled through the side of the head,
which would form a clear passage for the water or suds to flow through every
time the apparatus was pushed in amongst the clothes or fabrics in the domestic
boiler or copper thereby causing a circulation or agitation of the water or suds to
be set up.
Between the holes in the side of the head on the outer surface, I would make
grooves so as to form an uneven surface after the manner of the corrugations of an
ordinary washing board.
The handle of the apparatus to be used for advertising purposes.
OL D
1000
WM. ED. MOSS,
Agent for the Applicant.
An improved Copper or washing Suck.
I ELIZA MILLAR of 128 Crown Street, in the City of Liverpool, situate in
the County of Lancaster, 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 :-
The object of my invention is to provide a useful & simple apparatus for use in
domestic boilers or coppers.
The apparatus consists of a stick of wood of any convenient length, with an
enlarged end, which I will call the head. A hole runs up the centre of the head
and is met by any convenient number of smaller holes drilled through the side of
the head.
It will be readily seen that every time the "stick" is pushed in amongst the
clothes or fabrics in the domestic boiler or copper, the water or suds will rush
up the centre hole & out through the side holes, thereby setting up a circulation
or agitation of the water or suds & so helping to cleanse the clothes or fabrics
more effectually than the plain stick does which is in general use at the present
time.
As a further means of helping to cleanse the clothes or fabrics, I cut a number
of grooves on the outer side of the "head" & running between the holes, which
gives the "stick" an uneven surface after the manner of the corrugations of an
ordinary washing board.
The apparatus, preferably the handle can be used for advertising purposes.
The advertisement may be burnt in as shewn on the drawing, or a printed paper

page_text: may be gummed on, or any other well-known method may be used for affixing the
advertisement.
I will now proceed to explain the drawings.
Fig. 1 is an outside view shewing the grooves b, b, running between the
holes a, a.
Fig. 2 is a part section shewing the centre hole c meeting the smaller holes a, a.
Fig. 3 is a section of Fig. 1 at line A. B.
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. In constructing a copper or washing stick of wood in one piece, substantially
-& for the purpose as hereinbefore set forth.
2. In using the apparatus for the purposes of advertising.
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WILLIAM ED. MOSS,
Agent for the Applicant.