Improvements in Drainers for Use in Washing Crockery and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 11th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 20th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Drainers for Use in Washing Crockery and the
like.
I, RICHARD ECCLES, of 7 Somerville, Seacombe, Cheshire, Inventor, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in drainers used for crockery, glass and
similar articles, which after being washed are placed upon the same for the purpose
of draining and carrying away the water running from the same.
The drainers now commonly in use are made of wood and very readily decay and
rot. They also become offensive owing to the readiness with which the wood
absorbs all watery, greasy or fatty deposits. Drainers are also made of wood and
overlaid entirely with lead or block tin, but these are rather expensive and con-
sequently out of the reach of many. The object of the present invention is to
secure a drainer which will always remain clear and which will not rot or decay
and which at the same time is not costly to produce. My drainer is made of
porcelain or earthenware enamelled and is of an oblong shape with ridges to
prevent articles from slipping off on three sides thereof. Along the bottom of the
drainer lengthwise I place channels or corrugations down which the water draining
from the articles placed thereon will run. Between each channel or corrugation
there is a flat surface through which at convenient places I make holes in which
are placed wood pegs.
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On the top of the flat surface I place strips of lead, block tin or other
suitable material which I attach by means of rivets or screws to the wood
peg which I place in the holes constructed in the porcelain drainer. These
strips on the flat surface between the channels for draining water away will obviate
the breakage of glass or other articles which may from their brittle nature crack
or be broken by coming into sharp contact with a porcelain drainer not thus
protected.
The drainer may be made of any convenient size or shape or of any suitable
material, either earthenware, enamel; porcelain, or creosoted wood, and the facing on
the ridges or surfaces between the channels may be either of lead, tin, or creosoted
wood, rubber or any other suitable material. The said facing on the ridges may
be attached by means of rivets or screws to the wood pegs fixed in the holes
conveniently placed or by means of clips or clamps or any other convenient
means.
Dated this 15th day of December 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Drainers for Use in Washing Crockery and the
like.
I, RICHARD ECCLES of 7 Somerville, Seacombe, Cheshire, Inventor, do hereby
0 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 improvements in drainers used for crockery, glass and

page_text: similar articles, which after being washed are placed upon the same for the
purpose of draining and carrying away the water running from the same..
The drainers now commonly in use are made of wood and very readily decay and
rot. They also become offensive owing to the readiness with which the wood
absorbs all watery, greasy or fatty deposits.. Drainers are also made of wood
and overlaid entirely with lead or block tin, but these are rather expensive and
consequently out of the reach of many. The object of the present invention is to
secure a drainer which will always remain clear and which will not rot or decay
and which at the same time is not costly to produce. My drainer is made of
porcelain or earthenware enamelled and is of an oblong shape with ridges to
prevent articles from slipping off on three sides thereof. Along the bottom of the
drainer lengthwise I place channels or corrugations down which the water draining
from the articles placed thereon will run. Between each channel or corrugation
there is a flat surface through which at convenient places I make holes in which are
placed wood pegs.
On the top of the flat surface I place strips of lead, block tin or other
suitable material which I attach by means of nails, rivets or screws to the wood
peg which I place in the holes constructed in the porcelain drainer. These strips
on the flat surface between the channels for draining water away will obviate the
breakage of glass or other articles which may from their brittle nature crack
or be broken by coming into sharp contact with a porcelain drainer not thus
protected.
The drainer may be made of any convenient size or shape or of any suitable
material, either earthenware, enamel, porcelain, slate, marble, enamelled iron, or
creosoted wood and the facing on the ridges or surfaces between the channels may
be either of lead, tin, or creosoted wood, cork, rubber or any other suitable
material. The said facing on the ridges may be attached by means of rivets, nails,
or screws to the wood pegs fixed in the holes conveniently placed or by means of
clips or clamps or any other convenient means.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed; I declare that what
I claim is
The improved drainer substantially as described and set forth above.
Dated this 11th dore of Santamber 1201-