New or Improved Appliances for Containing Laundry Blue when in Use.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd June, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 11th Mar., 1895-Accepted, 20th Apr., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION,
New or Improved Appliances for Containing Laundry Blue
when in Use.
We, EDWIN JOHN SURL, of Newent, Gloucestershire, Commercial Traveller,
and HENRY GEORGE CHANCELLOR, of 13, Clerkenwell Road, in the City of
London, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Our invention relates to a container for laundry blue, (to be used when colouring
the rinsing water), which is made of perforated metal, wire gauze, or similar
material, which will permit a solution of the blue to be readily mixed with the
water, and at the same time serve as an instrument by which the blue will become
more thoroughly distributed.
The ordinary method of bluing the water is to tie the blue in a piece of cloth,
generally flannel, and to extract a sufficient quantity of colour by dipping the cloth
in the water and then squeezing it; this method causes the hands to be stained and
a quantity of blue to be wasted, while frequently the cloth gets worn in holes or
untied, and the whole mass of blue escapes into the water, causing great annoyance
and delay; with our new appliance, the blue is put into the container; and by
rapidly stirring the water therewith, the desired amount of colour is obtained
without any waste or staining the hands.
In carrying our invention into effect, a handle is provided of wood, metal, or
other suitable material, to form a support for the container, which latter is made of
perforated metal, wire gauze, or other substance that will allow the coloured fluid
to escape; the container may be of any desired shape, preferably cylindrical, one
end being closed, and the open end fitted to a ring or the like, by which it is
attached to the handle by means of a screw-thread, clip, spring, or other suitable
means, so that it can be readily unfastened to receive a supply of blue, and then
refastened, when it will be ready for use or the container may be made of two
gauze or perforated cylinders, one fixed on the handle and the other fitting over
the fixed one, and fastened to the handle as described, which will further prevent
the escape of any loose particles of blue into the water.
With a container made as described, and filled with blue, it will only be necessary
to put it in the water and stir rapidly, when the desired amount of colouring will
quickly be obtained for laundry purposes without waste or staining the hands."
Dated this day of June 1891
J. G. WESTLAKE,
2, John Street, Bristol, Applicants' Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Appliances for Containing Laundry Blue
when in Use.
We, EDWIN JOHN SURL, of Newent, Gloucestershire, Commercial Traveller,
and HENRY GEORGE CHANCELLOR, of 13, Clerkenwell Road, London, Merchant,
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:-
Our invention relates to a container for laundry blue to be used when colouring

page_text: the rinsing water, which is made of perforated metal, wire ganze, or similar material,
which will permit a solution of the blue to be readily mixed with the water, and at
the same time serve as an instrument for more thoroughly mixing the fluid.
The container in which the blue is placed is attached to a suitable handle by
screwing, springs, clips, bayonet joints, hinges, or the like, and the accompanying
sheet of drawings illustrates suitable methods of carrying the invention into effect.
Fig. 1 represents a bent wire handle and a container ready to be attached thereto
by screwing;
Fig. 2 shows a handle of twisted wire, to which a perforated metal or gauze
cylinder is attached with one end left open, a cover of similar material, as
shown, being placed over the cylinder and attached to the handle, thus forming a
double strainer to prevent the escape of any suspended matter;
Fig. 3 shows a handle of wood or similar material, to which the container is
nthixed by a bayonet joint or joints.
A is a handle of any suitable shape or material, to which a base B with screw
thrends cut thereon, or a bayonet joint D, is attached; C is a screw-threaded cap
to fit on the base a cylinder 1' of wire gauze or perforated metal is made with
dome shaped end and attached to the screw cap C, or a gauze cylinder T may be
attached to the base B, and another cylinder R with a closed end, made a little
larger than the cylinder T is placed over the latter when filled with blue, and
attached by the screw C to the base B. Instead of the container being made
dome shaped, as 1', or with closed end, as R, the end of the cylinder inay ba
pinched and folded together, as shown by F in Fig. 3; D, d, d², illustrate the
attachment of the container to the handle by a bayonet joint, but as already
mentioned, the attachment may he made by means of hinges, clips, springs, or the
like, and the container and handle may be made of any convenient shape or
material, the essential part of the invention being a container that may be used for
supplying the colouring matter to the water, and assist in the mixing thereof by
stirring.
With appliances made as described, the blue is put into the container, and the
container secured to the handle in the manner shown, or by other suitable means,
and then by rapidly stirring the water therewith, the required amount of colour
will be obtained.
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 :-
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The construction of containers for powdered or solid laundry blue, from which
the colouring matter may be distributed to the water by stirring with the con-
tainer, the latter being made of perforated metal or wire gauze, sufficiently rigid
for the purpose required, substantially as herein described and set forth and illustrated
in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 9th day of March 1894
J. G. WESTLAKE,
2, John Street, Bristol, Applicants' Agent.
J. G. WESTLAKE,
2, John Street, Bristol, Applicants' Agent.