Improvements in Washing Apparatus.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Apr., 1890
Complete Specification Left. 24th May. 1890-Accepted, 31st Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Washing Apparatus.
EDWARD SCILLITOE Earls Colne Coggeshall Road Halstead Essex Carpenter,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In the washing machine I have invented two pipes two covered chanels which
gives four suction holes causing the water to be discharged two reversable ways
thus enabling the work to be performed in considerable less time it is manufactured
from copper galvanized iron and tin.
A 1.4 1900
EDWARD SCILLITOE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Washing Apparatus.
1. EDWARD SCILLITOE, Earl's Colne, Coggeshall Road, Halstead, Essex,
Carpenter, 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 this invention is to create, in coppers used in laundry work, copious
streams of hot water ascending from the bottom of the copper, which streams,
falling on the clothes placed in the copper, and being rapidly drawn through them,
will soon cleanse them, a suitable detergent being applied, as usual, to assist in the
process.
'
The apparatus which I have devised, may be described as consisting of an
inverted pan, the enclosing space of which is divided up by two transverse partitions,
which form the inner side walls of two covered channels, the bottom of the channels
being closed by plates, which connect the lower edges of the transverse partitions
with the sides of the inverted pan.
Openings are made in these covered channels, for the admission of water from
the copper, and a pipe rises vertically from each channel, for the egress of the water
therefrom in the form of a copious stream, on to the clothes under treatment, by
means of pipes discharging downwards.
The space within the pan, between the two covered channels, forms a steam
chamber, where the steam accumulates, and creates a pressure, which quickens the
flow of the heated water upwards through the covered channels.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 is a plan view of my improved water circulating apparatus, and
Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same, inserted in a copper of the usual construction,
partially charged with clothes.
A is a circular inverted pan, fitting the bottom of the copper B.
CC are two covered channels, formed by enclosing, by means of transverse
inwardly inclined walls c c and horizontal plates c¹ c', portions of the space circum-
scribed by the pan.
The central portion, D, of this space is open to the well of the copper, and receives
all the steam that is generated therein.
The water in the space D does not circulate, but only produces steam, to accelerate
the movement of the circulating water through the pipes F F and G G.
EE are end openings in the covered channels C, and F F are the pipes leading
up from the covered channels. Surmounting these pipes, are curved pipes G G,
which are free to be turned on their supports in any desired direction.

page_text: Other openings e¹ e¹ are made in the covered channels C, for the inflow of water
and of steam from the central steam chamber D.
The use of this apparatus may be described as follows
:-
The apparatus is placed on its base on the bottom of an ordinary copper, partly
full of water or suds. The dirty linen is then packed closely round the apparatus,
until it reaches nearly to the outlet of the curved pipes, which can be raised or
lowered to suit the quantity of linen under treatment. The soapy water is then
made to boil, and steam being formed under the apparatus, a strong stream of hot
water is projected through each of the curved pipes on to the linen, whence it is
drawn back, through the suction holes E E, to be again poured through the curved
pipes. As each pipe derives its supply from the opposite side of the copper to the
other, a very complete circulation is established, and the free circular movement
permitted to the curved pipes, enables them to be adjusted, so as to ensure the
delivery of the stream from one channel over the suction holes of the other, which
position is the most efficient in working.
An obvious modification of this apparatus is to use the whole of the space covered
by the pan
A as the steam chamber, and to connect this chamber with a central
pipe, which is fed with water through a covered channel or channels, formed on the
outside of the steam chamber, and extending to the base of the apparatus.
This modification is shown in the sectional view Fig. 3, where A. A. is the inverted
pan (in this case made conical), terminating in a central pipe F, which in this
example is pierced with holes at its foot, or its junction with the pan, for the access
of hot water thereto, the covered channel or channels, C, being formed by a conical
covering secured to the conical pan A. by radial strips e or otherwise.
In this example, it will be understood that the rush of the steam (collected in
the chamber D) up the pipe F, will greatly facilitate, as in the first arrangement,
the passage of the hot water through the closed channels C to the discharge pipe.
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
The improved arrangement of washing apparatus described with reference to
Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, or any mere modification thereof, as Fig. 3, whereby
the hot water or suds contained in a laundry copper, may be drawn from the
bottom or hottest part thereof, and discharged in a copious stream or streams on
to the heap of clothes contained in the copper.
Dated 27th day of November 1890.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.