Improvements in Apparatus or Devices for Containing, Manipulating, or Using Washing Blue and other Soluble or Pulverulent Materials
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 10th Oct., 1891-Accepted, 14th Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus or Devices for Containing, Manipulating,
or Using Washing Blue and other Soluble or Pulverulent
Materials
I, RICHARD RIPLEY, of Blandford Works, Blandford Street, Liverpool in the
County of Lancaster, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to form a cheap appliance or mechanism whereby
a nearly uniform amount of blue or other liquid can be mixed up with water
without having to touch the pigment, and without any chance of lumps falling into
the water.
My invention consists essentially in making a box or other container of solid
material having on opposite ends or sides a perforated wall or a layer of calico or
other like material. Thus the box may consist of a long tube with both ends
formed of calico or of perforated material; the blue or other pigment is placed in
the box and by giving the box a longitudinal motion in the water, the water passes
through the box and carries out with it, in solution or otherwise, a quantity of the
pigment or powder. The box can be made of any desired material, but I prefer as
cheapest wood, mill-board, tinned iron and the like. If it be of mill-board it can
be made with the two ends stamped out and the centre a cylindrical barrel. If the
pulp used in forming the mill-board be mixed with a solution of resin or other
material insoluble in water, there is an advantage, as the box is less liable to soften
with use.
The apertures closed with calico or group of perforations can extend
over the entire surface of the lid and bottom, the central portion of these, or one
of these, or preferably a portion of one side of each of these, so that the side
un-cut away can be used to hold the box while being shaken in the water.
It is not necessary to make the box cylindrical, it may be in the form of two
dished plates united at the edges, or in any other form, also if it be cylindrical the
openings covered with calico can be if desired in the sides of the box instead of
the ends.
In forming the box I prefer to make the joints of glue and resin or other cheap
cement insoluble in water.
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WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus or Devices for Containing, Manipulating,
or Using Washing Blue and other Soluble or Pulverulent
Materials.
I, RICHARD RIPLEY of Blandford Works, Blandford Street, Liverpool in the
County of Lancaster, Manufacturer, 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 form a cheap appliance or mechanism whereby
a nearly uniform amount of blue or other liquid can be mixed up with water
without having to touch the pigment, and without any chance of lumps falling into
the water.
My invention consists essentially in making a box or other container of solid

page_text: material having on opposite ends or sides a perforated wall or a layer of calico or
other like material. Thus the box may consist of a long tube with both ends
formed of calico or of perforated material; the blue or other pigment is placed in
the box, and, by giving the box a longitudinal motion in the water, the water passes
through the box and carries out with it, in solution or otherwise, a quantity of the
pigment or powder. The box can be made of any desired material, but I prefer, as
cheapest, wood, mill-board, zinc tinned iron and the like. If it be of mill-board,
it can be made with the two ends stamped out and the centre a cylindrical barrel.
If the pulp used in forming the mill-board is mixed with a solution of resin or other
material insoluble in water, there is an advantage, as the box is less liable to soften
with use. The apertures closed with calico or group of perforations can extend
over the entire surface of the lid and bottom, the central portion of these, or of
one of these, or preferably a portion of one side of each of these, so that the side
uncut away can be used to hold the box while being shaken in the water.
The drawing herewith annexed sets forth a box as designed for the purpose, in
which
Figure 1 is a front elevation, and
Figure 2 an end elevation.
The box need not necessarily be oval in cross section, but I prefer it for my own
private use oval, as my principal trade mark is "Oval Blue." It might, however,
be round, rectangular or other shape.
If oval or round, I prefer to make the side opposite the perforations flat as
shown, so that the box shall only stand on this side. By this means, there is less
liability for the blue, in a dissolved or semi-dissolved state, to run out of the
perforations while standing. In actual practice, I make the perforations as shown,
so as to form the word "Ripley's." They can, however, have any other convenient
arrangement. They can even be single large holes with a thin textile fabric,
sufficiently porous, covering them. In some cases, 1 may make the box of two
dished plates united at the edges. In forming the box of impregnated cardboard
or wood pulp, I prefer to make the joints of a mixture of glue and resin or other
like cheap cement incapable of dissolving in water.
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. The improvement in apparatus or devices for containing, manipulating or
using washing blue and other soluble or pulverulent material, which consists in
forming a box with perforations on two opposite sides or ends, whereby, when the
box is wafted rapidly through the water, a current passes through the box, and
carries out a nearly uniform quantity of the blue or other material.
2. In a box for the purposes described, forming the perforations on one side of
the ends only, whereby the box can be held without interfering with the perfora-
tions, and also, if the opposite side be flat as shown, the box will only stand with
the perforations above the level of the blue in the box, except when the latter is
almost full.
3. The manufacture and use of washing blue boxes substantially as and for the
purposes herein described.
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WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, and London, Patent Agents.