Improvements in or connected with Washing Boards.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 14th June, 1899
Complete Specification Left. 22nd Mar., 1900 -Accepted, 14th June, 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Washing Boards.
A communication by JOHN BARRY, of 20, King Street, Prahran, in the County
of Bourke, Victoria, French Polisher.
I, MICHAEL BOLGER, of 126, Carisbrooke Road, Walton, in the County of
Lancaster, Book-keeper, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has for its object a soap carrier or feeder applied above the reed
of washing boards or in other suitable position, whereby the soap is always kept
in place, and is less wasted than is practicable under ordinary circumstances.
The washing board can be of any ordinary shape, but to the side or above the
reed portion 1 hinge by means of a wire a perforated metal shield, and below
this perforated metal shield I place a wedge of soap. The perforated metal shield
is preferably made of a sheet of perforated metal or gauze bent over a wire or rod
passing through the sides or frame of the washing board. The perforated plate
can at any time be lifted up and a wedge shaped piece of soap placed under it. It
is then shut down, and as the clothes are rubbed against it, the soap oozes up
through the perforations, and is taken up by the clothes.
The invention is applicable in all cases where clothes are washed by being hand
rubbed on a board or set of reeds, the soap oozing up through a surface over which
the clothes are rubbed.
1000
Improvements in or connected with Washing Boards.
I, MICHAEL BOLGER, of 126, Carisbrooke Road, Walton, Liverpool, Book-keeper,
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: -
A is a soap feeder made of metal or other suitable material and perforated from
the face side, the bottom end of the soap feeder is turned round a wire rod, this wire
acts as a hinge. The top of the soap feeder is curved round so as to prevent the soap
from slipping out.
The soap feeder is attached to an ordinary washing board above the reeds on the
top of the washing board.

page_text: The wire is inserted into each side of the washing board so that when the feeder
is attached to the washing board the soap feeder can be lifted up and a wedge
shaped piece of soap placed under the feeder on the board, the feeder can then be
shut down on the soap on the board.
The washing board is then ready for use and by this method there is a saving
of soap and labour by rubbing the clothes on the reeds and feeder. The feeder
will in this way act by feeding the clothes and washing board with soap by the
soap oozing through the perforations:-
Letter B shews the washing board with the feeder attached open to receive
the soap.
Letter C shews the washing board with the feeder attached ready for use.
Letter A shews the feeder detached from the washing board.
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:
A soap feeder constructed of metal or other suitable material and attached to
the top of an ordinary washing board, the said feeder being perforated from the
face side and attached to the washing board by means of a wire so as to act as a
hinge substantially as shewn and as illustrated in the drawings sent with this
specification.
Dated this 21ot day of Manch 1000