AN APPARATUS FOR WASHING OR MAIDING CLOTHS
Year: 1885

page_text: SOLOMON DAVEY 185 St. Andrews Road Birmingham Builder do hereby declare
the nature of my invention for AN APPARATUS FOR WASHING OR MAIDING
CLOTHS to be as follows:-
This Invention which relates to an Apparatus for Washing or Maiding Cloths
consists of a straight or bent metal bar or a piece of wood with a hole in the centre
the ends resting on either side of the washing vessel and secured at each end to
the vessel upon the principle of a counter wedge.
The hole before mentioned being sufficiently large to admit the pole of the
washing maid to pass freely through.
Suspended or resting upon the bar is a spring this spring is attached to the bar
and to the pole of the washing maid so that the whole weight of the washing maid
ests upon the spring attached to the bar.
It will be readily seen as the washing maid is pressed down by the hand the
spring before mentioned will lift it to its former posision in this way greatly reduce
the labour needed in useing the the washing maid.
This Invention will apply to the ordinary washing maid but I purpose substi-
tuting a hollow pole or metal pipe with a valve in the top end of the same in the
place of the solid one now in use.

page_text: I, SOLOMON DAVEY of 185 Saint Andrews Road Birmingham in the County of
Warwick, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN APPARATUS FOR
WASHING OR MAIDING CLOTHES and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
My Invention consists of an apparatus to be applied to a maid or dolly or similar
washing implement for the purpose of reducing the labour required to manipulate
such implements.
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawing show respectively a plan and a
section of my invention applied to an ordinary maid or dolly.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in both figures.
a is a maid or dolly supported by means of a spring b from a cross-piece c.
In using the apparatus the cross piece c is fastened to the tub or washing
vessel e by grips or a grip d and a stop d' and the dolly is manipulated in the
usual manner; but as the weight of the dolly is supported by the spring the labour,
required is considerably less and consequently the operation of maiding can be
more efficiently performed.
Although my Invention can conveniently be applied to the ordinary maid or
dolly I prefer to apply it to a dolly so constructed that it shall turn upon its pole
a portion of a revolution, at each downward stroke, and turn in a reverse direction
as the dolly rises for its upward stroke. An action that can easily be obtained
with a spiral thread or groove upon the pole or upon the dolly itself.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of ny said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
An apparatus to be applied to a maid or dolly or similar washing implement
herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing; that is to
say, an apparatus for the purpose described consisting essentially of a cross-piece
supporting or suspending a maid or dolly by means of a spring for the purpose and
substantially as described and illustrated.