An Improved Water-sprinkling Appliance for Laundry Uses.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Jan., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 30th Sept., 1896-Accepted, 14th Nov., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Water-sprinkling Appliance for Laundry Uses.
1, AUBREY JAMES HEMBER, of Southmead, Westbury-on-Trym, near Bristol,
Laundry Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention consists in an appliance for sprinkling water, which appliance is
specially designed for damping clothes in laundries for the purpose of facilitating
folding and niangling previous to ironing and in order to ensure a better finish.
The appliance consists of a tubular body constituting a handle which may be
of wood or other suitable substance. At one end the handle is designed for
connection to a pipe, flexible or otherwise, for supply of water.
At the other end of the handle is attached a delivery nozzle to which is fitted a
perforated or other water sprayer or spreader constructed to divide the water
delivered through the nozzle into a spray, or to spread it to form a film. A valve
or cock is fitted in the nozzle and is connected by a crank or levers to a handle
pivotted on the appliance.
The valve, which is normally kept closed by means of a spring acting on the
handle, is opened, at will, to a variable extent, by actuating the handle so as to
counteract the closing tendency of the spring. Accordingly, the delivery of water
through the sprayer or spreader is regulated and controlled as may be desired.
Dated this 3rd day of January 1896.
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Bristol, Chartered Patent Agent.
An Improved Water-sprinkling Appliance for Laundry Uses.
I, AUBREY JAMES HEMBER, of Southmead, Westbury-on-Trym, near Bristol,
Laundry Engineer, 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:-
This invention consists in an appliance for sprinkling water, which appliance is
specially designed for damping clothes in laundries for the purpose of facilitating
folding and mangling previous to ironing, and in order to ensure a better finish.
The appliance consists of a tubular body constituting a handle which may be of
wood or other suitable substance.
At one end the handle is designed for connection to a pipe, flexible or otherwise,
for supply of water. At the other end of the handle is attached a delivery nozzle
to which is fitted a perforated or other water sprayer or spreader constructed to
divide the water delivered through the nozzle into a spray or to spread it to form
a film. A valve or cock is fitted in the nozzle and is connected by a crank or
levers to a bandle pivotted on the appliance.
The valve which, under one arrangement, is normally kept closed by means of
a spring acting on the handle, is opened, at will, to a variable extent by actuating
the handle so as to counteract the closing tendency of the spring.

page_text: Accordingly, the delivery of water through the sprayer or spreader is regulated
and controlled as may be desired.
Under a modification the spring aforesaid is dispensed with.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings,
Fig. I represents a side view of one form of my improved water sprinkler for
damping linen.
Fig. 2 is an end view of the perforated nozzle showing the discharge orifices.
Through the handle a, which is preferably of wood, is passed longitudinally a
tube b of gun-metal or other suitable metal. The tube projects beyond the rear
end of the handle a for connection to a flexible pipe by which water is delivered
to the instrument. In the discharge nozzle c, which is perforated at the end, as
seen at Fig. 2, is a cock c¹ controlling the waterway. The plug of the cock el is
connected by links d and e to a hand lever pivotted at on the handle a. The
cock c¹ is so set that it is normally kept closed by the spring g which acts accordingly
on the band lever f. By hand pressure exerted on the hand lever f, so as to move
the tail of the lever towards the handle a, the cock c' is opened and the water
flows to the nozzle c. and is discharged through the perforated end thereof in
variable quantity according to the extent to which the cock c is opened.
At Fig. 3 is shown, in side view, and at Fig. 4 in plan, a modification in which
no spring is employed. In this instrument the cock e' is opened and closed by
applying the thumb of the operator to the cross-bar coupling the levers i
connected to the plug of the cock c'.
By using instruments constructed as hereinabove described, linen is uniformly
and effectively damped, water and time are saved, and linen can be damped while
passing into a calendering or ironing machine while such machine continues in
motion.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
A water-sprinkling appliance for damping linen for laundry purposes; said
appliance cousisting of a handle such as a with tube passed longitudinally through
it a cock such as c¹, or its equivalent, being situated in the tube to govern the
waterway to a perforated or slotted discharge nozzle; the said cock being controlled
by a suitable hand lever adapted to be operated by the same hand by which the
appliance is grasped, substantially as hereinabove described with reference to the
accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 25th day of September 1896.
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Bristol, Chartered Patent Agent.