Improvements in Clothes-washing Apparatus for Domestic Use.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 28th Jan., 1395-Accepted, 2nd Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clothes-washing Apparatus for Domestic Use.
I, HARRIET LEAN, of 3, Granville Terrace, Frizinghall, near Bradford, in the
County of York, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in or appertaining to the ordinary
domestic "
""set-pot
copper,"
or other similar vessel used for boiling clothes and
the like for the purpose of washing them and its object is to enable the articles
treated to be steamed, that is to say exposed to the action of steam instead of being
immersed in the liquor.
For this purpose I employ a basket or receiver adapted to be supported inside
the copper or boiler a suitable distance from the bottom. This basket or receiver
is perforated and may be made of perforated sheet metal or wirework. When it is
formed of metal it may be enamelled or otherwise treated to prevent corrosion.
This basket may be suspended from the rim of the copper or it may be provided
with feet to support it the required distance from the bottom.
In any case the
arrangement is such that the copper may be closed by a lid.
In operation the articles to be steamed are placed in the basket after sufficient
water has been placed in the copper below.
Dated this 25th day of April 1894.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.
I, HARRIET LEAN, of 3 Granville Terrace, Frizinghall, Bradford, in the
County of York, 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:-
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.
This invention relates to improvements in or appertaining to the ordinary
domestic " copper,' set-pot or other similar vessel used for boiling clothes or
the like for the purpose of washing them and its object is to enable the articles
treated to be steamed, that is to say exposed to the action of steam, instead of being
immersed in the liquor.
For this purpose I employ a basket or receiver adapted to be supported inside
the copper or boiler a suitable distance from the bottom. This basket or receiver
is perforated and may be made of perforated sheet metal or wirework. When it is
formed of iron it may be enamelled or otherwise treated to prevent corrosion. The
basket may be suspended from the rim of the copper or it may be provided with
fect to support it the required distance from the bottom. In any case the
arrangement is such that the copper may be closed by a lid.
In operation the articles to be steamed are placed in the basket after sufficient
water has been placed in the copper below.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying sheet of drawings forming part of
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page_text: this Specification in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts
in each of the figures.
Figure 1 represents an elevation of a set pot fitted with my improved appliance.
Figure 2 represents a diametrical section of the set pot and appliance therein.
Figure 3 represents a plan view of the same. And
Figure 4 represents a sectional plan on the broken line 7, Figure 2.
The wirework basket A is suspended in the set pot B by its rim or flange C
bearing upon the set-pot, and loops D may be formed in the wire to project radially
so as to touch or almost touch the sides of the set-pot and keep the basket
concentric therewith. The flange C closes the annular space around the basket
and to increase the size of the basket it is preferably continued above the said
flange by the sheet metal cylinder E, to the top of which a lid F is fitted provided
with a central handle G. The handles H, H fixed upon E diametrically opposite
each other are provided to facilitate lifting the basket out of the set-pot.
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 wire-work or open-work basket adapted to be closed at the top by a lid and
be mounted in a copper or set-pot and be supported a suitable distance from the
bottom and sides of the latter and having means for closing the annular space
between it and the set-pot, substantially as herein shewn and described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 25th day of January 1895.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.".