AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF WASH BOILER FOUNTAIN
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Frederick Hoyne, of Kingstown, in the County
of Dublin, Ireland, for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF
WASH BOILER FOUNTAIN."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Frederick Hoyne at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th January 1880.
JAMES FREDERICK HOYNE, of Kingstown, in the County of Dublin, Ireland.
"AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF WASH BOILER FOUNTAIN."
My Invention relates to an improved method of washing and cleansing soiled
linen and articles of wearing apparel without the destructive agency of friction
produced by hard rubbing, and the consequent ruinous wear and tear of garments
involved in the present methods employed, and consists in the construction and
arrangement of an apparatus having a circular base composed of galvanized iron or
other suitable material about seven inches in diameter and two inches in depth.
From the centre of this base rises a vertical tube, called the discharge pipe, the
top portion of which is curved into a horizontal direction, and is capable of throwing
out when in full operation fifteen gallons of water per minute.
Within the base, which is hollow, is formed a succession of tortuous or alternately
right and left spiral passages, so arranged that when the apparatus is placed in a
boiler or other vessel containing hot water by a well known principle of hydraulics
the hot water in the boiler is rapidly sucked up through said passages and
continually forced from the bottom to the surface of the boiler through the discharge
pipe. A copper chamber or dome is also inserted in the base for the purpose of
retaining heat.
This apparatus is placed in the end of the ordinary boiler (which is about two-
thirds full of water) over the hottest part of the fire, the boiler is then filled with
clothes, having first soaped well all the soiled places; the apparatus immediately
begins to work, and by its operation all the water within the boiler is drawn by
the irresistable force of suction through and through the soiled linen until all the dirt
is removed from it, leaving the articles after rinsing thoroughly cleansed and
purified.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said James Frederick Hoyue in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
26th July 1880.
JAMES FREDERICK HOYNE, of Kingstown, in the County of Dublin, Ireland.
"AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF WASH BOILER FOUNTAIN.”
My Invention relates to an improved method of washing and cleansing soiled
linen and articles of wearing apparel without the destructive agency of friction
produced by hard rubbing and the consequent wear and tear of garments involved
in the present methods employed, and consists in the construction and arrangement
of an apparatus having a circular base composed of galvanized iron or other suitable
material about seven inches in diameter and two inches in depth.
From the centre of this base rises a vertical tube, called the discharge pipe, the
top portion of which is curved into a horizontal direction, and is capable of throwing
out when in full operation fifteen gallons of water per minute.
Within the base, which is hollow, is formed a succession of tortuous or alternately
right and left spiral passages, so arranged that when the apparatus is placed in a
boiler or other vessel containing hot water by a well known principle of hydraulics
the hot water in the boiler is rapidly sucked up through said passages and
continually forced from the bottom to the surface of the boiler through the discharge
pipe. A copper chamber or dome is also inserted in the base for the purpose of
retaining heat.
This apparatus is placed in the end of a boiler (which is about two thirds full of
water) over the hottest part of the fire, the boiler is then filled with clothes,
having first soaped well all the soiled places; the apparatus immediately begins to
work, and by its operation the water in the boiler is drawn by the irresistible force
of suction through and through the soiled linen until all the dirt is removed from
it, leaving the articles after rinsing thoroughly cleansed and purified.
The accompanying Sheet of Drawings will enable the said Invention to be more
readily understood, in which Fig. 1 represents my improved apparatus complete;
Fig. 2 is an inverted plan of the interior of same, showing the tortuous or alternately
right and left spiral passages; Fig. 3 shows the apparatus placed in an ordinary
boiler or other vessel. Where the bottom of the boiler is not flat I adapt the
apparatus to the shape of the boiler.
When in operation the vessel should be filled with water, as indicated by the
dotted line, Fig. 3, and being covered should be so placed that the apparatus will
sit immediately over the hottest part of the fire, then upon the water in the base
being heated it will rapidly ascend and be thrown out at the top of the discharge
pipe, in the manner herein before described.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention and the manner in which
the same is or may be used in practice, I would have it understood that I claim
as the Invention to be secured to me by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters
Patent,-
The use and application of an apparatus constructed, arranged, and operating in
the manner and for the purpose substantially as herein shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Frederick Hoyne, have hereunto this
my Specification set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of June, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty.