US161886A

US161886A - Improvement in washing-lists

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Publication number: US161886A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1875-04-13
Anticipated expiration: 1892-04-13

Description

NITED STATES ATENT Orrroa.

GEORGE LAMB, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-LlSTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 61,886, dated April 13, 1875; application filed February 23, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE LAMB, of Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, have invented cert. in llllplOVGlllGllbS in Vashing- Lists, of which the iollowing is a specification:

The purpose of this invention is to provide a convenient and impcrishable tablet for recording the character and number of articles of clothing sent to a laundry, and to avoid the time and annoyance now required to write such list upon paper, my tablet being a permanent appendage to a dwelling or apartment, and requiring little time or trouble to manipulate.

The invention consists of a fiat tablet, of any suitable material which practice may determine. and which, in use, may be suspended upon the wall of an apartment or placed in any convenient locality, this tablet to have engrossed upon its face a list of articles of apparel, and a row or column of numerals irom one upward, according to circumstances, and being further formed with two ranges of small holes, and furnished with pins or marl:- ers to enter these holes, one row of such holes coinciding with each article on the list, and the other row coinciding with the numerals, and the whole operating as hereinafter explained.

The drawing accompanying this specification represents a face view of my invention.

In these drawings, A represents a flat tablet, which may be composed of wood, porcelain, paper-board, or other material which practice may determine to be the most suitable, a hole, I), being formed in its upper part, by which it may be suspended from a peg or book, if desired. Upon the left of the tablet I engross or engrave a vertical range or col umn of words, representm g the various articles to be laundried, and I create in the tablet a series of holes, 0 c, &c., which coincide with, and extend opposite to the column or articles and the row of numerals. To the bottom of the tablet I add a ledge or box, 0, to receive the pegs and prevent their misplacement or loss.

The manipulation of my register will be easily understood. If a number of skirts, for instance, are to be laundried, apeg is inserted in such one of the holes opposite the word skirts as shall correspond with the numeral which indicates the number of skirts-that is, if six skirts are to be laundried, a peg is placed in the hole below the numeral 6 and opposite the word skirts. Other articles are to be registered in the same way when delivered to the laundry, and the pegs are to he suffered to remain in the positions thus set until the articles are returned and compared with such pegs, when the latter are withdrawn, and with the tablet may be stowed away in any convenient locality, or, if desired, may be left in the holes as permanent records.

I claim- A washing-list composed of a tablet, of suitable material, bearing upon its face a range or column of articles to be laundried, a row of numerals to register the number of each artiole sent, a series of holes to correspond to or coincide with both the characters and numerals, and finally a number of pegs or markers to operate with the holes, a box or ledge being added to the tablet to receive these pegs, and the whole being substantially as and for purposes stated.

GEORGE LAMB.

Witnesses FRED. CURTIS, W. E. BOARDMAN.