US1915532A - Rubbing club for use in washing linen - Google Patents

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June 27,1933. l E JAESCHKE 1,915,532

RUBBING CLUB FOR USE IN WASHING LINEN Filed June 25, 1932 latentecl June 2'?, 1933 i narran STATES sans@ aenscnxn, or nastiness-Mann RUBBNG CLUB EGR. US

Application le June 25, 1932, Serial No This invention relates to an implement for use in washing linen while this latterl is bein boiled in soap water, the linen being ru bed with the club-'shaped implement during that time. The object of the improved washing implement is to clean even very dirty pieces of linen so thoroughly that any further washing operation can be dispensed with.

Washing linen and pieces of wearing apparel is carried out to-day in practically the same manner as in former times. Progress can be found solely7 in the circumstance that the linen is now being boiled in soap water. rl`he subsequent procedures, viz. beating, rubbing, brushing etc. the linen is still being carried out as in former times. As these operations must be carried out manually this entails the necessity to cool down the soap water to such a temperature that it is possible to treat the pieces of linen manually without any danger for the hands. Large households and washing factories make use, itis true, of washing machines, but these factories employ often times, as is known, sharp cleaning substances in order to remove spots and to deliver the washed linen in a surprisingly clean state. These substances, including lyes, are always detrimental to the libre, and also the operation of these machines is detrimental to the linen in that the machine generally does not stop automatically when a hindrance within the washing space. arises, but the machine continues to operate whereby pieces of linen may be damaged; on the whole, the length of lite of the linen is considerably reduced.

lt is known that by boiling the pieces of linen in soap water the greatest part of the dirt adhering to them ceases to adhere and passes over into the water, and it has been endeavored to Jfurther the separation of the dirt JfromV the linen by moving this latter during the boiling in the soap water, for instance by moving the linen alternatelyupwardly and downwardly; but when, in order to separate the linen from the dirt, cold water is added to the boiling soap water Jfor the purpose of reducing its temperature so as to render possible manipulating the pieces of E )EN WASHING LNEN 619,286, and n Germany Enne 6, i931.

linen, the loose dirt commences anew to adhere to the same and cannot, therefore, be removed.

This drawback is done away with by the rubbing club forming the subject-matter of the present invention.v The pieces of linen can be treated with this club in the same manner as on a washing board, but the rubbing operation can now be ellected in the vessel containing the linen and the boiling soap water, so that the pieces of linen can be conipletely cleaned in this vessel and the otherwise necessary after-operations can be dispensed with. The spots are removed solely by the action of the clu The'club is hollow and can be filled with the requisite washing agents. The bottom of theclub is perforated so that the soap water can enter thereinto and can dissolve the washing agents and carry them away with it in dissolved state. The upper part of the club body has circumferential undulations, the crests'fof which are practically sharp-edged. These undulations with these crests serve to effect a rubbing action upon the linen when the club is being moved up and down. The lower part oi they club body is provided with vertical ribs of rounded transverse sectional shape so that the pieces of linen are not damaged during the vertical movements when they will be subjected to pushes and blows. rl`he club consists of av hollow body having said undulations and ribs and or" a handle bearing above said body a star-shaped member lor holding the pieces '9;

oi linen down in the vessel during the boiling and during the action of the club, as well as later on when the pieces of linen are squeezed in order to remove the excess of water present in them. On the circumferential surface of the club may be a brush, may be a plurality of brushes, to assist in the washing and cleaning. The club body may be lirmly aflixed to the handle or may be rotary thereon.

The invention is illustrated diagrammatically and by way of example on the accompanying drawing on which Figure l is an axial section through a washing club designed according to this invention. Figure Q is an outer view of the individual members of the same, and Figure 3 is a separate view of the star-shaped member borne by the handle, this member being shown in plan.

On the drawing, A denotes the hollow body of the club, F a threaded cover for it, and G the handle of the same. The cover is either firmly connected with the handle or turnable thereon, together with the body A. B are the circumferential grooves of the body, G are the vertical ribs with grooves therebetween, and D are perforations in these grooves. The space in the club part C and the space in the club part A are separated from one another by a iine-meshed sieve E which *,supports the washing agent. The

soapfwater finds access to said agent through the lower spaces of the club body which receives also the solution that passes `slowly over into the boiling soap water in the vessel.

Above the cover F is located the sta-rshaped member H for holding down the pieces of linen inthe vessel; said member H can be adjusted along the handle C and can be secured in its adjusted position by means of a screw J.

I claim: Y

A rubbing club comprising a vertically extending handle and a hollow body secured to the lower end thereof, said body having undulations with substantially sharp edged crests extending horizontally around its cir-l Acurnference and having, below sai-d undulations, vertical ribs Vof rounded shape in transverse section, said hollow body being per-y forated to permit entrance of washing fluid therein.

In testimony whereof I affix my si nature. ERNST JAESC KE

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