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AUSTRIAN PATENT OFFICE Η ' ⁸"? 2 / ° ΐ

PATENT NUMBER NO. 190887

Issued on 25 July 1957

OSKAR BUCHSBAUM IN VIENNA

Waschbehelf

Registered on October 22, 1955. - Start of patent term: September 15, 1956.

The invention relates to a washing aid for facilitating the washing of laundry items made of sensitive and fine material.

Laundry items such as blouses, stockings, etc., especially those made of thin synthetic staple fibers, when cleaning in the wash already suffer, for example, by the involuntary stress by Rei5 ben with the fingernails or by the mechanical stress in washing machines very easily damage, eg in stockings or in the case of similarly produced laundry items in the form of a

Run or even by tearing.

There are already facilities in the form of variously manufactured containers known which attempt to remedy these circumstances, without hiebei more than one type of net-like fabrics produced 10 protective cover and therefore not exclude the above-mentioned possibilities of damage.

The disadvantages of the known devices of this type are eliminated in that a Waschbehelf is formed according to the invention of a strip of porous material having at one end an elastic roll also porous material and at the other end a pocket formed from the strip and a setting device, eg in Shape of two strings, owns.

By this structure and by the use of the porous material, an effective protection of the laundry items to be washed and an excellent washing effect is achieved.

Further features of the invention will be explained with reference to the drawing, in which an embodiment is shown. Hiebei Figure 1 shows the Waschbehelf invention in the open Zu20 stand.In Fig.2 the Waschbehelf is shown in the rolled state and in Figure 3 can be seen how the laundry items are placed in the washing.

The Waschbehelf consists of a bandage or a strip, for example made of foam rubber or other porous or elastic material made of plastic, which is commercially available as a plate. The one end of the strip is formed into a pocket 2 and is provided with a binding device, eg 25 two twine 3. At the other end of the strip a hollow cylindrical roller made of the same material is attached.

The washing aid is used in the following way:

The clothes intended for washing, in the exemplary embodiment stockings, are laid flat on the strip in the longitudinal direction, this rolled together with the stockings (s.Fig. 3), tied (Figure 2) and inserted into the cleaning liquid.

The cleaning of the laundry so inserted can now be done in the case of the invention without risk of damage by conventional handling; even the replacement of the laundry items to be inserted is easy and quickest possible.

The Waschbehelf invention also has the built-cylindrical.porous and flexible role, which may be made of the same material as the strip or may consist of other porous elastic material, nor a special effect during the washing process characterized in that the cleaning liquid during Compress with increased pressure through the stockings or the like. is pressed and thereby results in a reinforcement and acceleration of the cleaning effect