US1135584A - Washing-machine. - Google Patents

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J. HUEBNER. WASHING MACHINE. APPLICATION men JULY24, 1914.

Patented Apr. 13, 1915.

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ASHING-MACHINE.

Specification-of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. is, rare.

Application filed July 24', 1914:. Serial No. 852,813.

washing clothes, its general objects being to provide a simple machine which may easily be operated by hand, in which different portions of the contents will be alternately exposed to different actions, inwhich a forcible action may be obtained without rubbing the clothes, which will readily permit the removal of certain operating elements and the insertion of the clothes, in which the contents will afiord a balanced relation peranitting of operating machine with a relatively small amount of power, and in which the manual operating mechanism may readily be detached.

Further objects will be apparent from the following specification and from the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through a washing machine embodying my invention.

' Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section through Fig. 1 along the line 22. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary sectional view showing the method of interlocking one of the dasher or impact members with the shaft. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary section through an alternative form of vane or dasher plate.

In the drawings, the washing machine of my invention-includes a supporting member consisting of a substantially semi-cylindrical casing 1 open at the top and supported by end pieces 2 secured to legs 3. Mounted upon the outer faces of the respective end pieces 2 are sockets4 havin prismatic bores orhousing the square en s5 of a shaft 6 extending longitudinally of the machine,

thisshaft being kept from rotating by the engagement of the said ends with the socketset. Mounted upon the shaft 6 and preferablyfspaced from the end pieces 2 by bushings 7 is a cylindrical drum 8, which drumis free to oscillate upon the main or cylindrical portion of the shaft 6 and which drum has at its upper side an opening normally closed by a cover-plate 9. Positioned within the drum 8 are a pair of substantially wedge-shaped double-sided impact members, each consisting of a pair of sectorshaped end plates 10 disposed respectively near the opposite ends of a drum and connected by lattice strips 11 extending longitudinally'of the drum and referably'paral lel to the shaft 6. One 0 the said impact members is preferably secured to the drum with its center plate disposed vertically when the machine is at rest, while the other of the said members is preferably disposed diametrically opposite to it and detachably but non-rotatably secured to the shaft 6. lhis last-named fastening may be accomplished in a variety of ways, as for example, by equipping the upper of the said wedgeshaped members'at its lower end with a fork 12 engagin 3. lug 13 carried by the said shaft and rigid with respect to the latter.

lit will be evident from Fig. 2 that the end portions of each ofthe sect0r-shaped members have their lateral edges disposed substantially radially of the axis of the shaft 6 andthat the lattices connecting the two opposed ends of each of the said members form substantially a single foraminous dasher plate against which the materials housed by the drum may impinge. It 'will also be evident that when the drum is oscillated (as shown for example by the dotted lines 22 in Fig. 2) the washing on one side of the lower wedge-shaped element will be compressed between one of the said foraminous faces of the latter and the adjacent face of the upper or stationary dasher member. When the movement of the drum is continued, the movable dasher member will gradually approach the position shown at the dotted lines at 21 in Fig. 2, thereby presenting its lattices with their faces angularly freely into the interior of each of the said dasher members, since each of thesaid members has its'faces spaced apart so as to provide a free passage upon its interior for the liquid. This ready passage of the liquid which carries dirt from the clothes with it is moreover facilitated by the downward direction of the passages in the adjacent face portions of the two members, so that this action is accelerated by gravity. Upon reversing the direction of oscillation, the pressure upon the clothes will be suddenly relaxed and the openings between the lattices of the stationary dasher member against which said clothes were previously pressed will retard the ready return flow of moisture through said openings, thereby creating a suction which will assist in drawing the dirt out of the washing. A similar action will occur on the other side of the lower impact or dasher member, the materials to be washed being normally distributed partly upon one and partly upon the other side of the lower dasher member. It will be evident also that the drum of the machine may be filled with water to any desired height and that the normally balanced distribution of the said water and of the clothes with respect to the central plane of the lower dasher member may make it comparatively easy to oscillate the' drum, so that but little power will be required for this purpose. To effect this oscillation in a hand operated machine, I preferably equip one of the end pieces 2 of the frame or supporting member of the machine with a bearing 14 raised considerably .above the upper edge of the casing 1 and preferably disposed vertically above the shaft 6. Pivoted in said bearing 14 is a rocking lever 15 equipped at its opposite ends with handles 16 and connected by links 17 to pins 18 disposed upon the adjacent end of the drum and preferably diametrically opposite each other. The lower ends of the said links 17 are preferably equipped with slotted formations engaging the said projections 18 and the bearing 14 is preferably carried by a riser 19 slidably mounted in a 4 socket upon the adjacent -end 2"of the frame of the machine, so that the lever 15 and links 17 together with the riser 19 may be simultaneously lifted ofl the machine to facilitate the packing and shipping thereof.

'When the soiled washing is to be inserted in the drum, the latter may either be oscillated to one side so as to bring the said opening in the drum out of line with the upper dasher member, or the said dasher member may be removed entirely from the drum to permit free access to the interior of the later. Such a removalof the upper dasher member will also make it easy to v thoroughly rinse or scour the latter, while affording ready access through the opening in the drum to the companion member, the' water in the drum having first been drawn ofl' throu h a suitable cock.

While foraminous dasher plates orvanescarried by each of the wedge-shaped members as consisting of slats extending longitudinally have pictured and described the invention. For example, the lattices may be replaced by a corrugated and perforated plate 20 as shown in Fig. 4, although I preferably equip each of the dasher members with lattices presented angularly toward the lattices of the other member upon the approached faces of said members, the consecutive lattice portions on each of said faces being spaced apart by passages extending in a downward direction from the said faces.

-I claim as my invention:

1. In a washing machine, the combination with a supporting member, of a shaft rigid therewith, a pair of latticed vanes mounted on said'shaft and extending therefrom along planes diverging from each other radially upward from said shaft, a drum housing said vanes and pivoted on said shaft, a second pair of latticed vanes carried by said drum and normally extending in diver ing directions radially downward from t e axis of the shaft, and operating means for oscillating said drum to cause the last-named vanes respectively to approach one or the other of the first-named vanes, the lattices upon each vane angularly disposed to the lattices of the vanes approached thereby.

2; In a washing machine, the combination with a supporting member, of a shaft rigid therewith, a drum rotatably mounted on said shaft, two pairs of fan-shaped members housed by said drum and normally diametrically opposite each other with respect to said shaft, the members of each pair respectively adjacent to opposite ends of said shaft, said pairs respectively secured to said drum and said shaft, and a plurality of relatively spaced lattice strips secured at opposite ends respectively to the edge portions of the fan-shaped members comprising each of said pairs, the faces of the lattice stri 5 upon the opposed faces of the fan-shape members diverging downwardly from each other and presenting downward passages for the passage of liquid between consecutive lattice strips.

3. In a washing machine, the -combination with a supporting member, of a shaft rigid therewith, a drum rotatably mounted on said shaft; and two wed e-shaped dasher members carried respective y by said shaft and said drum and normally diametrically opposite each other with respect to the axis of said shaft, each of said members including a pair of substantially fan-shaped elements respectively adjacent to opposite ends of said drum and a pair of foraminous members respectively connecting the lateral nrantea v edges of said fan-shaped elements; there In testimony whereof I have signed my being slidably coiiperatmg formations upon name in presence of two subscribing witone of said members and said shaft for senesses.

curing said lastnamed member to said JOHAN HUEBNER. shaft, said formations permitting a manual Witnesses:

detachment of said last-named member from ALBERT SGHEIBLE,

said shaft. G. NEVILLE.

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