US102373A - Improved washing-machine - Google Patents

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@wat @Mira Leners Parmi No. 102,373, .ated April 26, 1870,

IMPROYED WASHING-MACEINIL The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may conce/rn.-

Be it known that I, HANSON COOK, of New Bridgeport, in the county of Bedford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Washing-Machines; and I do. hereby declare the l following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings which are made a part oi"`this speciiication; and in which- Figure 1 is a plan of a my invention.

Figure`2 is a central transverse section of the same.

Figure 3 isa plan of the lower rubber.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

My invention consists in the arrangement and coustruction of certain parts, as will be hereinafter more i'ully described.

In order that others skilled in the art to whichmy invention appcrtains may be enabled to fully understand and use the same, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the drawings- A represents the tub or box, whose sides prefer' ably slant outward from the bottom, as shown.

The crooked legs B are intended to form a broad hase to preventthe tub from tottering or tilting over.

The legs at each end of the box are'l formed together by cross-pieces O, which forml the supports ,upon which the tub rests, and to which the latter may be screwed or otherwise made fast.

D isa stationary rubber occupying a central position within the box A. v

This rubber rests upon the bottom of the tub A, and its lrollers d and slats d' are parallel with thev longitudinal center of the tub.

The rubber D can belifted out of the tub, but when iu operating position it is held against displacement by the strips E, which are screwed or otherwise fastened tothe bottom of the tub, and which fit between the side-pieces d d of said rubber D.

The rollers and slats of the, lower rubber D, as well as those of the upper rubbers F, are similarly or diversely corrugated or furrowed.

'Ihe rollers d have iron journals projecting from their ends, and the side-pieces d2 of the rubber D have attached to them notched metallic plates G G,`which ati'ord bearings for the said journals.

Strips HH, screwed to the side-pieces" of the rubber- D, confine the journals of the rollers in the notches of the plates G G, and said strips, being readily detachable, enable one or more of theV rollers. d tpbbe removed and replaced without injury to the ru er.

The slats d1 are nailed to the side pieces dz, andthe slats and rollers are situated at about one-fourth of an inch apart, to allow the water to pass through the rubber.

washing-machine embodyin g The rollers d are in close proximity to the bottom of the tub,

The oblique vcorrugated or furrowed slats of the upper rubber F are connected together by the sidepieces f j; whose bottoms are arcs of the same circle as the tops of the side-pieces dz of the lower rubber.

I I are the side-pieces of a frame to which the operating-handle Ix is attached.

These side-pieces I I are screwed to the side of the rubber F.

The rubber F is mounted to vibrate transversely, of the box A, and the rod J, upon which the suspending-frame I I I is supported, has its bearings in the side pieces of the frame K K K', which is hinged by means of the rod L to the two pieces M M, which are screwed to the back of the box A.

The suspending rod J should be somewhat below the center of the circle of which the rubbers form an are, so as to give the upper rubber a drawing action upon the clothes, and cause the ends lof said rubber to escape thesides of the box during operation.

It will be observed that inasmuch as both-the. rubbers D and F, together with the framcsI I I and K of the lattervare left free and unobto being washed. Soiled portions of garments or upon other parts. y

The side-pieces K K of the supporting-frame extend across the box A, and, by depressing said frame by means of its handle K', the rubbcrF may be made to exert the desired degree of pressure4 upon the clothes during operation. he rubber I, being suspended in the manner described, will, of itself, conform tothe thickness or bulk' of the material to be operated upon.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is l The construction and arrangement, of the rubber D with rollers having oblique corrugation, and arleave spaces N at each end for clothes, 86o., and under the rubber for sediment, in combination with the metallic plates G G, and journals, confining-strips H H, and slats d, as shown in fig. 3, the rubberF, the suspended and pivot-ed frame IK, and tub A, as shown and described.

The above specicatiou of my improved washing-machine, signed this 7th da'yvof May, A. D. 1868. Witnesses: HANSON COOK.

LEVI RIGER, JAMES G. DEVON.

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K K are situated at the center of the tub, the spaces v whilethe remainder hasa chance t-o soak, preparatory f other articles maybe thus washed without operating I ranged transversely at the middle of the tub, so as to'

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