US103438A - Improved washing-machine - Google Patents

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WILLIAM L. Fetzen, or ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

Letters Patent No. 103,438, dated May 24, 187 0.

'The Schedulereferred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Be it known that I, WILLIAM L. FnAzEn, of St. Louis, Missouri, have invented a new and useful' lVashing-Iilachine; and I hereby declare that the following is a-full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon, and

forming part of this specification, in which-e Letter A is a wooden beam, about three inches square by suflicient length to iii; across the mouth of an onlin-ary wash-tub, in which it is to be fastened by clamps and set-screws, O and O. Perpendicularly through the center of this beam, at L, there is a ronnil hole, about one and one-halt'inch in diameter.

Letter B' is a round upright wooden shaft, about three inches in diameter, supplied at the lower Lend with several ronndxwoodeu fingers, c el, extending downward about two inches below the lower end of the` shaft, the lower end of each lingerA being on a level with the rest. The upper end of this shaft is turned down, forming a neck or journal of sufficient length to extend entirely through the hole in the center of the beam at L, and of such a size Yas to lit loose'- ly, that it may be revolved, The shaft should be of such length as to allow of about two inches space between the lower ends ofthe -ngers and the bottom of the tub in which it is placed.

Letter E is a metal bevel-wheel,aboutthree inches in diameter, fastened onto' the upper end of .the shaft B by means of bolts or screws, and is a support to the shaft.

Letter F is a larger metal bevel-wheel, about six inches in diameter, and is placed perpendicular to the wheel E, aud drives the wheel E, and thereby revolves the shaft B,

The wheelF is driven or turned by means of the metal shaft H and crank I, and is heldin gear by the metal stand or stands G, which fit closely to a journal turned in the shaft, or tit against a collar on the shaft, and act also as supports to the shaft, they being fast-V ened tightly to the upper side of the beam A, by means of screws or bolts.

Letter K is a metalv brace, through which the upper end ot' a short perpendicularmetal shaft, attached to the wheel E, works, that the wheeLand shaft may work more steadily.

rlhe nature of this invention consists in the machine, as above described, leing placed in an ordinary washtub and fastened there, in such a manner that the top of the beam A will be level or even with the top of the tub. Hot'snds being put into the tub, `the clothes to bev cleansed are placed under the-lingers c d; then, by turning the crank, either with a continuons rotary or an oscillating motion, the clothes are agitated in the hot Water, and thereby cleansed.

Having described my invention, Y

What I claim as my improvement in a washing machine isl 1n the construction of the beam A, with .its clamps and set-screw O and O, in combination with shaft B, fingers d c, shaft H, gearing F E, and crank I, support-s G G, all as shown and described, for the pur- WM. L. FRAZEE.

`pose set forth.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH KoBALn, JOSEPH lPn'rnns.

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