US103959A - Improved washing-machine - Google Patents

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FRANK M. BACON, FILAINFIEL'D, NEW JERSEY..

Letters Patent No. 103,959, dated `J une 7, 1870.

The schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same;-

To all whom 'it may concern Beit known that I, FRANK M. BACON, of Plainfield, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful'Improvement in Washing-lilacl'iines, and the following is hereby declared to be a full and correct description of the same.

This invention relates to that class of washing-machines in which the clothes are washed by the squeez- 4ing and rinsing of the same. between a moving dasher or rubber of slats anda stationary rubber or squeezing-summe; and

Said improvement consists in arranging swinging dashers on each side of stationary squeezing slats, so that receptacles are formed, in which clothes may be placed to be washed, on both sides of the stationary slats, and also between the moving dashers and the sides of the tub, and in connecting said swinging dashers,-at their upper ends, by links toa crank-shaft, so that said dashers will act alternately in squeezing and washing the clothes in the different receptacles.

By this arrangement a large quantity ot' clothes may b e washed in the machine at one time, and, as the movement-given by the cranks to the dasher-s is such that they act alternately iu giving the final squeeze to' the clothes before making their return movement, no extra'expenditure of power is required to operate the machine, as said final pressure is only upon the clot-hes in one of the receptacles at a time, and not upon all the clothesin the machine, although the c lothes in the other receptacles are receiving a washing at the same time.

In the drawing- Figure l is a vertical section of my said washingmachine, and

b is a perforated false bottom to the tub c, and said l perforated bottom allows the dirt from the clothes being washed to settle in the space c, instead of remaining in. the tub a with the clothes.

The stationary squeezer d is formed of beaded and cylindrical slats, as shown in lig.1, and the ends of said slats set loosely within grooves in the ends of the tub a, and can raise or yield slightly to prevent injury Y to the clothes squeezed between them and the swinging dashers c f, and can be lifted out `for cleaning the machine.

flhe swinging ldashers e are composed of headed slats, (shown more clearlyin iig. 2,) set in frames h i,

and at their lower ends these frames h vi swing upon the centers Z l, and they are connected at then' upper ends, by the links m n, to the cranks on the shaft p.

The stationary squeezer d is between said dashers'e f, and, by this arrangement, receptacles are formed upon each side of the dashers e f, in which clothes may be inserted and washed, the inclined sides q q of the tub reforming squeezing-surfaces, against which the dashers "press the clothes, to force the dirt and water from the same. Thus there are four receptacles formed for the clothes.

The crank-shaft p i-s mounted in bearings upon the tub a, and is placed midway between the dashers e and j; and provided with the handle 11, by which itmay be rotated, and said crank-shaft gives to the dashers, by mea-ns ofthe links an. a, a movement that causes the dasher-s to act alternately upon the clothes in the different receptacles,l to move the clothes g them,by the motion of the dasher and the suctionaction as the dasher draws away from theystationary surface.

By this arrangement of dashers and squeezing surfaces, and by the motion given to said dashers by the crank-shaft and links, a large quantity of clothes vcan be washed at one time, without requiring extra power to work the machine in consequence of the increased quantity of clothes in same, because the crank-motion is such that while one dasherl is at the end of its movement, givinga tiual squeeze to the clothes, lthe other dasher has completed its movement, and is moving in the opposite direction. Hence it will be understood that the dashers act alternately upon the clothes in the dilerent receptacles, and one dasher only gives the final squeeze to the clothes in one of the receptacles at a time, by which means less power is required to operate the machine than if the squeeze was given" to the entire body of clothes in thetub.

I claim as my invention- The'arrangenient of the swinging dashers e f, operated' by the cranks and connecting-links -m n, in combination with the stationary squeezing-slats d, substantially as set forth.

.Dated May 9, A. D. 1870.

FRANK M. BACON.

itnessem GHAS. H. SMITH, Guo. T. Pmokxnr.

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