US105453A - Improved washing-machine - Google Patents

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vTo all whom it may-looncer:

` `washing clothes; and

clothes are washed.

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A BENJAMIN .HoeKABoUn or ANToon, oALIFoRNIA.

Letters Patent No.j `105,453, datd July 19, 1870.

IMPROVE!) WASHING-MAGHINE.

The Schedule referred to inthese Letters Patent and making part of the same.

,Beit `*known `that I,BENJAMIN HoeKABoUT, of

.Antiocln county of Contra Costa, State of California, haveinvented an Improved Washing-Machine; and

` I do hereby declare the following description and act companyingdrawing are sufficient toenable any person skilled in the art or.`science to which it most.` nearly `appertainsto makeand'nse my said Vinvention or `improvements Withontlfnrther invention or experiment.` 1 i -My invention relates to an improved machine for It consists in a number of corrugatedroller rubbers,

which -are suspended at the extremities of springs aronndthe rils of two wheels. The wheels are revolved by proper-mecl|anismcausing the rubbers to berolled over a concave wash-board, which i`s also suspendedfrom suitable springs, so as to yield 'when the clothes are Apressed between it and the rollers. s h In order to `more fullyillnstrate and explain my in, tendon, reference is 'hadto the 'accompanying draw-v ing forming a partl of Vthis specification, in which-f A represents a tubbr box, inside of.which the A shaft, B, passesacross this box, bearing in its sides, and carrying upon each end, inside the box, a

wheel0,`the `wheels bei-ng'securcd to the shaft close i against the sides. j

. Flatsprings',ra, bave one end secured tothe rims ot' theiwheels O, and are slightly curved, so that their opposite ends will stand at a short distance from'the 1'im. ,3 u

In the elevated ends of these springs the Vjournals orcorrngated `rollers D bear the 'rollers 'extending across the box between the .wheels O, and bearing in -.theoppositespm'ugs.`

. 'lwo or more of these corrugated rollers may be used, apfcor'responding number of springs being re t quired uponfeach wheel.

A wash-board, composed `of two or more independ-4 ent corrugated boards, E,`is arranged in a circular manner beneath the rollers D, so as to form a continnous concave wash-board. The boardsrE are. connected together by wires b, or other suitable device, which passes through their ends, and a space, e, is left between eachtwo of the boards, through which the water Hows to the upper surface of'tlle wash-board, when yit is pressed downward by the rollers.y v

`'The concave wash-board is suspended at each cor? vner from suitable springs. In the present instance it is represented at one end as suspended from coiled springs f, and at the opposite end from flat springs g, but any kind of spring can be used.v Y

A perforated inclined apron, F, is placed at the furthest endpf the wash-board, which conveys the water to the bottom of the box as it is squeezed from the clothes by the rollers.

The corrngations 0nr the'rollers D lare arranged spi rally, so that they will roll smoothly over the washboarc.

f A tire-place or stove,rG, is 'arranged under the box,` by means of which the water under the wash-board 'is kept hot. .h

A crank, H,.serves by'wbich to turn the rollers. Having thus desclibed my invention,

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. suspending-the corrugated rollers from theends' of the springs a, said springs being secured-upon wheels O, substantially. as and'for the` purpose 'above i described. l y s 2. The waslbboards E, havingV spaces e between. themJin combination with the perforated b'oard F and spring g, as shown and described.

In witness that the above-described invention is claimedby me, I have hereunto set my hand and seal.

v ,BENJAMIN HOGKABOUT. [L. s]

' Witnesses: M.' S. LEVY, Unas. linnn.

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