US109774A - Wftenville - Google Patents

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PATENTED Nov 29 1870 vFly,

Letters Patent No.' 109.7%.

dated November 29, i870.

Elio chedulo referred to in these Letters Patent: and making of the same.

Tooll whom, il Imoy concern:

Be it known that we, Emmi' L. Stadions anni JACOB N.' GUYON, of Tottenrille, inthe county of Richmond and State oi' New Y rk, hotel-invented e new and iinlnoved .Glothes- Steam-Bollen end we do hereby declare that the following is' s 'nll, elettr, and exnetldescriptlon of the construction and operotion et the seine, reference being had to the eee-ornpenying drawing mit. 1g :i port of this speclfsentien.

Figure 1 is a. plain vieef, with the ipp of boiler removed Fignreil is ,n trains-verso rertienl see-lion.

Likeletters in both ignresof the drawing indicate like ports.

rlhe nature of our invention consists of :t weshhoiler, .,nroided rrhh. horizontnl .perforated tubes,

in diameter than that ot' the hitter, for the purpose of giving s greater heating surface, endl when lilled with writer and heated the ste-:1m genernted therefrom will passup into the seid perle-rated tubes, and bo-discharged from the latter through the elothesplaeed in the boier, tliereby washing und elennsing them if; n thorough manner-,fthe clothes being first rnoi'stened and then rubbed over with soap boi'ore'being pnt into the boiler; lnlso, in combination therewith, the `noiler provided wit-hi an inside rim for receiving the flange of theeorer, for the purpose of preventing its boiling over, and to'indnce the steam to ascend through the center, so that it shell notlconie up todfreely around the clothes.`

We are n'worennshing clothes by steam is noL 1 but 'the ,deriees hy which we accomplish it', e will he'hereinater folly explained, we think. e,

We are also :more there' is :i wnslsboiler tiert seenres :r ,constant circulation or current et water through theclothes, sind thus the water muy be forced up by the-pressure ot' stoom, yet this cleansing 'is perfornied by water, and not by steam, und the saine writer is passed. through the clot-hes, lilthy :is it is, or soon bceoiningrso. Onr method is more eleonly, and entirclyobivotes this obiection. To enable others skilled in the nrt 'lo understand :nid milko our-invention, we will proceed y'te describe its construe tionv :ind operztion. A is the boiler, provided with the perlbrnted tubes t a., which v:ire arranged horizontally, at zr suitable distance :there 'the bottom, ond communicating et their ends with the writer-tank B below by the verti eal'rubes b b b b. 'lhls water-tank is milde larger in ew, ich

diameter-thon thntot the boiler, to give it greater heating surfscc; 'Y I The top of rhetorik-freins the bottoni of the boiler, the holler being soldered down onto it after the pee t'ernted tubes do have een first arranged sind propl erlyr secured thereto',

'.ihe boiler also provided with the iosidelrni C, which snede by bending n piece et' tm over right singles, end then solder-nig it onto the insideel the boiler -hsrlne the rinreolne rerr neer thereof.

This rin'i is ,for reeelvingthe. lla-nge c of the eorer 1),:ind is intended to prerentthe escape ot" sten-m from the sides 'of the boiler, end to canse it to ascend throughthe center, so than it shell not come up too freely around the sides of the clothes.

' "Ille eover is inode secure tthe 'rinler'by the heoiis d d connect-ing with staples in the center on erich side of the boiler. V

The operation ol' this devicefollows:

, The lower portion' ot the boiler or witter-tank B is illed with waiter through the .screw-top E. The

clothes being nioistened, the soep is applied to them,

endlthoy are ready for the boiler. The cover is new pnt on und the boiler-'placed npen the stovee The.

steznn genoot-ed in the lower portion oi the boiler nowpasses np through the vertical tubes hb b b on he interior therein into 'the two horizontal perforated pipes cu, whence itissnes ont and linds its wey npwzn'd through the lelothes." l Y in about forty minutes the operi-tion iis-completed,

: rnd the boiler rernored from the stove, and the water allowed to escape through the lower stop-cock F, to-

empty the boiler previous to putting it away.

The use of the glass-woter-gonge G is obvions, though not really essential, as the stop-oook F in question could also-serve the purpose of a gangeeook. t (the cook) may also be used for the purpose of drawing olf hot writer for. melting Storch, 85e.

It will he observed this waiter inthe lower portion el" boiler is always clean, and may be used for various purposes; also that'tls boiler vmay be used silva-n tngeonsly for steaming vegetables, Sao.

The steam, es it forces its wary through the clothes, is in port condensed, 4and settles down on the bottom oi' the boiler below the horizontal pipes, whence it me be allowed to eseope'throngh the upperlstfopcoc il.

Hoving thnsflly described our invention,

' What we claim therein ns new, ond'desiro to 'secnro by Letters Potent, 'isl. .lho wzl-ter and steam-tank B, provided with perte the top forated tubes n, in combination wit-ha clothes washhoiler, constructed upon or with the tank, substantially :Ls and for the purpose set forth.

2. 1n combination with the above. the inside rim C, constructed in the manner nml for the purpose ns shown and set forth.

As evidence that we claim the foregoing as our inveuton, we have hereunto set our handsgaml seals in vthe presence of two witnesses.

HENRY L. SPRAGUE. [In s.

JACOB N. GUYON. Witnesses:

H.' R.`YETMAN, ABEL MARTIN.

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