US1107939A - Clothes-pounder. - Google Patents

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W. S. HALLIDAY. CLOTHES POUNDER.

APPLICATION FILED 11111.10, 191s.

Patented Aug. 18, 1914,

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THE NORRIS PETERS COvv PHOmiI'rHOH WASHINGTON. D Q

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WYATT s. IIALIIIDAY, or CAIRO, ILLIN'OIS.

CLOTHES-POUNDER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 18, 19 14:,

Serial No. 741,278.

Application filed January 10, 1913.

more particularly to the class of clothespounders.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a clothes pounder wherein a vacuum chamber is arranged so that when the pounder is used it will act upon the clothes for thoroughly cleansing the same without requiring the rubbing of the clothes or the use of a scrubbing board ordinarily employed, the vacuum when formed serving to act upon the water for the forcing of the same through the clothes for the thorough cleaning thereof.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a pounder in which the shell or body thereof is constructed so as to assure the proper circulation of water through the clothes when being washed for the thorough cleaning thereof without excessive exertion on the part of the operator of the pounder. A further object of the invention is the provision of a pounder of this character .which is extremely simple in construction,

thoroughly reliable and eflicient in operation, and inexpensive in manufacture.

\Vith these and other objects in view the invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view through a pounder constructed in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrow.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views in the drawing.

Referring to the drawing by numerals, the pounder comprises a conical shell 5 preferably constructed from metal, although it may be made from any other suitable material, and is formed at its smaller end with a contracted neck 6 providing a ferrule into which is fitted a handle 7 the same being secured therein in any suitable manner.

Fitted within the shell 5 spaced a distance from its larger end is a partition 8 which is of circular formation and is secured to the shell in any suitable manner, and provides a vacuum chamber 9 between the said partition and the neck 6 of the shell.

Mounted upon and extending outwardly from the partition 8 and secured to the inner face of the shell 5 at intervals concentrically with respect to its center is-a series of half cones or semi-circular tubes 10 111 j which are disposed transverse partitions 11 ing perforated at 13 to establish communication between the air spaces 12 and the vacuum chamber 9 while the shell 5 is perforated at 14 to permit air to enter the air spaces 12 from the exterior of the said shell.

Depending or extending outwardly from the partition 8 and suitably joined therewith is a medial and outer series of conical shaped cups 15 and 16 respectively, the cups 16 being concentrically arranged with respect to the cup 15, and said partition 8 is provided with perforations 17 which establish communication between the cups and the vacuum chamber 9 as shown so that air may be discharged from ,the vacuum chamber 9 exteriorly thereof through the cups 15 and 16 respectively. It will be noted that the cups 15 and 16 are of a length so that the same terminate at the open edge of the shell 5 of the pounder, and likewise the semi-circular tubes 10 are of a length to extend to the open edge of the said shell. The

partitions 11 in the half cones 10 are spaced from the end of the shell 5 so as to lie below the perforations 14 in the latter whereby air may pass up through the air spaces 12 and discharge through the perforations 13 into the vacuum chamber 9 to be discharged through the perforations 17 and outwardly through the cups 15 and 16, respectively.

In the use of the pounder when it is pressed against clothes while washing the same compression will be produced in the chamber 9 so that the exhaust of air therefrom will force the water through the clothes, and on the drawing of the pounder out of the water the latter is sucked in through the openings 17 into the chamber 9 by reason of the exhaust of air therefrom. Air is sucked in through the openings 14 to perforations 13 through half-cones 10 when the pounder is in action, thus causing the water to penetrate the clothes and thereby remove dirt from the same.

From the foregoing it is thought that the construction and manner of operation of the device will be clearly understood, and there fore a more extended explanation has been omitted.

What is claimed is A clothes pounder comprising a conicalshaped body having a partition near its larger end, a plurality of cone-shaped cups fixed to the outer face of the partition and having their free ends in the plane with the larger end of the body,

a plurality of substantially halfcone-shaped cups fixed to the inner surface of the body and extending outwardly from the partition to terminate flush with the larger end of said body, the said last-named cups be ing arranged concentrically with relation to the first-named cups, the said partition being provided with perforations establishing communication between the body and said cups, the said body being provided with perforations opening into the half-cone-shaped cups, and closure members arranged within the half-cone-shaped cups.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

XV ATT S. I-IALLIDAY. Witnesses PETER L1ND,- HENRY ZERFAST.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents eaeh, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C."

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