US112275A - Improvement in wash-boilers - Google Patents

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"Be it knownthatI, flrroMAsU. PARKER, of Mit' a iintownyin the county of*Juuiata` and State-of Penn-` sylvaniaphave iiuyetedjfal lnewyand improved Wush- Boilerg" and` I do`lhereby; declare` that the following` is `afull, clear, land exactdescription `of the same, referp ence benglhadlto accompanying drawingtbrming partofthisjspecid "tiou`,`in"whichi i fn l "Figure 2isa'pa`rtial topiview.' t A Y rllhis inveutionrelates to that class of washboilers `termedautomaticffor the reason that bythe achtionof thefsteamlgeneratedlxuthem, water lis forced `upward through pipes having openiugsnear thetop and* bottclnof the boiler and discharged upon the clothesfrom above,thusttending' to more perfectly apui'ifythem; `boilers of this class `being provided with laffsep rate" ialsefbottornbn which the clothes rest; "andffyf i` of parts lconstructedand p r/auged as hereinafter de-V `Referriug toltbwdrawinga- H `A isauordinarylwashfboiler;

a, `the false bottomofftbef boiler, the same being `supportedabove"theytruelbottom bya base, b, ex-

tending `vertically downward" from `its sides `and ends, aidbase haviugja number` of loriices, c, through which l water `may pasfsas` it circulates Within the boiler.

fclotheslelei-'ated `above"thefwater-line; l Thelobject ofkeeping the clothes thus elevated is "dnle referred` to these Letters Patent a'nd naaking par-tof the same.

` mounted witlr'rose-heads j; n p

The effect of this arrangement is that the water, which is forced by steam-pressure up through the pipes e, issues from the rose-heads in series of jets,l

` i""lTheinveutiouconsistsinfthe general combination cl are the transverse ribisaforesaid, which keepthe Y NPARKERQQF `Murriderrotar, PNNSYLVANIA.

Letters menno. 112,275,` dated February 2s, 1871.

` The water circulates lfreely between ,the ribs al, underthc clothes, and sends up steam against the lower' .part of the mass, Which-assists incleausing them.

Two vertical pipes e are set in the false bottom,

` eachpassing through the same, and placed at some distance from the nearest end of the boiler.

The pipes c are capped with"`tubes t', which are surfalling ou all sides upon the clothes, V

I do not claim, broadly, the use of ri bs for supporting clothes in wash-boilers; but

Having thus described my invention, Y

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

. l Vlhejrnproved wash-boiler, formed by the combinal tion with the vessel A, of the false bottom a pro-` vided with the base b c, thel ribs d al, tubes e e, and

caps and rose-heads e' f, all constructed and arranged as herein shown and described, to operate .as speci-A fied. l

\ THOS. U. PARKER; Witnesses: i

CEAS. A. PETTIT, Taos. D. D.- OURAND.

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