US1133732A

US1133732A - Clothes-washing machine.

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Publication number: US1133732A
Application number: US72535012A
Authority: US
Inventors: Frank H Mccune
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1912-10-11
Filing date: 1912-10-11
Publication date: 1915-03-30
Anticipated expiration: 1932-03-30

Description

F. H. MQGUNE.

CLOTHES WASHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED 001211 1912 1,133,732, Patented Mar.30,1915.

WITNESSES.-

e ,4. mm 7M1 5 To all whom it may concern: i 1

FRANK n. necmvn, or PORTLAND, OREGON.

CLOTHES-WASHING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 30, 191 5..

Application filed October 11, 1912. Serial No. 725,350.

Be it known that I, FRANK H. MOGUNE, a citizen of the United'States, residing at Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented a new and useful Clothes-'Washing Machine, of which the followingis the specification.

This invention relates to washing machines, and more particularly to that class of machines employed in the washing of clothes or other fabrics.

The primary object of my invention is to provide a machine which will be simple in construction, cheap of manufacture, which will prove thoroughly el'iicient in practice, and which may be operated with but very little exertion.

A further object of my invention is to provide a device for washing clothes or other cloth fabrics which is of such construction as to thoroughly cleanse the article with the least possible danger of injuring the fabric.

Other objects will appear hereinafter.

With these objects in view my invention consists in the arrangement of a chamber in connection with a washing machine whereby the clothes or fabric to be cleansed will be held securely while a current of the cleansing fluid will be forced therethrough.

My invention further consists in the arrangement of a chamber having foraminated upper and lower walls, a cylinder mounted above the upper wall and a piston mounted for reciprocation within said cylinder whereby when the said cylinder is re-- ciprocated, a current of the cleansing fluid will be forced in alternate directions through the fabric.

My invention still further consists in the arrangement of a chamber having foraminated upper and lower walls, the said walls being readily separable in order that the clothes may be placed in position before the cleansing operation, the said upper wall consisting of a plurality of parallelly disposed bars mounted Within the flared end of a substantially conical chamber, a cylinder in connection with said conical chamber, a piston mounted for reciprocation Within said cylinder, means for reciprocating said piston and the lowermost wall being provided with legs for spacing the same from the bottom of a tub whereby the cleansing fluid will have free circulation upon operation of the piston.

My inventionstill further consists in the novel arrangement and combination of parts, all as will be more fully described hereinafter and particularly pointed out in the claim.

My invention will be more readily understood with reference to theaccoinpanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical section taken through a clothes washing machine constructed in accordance with my invention, and Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the device illustrated in Fig. 1.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings 1 represents generally the chamber Within Which the clothes or fabric to be cleansed is positioned. This chamber consists of upper and

lower walls

2 and 3 respectively, the vertical walls 4 being formed by the lowermost portion of the conical chamber 5. These upper and lower walls fluid to be used in connection with this device may freely circulate about the clothes,

and to this end the said upper wall is formed of a plurality of parallelly disposed bars or rods 6, secured at their opposite ends to the inner surface of the conical chamber 5, and are arranged vertically a sufficient distance from the mouth of said conical chamber to provide ample room for the clothes. In connection with the upper end of the said conical chamber, and preferably as an integral part thereof, is a cylinder 7 open at its lowermost end, and closed at its upper end by the cap 8, the said cylinder projecting into said conical chamber to terminate at its open end adjacent the bars 6 forming the upper wall of the clothes cleaning chamber. A piston 9 is arranged for reciprocation within the said cylinder, being provided with a piston rod 1.0 projecting through an opening in the boss 11 upon the cap 8 to be connected at its outer end as at 12 to an operating lever 13 pivotally secured at 14 to a bracket member 15 extending upwardly from the cap or other part of the washing machine proper. A hand opening 16 isprovided at the upper end of the said bracket member 15 in order that the device may be held rigid during the washing operation.

As briefly stated above, the lowermost Wall of the clothes chamber is also foraminated, the said wall consisting of a plurality of bars 17, arranged to extend in opposite directions to each other and being secured at tub a distance sufficient to allow of free circulation of water to the chamber 1. In order that the whole of the strain incident to the washing operation will not be directed to the legs 19, and to the bars 17, a plurality of supporting members 20 are arranged directly beneath the said bars 17 to support the same, each being secured at one end to a core 21 and radiating therefrom to be secured by bolts or other securing means 22 to the frame 18.

Itwill be obvious from this description that when the device is submerged with the fabric tobe cleansed within the chamber 1 provided by the upper and

lower walls

2 and 3, reciprocations of the piston 9, through the lever 13 andpiston rod 10, will cause a current of water or cleansing fluid to be forced alternatelythrough the clothes. It will also be obvious that when the cloth is so positioned within the chamber the:

liability of injury thereto due to the reciprocations of the piston is obviated, as it is impossible during the suction stroke forthe V clothes to come in contact therewith by the arrangement of the bars 6 forming the upper wall of the chamber 1. It will also be obvious that by the arrangement of the frame 18 P ded with the oppositely digposgd i l- 7 Q l QilQ iIlg-the lower wallof porting the barsj17, relieves the said bars and the legs 19 of the frame of a major portion of the strain, the said strain being assumed by the core 21th which the inner ends of the supporting members are atac d- I r I claim: r

In a washing apparatus, a clothes sup- I porting device adapted to be positioned within a tub and comprising acircular frame provided with a foraminated' body portion, legs on said frame adapted to restit upon the tub bottom for supporting the said' frame thereabove, a core disposed centrally of and beneath said body portion and adapted to rest upon said tub bottom, and

aplurality of rods each positioned beneath said body portion and secured at its opposite ends to said core and frame respectively for supporting said body portion, substantially as described. r V

Witnesses: V

GUSTAVE KoEPPE, V MARY SLATER.

FRAN K H. 'MoCUNE; o

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