US1139782A - Washboiler clothes-drainer. - Google Patents

Description

M. A. LONG.

WASHBOILER CLOTHES DRMNER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT- 3, 1912.

1,139,782. Patented May 18, 1915.

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inarrn MARY A. LONG, OF FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA.

WASHBOILER OLOTHES-DRAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 18, 1915.

Application filed September 3, 1912. Serial No. 718,311.

vice to receive the garments and support them in the boiler to enable the garments to be bodily removed and disposed in the rinsing water or otherwise disposed of without the necessity for separately handling the garments.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide a device of this character wherein means are provided for elevating the holder when removing it from the receptacle and likewise adapted to lower the holder into the receptacle.

WVith these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claim, and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention: Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved device supported upon a wash boiler, the boiler being in longitudinal section. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The improved device may be applied without material structural change to washboilers or like receptacles of various forms and sizes, and it is not desired to limit the invention to any specific form or construction of boiler, but for the purpose of illustration the boiler or receptacle is represented conventionally at 10.

The improved device comprises a holder for the garments and is preferably formed of a relatively heavy wire frame 11 with the sides, ends and bottom formed of relatively large mesh wire netting 12, which will support the garments but at the same time permit the free circulation of the water therethrough. The holder is provided with suitable handles 13 whereby the holder may be transported. Connected to the bottom of the frame 11 at its ends are guide pulleys 14.

Fitting over one end of the boiler 10 is a winding drum 15 having a crank 16 and holding forks 17, the latter adapted to en gage over the edge of the receptacle and thus detachably support the winding drum in position.

Connected at one end to the drum 15 is a winding cable or flexible wire 18 which leads downwardly inside of the receptacle 10, thence over the pulleys 14 and terminates in va hook 19 adapted to be engaged over i the opposite end of the receptacle 10. By

this means, the holder 11-12 is supported by the cable 18. The drum 15 is provided with a ratchet 20, while a holding pawl 21 is connected to the forked frame 17 to engage in the ratchet and thus hold the cable at any desired position. By this simple arrangement, the holder 1112 is supported within the receptacle 10 at any desired point of elevation and may be lowered to its fullest extent within the receptacle, and, then when the receptacle is to be removed, this can readily be done by simply rotating the crank 16 and causing the cable 18 to elevate the holder free from the water in the receptacle.

When the garments are to be immersed in the water in the receptacle 10, the crank 16 is rotated to stretch the cable 18 tightly across the upper end of the receptacle. The holder 1112 is then deposited in position upon the cable with the pulleys 14 in position thereon and lowered into the receptacle by releasing the pawl 20 and employing the crank 16 as a brake to control the speed of the downwardly moving holder. The garments are then deposited in the holder and the cover placed on the receptacle.

After the boiling operation, the holder together with its contents is elevated by ac tuating the crank and permitting the surplus water to drain from the garments. The holder can then be bodily removed without fatigue to the operator and without the necessity for manually handling the holder. After the draining is completed the holder can be readily removed and the contents deposited in the rinsing water or otherwise disposed of and without the necessity for in dividually handling the garments.

The improved device is simple in construction, can be inexpensively manufacfactured and of any suitable material but will preferably be made of steel wire galvanized or otherwise coated or treated to prevent corrosion, or the holder may be constructed of non-corrodible wire.

What I claim is I The combination with a wash boiler and 5 a foraminous holder adapted to be removably positioned within the boiler, of means detachably connected with the boiler and detachably engaging the holder for lowering the holder into or lifting it out of" the boiler, said means including a flexible element passing beneath theholder and carrying a hook member for securing the adjacent end of said element to the upper edge of the boiler at one end; thereof, and a Winding de-' vice connected with the said element at its opposite extremity, said winding device inv eludinga pair of bracket plates having their lower terminals bifurcated to form arms arranged to embrace the upper edge the axle,

of the boiler at the end thereof opposite to said hook member with the said arms extending vertically of the wall of the boiler upon opposite sides thereof, an axle journaled in the brackets, a drum carried by the axle and arranged between the bracket plates, a crank formed on one terminal of a ratchet disk carried by the axle, and a pawl pivoted to one of the bracket plates and engageable with the ratchet disk for holding the druin against movement in one direction.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MARY A. LONG. EL. s.]

Witnesses:

Mrs. HENRY.W.JoHNsoN, FRED J. KROGI-I.

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