US1186025A - Washing-machine. - Google Patents

Description

G. H. MYRiCK.

WASHING MALHINE.

APPLICATION FILED 1m 23, 1915.

Patented June 6, 1916.

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WASHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.23, 1915.

Patented June 6, 1916.

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GEORGE H. MYRICK, OF CHICAGQ, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO CAPITAL ELECTRIC COM- QANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORFORATION OF ILLINOIS.

NASHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J line 5, 1916.

T 0 all whom m (53,! concern Be it known that Gnonor. H. Mrnicn. a citizen of the nited State? residing at Chicago. in the county of Cook and State of lllinois. have in ented a certain new and useful linprorement in W'ashing-Machincs, of which the following full, clear. concise. and exact description, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to an iu'iproved form of washing machine in which the articles to be washed are moved in the solution by means of which they are washed byvthe projection into and through said articles of a stream of the solution; and in the embodiment of my invention herein after illustrated, I provide a rotary cylirn der for containing the articles to be washed, such as clothing, against which thcstrcam of solution. as water and soap, is projected tangentially or nearly so by means of a fan or screw propeller. This fan is electrically tll'l\ell illlil the motor is arranged to be used to drive a wringcr, if desired. Suitable devices of novel construction and arrangement are provided to operatively connect the wringer with the, motor when desired. The cylinder employed to contain the fabrics to be washed is of openwork construction so that the water and soap solution projected against the side of the cylinder not only imparts to it a rotary motion,

but the solution is also projected through the walls of the cylinder and into and through the fabrics, thus agitating the same and greatly assisting in separating from the fabrics the dirt contained in them.

As will hereinafter be more fully pointed out the rotary cylinder or fabric container is capable of being easily manipulated to move the container to its operating position after the fabrics to be washed have been placed therein, and to mow he container to such a position that the clothes may be readily and easily removed therefrom, after the washing operation has been completed. The mechanism whereby this manipulation of the fabric cylinder or container is made possible. comprises broadly bail-like cylinder lifter and a pair of hearings, or brackets. carried by the washer tank and with which the lifter cooperates. As will be uently explained the lifter and brackets referred to are"adapted to securely lock the fabric container in either its raised or operating position. As will hereinafter appear in the use of my. improved Washing machine, it is essential that after the fabric container has been filled. with articles to be washed and submerged in the solution within the washer tank, that the fabric container be locked in operating position inasmuch as the fabrics to be washed, until they are thoroughly soaked, contain a considerable amount of air and tend to float the container. After the washing operation is completed the fabric containeris raimd from its operating position and is locked in raised position by the mechanism previously referred to. T he operator is thusenabled to permit. the washed fabrics to drain to a greater or less extent before removing them from thi container.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of parts fully set forth in the following detailed descrip= tion in which reference is made to the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a rear elevational View of the improved washing machine of my invention, certain parts being illustrated in section to more clearly reveal the construction, Fig. :2 is a cross-sectional view taken on the line 2, :2, of Fig. 1, and looking in the direction indicated by the ariows, ig. 3 is a view partly in section and partly in elevation taken on the line 3, 3, of Fig. 2, and looking in the direction indicated by the arrows, Fig. 4 is a'fragmentary detailed View illustrating how the fabric container is locked in raised position, Fig.

5. is a fragmentary sectional view taken on the line 5, 5, of Fig. 3, looking in the direction indicated by the arrows, and Fig. 6 is an isolated detailed view partly in section and partly in elevation illustrating the mechanism. for operatively connecting the wringer with the motor to drive the wringer in either direction as desired.

Similar reference numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

As illustrated in the drawings the washing machine 01 my invention comprises av framework 10, preferably constructed of metal angles. Supported by the framework 10 is a sheet metal tank 11 conveniently provided with asuitahle drain cock 12. As is most clearly illustrated in Fig. 2 the sheet loo ' which forms I ric' s may be suitable filler or fillers 13 of wood or other suitable material to lend rigidity to the tank and to form shoulders to engage the machine framework 10 to support the tank wholly or in part. As is most clearly illustrated in Fig. 2 the tank 11 is provided with a co 'er 14, comprising two sections 14 and 14" hingedly connected. The cover 14 may be entirely removed from the tank when desired. Carried by the portion 14" of the cover is a deflector or baffle 15, the deflecting surface of which is preferably substantially concentric with theaais of the fabric container when the latter is in operating po sition. Disposed on the inner side of each one of the lateral walls of the tank 11 is a bracket 16 in the form of a metal angle riveted or otherwise secured to the tank.

These brackets 16 are engaged by and support the deflector when the parts are in the positions illustrated in Fig. 2.

Carried by the inner faces of the lateral walls of the tank 11 are brackets 17 which serve as bearings for the rotatable cylinder or fabric container illustrated at 18. The container 18 is preferably in the form of heads 18*, 18, which carry the screen 18 the cylindrical surface of the container. vided with a suitable door whereby the fab placed in and removed from the container, but I have not thought it necessary to illustrate such a door in the drawings. Each of the heads 1S isprovided with an and loosely disposed around each one of said trunnions is the lower end of an arm 20, the arms 20 being provided with a connecting rod 21 which serves as a handle for the bail or cylinder lifter. The connecting rod 21 may, of course, be provided with a sleeve of wood, or other material, as illustrated. Attention is directedto the fact that each of the brackets or bearings 17 is conformed to present a substantially vertical section 17*, a substantially horizontal surface 17 near the upper end of the longer arm of the bracket, a substantially horizontal surface 17 near the lower portion of the longer arm of the bracket and a substantially vertical surface17 at the lower end of the shorter arm of the bracket.

The arms 20 of the bail-like fabric container lifter are provided with hubs 22 concentric with the trunnions of the fabric con,- tainer or cylinder. These hubs are arranged to rest in the lower portions of their assoc-iategl brackets 17 when the fabric container is in operating position. Attention is directed to the fact that formed integral with each f the hubs 22 is a lug 22*. When the seveifil parts are in the positions illustrated in F igjl/Q the weight of the bail-like lifter causes it to assume the position as shown in the drawings. and thus the lugs 22 coming will be understood The container is of course prooutwardly projecting trunnion 19 into engagement with the horizontal surfaces 17 of the rackets 17 serve to lock the fabric container in its operating position. It that after dry clothes are placed in the fabric container and the same is immersed in the solution in the tank the air entrained in the fabrics will 'tend to float the container unless some means is provided for locking the container in its operating position.

As will be hereinafter more fully explained the cylinder or fabric container is rotated and theclothes are washed by means of a stream of solution projected against and through the container. After the fabrics in the container have been washed the cover for the tank is removed and the baillike lifter is moved to such a position that the lugs 22 come into engagement with the short vertical surfaces 17 of the brackets. By so doing the container is unlocked and may be raised to the position shown in Fig. l. After the container has been so raised the bail is permitted to assume the position shown in F ig, 4 and the lugs 22 engaging the horizontal surfaces 17 of their associated brackets effectually serve to lock the container in its raised position. It will thus be seen that after fabrics have been washed the container may be'raised to the-position shown in Fig. 4 to permit the articles to drain before they are removed from the con .tainerl Moreover this facilitates the re moval of the fabrics from the container.

Suitably supported by the machine framework 10 is an electric motor 25 which may conveniently provided with a shield 26 as illustrated in the drawings. As is most clearly illustrated in Fig. 5 the motor shaft 27 passes through a housing 28 and is provided with a worm 29 meshing with a wormwheel 30 mounted upon a shaft 31 which extends from the housing 28 through an in closing tube 32 to another housing 33 where said shaft is provided with a bevel-gear 34. The several housings may be formed (integral with one another or otherwise as desired. Meshing with the bevel-gear 34, as most clearly illustrated in n 35 mounted upon a vertical shaft 36 which has a relatively loose bearing in the hous= ing 33. The shaft 36 extends upwardly from the housing 33 through a shaft housing 37 to a gear housing 38 supported by the framework of a wringer 39 which is mounted upon the tank as illustrated. As is most clearly illustrated in Fig. 6 the lowermost,

roller of the wringer extends into the housing 38 and is there provided with bevelgears 40 and 41 fixed upon the shaft of the wringer roller and adapted to be operatively engaged by the bevel-gear 42 fixed upon the upper end of the shaft 36. .The bevel-gear 42 normally has a position whereby it is out of engagement with both of the. gears 40 is a beveLgea-i crating handle 45.

and elbut it may be moved into engagement with either of them. he housing is conformed to provide a thamber 43 in which is movably mounted a-block H which serves as a bearing for the upoer end of the shaft 36. Formed in the bloclcll is a chan nel 45. Mounted in the hou'singZSS is a shaft 46 provided at each end with an op- It will be seen that this shaft is conformed to have an eccentric middle portion of. reduced cross-section which passes through the channel l5 ot' the block all. Thus it will be seen that by oscil lating the shaft 46 the bevel-gear 42 may be moved from its neutral position into engagement with either the bevel-gear i0 or the bevel-gear 41 or vice versa.

The shaft 27 of the motor is operatively connected with a fan or screw propeller 49, the shaft of which has suitable bearings carried by the bottom of the tank 11. A. suitable clutch is desirably interposed between the fan or propeller l9 and the shaft of the motor. However, I have not deemed it necessary to illustrate such clutch mechanism in the present application. It will. sufiice to say that such clutch mechanism i actuated by means of an operating rod 50 most clearly illustrated in Fig. 2.

As a result of the construction described when the fabrics to be washed have been placed in the cylinder or container and the usual soap and water solution has been placed in the tank 11 to the proper depth, preferably to the top of the container when it is in operating position, the motor is started and the fan operatively connected with the motor. The fan has a direction of rotation such as to project a stream of water upwardly against the right-hand side of the cylinder or container (Fig. 2) with the result that the cylinder is rotated upon impact of the solution against the same. The wire netting of the container permits a large portion of the water to project into and against the fabrics to be washed with the result that the fabrics are manipulated mechanically by the water thus projected, this becoming an effective factor in washing the fabrics.

The rotation of the cylinder or fabric con- .ta-iner 22 and the stream of Water from the upon the left'hand side of the cylinder (Fig. 2) and thence returning along the bottom of the tank to the 'suctionside of the fan 49. That portion of the solution which is forced into the cylinder or fabric container is drawn out of the cylinder at The soap and water solu- &

the left-hand side thereof due to the suction created by the fan.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A washing machine, comprising in combination a tank adapted to contain a suitable washing; solution. a removable cy lindrical container. trunnions on the heads of said cylindrical container, a pair of brackets carried in and by the tank arranged to support the container within the tank. a lifter for said container in the form of a bail, having its ends journaled upon said u'unnions, an abutment on each of said brackets, and a fixed projection on each end of said bail like lifter adapted to engage one of said abutments to lock the container in position when the lifter is in a certain position, the engagement of said projections with their cooperating bracket abutments as well as their release therefrom being effected by moving the bail-like lifter around its axis.

2. In a washing" machine of the class described, a tank adapted to contain a suitable washing solution. a container for articles to be washed disposed within the tank but removable therefrom, means carried by the tank arranged to pivotallv sup port the container for movement within the tank and a lifter for said container pivoted thereto and adapted to engage means fixed with respect to the tank to lock the container in its supporting means, said lifter operable to lock or unlock the container by moving the lifter around its axis. v

3. A washing machine, comprising in combination with a tank adapted to contain a suitable washing solution. a pair of oppositely disposed brackets within the tank. a cylindrical container for articles to be washed, adapted to be removably journaled in said brackets, and a lifter pivoted to said cylindrical container, said lifter adapted to be grasped to raise the container, but nor mally held by gravity in a certain position wherein itcooperates with the brackets to lock the container in position.

4. A washing machine, comprising in combination .a tank adapted to contain a suitable washing solution and pro iding bearings for a removable container for articles to be washed, a container for the articles to be washed, a locking device pivoted to said container, normally assuming a certain position out of a vertical plane under the force of gravity, said locking device provided .with a portion, adapted. when the said locking'device is in said position, to engage "means fixed 'with respect to the tank to lock the container in position. locking device adapted to be grasped and moved to a position in a substantially yertical plane, in which last mentioned position it is released from the means with which it cooperates to lock the container.

5. A Washing machine comprising in combination a tank arranged to contain a suitable Washing solution, a removable container for articles to be washed tank, means carried by the tank arranged to support said container formovenient on a horizontal axis. and a lifter pivoted to said container, said lifter when '11 normal position engaging the supporting means to lock the container in position, but adapted to be grasped to release the container and raise the same, the lifter. being-operable to effect its engagement with ordisengagement from the supporting means by moving the lifter around its axis.

6. A washing machine, comprising in combination a.tank, a container for articles to be Washed, means carried by the tank arranged to pivotally support the container for movement about a horizontal axis, and a lifter pivoted to said container, normally assuming a certain position, whereby it c0- operates with the supporting means to lock the container in position, said lifter being operable to release the container by moving the lifter around its axis.

7. A washing machine, comprising in com-, bination a tank,- a pair of oppositely and vertically disposed brackets carried by the tank, each of said bracii-ts being of substantial U shape, but having one leg thereof extended to form a guide, a container for articles to be washed, arranged to be removably journaled in said brackets, a bail-like lifter for said container, normally cooperating with the supporting brackets to lock the container in operating position, but adapted to be grasped to release the container the latter along the guides afforded by the extended legs of said U shaped brackets.

8. A washing machine, comprising in combination a tank, a pair of oppositely disposed brackets within the tank, each of said brackets being of substantially U shape, and provided with two shoulders at different heights upon one of the legs, thereof, a container for articles to be washed, removably journaled in said U shaped brackets, and a lifter for said container, normally cooperat ing with the lowermost pair of said 'brac'ket shoulders to lock the container in operating position, but arranged to be grasped to raise the container to a positionsuch that the lifter in a similar mannercotiperates with the uppermost pair of said bracket shoulders, to lock the container in raised position.

9. A washing machine, comprising in combination a tank, a pair of oppositely disposed U shaped brackets carried within the tank, a container for articles to be washed,

disposed within-the and raise removably ournaled in said brackets, each of said brackets having one leg thereof conformed to present two shoulders at different heights witha guiding surface between them, and a lifter pivoted to said container, provided with portions normally cooperating with the lowermost pair of bracket shoulders to lock but adapted to be tainer and raise the same along the guiding surfaces intermediate the bracket shoulders, said lifter also arranged to cooperate with the uppermost bracket shoulders to lock the container in raised position, the lifter being operable toeff'ec't its engagement with or disengagement from the bracket shoulders by moving the lifter around its axis.

10. A washing machine, comprising in combination a tank adapted to contain a suitable washing solution, a pair of oppositely and vertically disposed U shaped brackets carried by the tank, each of said brackets having one leg thereof conformed to present two shoulders at different heights with a guiding surface between them, a cylindrical container for articlesto be washed,

the container in position,

journaled in said brackets for movement around a horizontal axis, the heads of said container provided with trunnions, a baillike lifter having the ends thereof journaled on said trunnions, and being there providedment from the bracket shoulders by moving the lifter around its axis.

11. In a washing machine of the class described, in combinationwith a container for articles to be washed,'a tank arranged to contain a suitable washing solution and to inclose said, containeqmeans for pivotally ,for operation supporting the container and a-bail-like around a horizontal axis,

' lifter pivoted'to said container at its axis of rotation, said bail-like lifter normally as suming a position whereby the handle portion thereof rests against an adjacent wall of the tank, and when in such position oograsped to release the'conoperating with means fixed with respect-to V the tank to lock the container in position, said bail-like lifter movable on its axis to release the container and adapted to be grasped to raise the container.-

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name this 9th day of January,- A. D;

1 915. r r GEORGE H. MYRICK. Witnesses MARY A. Coon,- HERMAN A. NEmpRGER.

Copies of thin patent may be obtained to: a cents each, by draining the ,aa l or t I I I washings-angle."

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