US120792A - Improvement in attachments for wash-boilers - Google Patents

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CHAR LES w. STERICK.

lmproveme nt in Attachments for-Wash Boilers.

Patented Nov. 7, 1871.

"Witnesses:

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

CHARLES W. STERIOK, OF NORTHUMBERLAND, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM A. MID- nLEro or HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA,

IMPROVEMENT IN ATTACHMENTS FOR WASH-BOILERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 120,792, datedNovember 7, 1871.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. SrERroK, of Northumberland, in the county of Northumberland and in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in VVHJSII'BOHGIS; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of this specification.

The nature of myinvention consists in the construction and arrangement of an attachment for wash-boilers, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction andoperation, referring to the annexed drawing which represents a perspective view of my wash-boiler attachment.

A represents a metallic rim of suitable height, made to fit around the inside of a wash-boiler, and provided with a bottom, B. This bottom is soldered or otherwise attached to the inner sides of the rim A, at or near the lower edge, and is either inclined or curved, so as to be higher in the center than at the sides. The rise in the center should be about as high'as the upper edges of the rim A. At the ends the bottom B has suitable openings to allow the water to pass down under the bottom, and above each end of the bottom is a plate, 0, attached to the upper edge of the rim A. Through these plates 0 0 pass tubes D D, which may be constructed in any suitable manner to conduct the steam and water on top of the clothes. attached to the upper edges of the rim A, and either passing over or through the rise in the center of the bottom B and forming a grating upon which the clothes are laid. This attachment for wash-boilers may be made in one piece, as described, or in two pieces overlapping each other in the center, so that it may be extended or contracted to fit difi'erent-Sized wash-boilers.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, iS-

The combination of the rim A, bottom B raised in the center, plates 0 G, tubes D D, and rods E E, all constructed and arranged as described to form attachment for wash-boilers, substantially as herein set forth.

In testimonythat I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this27th day of September,

CHARLES W. STERICK.

Witnesses M. S. BOWER,

E E represent rods

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