US123893A - Improvement in washing-machines - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES J OIIN O. HALLENBEUK, OF CHATHAM VILLAGE, NEIV YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 123,893, dated February 20, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN C. HALLENBEOK, of Uhatham Village, in the county of Columbia and State of New York, have invented a new and useful ImprovementinlVa slung-Machines 5 and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, in which drawing Figure l is a vertical cross-section of a washing-machine containing my invention, showing the handle arranged for operating the machine. Fig. 2 is an end view, showing the handle folded down out of the way. Fig. 3 is a crosssection through the handle and its sleeve taken at 00 0c of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a top view, partly in section, of one of the joints of the folding-handle.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to washing-machines; and consists, among other things, in a peculiar construction of the handle, whereby the handle, when the machine is to be operated, is rigidly secured in a horizontal position in a sleeve or sleeves, one or more, according to the number of arms the handle is composed of and when the operation ceases, the handle can be folded and allowed to hang down in front of the machine, by drawing its arms out to the ends of their sleeves, the handle and sleeves being connected to each other by means of pins in the handle and slots in the sleeve, so arranged that when the pins come to the outer ends of the slots, they serve as hinges on which the handle swings. Another feature of this invention consists in the construction of the perforated false bottom, which is made in sections, one section being movable, so that it can be lifted out to allow one to have access to the mud-well below the false bottom, to clean it out when necessary.

The letter A designates the box of a washing-machine, whose general features resemble a washing-machine shown in Letters Patent granted March 15, 1870, to George IV. Putnam. The letter B designates the handle, which consists in this example of two arms, 0 O, united at their outer ends by a rail, D, and about midway of their length by an inner brace, E, the rail D being the part which is held by the operator in using the machine. The inner ends of the arms 0 O slide in sleeves F F, which are rigidly secured in a horizontal position to the upper part of the presser-frame Ga Each sleeve F has one of its sides-slotted, as seen at H, to receive a pin, I, which goes through such slot into the arm in the sleeve, the head of the pin being outside of the slot. WVhen the arms of the handle are pushed inward into the sleeves to the full extent, as shown in Fig. 1, the handle is held rigidly in a horizontal position to allow the machine to be operated.

hen it is desired to set the machine aside, the handle is pulled outward until the pins I reach the ends of the slots H of the sleeves, and the handle is then turned downward out of the way to the position shown in Fig. 2. In order to allow the handle thus to swing down. the top and bottom of the sleeves are cut away so as to allow the sides which have the slots 11 to extend further out, and the slots H are extended out beyond the terminations of the top and bottom of the sleeves far enough to allow the ends of the arms 0 to pass them and turn with the pins at the ends of the slots. If desired, the pins I may be fast to the sleeves, and in this case the arms of the handle would have to be slotted to allow of drawing them out and pushing them in. Or the arms of the handle might be joined and provided with a sleeve similar to that of a parasol-handle, as shown in Fig.

That feature of the invention which relates to the false bottom is seen in Fig. 1, where the letter J designates the false perforated bottom, composed of a stationary part, 1, and a movable part, 2, the point marked 3 being the line of division. between them. In order to raise the movable division of the false bottom with facility I have formed a recess, K, in its front edge to receive the hand of the operator.

horizontal sleeves F F, so connected that the handle can be extended and held rigid in the sleeves, or allowed to fold down, substantially as described.

JOHN C. HALLENBECK.

Witnesses:

HIRAM D. FORD, WILLIAM G. DALEY.

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