US138495A - Improvement in washing implements - Google Patents

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Patented May 6, 1873 inventor.

Witnesses.

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CYRUS R. GRAMM, OF BAINBRIDGE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPRQVEMENT IN WASHING IMPLEMENTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 138,495, dated May 6, 1873 application filed April 16, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CYRUS R. GRAMM, of Bainbridge, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Washing Implements, of which the following is a specification:

This invention relates to that class called washing-pounders; the object of which is to press forcibly upon the materials to be washed, so as to force a current of air, with the heated soapsuds or water, through the meshes of the -goods, for which purpose closed cylindrical tubes affixed to a disk have been used, thus constituting distinct small cells.

The accompanying drawing clearly illustrates the construction of my concentric cells or rings and external flange of the washer.

Figure 1 shows the concentric rings of the bell-mouth or washer; Fig. 2, a vertical section of the cells, flange, cone through the center.

It will be seen that the socket G for the handle H opens through the disk, which disk D is otherwise closed, as is the case with several other implements of this class used for washing; but, in place of inserting a series of cylindrical tubes upon the disk, I form a series of concentric cells or rings, 1 2 3, within the outer flange A of the washer, the inner cell 1 being like the outer flange A, lower or shorter than the two intermediate cells 2 and 3.

I am aware that a washer with a central tube open to a valve in the handle is used, having also a surrounding cell, which is perforated so as to communicate with the outer flange and air-tubes attached; such I do not claim. I desire no perforations, nor valve, nor separate detached tubes. Experience has demonstrated that the compression of the air is of great importance in the process, and the suction or atmospheric pressure is readily overcome by slightly raising one side of the bell-mouth, which permits the surrounding air to have access to all the concentric cells at once, so as to be raised with perfect ease, which is not the case when a circle of separate cylindrical tubes are used in concentric series or otherwise arranged upon the disk; besides, other advantages are had by the arran gement of the concentric rings forming the closed cells with the disk, as shown and described, for washing purposes, as can readily be inferred on inspection; therefore,

WVhat I claim as my invention in a washing implement, is

A series of three or more concentric rings or cells, 1 2 3, open below, above closed by the disk D, which separates the flange A from the conic top B, the whole arranged and constructed in the manner and for the purpose specified and shown.

Witnesses:

JNo. M. AMWEG, JACOB STAUFFER.

(l. R. GRAMM.

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