US139511A - Improvement in washing-machines - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. g

MELVIN N. LOVELL, OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Pat-cnt No. 139,5ll, dated J une 3, 1873 application filed V November 21, 1872.

To all 'whom it may concem:

Be it known that I, MELVIN N. LOVELL, of

the city and county ot' Erie and State of Pen nsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Wa-shing-Machines, of which the following is a specification:

i end View with a part of the upright piece broken away to show the working of the machine more perfectly. Figs. 3 and 4 are views of the journal-boxes and pieces around which the springs are coiled. Figs. 5 and 6 are views ot' the pieces which I use in attaching it to a tub or box.

The frame-work is composed of the pieces A A, uprights B B, and top piece G. Within this frame are hung the corrugated roller D and the smooth roller E. The journals of the smcoth roller run in holes in the uprights B B, which holes may or may not be bushed with metal. The diameter ofthe smooth roller is such that it fills the space between the pieces A A as nearly as possible without preventing its free revolution this is to prevent the clothes from winding around it. The journals F F ot' the corrugated roller D pass through slots in the uprights B B, and have their bearings in journal-boxes I I. To one ot' the journals is attached the crank II, through which motion is imparted to the machine. The journal-boxes I I are provided with projections K K, which project past the edges of the slots in the uprights B B and engage the inner sides ot' them. These prevent the journal-boxes from sliding out of their places toward the outside ot' the machine. The ends ot' the corrugated roller D prevent them from sliding inward. The journal-boxes are also provided with rods L L, which pass 'up through holes in the top piece G. Around the rods L L are coiled the springs M M, the upper ends of which rest against the top piece u C, and the lower ends against the journalboxes I I, thus bringing their pressure to bear on the corrugated roller D, and through it on the clothes as they pass between it and the smooth roller E. The pieces A A eonstitute an important partof the framework. Their elongations past the uprghts B B serve as convenient means to fasten the machine :oa common wash-tub or box, and they prevent the clothes from winding around the smooth roller E. They are so attached to the uprights' B B that their upper edges shail be on aline with the center of the roller E; At the places where they are attachedto the up-ignts B B they are grooved so as to receive the edges ot' the uprghts B B, the grooves being made deeper at their loweredges, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 2. This` is to bring their lower edges nearer t'gether, to ina-ke them more useful in securing the machine to a tub or box. e

To festen the machine to a tub or box 1 use the pieces shown at Figs. 5 and 6, which I make from Wood, but they may be made of metal. These pieces are screwed to the inside of the tub or box, as shown at Fig. 1. The

machine is put into the astening by first put` ting the ends of the pieces A A next to the crank onto the piece N, then letting the opi not confine myself to the use ot' the smooth' roller E, but may substitute for it any other kinds of a roller or series ot' rollers.

What I claim as new is as follows:

The combination of the pieces A, the` uprights B, the top piece U, the journal-boxes I with projections K, rods L, and springs M, rollers D E, tub F, and pieces N O, as and for the purpose specified.

MELVIN N. LOVELL. witnesses: u

G; S. VVALKER, GEORGE OHAPMAN.

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