US139992A - Improvement in washing-machines - Google Patents

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1. E. ANDERSON. Washing-Machines.

Patehtedlunel7,1873.

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JOHN E. ANDERSON, OF BOILING SPRINGS, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,992, dated J une 17, 1873 application filed 7 March 12,1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN E. ANDERSON, residing in Boiling Springs, in the county of Cumberland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Washing-Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal vertical section, of my improved washin g-machine.

Corresponding letters are used in the designation of corresponding parts in both figures.

The nature of this invention consists of combining with a shoe or rubber, having-a single or compound rubbing-surface, a water feeding device, composed of an inclined board or strip hinged or otherwise attached to vertical bars secured to the inner sides of the rubber; and,further, of the combination of the above elements with one or more pivoted or yielding rubbers, disposed in the end or ends of the containing-vessel, substantially as hereinafter more fully set forth.

To enable others to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it. i

The containing-vessel A, which is preferably of an oblong or rectangular shape, and mounted upon suitable legs, is supplied in its sides near the upper edges of the latter with elongated slots a, the ofiice of which will be referred to hereinafter. The shifting shoe B, in the present instance, is constructed with a compound or double-concave rubbing-surface, consisting of two series of stationary rolls or bars, slightly separated for the passage of water between them, and adjusted to and between two uprights or boards, so as to conform to the concave or curved surfaces with which the said boards are supplied, and standing back to back, as shown in the drawing. This construction enables'two distinct washings to be performed at once; consequently, it the shoe has simply a single concave rubbingsurface, the object of my invention will still be carried out. The rolls are held separated from one another by metallic rings, embracing them, and the boards which receive the said rolls are supplied upon the lower edges with fiat springs or frictional rollers. G 0 refer to the device for feeding or supplying the water to the rubbing-surfaces of the shifting shoe as it is passed back and forth, and it is composed of two uprights, suitably attached to the inner sides of the boards of the shoe, but not reaching down to the lower edges thereof, and of two boards, or of one when only one rubbing-surface is imparted to the shoe, which are set in an inclined position and fastened or hinged or pivoted to the correspondinglyshaped surfaces or edges of the said uprights. (See Fig. 2.)

It will be here observed that the other ad vantages arising from this construction of the shifting shoe are, the length of its pitch and of its rubbing-surfaces can be increased, and the containing-vessel be of the shortest size possible wherein the amount of water to be used can be lessened.

To the top of the shoe B is fitted a cap or board, 11, passing through the elongated slots at of the containing-vessel, and receiving the hooked ends of the pitmen D, suitably connected to levers or handles D D, fastened to an axis having its bearings in appendages attached to the said vessel, or pivoted upon an axis fastened to the vessel, as in the drawing. Through this mechanism the shoe is worked, or shifted back and forth to perform the washing of the articles. E E refer to two other rubbing devices, one hinged or pivoted inonc end of the'containing-vessel, and the other in the opposite end thereof, and consisting of frames, whose front portions are supplied with a series of angular bars or slats to assist in rubbing the articles to be washed, and the lower portions, with beveled .surfaces, enveloped or encircled by some anti-frictional material, and which run upon the shifting shoe as it moves back and forth, so as to assist the latter in the performance of its work. Adjusted to the lower side of the vessel A, beneath an opening cut in the bottom thereof, is a trough or receptacle, F, with a discharge orifice, and for the purpose of receiving or conducting the sediments, dirt, 850., from the vessel.

Other receptacles are fastened to the ends of the vessel A.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters her or rubbers E E, substantially as and for the Patent, ispurpose set forth.

1. In combination with the rubber or shoe In testimony whereof I have hereunto sign- B, with one or more rubbing-surfaces, the ed my name this 28th day of February, 1873, watenfeeding device G O, composed of inin presence of two subscribing witnesses.

clincd boards or strips, preferably hinged to JOHN E. ANDERSON. vertical bars secured to the inner sides of the Witnesses: rubber, substantially as shown and set forth. EDGAR L. SHRYOOK,

2. The combination of the elements of the HETTIE B. SHRYOOK, above claim with the pivoted or yielding rub- JNO. JACOBS.

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