US1447211A - Washing and drying machine - Google Patents

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Patented Mar. 6, 1923.

PATENT OFFICE.

CORTES J OHNSON, 0F LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA.

WSHING AND DRYING MACHINE.

Application ined November 11, 1919. serial No. 33717.

T 0 a, whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, Con'ras .ToirNsoN, a citizen ot' the United States, residing at Long Beach, in the county of Los Angeles and State ot' California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Washing and Drying Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in washing machines and more particularly to that type of washing machines adapted besides washing the clothes, to wring or ex,- tract the water from them by centrifugal process although it may be applied to other types of washing machines as well.

The objects of the invention are to pro- .vide means whereby the clothes may be im'- mersed while being washed and the main /volume of Water lowered from them sothat they may be wrung, said means being simple of construction, easy to operate and so arranged that when in position to wring the clothes the stability of the device will be increased.

A further object is to provide a washing machine ,of the above characteremb'odying a liquid container adapted to be raised and lowered relative -to a revolvable clothes receptacle in which avsplash of the water in the container during the washing operation, and the water removed from the clothes during the wringing operation may be confined within the washer.`

Other objects will appear hereinafter.A

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of a washing and wringing machine embodying this invention, partially in section and:

Figure 2 is a fragmentary elevation show-` ing details of the windlass. Like numbers refer to like parts in both of the figures.

1 represents the frame of they machine which is preferably portable, being mounted on castors. 2 isa cylindrical shell immovably m'ountedvor' the frame and spaced above the bottom thereofand said shell has a bottom with openings 3 therethrough.

Within the shell 2 is a rotatable cylindrical basket or container 4 for the clothes and within^the basket is a vertically reciprocable clothes pounder 5 both of "which are operated by mechanism mounted within the housing 6 on, the cover 7, `description of this mechanism belng unnecessary as it forms-no part of this inventlon.

A tub or Water container 8 cylindrical in form and telescopin of the shell 2 is s idably mounted in the frame and is supported by a cable 9 one end of' which is attached to the frame at the point 10 said cable passing beneath thetub 8 over diametrically opposed guide pulleys 11 projecting from the bottom thereof and 1s wound about a drum '.12 forming part of a windlass which is attached Y ot' the machine. The windlassI has besides the drum 12, the usual crank 13, pawl 14 and ratchet 15.

.It will. be seen that when the tub 8 is raised to surround the lower portion of the shell 2 that water contained in the tub will.

enter said shell through lthe openings 3 in its bott-om and will immerse the clothes in the basket 4. In this position the washing process takes" place by action of the pounder 5.

When the clothes have been sufliciently cleansed in this manner the tub 8 is lowered over the lower portion to the frame 1 by rotating the drum 12 and unwinding the cable 9 therefrom The tub then assumes a position directl beneath the shell and at the bottom of the rame. The water rnws vfrom the shell through the. openings 3 into the ,tub and the weight of the water thusplaced near the bottom of themachine provides a lowcente'r of. gravity and materially stabilizes the machine during the wringin process which takes place while the tub is lowered and consists of rapidly 'rotating the basket which extracts the water .from the clothes therein by centrifugal force, throwing the water into the shell from which it drains to the tub beneath. The shell 2 elicircling ,basket 4 serves during the drying operation to confine the water thrown from the clothes on rotation of the basket and to direct4 the water back into the tub which is then disposed in its lowered position. The shell also serves during the washing operation to prevent the water from splashing out of the tub.

By this arrangement the same wash water may be used several times and the tub is easier to fill when near thefloor than in a raised position.

Although I have shown and described a specific construction and arrangement of parts, it is obvious that various alterations of the same maybe made withoutdeparting from the spirit ofthe invention. i

I claim:

Ina washing machine, a revolvable reticuenereling the basket and extending between the basket and the tub when the latter is in its uppermost position Suid shell communieatng at its lower end withthe interior of the tub, said shell acting to collect water thrown from tbe basket when the tub is in its lower-most position and direct the water into the tub, means for rotating the basket, and means Jr'or raising' and lowering the, tub.

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