US146071A - Improvement in washing-machines - Google Patents

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Washing-Machinesi- M ami IIN IIUIIII UNITED dSTnTEs PATENT OFFICE- PIERCE HIBBS, OF KNOBNOSTER, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specication forming part` of Letters Patent No. 146,071, dated December 30,1873; application filed l November 22, 1873.

To all whom it may concern: pressure of the clothes, and is pressed down- Be it known that I, PIERCE HIBBS, of Knob ward upon the clothes. By removing or noster, in the county of Johnson, State of Misunhooking the ring b', the wash-board may souri, have invented certainnew and useful Imt be thrown over upon the shaft E as a pivot, provements in Washing-Machines 5 and I do out of the way, for putting in or removhereby declare that the following is a full, ing clothes. On the inside, to each side of i clear, and exact description thereof, reference the box A, is pivoted an arm or lever, H, which beinghad to the accompanying drawings and extends down between the side of the box and to theletters of referencemarkedthereon,which the wash-board. To the lower ends: of the lcform a part of this specification. vers H His attached and braced a rubber, con- The nature of my invention consists in the sist-ing simply of two curved side rails, I I, conconstruction and arrangement of a washingnected by means of angular slats or bars J J, machine, which is simple in construction, easy placed suitable distances apart. This rubber of operation, durable and effective, and not liais located below the wash-board, and is moved ble to get out of order, as will be hereinafter or swung back and forth by means of the lemore fully set forth. vers H H.

In order to enable others skilled in the art In operation, the clothes are washed by the to which my invention appertains to make and rubber operating on the clothes against the use the same, I will now proceed to describe rollers D D ofthe wash-board, the clothes bcits construction and operation, referring to the ing placed on the rubber, and the wash-board ,1 annexed drawing, in whichthen turned down on them and hooked in Figure 1 is a plan view, and Fig. 2 a longlplace. The dirt in the clothes will, as it bef1 tudinal vertical section, of my washing-macomes loosened, settle down between the slats chine. of the rubber into the bottom of the box.

A represents the wash-tub or box, of any This machine, though simple in construcsuitable dimensions, provided with a semicirtion and easilyT operated, is durable and effectcular bottom, B, and supported upon suitable ive in use, and can be operated with very litlegs. Inside of the box A is located a semitle trouble. circular wash-board, composed of two side Having thus fully described my invention, pieces, G C, connected by suitable crossbars, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by and having a series of rollers, D D, arranged Letters Patent, is in semicircular form along their edges, between l. The combination of the removable board the two side pieces. These rollers D D maybe G D and box A B, shaft E, lever G, and yieldeither plain, iiuted, or corrugated, as desired. ing bands b', all constructed and arranged for At one end of the wash-board C D, thus conopera-tion as and for the purpose specified. structed,ashaft,E,passestransverselythrough 2. The box A, slotted at a, and board C D, it, and the ends of said shaft rest in slots a a arranged on shaft E, bands b', pins d', and lein the sides of the box A. Around each end ver G, in combination with the rubber I J and of the shaft E passes a rubber band, b, conarms H, all constructed and arranged for op y necting the same with a pin, d, below the shaft eration as and for the purpose speciiied.

in the side of the box. On top of the wash- In testimony that I claim the foregoingas board is fastened, longitudinally, in the center, my own I affix my signature in presence of two a bar or levfer, G, which extends beyond the witnesses. other end o the Wash-board over the end of the box, and is connected by a rubber band or PIERCE HIBBS" J ring, b', with a pin, d', in the end of the box. Witnesses: By means of the rubber rings b b', the wash- S. G. KEELY, board is allowed to yield upward to the MARION BIGLEY.

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