US146578A

US146578A - Improvement in washing-machines

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Publication number: US146578A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1874-01-20
Anticipated expiration: 1891-01-20

Description

DARLINGTUN.

Washing-Machines.

i Pafentedjan. 20.1874.

N0.ll1,6,578A

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN DARLINGTON, OF MAZOMANIE, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,578, dated January 20, 1874 application filed March 29, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN DARLINGTON, of Mazomanie, in the county of Dane and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and Improved Washing-Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being hadsto the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification.

The invention will first be fully described and then pointed out in the claims.

Figure l is a crossfsectional elevation; Fig. 2, a perspective, and Figs. 3 and 4 detail, views.

A A are nprights connected at the upper and lower ends by longitudinal piece B. H is a ii'uted top roll, and C O C bottom and 4smaller plain rolls. Between rolls H and O clothes are passed in the usual way, whilein order tcgirevent them from wrapping, and to cause them to move evenly and surfer a uniform compression, I use spring-pressed guards K-one on each side of the machineand pressing lightly against the outer rolls C C. Suitable springs L L for them may be fastened on the lower connecting piece B. The rolls O are journaled in arc-bearings, balanced by rods E Eon lever F, and swing from link G attached to the upper piece, B, while the large iiuted roll H is journaled in bearings I I that slide on rods J and against springs J. By thus coinbining a series of swinging .lower rolls and a large springpressed top roll, the one pair of springs J J keep all the rolls in their true rela tive position, and do it more eectually than is usually the case, the roll H regulating the position of the subjacent rolls G. M is a bar held by and sliding in a clip, N, on lower piece B, provided on one end with the pivot'ed shoe fm, and fastened by the cam-lever O in any desired position. l? is a hook-bar, which is made fast to one of the side pieces A,`aud fastcned to eyes on the inside of tub, while the bar M that slides through the other side abuts against the opposite side of tub, its shoe m adjusting itself to any inclination. By this device, my machine may be applied to tubs greatly varying in size.

This machine, in its practical ope-ration, works with great facility and efficiency.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

'1. The combination, with the rolls C, of the spring-prcssed guards K K--one on each sideas and for the purpose described.

2. The rolls C O O, journaled in swinging bearings, and the roll H, in sliding bearings, in combination with the springs J J, as and for the purpose set forth.

' JOHN DARLINGION. In presence of l J. C. OOWDERY, B. l. CowDERY.