US1626154A - Apparatus for washing clothes - Google Patents

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April 26, 1927.

W. B. REEVES ET AL APPARATUS FOR WASHING, CLOTHES Filed May '5, 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 A9111 1927' w. B. REEVES ET AL APPARATUS FOR wAsrmm CLOTHES Filed May 5. 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 1 Inventory q ffaofiz By m.

Attorney Ill Patented Apr. 26, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATIENT OFFICE.-

WIIJIJIAM B. REEVES AND MARTAIN J. POOLE, OF \VI-IITEHEAD, NORTH CAROLINA.

APPARATUS non. WASHING c'no'r'nns.

Application filed May 5,

Our present invention has to do with the washing of clothes, and contemplates the provision of an apparatus for rendering the washing of clothes easy, the apparatus being susceptible of quick and easy application and being adapted to be operated with but a minimum amount of effort and one so operated to expedite the thorough cleansing of clothes.

To the attainment of the foregoin the invention consistsv in the improvement as hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification:-

Figure 1 is a plan view illustrating our novel apparatus as properly positioned upon a tub; the tub being illustrated by dotted lines.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same.

Figure 3 is an end elevation showing the apparatus on the tub.

Figure 1 is an enlarged section taken through the novel apparatus in the plane indicated by the line 4- 1 of Figure 2.

Figure 5 is anenlarged detailsection illustrative of the means for effecting connection of the apparatus to a t-ub.

Figure '6 is a fragmentary perspective showing in inverted position one end of one of the attaching bars of the apparatus.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings.

The tub l which we show in dotted lines in l ligures 1 to 3 is an ordinary zinc wash tub having a rim 2. The standard sizes of tubs such as indicated are twenty-four inches and twenty-six inches, respectively, in diameter.

Among other elements our novel apparatus, in the preferred embodiment of our invention, comprises two spaced standards, each standard being made up of two sections designated by 3, and the sections 3 bein 1926. Serial No. 106,888.

t'udinally slotted at 8 to receive the shanks of headed projections 9 on the standard sections 3, and it will be noticed that each slot 8 terminates at one end in an enlargement 10 so that when said enlargements 10 are in coincidence with the heads of the projections 9, the bars 7 may be readily disconnected from the standard sections. At its underside and adjacent to each of its ends, each bar 7 is provided with two grooves 11, the said grooves 11 being designed to rest over the rims of tubs so as to maintain the bars 7 against casual endwise movement, and two grooves are provided adjacent to each end ofeach bar 7 in order that each bar may be readily accommodated to a tub twenty-four inches in diameter or to tub twenty-six inches in diameter. The grooves 11 are dis posed in the peculiar manner best shown in Figure 6, 1. e., approximately at acute angles to the longitudinal median line of the bars 7 so that the circular rim 2 will properly enter the seats, and it will also be noticed that each bar 7 is provided adjacent to each of its ends with a longitudinal vertically disposed slot 12, the slot 12 being designed for the longitudinal play of the shanks 13 of hooks 14, designed to engage the rim 2 of a tub irrespective of whether the said rim is seated in the inner or the outer groove of the bar. The slots 12 are shouldered at 13*, and the hook shanks 13 are provided with handle enlargements 15, and coiled springs 16 are arranged about the hook shanks and are interposed between the shoulders 13 and the handle enlargements so that the hooks 1% will be maintained in tigl'it though yielding engagement with the rim 2 of the tub. Manifestly when the handles or handle enlargements 15 are forced downwardly in the upper enlarged portions of the slots 12 the hooks 14: will be disengaged from the rim 2 and the bars 7 and the apparatus as a whole may then be lifted out of engagen'ient with the tub.

The-standards each formed of two sections 3 are connected together through the medium of longitudinal rods 17 in parallelism, and by reference to Figure 3, it will be not-iced that the opposed edges of two of the sections 3 are recessed as designated by for the vertical play of one trunnion 19 of the main roller 20 of the apparatus, while the opposed edges of the sections 3 of the other standards are bored at 21, Figure 4,

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and the inner sides of the said bores 21 are recessed as designated by 22 for the vertical play of the other trunnion 23 of the roller 20. Expansion springs numbered 24: and 25, respectively, are housed in the sections 3 and are interposed between the crown bar 5 of the apparatus and the roller trunnion with a view to holding the roller 20 yieldingly to its work and in that way increasing the efficiency of the apparatus. The trunnion 19 is merged into a crank 26, Figure 1 and Fig ure 2, through the medium of which the roller 20 may be powerfully turned about its axis.

The main or comparatively large roller 20 of the apparatus is provided in its periphe w with lziingitudinal grooves 27. The said grooves 27 are closed at their ends, and extend from points adjacent to though spaced from one end of the roller 20 to points adjacent to though spaced from the oppos 1te end of said roller. By virtue of this special provision, it Will be apparent that the apparatus will operate more smoothly when thin garments are being washed or the rollers are being turned when no clothes are between the comparatively larger roller 20 and the several comparatively small rollers 28, Figure 4.

As will be understood from Figure 4, the sections 3 of the standards are recessed and bored for the play of the trunnions 29 of the small rollers 28 and the expansion of the spring 30 below the said trunnions 29. The slots 30 are so disposed, and the springs in the sections 3 are so located that the smaller rollers 28 will be permitted to assume positions in the arc of a circle so as to conform to the circumference of the large roller 20.

It will be apparent from the foregoing that in the practical operation of our novel apparatus, the clothes to be Washed are passed between the large roller 20, on the one hand, and the small rollers 28 on the other, the said rollers accommodating themselves to the clothes and acting against the clothes to express water and dirt from the clothes and in that way facilitate the cleansing of the same.

The several rollers 20, and 28 of the apparatus may be and preferably are formed of appropriate wood, and hence it will be appreciated that the apparatus w1th proper usage will last for an indefinite period of time.

It will also be appreciated from the foregoing that in general the apparatus is sim ple and inexpensive in construction and is well adapted to withstand the usage to which apparatus of corresponding character is ordinarily subjected.

We have specifically described the preferred embodiment of our invention in order to impart an exact understanding of said embodiment in all of its details. We do not desire, however, to be understood as limiting ourselves to the precise construction shown and described, our invention being defined by our appended claims within the scope of which modifications may be made withoutdeparture from our invention.

Having described our invention, what we claim and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is

1. An apparatus for w shing clothes including, in combination, spaced standards, clothes washing means between the standards, bars carried by the standards, each bar having in its under side adjacent to each of its ends grooves to receive a tub rim and also having adjacent to each of its ends longi tudinal vertically disposed slots adjacent to said grooves, each of said slots having at its intermediate point in its height a shoulder, and also having a comparatively large upper portion, hooks having shanks disposed in said slots and also having handle enlargements, and coil springs about said hooked shanks and disposed between the shoulders in the slots and handle enlargement on the shank.

2. An apparatus for washing cloth-es in cluding a frame structure, clothes washing means in the frame structure, a pair of bars detachably engaged with the frame structure, a groove extending transversely across the under edge at each end of each bar, and tub rim engaging means at the ends of the bars for engaging rims disposed in the grooves.

3. A supporting structure for attachment to a washing tub comprising a pair of spaced parallel bars, each bar having in its under side adjacent to each of its ends two grooves to receive a tub rim and also having adjacent to each of its ends a longitudinal vertically disposed slot adjacent said grooves, each of said grooves having at an intern1ediate point at its height a shoulder and also having a comparatively large upper portion, hooks having shanks disposed in said slots and also having handle enlargements, and coil springs about said hook shanks-and dis posed between the shoulders in theslots and the handle enlargements on the shanks.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures.

VVILLIAM B. REEVES. MARTAIN J. POOLE.

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