US1839120A - Stationary tub laundry machine - Google Patents

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Dec. 29, 1.931. H. w. RETTEW STATIONARY TUB LAUNDRY MACHINE 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed NOV. 5, 1928 jravazzzr W777 WW1) Dec. 29. 1931.

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ML L3 .Zfiuaafir Patented Dec. 29, 1931 PATENT OFFICE HARRY w. nn'rmnw, or WYNGOTE, PENNSYLVANIA I STATION .ARY TUB LAUNDRY Application filed November 5, 1928. Serial No. 317,147.

This invention relates to improvements in laundry apparatus and particularly to a combined stationary ing machine.

Inits broadest aspect the invention contemplates laundry apparatus of a combined type in that there is a receptacle that may be used either as a laundry tub or a washing machine by reason of the fact that the receptacle is provided with inlets and an outlet for the delivery and discharge of water thereto and therefrom and a washing machine element in the nature of an agitator removably supported within the receptacle.

More particularly, the primary object of the invention is to provide a receptacle that may be used as a laundry tub or a washing machine, the apparatus being of the stationary type in that the inlets and the outlet,

2 before mentioned, are adapted to be permanently connected to the water system of the dwelling in which it is installed, or in whatever other place it is to be used. This receptacle has removably supported therein a Washing element, preferably consistin of a motor driven agitator mounted on t e receptacle cover, the cover being pivoted so as to permit it to be raised or lowered to position the agitator within the receptacle or to remove it therefrom. IVith a combined structure such as outlined the clothes to be laundered can be handled with considerably more case and convenience-by reason of the fact that they may be washed simply by placing them in the receptacle, lowering the cover to position the agitator in its operating position, and delivering through the inlet connections the desired quantity of water. After the lothes have been washed they need not be removed for rinsing, it only being necessary to open the outlet or discharge connection to drain the receptacle, after which more water can be placed in the receptacle for rinsing purposes. Ariother advantage of the present apparatus is the permanent connection of the inlets and outlet to the Water system of the dwelling or other place of use. These permanent connections render it unnecessary for the user or operator to transport water either to the receplaundry tub and washtacle for use, or from'the receptacle '"ler use. This is not only advantageous so far as convenience to the operator is concerned but it eliminates the accumulation of waste water'on the floor around the receptacle.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain details of construction, combinations and arrangements of parts, all as will hereinafter be more fully described and the novel features thereof par- 0 ticularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating a preferred embodiment of the invention,-

Figure 1 is a plan view of a combined stationary laundry tub and washing machine;

Fig. 2 is an end view thereof with a portion of the tub and its cover broken away to illustrate'details of some of. the interior construction;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary plan view taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, a portion of the lid or cover being broken away;

Fig. 4 is a front edge view ofthe cover with the housing for the operating mechanism of the washing element broken away in order to illustrate portions of this mechanism; v

Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view on the line 5'5 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary sectional view of the tub flange illustrating the application of a wringer on the apparatus, the wringer being shown in elevation.

In accordance with the presentinvention there is a single receptacle which serves as the container of both a washing machine and as a laundry tub. This receptacle indicated at 10, is mounted on a pedestal 9 formed with a base portion 8 for permanent attachment or installation of the apparatus. For purposes of imparting a neat appearance to the apparatus, pedestal 9 is preferably hollow and concealed in the interior thereof is a drain pipe 13,provided with a trap 14, and connected at its upper end with an outlet opening 12 formed in a partition 11 in the upper portion of the pedestal, this partition constituting the lowermost portion of the bottom of the receptacle 10. Flow of'water through discharge opening 12 is controlled by a valve 15. For convenience valve 15 is actuated by means of a lever 16 which, in turn, is adapted to be operated from the up per surface of the receptacle by a rod 17 whose upper end projects through a suitable opening in a horizontal flange 18 formed at the upper edge of the receptacle. For the delivery of water to the receptacle there are two faucets or inlets 19, one for cold water and one for hot water. In the present instance, these valve controlled inlet connections are located in the top of the receptacle although this particular location is not essential. As has been mentioned, the base 8 of the pedestal carrying receptacle 10 is adapted to be permanently aflixed wherever it is installed. Likewise, the inlets 19 and the outlet 12 are adapted to be permanently connected to the Water system of the dwelling, or other point where the apparatus is to be used. That is, faucets 19 are permanently connected to the hot and cold water supply pipes, and the pipe 13 from outlet 12 is adapted to be permanently connected with the usual sewer pipe. With this arangement it is unnecessary to carry to the receptacle water to be used in the washing or rinsing of the clothes and it is, likewise, unnecessary to manually withdraw water from the receptacle either through an outlet faucet or by tapping it to some point from which it may be carried off by the water system.

In view of the facility with which the receptacle may be filled and emptied, said receptacle may conveniently be used both for washing and rinsing clothes and, for this reason, it is provided with washing machine elements that are removable and operatively supported within its interior. As shown in .particular in Figs. 2 and 5 there is an agitator 28 adapted to be positioned within the 7 interior of the receptacle, said agitator being actuated by a suitable driving mechanism. The agitator may, of course, be mounted in various ways, the only essential point being that it be removably supported in its operating position within the receptacle so that after the clothes have been washed and the wash water drained therefrom, the agitator may also be removed to permit rinsing of the clothes. Preferably, however, agitator 28 is carried by a cover 21 pivotally supported at the'top of the receptacle. 'For instance, the cover 21 may be provided with hinged members 22 capable of rocking on pintles 23whereby the cover may be raised and lowered, a hand grip 24 being formed in the cover to facilitateraising and lowering the same. The agitator is actuated preferably by a motor mounted at a suitable point-in the structure. As shown in Figs. 3 to 5 the motor 34 and the connections between the same and the agitator may be enclosed within a housing 25 suspended from the inner surface of cover 21. These operating connections may consist of a worm 32 carried on the motor shaft 33 and meshing with a gear 31, said gear and a crank disk 29 on the agitator shaft 26, being operatively connected by a pitman 30 attached cc.- centrically to said disk 29 and gear 31. Current may be supplied to the motor by lead wires (not shown) and these wires may be concealed in a. suitable outlet 35 in the lid or cover 21.

The apparatus may also comprise a wringer 36 supported at a suitable point on flange 18 of the receptacle. In order that the wringer may be adjustable so that it may assume different positions, flange 18 is provided with a socket 40 in which is received a trunnion formed at the lower end of the wringer frame. In this way the frame is swiveled in the flange, being held in any desired position by a set screw 41 extending through the wall of the socket and impinging against said trunnion. For actuating the wringer there is a motor 39 operatively associated with the wringer rolls 38 through wringer roll gear 37 The receptacle is also provided with an overflow outlet 42 in the side thereof. This outlet may be connected by a suitable conduit with the waste pipe 13, so if, by chance, the supply faucets are unintentionally left open and the discharge opening left closed, water deposited in t e receptacle cannot rise to a level where it will reach the housing 25.

Advantages of a combined apparatus of this nature might be said to be numerous but the most important ones are the convenience with which the clothes may be both washed and rinsed. Both of these operations may be carried outwithout removing the clothes from the washing receptacle to a rinsing receptacle and without the operator transporting any water whatever, it only being necessary to open drainage opening 12 to drain of! wash water and, after this is done, close the discharge opening and again fill the receptacle with fresh water through the supply connections 19. In other words, both washing and rinsing is done in one stationary tub with water that is handled with the same degree of ease as if the two operations were separately carried out in the two separate stationary tubs that are now comm only found in practically all households. This is true, even though the washing means are electrically driven because the motor, the agitator and the operating connections between the two can be removed from the interior of the receptacle simply by raising the cover 21. As has been pointed out it is not necessary to mount the motor at the particular point shown in the present instance but it is, of

course, necessary that the agitator be capable of being operatively and removably positioned within the receptacle. In other words,

it is possible to positon the motor at the exterior of the receptacle.

What I claim is:

1. In a combined stationary laundry tub and washing machine, a receptacle having valve controlled inlets and an outlet, a hollow supporting pedestal for said receptacle, a drain pipe within said pedestal connected to said outlet, a pivoted cover for said receptacle, and a motor driven agitator carried by said pivoted cover and adapted to be operatively but removably positioned within the receptacle.

2. In a combined stationary tub and washing machine, a receptacle having value controlled inlets and outlet, a cover for said receptacle, a housing on the inner side of said cover, a shaft journaled in said cover and housing, a motor, driving connections between said shaft and motor located within said housing, said receptacle having an overflow opening therein below said housing, and an agitator on said shaft below said housing, said cover being pivotally mounted on the receptacle to move the agitator and its driving connections in to and out of the receptacle without detachment of the cover whereby the receptacle may be used as a washing machine or a laundry tub.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed by signature.

HARRY W. RETTEW.

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