US1971063A

US1971063A - Cleaning material feeder for washing machines

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Publication number: US1971063A
Application number: US636248A
Authority: US
Inventors: Edward C Chandler; Delamatter Homer
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1932-10-04
Filing date: 1932-10-04
Publication date: 1934-08-21
Anticipated expiration: 1951-08-21

Description

A 1,1934. 51. CHANDLER ET L 1, 71,063

CLEANING MATERIAL FEEDER FORIWASHING MACHINES Filed Oct. 4, 193g y Lm 12 130C114 yam ano-away Patented Aug. 21, 1934 CLEANING MATERIAL FEEDER-FOR WASHING MACHINES Edward. 0. Chandler, Cleveland, and liomer Delamatter, Cleveland Heights, Ohio; Delamatter asslgnor to said Chandler said Application October, 4, 1932, Serial No. 626,248

2 Claims.

' This invention relates to devices for feeding cleaning material in washing'machines of the spray type. Devices of this kind usually comprise a container, which holds a cleaning compound 5 in the form of a powder, and which is placed in the washing machine in such ;position that .part of the spray can enter the container and dissolve the compound, and then flow into the machine, thus charging the wash water l0 terial.

- Heretofore, a device of this nature has em-' bodied a container into which the powdered material has been placed and which has been provided with a water inlet opening at the top and discharge openings in the bottom thereof. Thus the water. trickled through the powder andgradually dissolved the same. We have found however,

that when the machine is stopped, the water" drains entirely from the container and the powder becomes a hardened mass. Thenwhen the machine is started, an intervalof time approximating one-half hour is required before the hardened mass will be dissolved to the point where the *wash water is being charged at the required rate. We have also found that considerable difficulty has been experienced in providing the proper arrangement of the discharge openings for if they are too large the material is wasted while if they are too small, the solution will not 80 flow at the required rate.

An object of our' invention therefore is to provide a container which overcomes the objections enumerated and which can still be placed as a unitin the washing machine, and which will operate in a satisfactory manner by water which flows from the spray. j

In the drawing, the figure is a side elevation, partly in section, of a device embodying our invention. Insuch illustration, we have shown a 40 container which ispreferably'cylindrical inishape and which has a side wall 10 and a bottom wall 11. A cover 12-rnay be hinged to the container atvl3'and held in place by a spring latch 14. The container preferably has a partition 15 which divides it into an inner compartment 16 in which the cleaning material is placed, and an'outer compartment 17. which co-operates with the inner compartment toprovide a tortuous path for the flow of the cleaning solution To this end the water inlet is indicated as an opening 20 in the center of the cover, while 'discharge'openings areshown at 21 in the upper region of the wall 10 and below-the top of the partition. The openings-are spaced substantially equidistantly from.

"the bottom of, the container, while additional with cleansing ma-' openings are shown at 22 in the partition 15 and preferably'in the lower region thereof.

Thus, water entering through the openings 20 will enter the compartment 16, dissolve the cleaning material, flow outwardly through the opening 22, and thence upwardly in the compartment 1''! and out throughthe openings 21. This arrangement thus provides a reservoir of dissolved material within the container so that the device is always available for immediate use. By moving the water in a tortuous path within the containen; the concentration of'the solution may be maintained at a uniform rate. Furthermore, by having' the discharge openings below' the top of the partition, .the water is forced to trickle downwardly through the material and thus to effect a dissolution in a satisfactory manner.

Since the cleaning material is submerged within the water, it is desirable to provide some means for indicating the amount of undissolved material 5' within the container. To this end, we have shown a flat metallic member 30 which willsink in'the water but whichwill bear against the top of the top of the undis'solved material and be suspended thereby. A stem 31 projects upwardly from the 9 part 30 through an opening inthe cover, and thus provides a visible indicator for the amount :of material in the container.

From the foregoing description, it will be apparent that we have provided a cleaning'material 1 feeding device, which will now allow complete drainage of thecontainer whenever the washing machine isstopped, and that we have provided 'an arrangement by means of which a visible indication of the amount ofnndissolved material within the container is provided at all times.

We claim: i

1. A device for dissolving cleaning material comprising a liquid .container,- an impervious partition therein, providing an inner and an outer compartment, a closure having a water inlet opening' above the inner compartment; the outer compartment. having a discharge opening through the container wall adjacent the upper .portion .thereof, and the partition having a plurality of a cleaning material storage compartment and a 1 1 through the opening solution storage compartment, means for introducing water ina downward direction into the material compartment, said partition having a plurality of passageways therein located only ad- 'jacent the lower end thereof but spaced slightly above the bottom, said partition being impervious above the passageways, said container having a discharge passageway extending from the solu-