US2139968A - Clothes drainer - Google Patents

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Dec. 13, 1938. I G. MCLACHLAN 2,139,968

CLOTHES DRAINER Filed Nov. 25, 1936 ATTORNEYS Patented Dec. 13, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

The invention relates to a drain device and. more especially to clothes drainers.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a drainer of this character, wherein the same by the construction thereof is adaptable for fitting the usual or ordinary wash boiler so that the clothes when washed therein can be readily and easily drained and the water from said clothes will flow back into the boiler without spilling.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a drainer of this character, wherein the same is of novel construction so that it can be readily and easily handled and conveniently placed upon a wash boiler and when in position thereon will permit in a convenient manner the placing of clothes therein for draining purposes without any overflow occurring or the spilling of the Water outside of the boiler, the clothes being removed from the wash boiler more easily and thoroughly drained when taken therefrom.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a drainer of this character, which is simple in construction, thoroughly reliable and efficient in operation, light in weight yet strong, durable, and inexpensive to manufacture.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which discloses the preferred embodiment of the invention and pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure l is a fragmentary side elevation partly broken away of a wash boiler showing the drainer constructed in accordance with the invention applied thereto, the drainer being partly in section.

Figure 2 is a top plan view.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the drainer.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views in the drawing.

Referring to the drawing in detail, A designates generally a portion of a wash boiler which is of the usual well known construction adaptable for the boiling and washing of clothes, in this instance being of substantially elliptical form and having exteriorly thereof at opposite rounded ends handles B as is customary.

Adapted to be supported by the boiler A at the open top thereof is a clothes drainer constituting the present invention and comprising a scoop-like body formed with an inclined bottom 5, vertical side walls 6, a relatively shallow front wall I and a comparatively deep rear inclined wall 8, respectively, the incline of this rear wall being in the direction of the high end of the inclined bottom 5 of said body.

The shallow front wall 1 next to the bottom 5 is provided with spaced drain holes or openings 9 while at the top edge of this wall is an outwardly and downwardly curled flange [0 which is of a length greater than the width of the front wall I so as to have opposite ends protrude a distance beyond the side walls 6 of the body so as to per- 10 mit these ends to contact with the edge of the open top of the boiler A and in this manner the said body of the drainer will be supported at its front end when at rest as shown in Figures 1 and 2 of the drawing. Should the boiler A be of a width considerably greater than the length of the flange then a bar H will straddle the open top of the boiler and such flange It hook thereon, the bar being shown by dotted lines in Figure 4 while the flange I0 is shown in full lines.

Attached to the bottom 5 of the body of the drainer next to the rear wall 8 thereof is a pair of downwardly curved feet l2, these being angularly disposed with respect to each other near opposite sides of the body of the drainer and are adapted to saddle the edge of the open top of the boiler so that in this manner the body of the drainer will be held at rest upon the boiler.

The rear wall 8 of the body of the drainer is formed with an outwardly and downwardly curved extension l3 which with the flange l0 devoid of the bar ll afford hand grips or handles for the drainer so that it can be carried in the hands of a person in a convenient manner.

The side walls 6 of the body of the drainer are formed with upwardly arched top edges M.

In the use of the drainer when the clothes have been boiled or washed within the boiler A, these clothes can be placed with dispatch and in a convenient manner in the body of the drainer so that thorough draining of the clothes can be had and the drained liquid will flow through the holes or openings 9 back into the boiler as should be clearly apparent from Figure 1 of the drawing.

What is claimed is:

A clothes drainer of the kind described comprising a body formed with an inclined bottom, vertical side walls, a relatively shallow end wall joined with the side walls and rising vertically from the bottom at substantially right angles to its plane and a comparatively deep inclined opposite end wall, respectively, the side walls at their upper edges being upwardly arched and lying flush at opposite ends thereof with the said end walls, the incline of the inclined end wall being at an acute angle to the inclined bottom and sloping in the same direction thereof, said shallow end wall having a transverse row of spaced openings meeting the bottom, an upwardly, outwardly and downwardly curled top flange on the shallow end wall and of a length greater than the width of said body for the extending of said flange laterally beyond opposite sides of said body, an

upwardly, outwardly and downwardly curled extension at the top of the said inclined end wall and coextensive with the width of the latter, and hook-like feet fixed exteriorly of the body at the bottom thereof adjacent to the inclined end wall and arranged in convergent relation to each other in the direction of the shallow end wall.

- GORDON L. McLACHLAN.

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