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UNITED STATES -PATENT OEEICE.

JOHN S. HEADEN AND JOHN I. SPAIN HOWER, OF PLEASANT HILL, MISSOURI.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,127', dated March 2, 1880.

Application filed May 17, 1879.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN S. HEADEN and JOHN I. SPAINHOWER, of Pleasant Hill, in the county of (lass and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and Operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specication, and to the letters and figures of refer- .cnce marked thereon.

Our invention is an improvement in that class O'f boiler Washing-machines in which au oscillating lever or analogous device is e1nployed to press or squeeze the clothes, said lever Working in a-clothes-receptacle having a perforated semicircular bottom and placed in a sheet Or galvanized iron boiler that is intended to be set over a lire.

Our invention relates to the construction of the upper portion Of the clothes-receptacle proper and the detachable parts which constitute the top or cover thereof, as hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specicatiOn,Figure lis a vertical lon gitudinal section Of our apparatus7 and Fig. 2is a plan view. Fig. Sis a reduced end sectional view of the apparatus.

The rectangular boiler or suds-box A is constructed of galvanized iron, and thus adapted to be placed on a stove or over a grate.

The clothes-receptacle or squeezing-box has straight parallel sides and a semicircular perforated bottom, B.

The plates b extend across the upper side of the box B, contiguous tO each end of the same, and thus rigidly connect its sides. Said plates b, together with ribs or flanges b', attached to the inner sides of the box directly beneath and parallel to the plates, form sockets for re ception of the press-boards D', to Which the wooden lids D are hinged. The pressboards and lids being thus connected are adapted to be detached together from the box, and, when detached, the box is left entirely Open, except box B for placing clothes therein or removing A them therefrom; nor do they prevent convenient use of a hand rubbing-board therein when desired. l

The free ends of the lids D rest on the up per edge of the presser on each side of its handle c2. By oscillating the presser C the clothes placed in the box will be alternately raised out of the suds and squeezed between the presser and the plates D', and then allowed to fall back into the water. The clothes are thus rapidly cleansed, and, in general, do not require to be rubbed.

The clothes-receptacle Or pressilngbox7 constructed as above described, tits in the boiler A, being supported on bars c c, so that it is held immovable. Yet the said box is adapted fordetachment Or removal from the boiler, so that the water may drain from the clothes and both the press-box and boiler may be cleansed preparatory to reuse.

What we claim is- The combination, with the box or clothesreceptacle B, having the end sockets formed Of the ribs b and plates I), which latter connect the sides of the box and have a curved inner edge, of the pressbars D and lids D, hinged together and forming the detachable cover or top of said box, as shown and described.

In testimony that We claim the above we have hereunto subscribed our names in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN SAMUEL HEADEN. JOHN rvEnsON srAlNHOWER.

Witnesses:

W. H. PARKER, V. G. GUNNELL.

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