US225647A - Washing-machine - Google Patents

Description

J. P. SGHLOSSSTEIN.

Washing-Machine.

No. 225,647. Patented Mamie, I880.

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ILPETERS, PNOTD-LITI1OGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. u c

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN F. SOHLOSSSTEIN, OF FOUNTAIN CITY, WISCONSIN.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,647, dated March 16, 1880.

Application filed July 28, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I. JOHN F. SoHLosss'rniN, of Fountain City, in the county of Buffalo and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates more particularly to the devices which act upon the clothes and to mechanism which aetnates these devices. Their action is one of compression or squeezing, as distinguished from rotary or other dcviees, which are liable to strain, damage, or tear the clothes.

Figure 1 is a vertical section through y y of Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a vertical section through line 00 x of Fig. 1, and Figs. 3 and 4 details en larged.

Within the case or box A, which is preferably made of somewhat oval form, I place a crank-shaft, B, having two or more pairs of cranks, c, projecting, as shown, from opposite sides of this shaft, and connect each crank, by means of a pitman or link, (1, with the bent arms or, levers 0, all of which levers are ful' crumed on a shaft, f.

To the lower or free ends of each bent lever 0, I affix firmly a fiat board or paddle, 9, having each a series of cavities or depressions, g, on its inner or acting face.

The links (I may be connected to the crankshaft by coupling-boxes h, or by equivalent means, and to the bent levers e by pins, the links having two or more holes to allow of adjnsting the positions of the levers 0 upon the links, and consequently the positions of each pair of opposite paddles relatively to each other, as occasion may require. A crank, i, on

the crank-shaft, serves to revolve the same to operate the machine, and j is a hinged cover for opening and closing the box.

The pitnien are so applied to the cranks that one pair of paddles shall be approaching each other while its next adjacent pair (or pairs, if more than two pairs be used) shall be receding from each other.

Instead of the cavities 9, holes may be made through the paddles, and these cavities or holes let the fabrics slightly sink into them, facilitating the cleansing.

When the machine is in operation it will now be seen that the paddles in their action do not pull, scrape, or strain the fabric, nor can they tear off the buttons, hooks and eyes, or other attachments from the garments, nor enter and tear out button-holes, pockets, slits, or other openings therein, and as one pair of paddles is always moving away from the clothes after having squeezed them, that portion of the clothes then lying between them is at this stage free and loose, thus permitting a freer and fuller action upon them of the ap proachin g pair or pairs of paddles.

While the paddle or compressor arms 0 are shown as so applied to the links and cranks that one pair of compressors approach while the next pair recede from each other, it will be evident that they may be so arranged that all shall approach and all reeede together; but I prefer the arrangement and action shown.

I claim The combination, in a washing-machine, of the revolving crank-shaft B, provided with pairs of cranks, links 01, and the pairs of levers 6, provided each with a compressor or paddle, g, the combination being and operating substantially as shown and described.

JOHN F. SOHLOSSSTEIN.

Witnesses:

J AGO SToLL, CHRIST. FLORIN.

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