US22801A - Washing-machine - Google Patents

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@ENCE JOHN HEBBEN, OF MEDBORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 22,801, dated February 1, 1859.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN HEBDEN, of Medford, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful or Improved Machine for Washing and Mangling Clothes; and I do hereby declare that the same is fully described and represented in the following specification and t-he accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l, exhibits a side view. F ig. 2, a vertical and transverse section, and Fig. 3, a longitudinal section of it. Fig. 4, is another transverse section of the machine it being taken through the rollers of the mangle.

In such drawings A, denotes the suds reservoir, which is furnished with a reciprocating dasher B, applied to it so as to be capable not ionly of being vibrated on an axis (its journals being shown at a, a, as resting in boxes or bearings b, but of being removed or turned out of the way or place of a platform C, so as to enable such platform to be slid into its grooved supports D, D, extending above the suds reservoir and making part of a frame E, for supporting the same.. The said supports or standards D, D, should be furnished with horizontal grooves o, o or equivalent devices for supporting the table or platform in -place with respect to a mangle F, composed principally of two drums or cylinders f, g, and enabling such platform to be taken away from the rest of the machine when such is to be used particularly for washing clothes and freeing' them from the liquid used in cleansing them. The two drums f, g, of the mangle are supported in the frame E, and in front of and over the mouth of the suds reservoir as exhibited by the drawings.

The journals h, 7L, of the lower one of the drums are sustained in stationary boxes z', z',

(see Fig. 4) while those 7c, 7c, of the upper drum should be supported by sliding or movable boxes Z, Z, each of them being forced down by a pressure lever m, connected with a weighted lever u, by a vertical rod o.

A driving shaft p, arranged with respect to the rollers of the mangle as shown in the drawings carries a crank g, on one end, and a fly wheel o, on its other end. Besides these it has a pinion s, which by means of an intermediate gear to transmit motion to a gear wheel u, fixed on one of the shafts of the rollers of the mangle, these rollers being connected by two gea-rs of the same size as those a, o, w, in order that a rotary movement imparted to one roller when the crank is turned may produce a similar motion of the other roller.

When the table or platform is put in place on its grooves it serves to support clothes and directthem between the rollers of the mangle while they are being put in operation but while the machine is to be employed for washing clothes and freeing them from the cleansing .liquid the platform is to be removed from the machine. Vhen the platform is not in place, and the dasher is in the suds reservoir, and the latter is supplied with water and clothes, the dasher may be moved or worked so as to cleanse the clothes. After they may have been thoroughly or sufficiently cleansed, they may be deprived of most of the liquid within them by simply raising them upward in the reservoir, introducing them between the rollers f, g, and putting such rollers in motion in a direction to cause the clothes to be drawn between them. As the clothes pass between the rollers they (the clothes) will not only be drawn out of the reservoir', but their liquid contents will be expressed from them and will run back into it. All this having been accomplished the dasher should be removed from the reservoir and the platform put in place in the frame E. The machine will then be ready for the operation of mangling or smoothing the clothes. Thus it will be seen that the machine as constructed can perform three functions viz. that of washing the clothes, that of freeing them from the washing liquid and finally that of mangling or smoothing them,l the rollers of the mangle by reason of the movable platform being rendered capable of not only mangling the clothes but of being used to free them from the water after they may have been washed.

I claim- The machine constructed substantially in manner and to operate as described, that is to say with a removable dasher or its equivalent, and a removable platform combined and arranged with the suds reservoir and mangle rollers essentially as set forth, the

Whole not only enabling the operations of In testimony of which I have hereunto Washing the clothes epressng the Water set my signature. rom them and manghng them to be cal- JOHN HEBBEN.

red on consecutively but causing clothes 5 to be drawn out of the suds reservoir and `Wtnessesz the expressed Water to be received into it as R. H. EDDY, specified. F. l). HALE, Jr.

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