US242028A

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Publication number: US242028A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1881-05-24
Anticipated expiration: 1898-05-24

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" W. E. OSBORN.

Wash Board.

No. 242,028. Patented May 24, L881;

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM E. OSBORN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WASH-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 242,028, dated May 24, 1881.

Application filed April 14, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. OSBORN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Wash-Boards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists in the combination, in a wash-board, of a central partition, two uprights which project on opposite sides beyond the surfaces of the central partition, two rubbing-surfaces, one on each face of the central partition, and two shelves hinged between the uprights and adapted to swing up against the central partition or down in a position at right angles thereto, so that a convenient support for soap or other materials is obtained whichever rubbing-surface may be in use, and that the shelf not in use can be folded inward to a position in which it does not interfere with the use of the wash-board.

This invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my wash-board. Fig. 2 is a face view, partly in section. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

In these drawings the letter A designates the central partition of my wash-board, to the edges of which are firmly secured the uprights B, the width of which is greater than the thickness of the partition, as shown in Fig. 3. On the opposite sides of the partition A are formed or secured the rubbing-surfaces G O, which extend up to traverses D D, fastened between the (No model.)

uprights B. Above these traverses are situated the shelves E E, one on each side of the partition A, and in order to allow these shelves to swing up or down they are provided with dowel-pins a a at their ends, Fig. 2, which engage with sockets in the uprights B, and the traverses D are provided with projections b in their middle, to form supports for the shelves when the latter are turned down into a position at right angles to the partition A.

By means of the shelves E E a convenient support for soap, brushes, and other articles is obtained when the wash-board is in use, and at the same time, if one of the rubbing-surfaces is in use the shelf on the opposite side of the partition A can be turned up flat against said partition, so that it does in no wise interfere with the operation of the wash-board.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, in a wash-board, of the central partition, the two uprights which pro ject on opposite sides beyond the surfaces of said partition, the two rubbing-surfaces, one on each face of the partition, the two shelves hinged between the uprights, and a support for each, all constructed to operate substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WM. E. OSBORN. [L. s] Witnesses W. HAUFF, J. HERMANN WAHLEBS.