US249940A

US249940A - Frank a

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Publication number: US249940A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1881-11-22
Anticipated expiration: 1898-11-22

Description

WR F. A. HOUOK.

CLOTHES POUNDBR.

No. 249,940. y Patented Nov. 22,1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK A. HOUOK, OF HOLDEN, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WILLIAM M. OOVENTRY, OF SAME PLACE.

CLOTHES-POUNDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,940, dated November 22, 1881.

Application filed September 15, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, FRANK A. HoUcK, of Holden, in the county of Johnson and State of Missouri, have invented certain Improvements in Clothes-Founders; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figurel isaperspective viewof the pounder, looking into the base. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view.

The. object of my invention is to provide a clothes-pounder which willeiiciently and rapidly clean clothes 5 and my invention consists in certain details of construction, as will be hereinafter described, and specifically claimed.

In order that those skilled in the art may make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the manner in which I have carried it out.

In the said drawings, A represents the l'unnel-shaped base, B the pipe, and C the enlargement forming the valve-chamber. Two rods, a a, enter sockets b b, which lie along opposite sides ot' tube B, and, spreading, furnish snpports for a cross-bar handle, l), by which the machine is moved up andv down. Near the end of the base, as seen in Fig. 2, is secured a diaphragm, E, provided with a central opening, c. Secured to the diaphragm are a series ot' radial vanes, d, which meet at the center and are secured to a ring, t', smaller than the opening in diaphragm E. These vanes at their outer ends are ot' a depth equal to the distance from the edge ot the base to the diaphragm, and graduallyrecede in width as they approach the center, so that in general outline the base portions strike the clothes. Near the upper end is a valve, R, which operates in a manner usual with pounders of this class. The advantage of the concaved bottom is that the outcil edge pressing down over the clothes farther than the center holds the clothes in a looselike bunch while the pressure ot' the air forces the suds through them more rapidly than when the clothes are pressed down ilat together.

I am aware that heretofore clothes-pounders have been made with flaring bases, air-valves at their tops,pdiaphragms in their bases, divided in various ways, and hence I make no broad claim to any part of this machine; but,

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Iu a clothes-pounder provided at its upper end with a valve and valve-chamber, the aring base, provided with a diaphragm having a central opening, in combination with and attached to a series of radial vanes, d, secured to a central ring, Ii, having their outer ends of greater width than their inner ends, substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

.FRANK A. HOUCK.

Witnesses: l

JOHN J. SMITH, A. A. STEWART.