US285934A

US285934A - smith

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Publication number: US285934A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-10-02
Anticipated expiration: 1900-10-02

Description

(No Model.) 2 Sheets she'et 1 0. J. SMITH a; R. J. JOHNSON.

STEAM WASHER.

No. 285,934. Patented O0t.2, 1883.

WITNESSES v Attorney; 7

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

O. J. SMITH 8v R. J. JOHNSGN.

' STEAM WASHER.

No. 285,934. Patented Oct. 2, 1883.

nrrnn STATES OBEDIAH .I. SMITH AND RICHARD J. JOHNSON, OF MEADVILLE, MISSOURI.

STEAM-WASH ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,934, dated October 2, 1883. Application filed April 24, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, OBEDIAH' J. SMITH and RICHARD J. JOHNSON, citizens of the United States, residing-lat Meadville, in the county of 5 Linn and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Steam-\Vasher, of which .the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to steam wash-boilers;

1 and it consists in certain improvements in the construction of the same, the object of which is to produce a wash-boiler which shall be simple in construction and convenient and effective in operation, as will be hereinafter fully I described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings hereto annexed, Figure 1 is a perspective view of our improved washboiler with the cover removed and parts of the cylinder having been broken away for the purpose of showing the construction more clearly. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view,and Fig. 4 is a detail View of a portion of the cylinder.

The same letters refer to the same parts in all the figures. I

Ain the drawings designates the body of the waslrboiler, which consists of a suitable rectangular box, provided at its upper end or edge with an interior annular flange, B,whereby a groove, 0, is formed circumferentially around the edge of the box. In this groove is fitted the cover D,which may be semicylindrical in shape, "as shown, and provided with a flange, E, overlapping the edge of the box, so as to form a nearly steanrtight joint. The sides of the box or boiler are provided with recesses F F in their upper edges, forming o bearings for the stub-axles G and H upon the sides of the revolving cylinder I, which is mounted upon the said axles in the boxor boiler. The axle G is bent so as to form a crank, J, by means of which the cylinder may be operated. The "cyli11der, as we prefer to call it, is, properly speaking, of a double frustum shape, or tapering toward both ends, as clearly shown in Fig. 3 ofthe drawings. The tapering ends of the cylinder are provided withopenings K,which are wider at their inso ner than at their outer ends, and said openings are covered by buckets L, which correspond with the said openings in being much deeper at their inner than at their outer sides.

Upon the inside of the tapering ends of the 5 5 cylinder, in rear of the openings K and buckets L, are secured ribs or deflectors M, which are triangular in cross-section, of the shape clearly shown in the drawings, and which serve to deflect the sudsand steam toward the ends of the cylinder, These ribs which connect the sidesof the cylinder with the ends of the same also serve as braces, which add greatly to the strength and durability of the device. One of the sides of the cylinder has a hinged 6 5 cover, N, provided with a spring catch or look, O,by1neans of which access may be gained to the interior of the cylinder.

In manufacturing the cylinder we first make a narrow ring or band, P, the edges of which are provided with wires Q, by which they are greatly strengthened. To this band the tapering ends of the cylinder are seamed, as shown in the drawings, this construction being found exceedingly strong and durable.

The flange B on the inside of the rim of the box or boiler A is provided with openings B, through which water, which, during operation, splashes into the groove O,will drain back into the box.

The operation and advantages of this invention will be readily understood from the fore going description, taken in connection with the drawings hereto annexed. The clothes to be washed are placed in the cylinder, which is then to be revolved in a box or boiler, which is placed upon the stove, and which contains the hot suds. The suds and steam pass through the buckets L and openings K, and are deflected against the ends of the boxor cylinder 0 and thrown forcibly through the clothes, which are thereby thoroughly cleansed.

WVe claim as our invention and desire to se cure by Letters Patent of the United States- In a waslrboiler of the class described, the 5 combination, with the suds box ,or boiler, of the herein-described revolving cylinder, having tapering or frustuln shaped ends, pro- Vided with openings K, widest at their inner In testimony that we claim the foregoing as ends, bucketsL, arranged over the said openour own we havehereto affixed our signatures IO ings, as described, and the interiorly-arranged in presence of two witnesses. ribs or deflectors M, triangular in cross-sec- OBEDIAH JASON SMITH.

tion and connecting the sides with the ends RICHARD J. JOHNSON. of the cylinder, which are thereby braced, as Witnesses: herein shown and specified, for the purpose I DAVID B. SHAMOR,

set forth. JOHN G. BELL.