US29714A - Washing-machine - Google Patents

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UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE., f a

N. A. PATTERSON AND WILLIAM L. RAMSEY, OF KINGSTON, TENNESSEE.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 29,714, dated August 21, 1860.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that we, N. A. PATTERSON and iV. L. RAMsEY, both of Kingston, in the county of Roane and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and Improved ClothesiVashing Machine; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figures 1, and 2, are side sectional views of ourinvention, the two planes of section crossing each other at right angles.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding part-s in both figures.

This invention consists in the employment or use of a circular perforated vpressure plate placed within a suitable tub and operated as hereinafter shown, whereby clothes may be perfectly7 cleansed in an expeditious 1nan ner, and without the least injury to the same, the wear produced by friction in the various rubbing machines hitherto devised for washing clothes being entirely obviated.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct our invention we will proceed to describe it.

A, represents a tub which may be of the usual form, and B, is a frame composed of two uprights a, a, connected at their upper ends by a cross piece ZJ, the uprights 6l, a, being attached to a suitable base or platform c, on which the tub A, is placed, the tub being betweenthe two uprights.

C, is a cross bar the ends of which are attached to slides CZ, (Z, that are fitted in grooves e, at the inner sides of the uprights a, a, the slides being allowed to work freely up and down in the grooves e, e. Through the center of the bar C, a vertical shaft D, passes, the lower end of which has a crank f, at tached with a vertical pendant g, at its outer end. The lower end of this pendant is hollowed out so as to form a socket it, to receive a ball z', at the upper end of a shaft y', on which a circular perforated and dish shaped pressure plate E, is placed said plate fitting within the tub A, as shown clearly in both figures. The lower end of the shaft j, is stepped at the center of the bottom of the tub A, as shown at 7c, the step la, being coincident or in line with the sha-ft D, of crank j'.

The operation is as follows. The tube A, is supplied with a requisite quantity of suds or soap and water and the clothes to be operated upon are placed in the tub beneath the plate E. The crank f, is then rotated by any convenient power and the clothes beneath the plate E, are subjected to a pressure by said plate which has what may be termed a wabbiing motion and causes the suds to be forced through the texture of the clothes thoroughly cleansing the same in a very short time without injury and without breaking buttons which may be attached to them.

The plate E, may be readily adjusted in the tub A, and removed therefrom so that the clothes may be placed in and removed from the tub by adjusting the bar C, and consequently the crank f, in which the upper end of the shaft j, is fitted.

Having thus described our invention what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

The circular perforated and dish-shaped pressure plate E, placed within a tub A, and having the upper end of its shaft j, fitted in a crank f, of a shaft D, all being arranged as and for the purpose set forth.

N. A. PATTERSON. WM. L. RAMSEY. i/Vitnesses:

G. W. STEPHENsoN, B. B. LENOIR.

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