US30244A

US30244A - Washing-machine

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Publication number: US30244A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1860-10-02
Anticipated expiration: 1877-10-02

Description

UNTTED sTATEs PATENT oEErcE.

\VILLIAM PHELPS AND C. WRIGHT, OF SYGAMORE, ILLINOIS.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 30,244, dated October 2, 1860.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, VTLLIAM PHELPs and CLARK WRIGHT, both of Sycamore, Dekalb county, Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Vashing-Machines; and we hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

Our said invention consists in a peculiar arrangement hereinafter described of one smooth board and one corrugated rubber fixed obliquely in opposite outside corners of each of a series of chambers mounted on the extremities of revolving arms, to increase the eiiiciency of the machine.

In the accompanying drawings Figure l represents a side elevation of our improved machine partly in section. Fig. 2 is a plan.

A is a frame affording journal bearing to a shaft B rotated by a crank C and carrying radial arms D.

E are a series of chambers attached to the ends of the arms D and suitably jointed and fastened to render them effectually water tight.

F is a door placed near the vertical side of each chamber to the interior.

G is a smooth board fixed in one corner of each chamber at an angle of about 2295 `degrees with the adjacent side.

H is a corrugated rubber' attached on t-he same side at the opposite end of the chamber at an angle of about forty five degrees.

The operation is as follows: Each of the chambers being supplied with clothing, water, soap and (if desired) with a quantity of shot or analogous material to increase the rubbing action, the frame C is rotated in the direction indicated by the red arrow carrying with it the chambers E. The blue arrows indicate the motion of the contents of the chambers. The clothes falling by their center of one giving access gravity upon the board G are thereby turned over and as the frame continues to revolve fall with force upon the rubber H, a new side of the clothes being presented to the action of the rubber at each revolution. By this means the clothes are freed of their impurities in a very short time and without being subjected to any violence.

rI`he construction and arrai'igement of the parts above described exhibit the following advantages: The use of a number of chambers enables a number of different kinds of clothes to be washed at once, and renders the motion easier, by the contents of opposite chambers balancing each other. The rectangular form of the chambers and the positions of the boards therein produce a. succession of forcible concussions by the continuous rotary movement of the machine. The combined .action of the boards G and H effectuallyl reverses the position of the clothes and exposes a new surface at every revolution, the lifter receiving the clothes as they fall to that end keeping them nearer the center of rotation and causing them sooner to fall toward the rubber.

The doors are placed near the center of the vertical sides of the chambers to avoid leak-l age either by centrifugal action or by the flow of water in Contact with the joints.

The following is what we claim as new and of our invention herein as an improvement in washing machines:

The described arrangement of a smooth board G and a corrugated rubber H fixed obliquely in opposite outside corners of each of a series of chambers mounted on the extremities of revolving arms, the said parts