US306204A

US306204A - Washing-machine

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Publication number: US306204A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1884-10-07
Anticipated expiration: 1901-10-07

Description

(No Model.)

B. W. ALLEN & E. A. KIBBE.

WASHING MACHINE.

No. 306,204. Patented Oct. '7, 1884.

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ERASMUS \V. ALLEN AND EDSON A. KIBBE, OF SENECA, KANSAS.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 306,204, dated October '7, 1884. Application filed August 25, (No model.)

.To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ERASMUS W. ALLEN and EDsoN A. KIBBE, citizens of the-United States, and residents of Seneca, in the county of N emaha and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in \VashingMachines; and we do hereby deelare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a partof this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of our improved washing-machine, and Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the agitator.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Our invention has relation to that class of washing-machines having a rotary or rotary reciprocating agitator; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of the agitator, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates the suds-box, which may be of" any desired construction, and which is provided with'a cover, B, provided with a vertical perforation, O, lined with ametallic boss or bush.- ing, F.- -A shaft, G, is journaled in the said bushing, and is provided at its upper end with a pinion, H, which receives rotary or rotary reciprocating motionfrom suitable cog-wheels construction preferred and shown in the drawings al or cogged segments, the latter being broadly; but

1', which may be actuatedin any desired manner. 'lhe agitator K is secured to the lower end of the vertical agitator-shaft G, and it consists of a plate of sheet metal cut to form four (more or less) arms, L and M, two or more, M, of which arms are slitted longitudinally, and the portions of the arms upon both sides of the slits are curved, one outward and one inward, and all the arms are curved downward. By this construction of the beater-arms the entire agitator maybe made of onepiece of sheet metal, and the arms will by their shape form very efficient heaters.

WVe are aware that egg-heaters have been made consisting of a plate secured at one end to a handleand slitted longitudinally, having the strips thus formed bulged out to alternate sides, and we do not claim such construction,

\Ve claim- The agitator consisting of a shaft and a cross shaped sheet-metal plate secured to the lower end of said shaft, having two of its arms curved downward and slitted longitudinally, and havingthe sides of the slits bulged out in opposit" directions, and having its plain arms curveo downward, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereunto affixed our signa tnres in presence of two witnesses.

ERASMUS \V. ALLEN. I EDSON A. KIBBE.

\Vitnesses:

.T. F. Tr-ronrrsox, .l']. L. ALLEN.