US326913A

US326913A - Washing-machine

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Publication number: US326913A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-09-22
Anticipated expiration: 1902-09-22

Description

(No Model.)

R. LYNN, Sr.

WASHING MACHINE.

Patented Sept. 2.2, 1885.

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PATENT ROBERT LYNN, SR., OF PLEASANT PLAIN, IO\VA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Application filed December 31, 1884.

QPECIFIJATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,913, dated September 22, 1885.

(No model.)

To @ZZ 21177/0711 it may conccrnf Be it known that I, ROBERT LYNN, Sr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Pleasant Plain, in the county of Jefferson and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in VashinghIachines, of which the 'following is a description.

This invention relates to that class of machines used for washing clothes, and it has for IO its object to provide a machine which may be placed in a common tub and wash the clothes therein, or which may have a tub of its own,

and to provide special means for continually dipping up water and pouring` it at the proper time or place upon the clothes.

To this end my invention consists in the construction and combination of parts forming a Washing-machine, hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of my invention shown in position for use in atub, which latter is shown in vertical section; and Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same.

A represents a tub of any usual form to receive the clothes to be washed.

B is the body of my machine, in the form of an inverted box-that is, a box placed with its open mouth downward, and provided with a door, C, at one of its vertical sides, hinged to swing downward, as shown in dotted lines, to rest on the edge of the tub, to serve as a table or board on which the clothes may be placed while examining` and arranging them. The lower edge or open mouth of the body may rest directly on the clothes in the tub D; but I prefer to provide the body with legs E, which may stand on the inner bottom of the tub between the clothes.

F is a hollow cylinder longitudinally iluted on its exterior, and provided with a shaft, G, which is journaled in bearings in the body B, and is provided with a crank, H, by means of which the cylinder may be Wholly or partly revolved. The shaft G is extended from the side of the body B enough to carry the crank outside the tub, where it may be freely revolved. The tub should be filled with water high enough to rise about three inches upon 5o the cylinder.

J J are clothes-holders, consisting of wires or metallic rods bent at their ends and hung into staples K, as bails, around the circumference of the cylinder. rIhe clothes, or some portion thereof, being tricked under one of these bails, will be carried around with the revolving cylinder and be brought in contact with the rubbers L. These rubbers are luted strips of tin, wood, or other material, secured in frames, which are hung upon pivots M in the body B, to swing to and from the cylinder.

N N are springs which press the rubbers toward the cylinder and upon the clothes carried thereby to do the mechanical part of the clothesavashing. I locate one of the rubbers to extend into the water below the level of the drinn, and the other above the axis thereof, in order that the clothes may be rubbed both under water and out of water. T0 deliver water upon the clothes at the upper portion of the lower rubber, and to cause the water to pass through the clothes while carried on the cylinder, I provide the latter with a series of longitudinal slits, I, ahead of each of which I secure a bucket, Q, in a peculiar manner, so that it will lie against the interior of the cylinder, excepting at its front side, which is left open as a delivery. The rear side of each bucket curves backward, as 8o shown, so as to guide the water which falls from the next rear bucket out of the slit behind this bucket.

Of course a special tub or box may be provided with this machine to hold the water; 85 but I consider the machine to be practically complete without such a box, because nearly every one who would need a washing machine already has a tub with which my invention could be used, thus saving the extra 9o expense of a tub. It is not supposed that a fluted cylinder and iluted spring-rubbers are in themselves new. The box being entirely open at its bottom, the corner of a sheet or other large article may be secured under a bail, while the body of the article is among the clothes in the tub, and be wound upon the cylinder and suliiciently rubbed; then it may be let off into the tub again by reversing the motion of the cylinder. roo

What I claim as my invention, and desire to forward side, substantially as `shown and desecure by Letters Patent, isscribed.

The combination, with a rotary cylinder having longitudinal slits in its periphery, of ROBERT LYNN SR' 5 buckets secured Within the cylinder adjacent Witnesses:

to and in front of the slits, and provided with THOMAS D. MCGLELLAN, backward-curved rear sides, and open at the H. J. COOK.