US334596A

US334596A - gibbons

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Publication number: US334596A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-01-19
Anticipated expiration: 1903-01-19

Description

(No Model.)

.B. A. MANRING 8: R. E. GIBBON'S.

WASHING MACHINE.

No. 334,596. Patented Jan; 19, 1886.

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' NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. V

BROFFORD A. MANRING AND ROBERT E. GIBBONS, OF GUNNISON, ASSIGNORS or ONE-THIRD TO WILLIAM WIGLESWORTH, or TELLURIDE, eoLo.

WASHING- SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,596, dated January 19, 1886.

Application filed March 14,1885. Serial No. 158,857. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, BROFFORD A. MAN- RING and ROBERT E. GIBBONS, citizens of the United States, residing at Gunnison, in the 5 county of Gunnison'and State of Colorado,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in \Vashing-Machines; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as IO will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this I 5 specification.

Figure l of the drawings is a vertical longitudinal section. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section. Figs. 3, 4E. and 5 are details.

This invention has relation to washing-ma- 2o chines; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of devices, all as hereinafter set forth,and pointed out in the appended claims. I

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates the washing box or tub, and B is a perforated bottom board, which is placed therein upon the bottom 0 of the tub.

D indicates the stationary part of the top, to which is secured the inner supgoraE. The

outer or main support, F,is secured to the side of the box, and transverse bars G connect the upper ends of these supports.

The air-conipressing plunger H consists of a fiat body, to the under side of which are se 5 cured the truncated cones I, which are open below, and are designed when the plunger is reciprocated to act upon the clothes in the tub. The stem of the plunger, as indicated at J, is square or prismatic in that portion which slides through the central squared or prismatic bearing, a, of the ratchet K, whichis pivoted on the top of the middle section, L, of the top. This section is removable, being when in position secured by buttons b underneath 5 engaging the side walls of the tub.

M is the front section of the lid, which is fully removable for the introduction into the tub of the water and the clothes to be washed.

The stem J of the plunger is in its upper portion cylindricahas indicated at c, this portion turning freely in the rack-bearing N, and being provided with aspring or springs, which engage said rack-bearing and serve to give a yielding character to the plunger, whereby it is enabled to accommodate itself to the inequalities in thickness of the mass in the tub being operated upon.

P is the main driving-shaft, having a crank,

d, and a bevel-gear, e, which carries a wristpin, f, and is connected by a pitman, g, to the lever h, above pivoted to the support F. To the horizontal bars G is pivoted a second lever, 70, which extends forward parallel to the lever h, and bot-h levers are at their front ends pivoted to the shank Z of the hanger m, to which the rack-bearing N is connected by a detachable fastening or clasp, at, having a short bar adapted to engage one of the teeth of the rack, according to adjustment.

When the adjustment is to be changed, the 0 fastening or clasp is opened, and the rackbearing is raised or lowered, as the case may be, after which the fastening is again secured thereto. By the operation of the shaft P the hanger is moved'up and down in parallel po- 7 sition, or nearly so, and the stem of the plunger travels in the vertical line. At the same time this stem is designed to turn in the rack bearing, and for this purpose a pawl, R, extending from a spring-arm, S, is arranged in 8Q engagement with the ratchet K, and is designed to operate the latter. The intermittent motion is given by a cam, V, on the back of the bevel-wheel e,which engages the springarm, and at each rotation of said bevel-wheel moves the pawl forward, receding by the operation of the spring.

T represents the shaft of the fly-wheel W, having a bevel-Wheel, Z, whereby it engages the bevel-wheel e of the main driving-shaft.

The construction of the parts of this machine is designed to give it a very steady movement and to enable it to be operated with facility.

Having described this invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In a washing-machine, the combination, with the driving-shaft and its wheel having a cam, of the pawl and spring-arm, the pitman and upper levers carrying the hanger, the rackbearing, the ratchet, and the pounder-shaft, substantially as specified.

2. In a washing-machine, the combination,

j and its beve1-wheel,0perating the upper levers with a ratchet having a prismatic bearing, of the prismatic, plunger passing through the same and having its upper portion cylindrical and turning in an adjustable verticallyreciprocating rack-bearing, and means,'substanti'ally as specified, for operating the same.

3. In a washing-machine, the driving-shaft fly-shaft having a bevel wheel engaging the bevel-wheel of the driving-shaft, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures 15 in presence of two witnesses.

BROFFORD A. MANRING. ROBERT E. GIBBONS.

t0 reciproeate'the plunger, and having a cam \Vitnesses: 10 on its back, in combination with the said FRED S.-LEONARD,

plunger, the spring-arm and paw], and the \V. B. OWEN.