US340272A

US340272A - Washing-machine

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Publication number: US340272A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-04-20
Anticipated expiration: 1903-04-20

Description

(No Model.)

E. E. ALLISON.

WASHING MAGHINE.

nted Apr. 20, 1886.

WITNESSES I INVENTQR ATTORNEYS.

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NITED STATES PATENT "WASHING-MACHINE.

FJFITCKEECATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,272, dated April 20, 1886. Application filed December 15, 1885. Serial No.185,71l0. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ELMER E. ALLIsoN, of HillsidefiVestmoreland count-y, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful In provernent in Washing-Machines,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to machines for washing clothes, and comprising atub and a rubber operating to rub and squeeze the clothes on the bottom of the tub, the object being to provide a simple, inexpensive, efficient, and durable machine of this class, which will wash the clothes with economy of time and labor.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts of the washing-machine, all as hereinafter fully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings,forming a part of this specification,in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal sectional elevation of a washing-machine embodying-my improvements. Fig. 2 is a plan View thereof, and Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional elevation thereof.

The water and clothes holding tub A of the machine consists of opposite sides, a a, preferably made of wood and with roundedlower edges, to which the sheet-metal bottom a is fastened, opposite end cleats, a" a being secured to the sides a a, to give strength and provide a secure fastening to the tub of the ends of its sheet-metal bottom a. Suitable legs, a, support the tub ataconvenient height, and handles a*, fixed at its ends,'afford a means of carrying the machine as may be required. A faucet, a allowsthe water to be drawn from the tub.

Across the tub A and next its bottom a are fixed a series of cleats or slats, B, on which the clothes to be washed are placed, and against and over which the clothes are pressed and rubbed bythe rubber 0, next described. This rubber C is made with a series of curved bars or plates, D, each of which is formed or provided with an upwardly-projecting lug, d, which passes through a slotin thelowcr crossbar, 6, of the handle of the rubber, and keys or pins (1, passed through the lugs (1 above the bar 6, 'hold the bars D firmly to the handle.

.J, fixed to the tub.

At their opposite ends the bars D are connected by cross rods or bars F, on which,between the bars, are placed aseries of spacing-washers, f, and whereby, when the nuts f are applied at opposite ends of the rods,the ends of the bars D will be held firmly at even distances apart.

Each of the bars D is crimped or bent flatwise and transversely, to form a series of re cesses, G, alternating at opposite sides or faces of the bar for its whole length, thereby forming side pockets, in each of which is fastened by two scrcwsflz, a round flat block or disk,H, made preferably of wood,and so that the edges or peripheries of the disks project below the bottom or outer edges of the bars D, to constitute an upper rubbing-surface,between which and the cross-cleats B as alower rubbing-surface surface the clothes are washed. When the edge parts of the disks H, which had been exposed to the clothes, are worn away, the disks may be removedby taking out the screws h, and the disks then may be turned and fastene'd again by the screws, so as to present a new working-surface to the clothes, hence the rubber isdurahle as well as effective. Bars D, provided with the rubbing-disks H, may be placed a greater or less distance apart for the whole width of the rubber. The drawings show five of such bars, each provided with seven adjustable disks; but the numherofthe bars and disks may vary as the size of the ma chine and the nature of the work to he done shall require. a

In the handle cross-bar e are fixed the lower ends of two bars, 6 e, which pass through and are fixed to the horizontal shaftI of the rubber, the opposite ends of which shaftproject to rest in slots 2', formed partly in the oppositcsides, a a, of the tub A and partly in lugs or plates The bars 0 e extend upward from the shaft I, and are connected at their tops by a cross-bar, E, forming a handgrasp, which may be seized to operate the rubber O by rocking it on its shaft Iover the bottom of thctub. The slots t, being open at the top, permits the rubber to be readily lifted from the tub, and the rubber shaft I has free vertical play in the slots, whereby the rubber may rise and fall to accommodate itself to a greater or less quantity of clothes placed in the tub.

' hen the clothes are placed in the tub with I CC asuitable quantity of water or washing-liquid, the rubber C will be rocked to rub and squeeze the clothes between the rubber disks H and the tub-cleats B, and the dirt will very quickly be removed from the clothes.

By removing the rubber Gall parts of the machine may be cleaned quickly and thoroughly when the washing is finished.

Having fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. I11 a washing-machine, the combination, with a tub having a concaved bottom and transverse cleats B next the bottom, and provided also with opposite vertical slot-bearings, as at i i, substantially as specified, ofa rubber, C,comprising a series of bars,D,providcd with disks H and attached to ahandle,and said handlejournaled in the bearings ii, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

2. In a washing-machine, a rocking rubber constructed with a series of bars, D, and a series of disks, H, fixed to the bars,and said bars fixed to ahandle-fraine adapted to bejournaled in the clothes-holding tub, substantially as herein set forth.

3. In a washing-machine, a rocking rubber constructed with a series of bars, D, crimped or bent fiatwise,to form alternate recesses, G, at opposite sides, and a series of disks,H,fixed to the bars within recesses (El-,and said bars D, fixed to a llfllldlGflillllG adapted to be journaled in the clothes-holding tub, substantially as herein set forth.

4. In a washing-machine, a rocking rubber constructed with a series of bars, D, having lugs (2, keys d, a series of disks, H, fixed to the bars, tiebars F F at the ends of bars D, and i a handle-frame consisting of bars 6 eEI, said bar I forming the journals for the rubber, sub 1 st-antially as herein set forth. 1 I iIGLMER E ALLISON.

Witnesses: I I he H. Rook,

SAMUEL MOORE,