US351866A - Wash-board - Google Patents

Description

J. 8. JOHNSTON.

(No Model.)

WASH BOARD.

- No. 351,866. Patented Nov. 2, 1886.

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- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE...

JOHN s. JOHNSTON, Or ALTON, ASSIGNOR o PFAUSCHMIDT, DODGE 8500., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

WASH-BOARD.

. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,866, dated November 2, 1886.

Application filed February 16 1886. Serial No. 192,083. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN S. JoHNs'roN, re-

I siding at Alton, in the county of Madison and lowing is a full description,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a front elevation of a wash-board with the guard or protector in one position; Fig. 2, a side elevation with the guard or protector in the position of Fig. 1 shown in full lines and reversed by dotted lines; Fig. 3, a side elevation showing a modification of the bracing-rod for the guard or protector; Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7, modifications in the manner of attaching the shield.

This invention relates to wash-boards having two working-faces, andhas ,for its object to provide a cheap and effective guard to be applied to the top of such wash-boardfor preventing wetting of the clothes of the user of the board, which guard or protector can be easily and quickly turned to adapt it for use with either side of the board, and when turned in position for use be solid and firm; and

7 its nature consists in providing a swinging protector attached to the top of the board by pivoted strips or braces, as hereinafter more specifically described, and pointed out in the claim.

' In the drawings, A represents the guard or protector, made of wood or other suitable material, and having its lower bearing-edge, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, provided with a concave face.

B is a strip of wood secured to the tops of the legs or supports of the wash-board by means of nails, screws, or otherwise. The top surface of this strip or bar B is rounded Off to correspond to the circle of the concave face of the guard or shield A, so that the guard or shield A can be easily turned on such bar for use with either side of the wash-board.

0 represents the legs or supports of the washboard having secured at their upper ends the bar B, D, the rubbing-face, formed of zinc or other material, and adapted to be used on both sides; E, a board placed between the bar B and the rubbing-plate D, and provided, as usual, with a rest, 0, forthe bar of soap used.

On each end of the guard or protector A is secured by nails or screws a plate, a, made of sheet-brass or other suitable material. The lower end of this plate projects beyond the lower end of the guard or shield, and is pivotally secured to the end of the bar Bbyascrew or pivot, a, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. 'This plate a has a longitudinal slot, 72, in its upper portion, which slot is inline with a recess or cut-away portion in the end of the shield A. This slot 11 receives a small head or piece of metal,(shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2,) secured inany suitable manner to the bent end of a bracing rod or wire, 0, the other end of which rod or wire is loosely secured to theside of the leg or standard 0 by a pin or pivot, d, so that it can easily turn on such pin or pivot. This rod or wire 0 prevents the shield or guard from dropping too far down by reason of the head attached to its upper en striking against the end wall-of the slot or recess in the end of the guard and stopping any further downward movement of the shield.

A bar or plate of brass or other suitable material can be employed in placeIof the rod or wire 0, if desired, in which case a short wire or rod, d, would have to be used to connect this bar or plate with the head that travels in the slot or recess in the end of the shield or guard. This form of construction is shown in Fig. 3.

The device is very simple in construct-ion, easily turned to adapt it for use with either side of the board, and not liable to get out of order.

When packing for shipping, the guard or shield is to be turned so that its ends will form a continuation in a straight line of the legs or supports 0, thus'enabling a narrower packing case or crate to be used than where the guard or shield is rigidly attached to the wash-board, and only increasing the length of the shipping box or crate by the width of the shield or guard.

Instead of having the lower edge of the shield A concave and the upper edge of the bar B convex, this construction might be reversed, as shownin Fig. 4,and, as shown in that figure, the brace and slotted strip might be dispensed with.

The shield or guard can be applied to an ordinary wash-board by securing the cross-bar B in any suitable manner firmly to the top bar-of What I claim as new, and desire to secure by the wash-board, as shown in Fig. 5. Letters Patent, is

The shield might be secured to the cross-bar The shield A, plates a, each having a slot, 6, B by means of metal straps passing around a and brace-rods c, in combination with the bar I 5 journal formed by cutting away a portion of B and side pieces, 0, substantially as and for 15 the bar B, the ends of the retaining-straps bethe purpose specified.

ing secured to opposite sides of the shield A.as JOHN S. JOHNSTON. shown in Figs. 6 and 7. This construction dis- Witnesses: penses with the use of the metal strap a and ALBERT H. ADAMS,

1o bracing wire or piece 0. HARRY T. J oNEs.

It is hereby certified that the name of the assignees in Letters Patent N 0. 351,866, granted November 2, 1886, upon the application of John S. Johnston, of Alton, Illinois,

for an improvement in Wash-Boards, was erroneously written and printed Pfausehmidt, Dodge & 00., Whereas said name should have been Written and printed Efanschmidt, Dodge (d 00. and that the Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conformto the record of the ease in the Patent Office.

Signed, eonntersig'ned, and sealed this 8th day of February, A. D. 1887.

[SEAL] D. L. HAWKINS,

Acting Secretary of we Interior. Oountersigned:

R. B. VANCE,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

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