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WASHING MAGHINE. No. 359,933. Patented Mar. 22, 1887.

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ALEX AEDER MAGEE AND DAVID C.

Pnrntrr @triceE LEE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, SAID MAGEE ASSIGNOR TO SAID LEE.

WASHING- MACHlNE.

SPECIFICATION formingl part of Letters Patent No. 359,933, dated March 22, 1887.

Application tiled November l?, 1884. Serial No. Nihil.

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Bc it known that we, ALEXANDER Madan and DAVID C. Lon, of St. Louis, Missouri, have jointly made a new and useful Improvenient in Washingllachines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The improvement relates to that class of washing-machines having an inner perforated case and an outer closed case, the inner case being adapted to hold the clothes being washed and to be rotated within the outer case, which is adapted to contain the water used in the washing.

The annexed drawings, making part of this specification, exhibit the mechanism employed in carrying ont the improvement.

Figure l is a plan of the improved Washing-machine, the cover of the outer casing being removed. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 3, and Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts. v A

A represents the outer ease. Its lower part, a, is adapted to hold water, and by means of the cover a the ease can be closed.

B represents the inner case. By means of the journals b I), with which the inner case is provided, and the crank Z1 the inner case can be rotated in the outer case. The bearings a, a? for the journals i) b are preferably in the upper edge, a?, of the lower part, a, of the outer case. A portion, b2, of the inner ease is made to open and close, or otherwise made removable, so that the articles to be washed can be inelosed within the inner case and when washed removed therefrom.

The distinguishing features of the present washing-machine are these:

First. 'Ihe face b3 of the inner case is made of wire-gauze, by reason of which steam arising from the water in the bottom ofthe outer case can freely penetrate the inner case.

Second. The inner case is provided with one or more "vaterelevators,77 b, as they may be termed. Their function is to lift thewater to abovethe center of the inner case, and then discharge it onto the articles within the case- (No model.)

that is, the waterelevators are attached to and are rotated with the inner case, and when, in the rotation of the inner oase, they are carried downward into the lower part of the outer case they become filled with water, and

when they are carried upward above the center of the inner case the water is emptied from them. To this end the most desirable inode of constructing and attaching the water-elevators is that shown. A sheet of metal is shaped into the elliptical or approximately elliptical form (in crosssection) shown in Fig. 2, is extended endwise across the inner case to meet its imperforate sides b5 b, and thereby or in some other suitable manner closed at its ends, and is fastened to the face b3 of the inner case. The water-elevator is thus closed, saving at the openings b and at the slot Z, respectively on opposite sides of the elevator and in coincidence with a radial line of the inner case. The Water enters the elevator through the outer openings, b, and it leaves the elevator through the slot lf. In the class of washing-machines under consideration the water enters the inner `case but a slight distance, not coming in practice above the upper side of the waterelevators at their lowest level as they are carried around with the inner case. The water-elevators are useful, then, in that thereby a iiow of water downward upon and through the articles being washed is allowed. The steam, which, by means of the wire-gauze face bs, enters freely all parts of' the interior of the inner ease, is mainly instrumental in loosening the dirt, and the water-flow described serves te carry the loosened dirt away.

rIhird. The bail C, which is attached to the journals Z1 ZJ of the inner ease. By means of it the inner ease, with its contents, can be readily lifted from its place in the outer case and transferred to where it4 is desired to deposit t-he washed articles. Then, removing the cover and still holding the case B by thc bail, the case, by means of the crank, can be rotated in the bail, so as to bring the opening downward, whereupon the articles can be dropped from the case.

Fourth. It is undesirable to allow any steam to escape at the joint between the cover and lower part of the outer case. Thereforel in the present instance this ljoint is made as tight as is readily practicable, and at the top of the outer caseeover is a perforation, ct, through which the steam` can escape in small quantities; but to prevent the too free escape of the steam a valve in the form of a ball, a5, is adapted to seat at and close the opening, saving when it is unseatcd by au undue pressure of ste-ani. A suitable guard, a, keeps the ball in the immediate vicinity ofthe perforation a.

XVe are arvarethat in Washing-machines of the class under consideration closed cylinders having Wateihelevators have been used;y as Well as openfaced cylinders Without any pro vision for raisin g the Water. We therefore do not claim such constructions; nor would either of them answer our purpose, which is to provide, trst, for loosening the dirt from the clothes, (accomplished by the steam circulating through the open-work face,) and, second,

for carrying away the loosened dirt, (accomplished by the elevated Water.)

XVe claiml. In a washing-machinefthe combination l of an outer case, an inner case journaled therein, removable therefrom, and having anopening or door, b", a bail, C, `having bearings;

which surround the journals of the inner case, and a crank or` handle, b', attached to one of the journals, by which :the inner case may be rotated to perform the Washing action or to discharge the contents `bythe opening l Ifwhen removed and supportedbylthe bail, t

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