US36129A - Improved washing-machine - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN THATOHER, OF BROOKLYN, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND GEORGE LYON, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPRovED WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 36.129, dated August 5, 1862.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN THATCHER, of Brooklyn, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and complete description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a top view. Fig. 2 is a side View. Fig. 3 is an end View, and Fig. 4 is asection in the direction of the line :r .fr in Fig. 1.

rlhe nature of my invention relates to the adjustable rubbers and the several parts connected therewith, to the portable and detachable character of the invention,and to the mode of attaching and detachi ng to and from the tub.

A A represent the frame of the machine. It consists of two side pieces, A,and two crosspieces, A. The middle portion of the side pieces is wider than at the ends and fits down into the inside of the tub, to which it is attached by the hooks B, which hook under the bottom of the tub and are secured at the top by nuts B.

C is a fluted roller placed at the top and cen.

ter of the frame. An iron shaft passes through the center of the tinted roller, forming the journals upon which it rotates. One end extends a sufficient distance for the reception of the crank O', by which the roller is rotated upon its axis. The boxes in which the rollers turn are rigidly fixed to the sides of the frame A.

D D are adjustable vibrating rubbers, having their inner faces Iiuted, one being placed upon either side of the roller O. The rubbers are hung upon a journal or pin, E, in the inner ends of the adjusting-rods F, which rods pass through guides upon the top of the frame A. These guides G are pressed toward the roller C by coiled springs H, which encircle the adj usting-rods F, and in this manner the fluted rubbers are pressed against the fiuted roller. This pressure can be increased or diminished by means of the thumb-screws I, which work in a stationary nut upon the middle of the cross-piece A. The point of the screw presses against a bar, G', which extends from one guide-rod to the other, and against which the springs H` rest. By turning this screw in, the springs are condensed and the pressure of the vibrating and adjustable rubber is pressed harder against the roller C. By turning the screw out the pressure is decreased.` The rubbers thus have two motions, one upon the pins E, which vibrating motion ranges from the position shown in Fig. 4 to that indicated by the red lines E. The other motion is the direct pressure upon the roller O. Upon the upper edge of the adjustable rubbers is placed a roller, J, over which the clothes are caused to pass when being drawn up from the tub ot pass between the roller and rubbers.

The operation of the machine is as follows: The machine is secured to the tub in the manner hereinbefore described, and the clothes introduced at a. The crank is rst turned in one direction and then in the other, keeping the clothes between the roller and rubbers upon one or both sides at the same time, and operated in this way until the desired amount of friction is produced. The vclothes arethen rinsed in the usual manner.

What I claim as my improvement, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The adjustable rubbers D D, the springs F,

and adjusting-screws E, in combination with the iiuted roller C, portable frame A, and hooks B, arranged and operating as and for the purpose specified.

JOHN THATOHER.

Witnesses J. BEAINERD, G. H. BENHAM.

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