US401190A - Washing-machine - Google Patents

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SOLOMOL MANTLE, JOHN MANTLE, AND CHARLES MANTLE, OF PENFIELD,

. ILLINOIS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 401,190, dated April 9, 1889.

Application filed October 4, 1888.

To all whom it inag woncern:

Be it known that we, SOLOMON MANTLE, JOHN MANTLE, and CHARLES MANTLE, citi- Zens of the United States of America, residing at Penfield, in the county of Ohampaign and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in \Vashing- Machines and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as 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 specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in washing-machines.

The essential feature of this invention consists in the use of verticall reciprocating pounders in connection with side oscillating rubbers.

Our invention consists in the construction and combination of, certain mechanical devices, as will be more fully hereinafter described. and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings we have illustrated our invention, like letters of reference being used to designate similar parts in the several views; and therein- Figure 1 is a perspective view of our i1n proved washing-machine. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section thereof.

A indicates the washing'box supported by legs A The said box has two uprights, A secured to the central. part of two sides thereof, extending up above the top. To the rear side of said box another upright, A, is secured, and projects a short distance above the top of the box and has its upper end. slotted.

On the top ends of the uprights Aa crankshaft, B, is secured by strap-boxes u, or any other form of box may be used, if desired. The one end of said shaft is bent to form an operatinghandle, and between the uprights cranks b and Z) are formed therein, the crank b being of greater depth than the other two cranks, b. To the said cranks Z; and b pitinen B are connected, and have their lower ends mortised to receive tenons on the upper Serial No. 287,141. (No model.)

ends of posts G. A pivot-pin is passed through each mortise and tenon, and a hinged joint is thereby formed. The uprights C have pounders O attached to the lower ends thereof. The said poundcrs are vertically reciprocated by the crank-shaft B, the central pounder being depressed, while the ones on each side thereof are raised, as fully shown in Fig. 3.

The washing-box has a supplemental raised bottom, G, having perforations g therein, and the lower part of one end thereof is provided with a drain openin (L2, made regulable by an exterior cutoff, a Within said box uprights F are mounted, and have downwardlycurved slots f therein to receive gudgeonsf on the sides of oscillating ribbed rubbers E. The pounders 0 work between the rubbers F, asshmvn in Fig. 3.

In the upper slotted end of the uprights A a disk -wheel, D, is mounted, and is given a semi-rotary movement by a pitman, D, attaohed thereto and to the central crank, b, of the shaft B. From the front side of the upright A an arm, D projects outwardly at right angles, and has a semirotary disk-wheel, E, mounted on the end thereof at right angles to wheel D. The wheel D is connected to wheel E by a pitma-n, D The wheel E has pitmen E attached thereto at one end at different elevations, and at their opposite ends the said pitmen are attached to the top part of one end of each of the rubbers F.

By operating the crank-shaft B the pounders O are vertically reciprooated, as hereinafter set forth, and at the same time the wheel D is given a semi-rotary movement by pitman D, and said motion is imparted to wheel E by pitma-n D which in time alternately draws the rubbers F inward toward or outward away from each other through the pit-men E. The rear of box A is open to permit free action of the pitmen E, and is alsoprovided with a removable cover, A, having guide-strips a, adapted to fit over a top board, A

The clothes are placed in the machine and the pounders force the same upward and downward, due to the alternate motion thereof. The rubbers F oscillate inward and outward and the clothes are forced against the ribbed surfaces thereof and cleansed. The

said rubbers also press the clothes inward toward the center, to be thereby more effectually acted upon by the pounders.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a Washing-machine, the combination or" the washing-box having uprights, the crankshaft, the vertically-reciprocating pounders attached to the crank-shaft, the semi-rotary disk-Wheels connected to the crank-shaft and to each other by pitmen, and the side oscillating rubbers connected to one of said diskwheels by pitlnen, substantially as described.

2. In a washing-machine, the combination, with the pounders and rubbers, of the crankshaft and disk-wheels, one of which is mounted at right angles to the other, and pitmen connecting the crank-shaft to the upper disk, the disks to each other, and the rubbers to the lower disk, substantially as described.

3. In a washing-machine, the combination of a washing-box having uprights, the crankshaft having depending pitmen with mortised ends, vertically-reciprocating pounders having posts with upper tenoned ends adapted to fit into the Inortised ends of the depending pitnian and forming a hinged joint therewith, the reversely-situated semi-rotary disk-wheels connected to the crank-shaft and to each other by pitlnen, the oscillating ribbed rubbers having gudgeons working in curved slots in strips mounted in the Washing-box, and the pitmen connecting said rubbers with one of the diskwheels, substantially as described.

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

SOLOMON MANTLE. JOHN 'MANTLE. CHARLES MANTLE.

WVitnesses:

T. J. CAMPBELL, GEO. W. SHARP.

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