US41438A

US41438A - Improved washing-machine

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Publication number: US41438A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1864-02-02
Anticipated expiration: 1881-02-02

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UNITED STATES- PATENT OEEICE.

y BENJAMIN I. LANE, OF SOUTH FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

Speeiiealion forming,l part of Letters Patent No. 4. [,438, dated February 2, 1864.

To all whom it 11mg/ concern.' and forth with its rollers in contact with the Be it known that l, BENJAMIN I. LANE, a clothes that may be on the board. While so resident of South Framingham, in the county operating the said implement it is occasionally, of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts,have or during each forward movement of it, to he invented 'a new and useful Hand-Rubber to pushed into the water or suds, so as to more be Used in WashingGlothes ona Wash-Board g than immerse the cap-board D, in which case and I do hereby declare the same to be fully the back stroke or movement of the impledescribed in the following' specification, and Inent will cause a portion of the washingrepresented in the accompanying drawings, of liquid to be taken up and dischargedbetween whichthe rollers and upon the clothes, the same Figure 1 is a top View; Fig. 2,arear elevacontributing; to effect the proper cleansing of tion, Fig. 3, an end elevation, and Fig. 4 a l the clothes. longitudinal, and Fig. 5 a transverse, section Each of the rollers may be made either in of it. v whole orin part ofeaoutehouc or guttavpercha,

In carrying out my invention I employ a or some suitable composition in which either square or rectangular frame, A, provided with I or both may form a constituent.

a handle, B, arranged on it as shown in the l In the ordinary mode ot' washing clothes on drawings. a washboard the washerwoman seizes them Within the said frame I arrange a series of l and with herknuckles rubs them on the board. "rollers, C C, 35e., having their axes in one In so doing she is liable to abrade or injure planeand parallel to each other. Each roller her hand, and it is a common accident for the is to project a short distance below the lower hand to be wounded f more or less by the opedges of the frame, and its journals d a. are eration. My hand-rubber or clothes-washer to be supported within the two opposite end is designed to prevent such wear and injury portions, b b, ofthe frame, the same being as l of the hands. shown in Fig. 5. I claim- A board or cap, D, is to extend across the l 'lhesaid hand-washing implement,the same frame and in front of the handle and baekcnosisting of aseries ot' rollersmadeinwhole or ward from the front side or part ot' the frame V in part ot' india-rubber or gutta-perchaor their in manner as shown in Figs. 1 and 4. Each compounds, and arranged within a frame in roller should be placed very close to but not the manner and for operation; substantiallyT so near as to touch that next adjacent to it. 1 as specined.

The Implement so made 1s to he used In con l BENJ L LANE.

neetion with a tinted wash-.board while the latter may be in an inclined position within a I ITitnesses: wash-tub, the person using the implementl holding it by its handle, and moving it back l R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr.