US41708A - Improved washing-machine - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

WILLIAM KYLE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.l

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 41.708, dated February 23, 1864.

To LZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM KYLE, of the city and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Machine forWashing Clothes and Partially Drying the Same.

The following specification embraces a full description of my said invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents an isometric perspective view of my machine complete as it would appear as applied to washing clothes.

The main feature of my invention consists in mounting an angular box or case upon horizontal trunnions ateach end of the same and in line with each other, so that it may be made to revolve readily, the axial line of such trunnions being diagonal or eccentric to the longitudinal axis ot the box or case. 'lhe action upon any body conined in such case when it is being rotated will be more readily understood than it could be described without prolixity.

A, Fig. 1, is a trap-door for putting in or taking out clothes. It should be tilled, say, to about one-third of its contents lwith water and a proper quantity of soap added, and then a quantity ot' clothes may be put in till onehalf or more of the case is lled. 4Nothing further is required but to turn the machine by the crank B for, say, tive minutes, then draw oft' the dirty water by the faucet provided, (not shown in Fig. l, but shown in Fig. 2, which is a longitudinal sectioin) and rinsing- Water is to be put in and the machine again operated for a few minutes.

The sides of the machine b b (and, if desired, the ends) are made removable and like panels, while the bars c c are' fixed to and with the main frame c c.

Fig. 3 shows the machine in longitudinal section with the sides or panels removed.

Now, the bars c, when clothes are being washed or rinsed, (the panels b then being in,

place,) act not only asV rubbers, but prevent the clothes, from sliding down in mass as each portion of the machine descends .to a lower level, so that the clothes during each revolution of the machine are carried up a certain distance several times and fall or tumble down with a splash, whereby the water is forced in sudden minute jets, as it were, through their texture. After rinsing and the panels b being removed, the same action ofthe machine will force jets of air through the fabric as water was before, and dispel the water or the most of it held by absorption in the clothes and leave them ready to be put upon the line for a quick and iinal drying. Thus the machine performs the duty ot' a wringer.77

Fig. 4 shows a longitudinal section of my machine with cog-gearing for its rotation, the purpose of which will be plain.

In lieu of a simple open frame, my machine may be supported in a watertight tank with an open top.

The panels b will be provided (see a crosssection ot' one, Fig. 5) with strips x x of packing material-such as india-rubber-let into their edges in a dovetailed groove and properly fastened, so that they will form a watertight junction with their seats in the main frame. Of course, pinching-buckets or other 'astenin gs must be applied to hold the panels in place as wanted.

I have purposely shown the bars c in Figs. 2, and 4 at different angles, inasmuch as they may be variously modified in this respect without changin g the substantial nature of my device.

I have shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4 the axles atxed to diagonally-opposite angles of the case of my machine, but in the same vertical plane as its axis; but I still further prefer to `affix the axles to diagonally-opposite corners of the case, so that the line ofthe axles shall be diagonal to such aforesaid vertical plane also, as I have shown in Fig. 1

I have anticipated that l could advantageously make my machineof metal--such as sheetzinc or galvanized sheet-iron-and also that it might be advantageously used for other .purposes than Washing and drying clothes, where the action upon inclosed bodies of attrition, concussion, and rolling,77 simultanely combined, or nearly so, was or would be useful.

Having now fully described my invention,

what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

'Ihe relative arrangement of the axles and body or case, and combining the barsf7 as described, the whole operating in the manner and for the purposes set forth.

WILLIAM KYLE.

Witnesses:

J. A. H. HAsBnoUK, G. F. CASE.

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