US450721A

US450721A - Dauben

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Publication number: US450721A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1891-04-21
Anticipated expiration: 1908-04-21

Description

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H. S. D AUBENSPECK. WASHING MACHINE.

110.450.721. Paten-tedApr. 21,1891.

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No. 450,721. Patented Apr. 21, 1,891

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HENRY S. DAUBENSPEOK, OF BUTLER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 450,721, dated April 21, 1891.

Application led April 14, 1890. Serial No. 347,927. (No model.)

To cir/ZZ whom, t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, HENRY S. DAU BEN- SPEOK, a citizen of the United States, resident in the county of Butler and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in lashing-Machines; and VI do hereby declare the following to be afull 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 figures of reference marked thereon, which form a .part of this specification.

The invention relates to improvements in washing-machines.

The object of the present invention is to simplify and improve the construction of washing-machines and enable the same to be operated at the expenditure of a small amount of force on the part of the operator and at the same time produce a thorough washing of the clothes.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a washing-machine constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view. Fig. 3 is atransverse sectional view. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, 1 designates a semi-cylindrical washing-ma chine body composed of semicircular sides 2 and a curved bottom 3, and provided with journals 4, extending laterally from the sides 2 and mounted in suitablebearings 5 of short uprights or standards G of a supportingframe. The supporting-frame consists of four uprights or standards G and 7, connected by horizontal bars S and 9, and inclined side bars 10, extending from the upper ends of the short standards G to within a short distance of the upper ends of the long standards 7, to which they are secured. Jour naled in the upper ends of the long standards 7 is a crank-shaft 11, provided with a centrally-arranged crank-loop 12, and having at one end a fly-wheel 13 and at the other end a crank-handle 14, by means of which the washing-machine is operated. The crankshaft is rotated and its motion is communicated to the washing-machine body lby a pitman 15, having one end 1G connected to the crank-loop 12 and the other end pivot-ed in the bifurcated upper end 17 of a central post- 18, mounted on the top of the washingmachine body and supported by an inclined brace 19, having enlarged perforated ends 2O secured to the post 1S and the top 21 of the washing-machine body. The end 16 of the pitman is secured to the crank-loop by asection-block and key, and the crank-shaft is prevented moving longitudinally in its bearings by flanges 22, which are arranged on opposite sides of one of the long uprights or standards '7. The inner" face of the curved bottom is provided with a series of transverse bars 23, having in their inner edges, which are arranged adjacent the curved bottom, rectangular recesses Q4, which form a passage for the water when the washing-machine body is operated, and produce an agitation and force the water through the clot-hes and enable the same to be thoroughly washed and cleaned.

In the operation of the machine the body 1 is tilted iirst on one side and then on the other, and the water is caused to rush from end to end of the machine, and passes through the clothes and completely cleans the same. lVhen the washing-machine is not being operated, it is held stationary while the body is being filled with clothes or while the latter are being taken from the body or tub 1 by pins 25, which pass through openings 2G of the inclined side pieces 10 and engage recesses 27 of cleats 28, secured to the sides 2 of the body near one end thereof.

From the foregoing description and the accompanying drawings the constrnction,oper ation, and advantages of theinvention will be readily understood.

lVhat 1 claim is- In a washing machine, the combination of the frame comprising the short standards G, the long standards 7, and the bars connect- IOO ing?v the standards, the body mounted in the frame and journaled in suitable bearings oi' the short standards, the cent1-a1 post 1S rising from the top of the body and having its upper end bifurcated, the inclined brace 19, secured to the top of the body andthe post, the crankshaft, and the pitinzm having one end oonnected to the crank-shaft and the other end pivoted in the bifurcated upper end of the @entrai post, substantially as described.

HENRY S. DAUBENSPECK. Witnesses:

HENRY J. HoYT, LEVI A. GIBSON.