US45521A - Improved clothes-drying machine - Google Patents

Description

'l UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM PRICE, ECINCINNATI, OHIO.

IM PRQVED CLOTHES-DRYING MACHINE. l

Specification forming part of `Letters Patent No. 45,521, dated December 20, 1'864.

To all whom it may concern:-`

Be -it known that I, WILLIAM PRICE, of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton, in the' AState of 0hio have invented a new and useful Apparatus or Machine for DryingOlothes Directly from the Wash 5 and I do hereby declarethat the-followingis a full, clear, and

v,exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a partof this specification, in whichthe labors of thel laundry and enable families and washer-.womento dry clothes in alll weather without hanging them out and exposing them to theI dust and soot, so prevalent in most towns and cities, while it4 prepares them speedily in a proper. condition for ironing immediately' after the wash, a great saving of time and labor.

, Myinvention conslsts 1n theconstruetion and arrangement of a series of ratliatingfrares,

they bein g so formed as to admit the clothes being easily attached to them on and around the surface through a door or opening in Aa cylinder which surrounds it, inv combination with a rotaryor fan blower operating in the center by clock-work or any other power, so that a current ot dry or' heated air is distrib? uted through and among the clothes.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will describe it more fully, referring to the drawings and to tlief letters marked thereon. f

For family use I make my drying-room in a portable form, ot' such dimensions as desrable.

The case or outside may be of tin, zinc, or sheet galvanized iron, thefOrm being mainly cylindrical, as shown in Fig. 2, it having a' base, A, and an upright portion, B, at. its rear, and a corresponding parallel surface, (Lin front, to which are ventilators D D, which may be openedor closed by corresponding' slides; There may also. be other ventilators, one on the top, E, so that the' heated or dry air which enters at the bottom' may escape at the top, carryingVK the dampness' from the wet clothes with iti In the drying cylinder or room is placed the rotating reel or clothes-frame a a, the arms' e c-c c being secured in hubs or tiangesb b. .There may be any desired nnmber'of them,

they being so constructed that they will hold the clothes on the bars d d d by pressing a small portion in between the stationary and yielding bar e e e, thus dispensing with lines and el0thes-pins.

The mode of putting the clothes into the drier is'to let them pass from the wringer into the pan or trough F, which is made with hooks f f, to hitch onto the sliding door G'when The wet clothes are then in close proximity to the bars on the'rotating reel a a.

opened.

Then take'a dnlltable-knie or other thin substance like a paper-folder and press inbetween the bars d and -e such portions as are necessary. Then turn the reel up, and other arms and Dipper-,bams 'will present themselves,

which the articles can be secured to in llike manner until the frame is covered. The

trough F is taken o ,and the `sliding door closed. In the center of the cylinder or drying-.room I place-'a shaft, H, it having arms. h. h h h, radiating on'the ends of which are fans k k 7:14.', similarin construction to the ordinary wheat-fans, tion and operated by clock-work with a spring or weight, orbe turned by hand orany other convenient or .stationarypowen For large hotels, boarding-houses, and pub lic laundriesthere may be a room or cyl- -inder of suflicient dimensions.

clothes frame may be placed in a vertical poL sition with series of arms and clothesholders.

The fanblower may also be in a vertical positi'on,`or the heated dry air may be conveyed into the room through pipes. The reel or clothes-traine Vmay also revolve slowly in the room or cylinder and bring the clothes into aV current ot' dry or heated air Thus by a few moments exposure in the drier they are in just the right condition for ironing, which cari allv be accomplishedv immediately after the clothes are'waslied and wrung out, soy .that washing,4 drying, and ironing may all be'done the same day in 4any weather a-tall seasons of the year without .tbeexposure of hanging This may be putin mo.

The reel or Patent, is-

out .or the risk of clothes being torn orblown oft or covered with the dust or soot so annoy-l ing in most places.

Having thus fully described my invention, its mode of construction and operation, what l cia-im as new, and desire to seoru'e by Letters l. The construction and arrangement of a oylindrioal apparat-us, the same having a, series of ventilators with sliding covers to admit and regulate the, circulation of dryor heated air for the purpose ofv drying clothes, as herein described.

2. A series of radiating fr'amvestthey being with afan-blower, so that constructed with duble yielding ras or hairs',

so .as to admit the clothesfbeing easily at! tacked to them, `for the pdxposes herein set forth '-3. .A rotary clothes-frame, i combination "aieurrent of dry or heatei. air iskistributed. through and' among the clothes, substantially as and Afor the purposesherein-speoified. `i

. WILLIAM PRICE.-

VVitn'esses: V` i 4 E M. WILLIAMS W. WOODRUFF.

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