US47445A - Improved washing-machine - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

i JAnvIs T. MUDGE, oF CLEVELAND, oriio.

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 47,4LE5, dated April 25, 1865.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, .Mavis T. MUDGE, of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga. and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Washing-Machines; and l do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description of the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of' this specification, in which- Figure l is a plan of my improved Washingmachine. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same in the line a; x, Fig. l, showing more clearly the interior construction thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

The principal object of my invention is to obtain great mechanical pressure for squeez` ing clothes, with the application of but very little strength on the part ofthe operative.

.A further object is to` adapt the plunger of a washing-machine to be retracted or elevated with greater facility by preventing its surface from being overspread with water when forced down upon the clothes, all as will be hereinafter fully explained.

In order that others skilled in the art to Which my invention appertains may be en abled to fully understand and use the same, I will pioieed to describe in detail its construction and operation.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the vessel or tub to contain the water and clothes, which may be of any suitable form and construction. At one end of the tub A is an arm, B, which projects to about the center of the tub, where itis connected with the plunger C through the medium of the rod or link c. `The end of the arm B is Weighted atb, the weight serving to wholly or partially counterbalance the weight of the plunger C, and thus permit the latter to be easily turned up on the edge at which it is hinged, (c c representing the hinges,) prepar atory to being forced down upon the clothes to squeeze or compress them between itself and the bottom of the tubA.

To adapt the weighted arm B to be vibrated, it is attached to a piece, D, which is hinged at d d to the tub A. A vibratory movement is given the arm and the plunger C raised and depressed by means of a lever, E, fastened to the hinged piece D and braced by the rod F. This lever enables the operator to vibrate the arm B so as to raise the plunger with very slight exertion, the weight at the end b preponderating after the starting of the plunger, and completing the elevation of the same. When the lever E is depressed and the arm B vibrated so as to press the plunger down upon the clothes, the momentum of the weight insures an accumulation of force and theplun ger is brought down with great power upon the clothes, thoroughly compressing them and squeezing ont the water.

It is manifest that to increase the iinpingiu g power of the plunger the arm B may be weighted at both ends, and this I propose to do should it become advisable.

I do not claim to be the originator of the l idea of employing weight or momentum to increase the efficiency of a washing medium, but confine my improvement to the use of Weights in connection with plungers of the kind represented.

By the use of weights, as described, the cffective pressure of the plunger when operated by one person may be increased to more than that which could be produced by the combined strength of several operatives.

In theplunger area number of holes through which the water passes on being displaced by the descent of the plunger. these are tubes Cf, whose purpose is to receive the water as it comes up through the perforations, and thus prevent it from overspreading the surface of the plunger. Itis true that the perforations or holes would allow the water to return below the plunger, but it must necessarily consume time in doing so, and hence a quantity of the water would add its weight to that of ihe plunger during its elevation. water from ovcrtlowin g the plunger, but cause its more speedy return to a position below the saine.

The plunger with the tubes has no essential connection with the weighted arm B, and I intend to use in connection with such arm a plungcrcoustructed in any of the known ways.

It is immaterial to the invention whether the tubes O be made separately or in one piece with the plunger; but in practice it may be found preferable to employ simple holes or chambers of suicient depth to contain the displaced water and prevent its overflowing the plunger, as explained.

Over and within The tubes not only prevent the vHaving thus described 1n y invention, the -Wibli the plunger C. to prevent the water from following s what I claim as new herein and overowing and adding Weight to the latter,

desire to secure by Letters Patent as explained.

l. The plunger G, moving in in vertical plane upon the pivot 01' hinges c', and operated by JARVIS T MUDGE' a. system 0f levers, substantially as herein de- Witnesses scribed. OGTAVLUS KNIGHT,

2. The use of the tubes C', in connection ALEXR. A. C. KLAUCKE.

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