US48402A - Improved washing-machine - Google Patents

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W. n. HILL, on DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVED WASHING-MAcHlNE.

Specilication forming part of LettcrsPatent No. 48,4102, dated June 27, 1865.

To all 'whom it may concern Be it known that I, W. R. HILL, of Detroit, in the county of Wayne and Stateof Michigan, have made new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description of the same, reference beinghad'to the annexed drawing,makingI part of this specification, in which my improvement is represented by a vertical central sectional view of the tub and lower disk, the rubber being in elevation.

My improvement consists in a washing-machine which is adapted to be set in a tub of any size, therein to perform its work.

To enable one skilled in the branch of industryy to which my invention appertains to construct and use the same, I will proceed to v describe it.

Ais a tub. B is a step screwed to the upper side ofthe tub bottom. In this step or stud is screwed a center post, C, its shoulder c holding down the lower disk, D, whose cleats d prevent its contact with the bottom ofthe tub.

Holes e allow of the circulation of the water .through the disk, and the latter has on its uping been previously attached to the bottom,

where it may remain without interference with any use for which the tub is designed, the central post is erected thereon and the different portions caused to assume the position shown in the drawing. The clothes are introduced between the disks, with the requisite water and soap, and are rubbed by the reciprocating rotary movement of the upper disk, which is operated by the medium of thehandle F. The central post secures the lower disk or wash-board in position `and forms the axis of rotation of the upper disk, and by the motion of the latter the water is caused to circulate and to be expressed through the clothes, while dirt or gritty matter, which settles, ofcourse, as it has opportunity, collects below the false bottoni, where it is not again disturbed until the operation is completed and the machine is about to be cleaned.

p No. hole is required to be made through the bottom of the tub for the proper attachment of the washing apparatus, whichis readily removable as required.

The yoke Gr, supported on the shoulder c of the center post, sustains the rubber, so th at the post itself does not project upward as i'ar as the cross-bar F. When the rubber is elevated so as to free the yoke fromthe post the disk can be lifted so as to slip past the wringer, which may be attached to the side of the tub. I am not aware that any other tub-machine possesses this characteristic.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

-1. The lower disk, fastened and constructed as described, and acting as a wash-board and a lter.

2. rlhe combination ofthe center post, stepped into the stud, as described, and having` the two shoulders, which act respectively upon the wash/board disk and the rubber disk to maintain them in their relative positions.

Witnesses HENRY STARKEY, CHARLES TRYON.

w. E. HILL.

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