US498223A - Washing-machine - Google Patents

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(No Model.) Y I G. E. BARTHOLOMEW WASHING MACHINE.

No. '498;223.. Patented May 30,1893.

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GEORGE E. BARTHOLOMEVV, OF. RUSSELL, NEW YORK.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No; 498,223, dated May 30, 1893.

Application tiled January 31, 1893. Serial No. 460,489. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. BARtrHoLo-` MEW,a citizen of the United States, residing at Russell,in the county of St. Lawrence and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Washing-Machine, of which the following is a specification.

Theinvention relates to improvements in washing machines.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of that class of washing machines employing vertically reciprocating clothes pounders, which are gradually rotated to enable them to operate on all the clothes in the tu'b.

A further object of the invention isto enable the constant and gradual rotation to be positive and reliable; and to permit the pounders to be swung back out of the way when desired.

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

In the drawings-Figure 1 is a perspective view of a washing machine embodying the invention. 'Fig 2'is an elevation partly in section showing the pounders swungback. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the circular frame.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the iigures of thedrawlngs.

1 designates astandard secured at its lower end to a wash-bench 2, which supports a wash# tub 3 provided at its top with a detachable ring 4 and retained on the same between the standard 1 and a cleat 5. The cleat-5 has its inner edge concavely curved to conform to the configuration of the wash-tub, whereby the latter is steadied on the bench and held against lateral movement. The standard has its upper end bifurcated and provided at the top or upper portion of the bifurcation with bearing recesses 6, and at the lower portion of the bifurcation with perforations 7 to permit an adjustment of an operating lever 8, which is fulcrumed in the bifurcation by a pin 9 arranged in one of the perforations. The operating lever 8 has pivoted to it a stem 10, which carries at its lower end clothes pounders 11 and 12 and which is bifurcated consists in the construction over half its length from the top to receive the operating lever. The upper end of the standard and the top of thestem 10 are conneeted by a link-bar 13, which has one end pivoted by a pin 14: in the bifurcation of the stem 10 and its other end provided with laterally extending journals 15 arranged'in bearing recesses 6. The bearing recesses 6 and the perforations 7 permit the clothes pounders' ter with van annular ratchet-17, and it is actuated by an oscillating lever 18 fulcrumed at its upper end on the pin 14 and connected near its lower end with the standard by a bar A19. The upper end of the oscillating lever is f provided with a slot to receive the pin which is provided with a head, and the lower end of f the lever18 is provided with a laterally extendingl tooth '2O adapted to engage the teeth of the ratchet to actuate the bar 16. The front end of the bar 18`is pivoted to the oscillating lever, and its rear end is pivoted to the standardby the pin 9, and as the operating lever 8 is lifted the bar 19 causes the oscillating lever v18 to swing outward and engage the ratchet and partially rotate the bar 16, whereby the clothes pounders operate on all the clothes within the tub. The lower end of the lever is prevented swinging outward by an L-shaped guide y22, which is secured to the stem 10, is disposed horizontally and is adapted to hold the tooth in engagement with the ratchet. After the operation of Washing has been completed the pounders are adapted to be swung backward to remove them from the tub to enable the clothes to be readily taken from the latter; and the operating lever is provided with an upwardly extending arm 24, projecting from its upper edge and adapted when the lever 8 is carried sufficiently upward to engage the link bar 13 and lift the journals 15 out of the bearingrecesses 6 to ICO permit the mechanism to be swung back of the standard.

The ring 4 is provided with an opening 25 to permit it to pass the stem, and it is adapted to project inward suciently to prevent water splashing out of the tub. The tub is provided on the upper face of its bottom with a circular frame 26, constructed of a series of slats spaced apart and connected by bars 27 arranged on the lower faces of the slats and supporting the slats above the bottom. The circular frame causes a circulation of water through the clothes and permits any sediment to settle at the bottom of the tub out of contact with the clothes.

It will be seen that the Washing machine is simple, inexpensive and effective in operation; and that the clothes pounder may, after the operation of washing, be swung back of the standard.

Changes in the form, proportion and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

1. In a Washing machine, the combination of a standard having its upper portion bifurcated and provided near its upper end with open bearing recesses and near the lower end ot' the bifurcation with perforations, an operating lever having an upwardly extending arm, a pin arranged in said perforation and fulcruming the lever to the standard, a stem carrying clothes pounders at its lower end and having its upper portion bifurcated and pivoted to the operating lever at a point intermediate of its ends, a link bar pivoted to the upper end of the stem at its front end and provided at its rear end with journals arranged in the bearing recesses, substantially as described.

2. In a washing machine, the combination of a standard, an operating lever fulcrumed on the standard between the ends thereof, a stem pivoted intermediate of its ends to the operating lever and projecting above the latter, a link bar pivoted to the upper end of the stem and journaled on the standard and 1ocated above the operating lever, a pounder secured to the lower end of the standard, a rotatable bar.. mounted on the lower end of the stem and carrying clothes pounders and provided with an annular ratchet, an oscillating lever fulcrumed at its upper end on the stem at the upper end thereof and provided at its lower end with a tooth arranged to engage the annular ratchet, and a bar having one end pivoted to the oscillating lever and its other end pivoted to the standard, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aiiXed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE E. BARTI'IOLOMEW.

Vitnesses:

G. B. HARRIS, IRVIN W. BARTHOLOMEW.

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