US504763A

US504763A - Washing-machine

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Publication number: US504763A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1893-09-12
Anticipated expiration: 1910-09-12

Description

(No Model.)

E. L. WALLACE.

WASHING MACHINE.

Patented Sept. 12, 1893.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD L. WALLACE, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

WASHlNG- MACHlNE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 504,763, dated September 12, 1893.

Application filed June 26,1893. Serial No. 478,825. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD L. WALLACE, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in \Vashing- Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the drawings accompanying this specification.

My improvement relates to washing machines consisting of a rubber which reciprocates forward and back over arollerbed, and the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the rubber as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawingsFigure 1 is a plan view of the machine. Fig. 2 is a longit-udinal,vertical section in line a: so of Fig. 1, one end of the machine being shown in elevation. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the rubber.

A indicates the body of the machine, consisting of a box of rectangular form and supported by suitable legs B B.-

C is the roller-bed and D the rubber. The bed is of ordinary form, consisting of an angular frame extending across the machine and provided at the top with a set of cross rollers a a a, which form the support for the clothes. This frame is fitted reinovably in place, being held at the front by hook-shaped lugs 19 b, and at the rear by square lugs b b. It can therefore be detached at any time for cleaning or repairs.

The rubber is of peculiar construction. It consists of cross slats c c, with openings between to admit free passage of water. At the ends are tie straps cl cl, provided at one extremity with upturned lugs (1' cl. The handle E is hinged to the front of the rubber as shown atf, and has at its rear end a cross head g by which it is operated. At the rear of the rubber aspring his interposed between the cross slat and the handle, the same being held by a bolt. Preferably the spring is made of a block of india rubber, but may be of any other kind.

G is a bow made of iron rod attached centrally to the handle on the under side, its extremities diverging and passing out through holes in the lugs d d, thence extending upward in an inclined direction, passing over the sides of the machine and there jointed to links k k, which in turn extend downward outside the machine and are jointed to stifi springs or m on the under side of the machine.

This connection gives freedom of action to the rubber. It will be seen that three joints are made, one at the center and one at each end, the latter being produced by the passage of the iron rod through the lugs 61' d. These joints are all in line and allow the rubber to spring up and down at the rear. At this point the spring h gives the necessary elasticity and supports the handle.

By the means above described the rubber 65 tie straps at its ends provided with upturned lugs, the handle hinged to the front edge of the rubber, the spring between the rubber and the handle, the bow attached to the handle and passing through the lugs of the tie straps, and suitable connections for holding So and operating the rubber, as herein shown and described.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD L. WALLACE.

lVitnesses:

R. F. Oseoon, P. H. Oosrrcn.