US506476A

US506476A - Washing-machine

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Publication number: US506476A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1893-10-10
Anticipated expiration: 1910-10-10

Description

(No Model.)

' W. A. CRISLIP.

WASHING MACHINE.

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WILLIAM A. ORISLIRLOF NERO, WEST VIRGINIA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part' of Letters Patent No. 506,476, dated October 10, 1893. I Application filed May 27, 1892. Serial No. 434,535. (No model.) 7

in the county of Barbour and State of West Virginia, have invented a new and useful Washing-Machine, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in washing machines.

The object of the present invention is to simplify and improve the construction of washing machines, and to facilitate the operation of Washing by acting electrically on the chemical elements of hard water to soften the latter.

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

In the drawings-Figure 1 is a perspective view of a washing machine constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of a portion of the stationary rubber. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view of one end of the stationary rubber.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures'of the drawings.

1 designates a semi-cylindrical washing machine body supported by inclined legs 2 and provided on its curved bottom with a curved stationary rubber 3 conforming to the configuration of the bottom and adapted to co-operate with an oscillating rubber 4 connected with the sides of the body by link plates 5. The link plates are provided at their ends with oppositely disposedjournals 6 and 7, the former of which extend outward and are arranged in suitable bearings in the sides of the body and are secured by nuts, and the other journals 7 extending inward and arranged in bearing openings of pa'rallel bars 8 of the oscillating rubber andsecured by nuts. The parallel bars extend upward from segmental sides 9 of the oscillating rubber and are connected' at their upper ends by a handle bar 10. The oscillating rubber is segmental in longitudinal section, and is composed of the segmental sides 9, transverse strips 11 arcrimp the clothes being washed and create a,

suction thereby removing the dirt and stains. By reason of having the rolls 12 corrugated or fluted, the same will not slip over the clothes, but will firmly grip the same to secure, together with the transverse strips, a thorough rubbing of the clothes between the stationary and movable rubbers, so that a most efficient washing thereof is effected, and the usefulness of the machine is greatly enhanced by having an alternation of the rolls and transverse strips from end to end of the space between the sides 9, thereby greatly increasing the rubbing area.

The stationary curved rubber 3 consists of a series of transverse strips 14 having their upper faces corrugated and which are segmental in cross section and are arranged loosely on curved wires 15 which are provided at one end of the body with loops 16, and have their other ends 17 threaded and provided with nuts which secure the transverse strips 14 on the wires. The loops 16 fitin eyes 19 of hinge plates 20 which are secured at one end of the body and hinge the stationary rubber thereto, and the stationary rubber is adapted tobe swung out of the body when it is desired to clean the parts. The transverse strips 14 by being segmental in cross section are adapted to be interchanged so as to equalize the Wear and increase the durability of the machine.

In order to separate and space the strips 14, and thereby greatly facilitate washing, metallic disks 2]. and 22-are loosely arranged on the wires and interposed between the transverse strips 14. By reason of interp'os ing the loose washers 21 and '22 between the transverse strips 14 of'the stationary rubber, the said transverse strips are allowed to yield somewhat when the clothes are undergoing washing thereon by the oscillations of the movable rubber, while at the same time such washers keep the said strips sufficiently apart so asto' allow the water to properly circulate in working its way through the clothes being washed.

It will be seen that the washing machineis simple and comparatively inexpensive inconstruction, that by it clothes may be thoroughly washed without liability of injuring the fabrics, and that hard water is softened thereby greatly facilitating the operation of washing.

What I claim is a semi-cylindrical body and the oscillating rubber mounted therein; of a removable stationary rubber'adapted to'fit the semi-circular'bottom of the machine body and compris- I having eyes at one end loosely embracing said loops and adapted tobe secured fixedly to the body of the machine to hinge the stationary rubber therein, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in thepresence of two witnesses. In a washing machine, the combination with z v WILLIAM A. 'ORISLIP.

Witnesses:

W. TAYLOR GEORGE, FRED 0. .BLUE.