US507532A - Washing-machine - Google Patents

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JAMES FARLOW, OF GREENOASTLE, INDIANA.

WASHING- MACHINE.

SPECITIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 507,532, dated October 31, 1893.

Application filed April 12, 1893.

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES FARLOW, a citizen of the United States, residing at Greencastle, in the county of Putnam and State of Indiana, 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 improve the construction of washing machines, to facilitate the operation of washing and lessen the labor connected therewith, and to enable clothes and other fabrics to be thoroughly washed without liability of wearing, tearing or otherwise injuring them.

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 drawingsFigure 1 is a perspective View of a washing machine constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a central vertical longitudinal sectional view, the rubbing roll being shown in end elevation. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view.

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

1 designates a Washing machine body supported by legs 2, and provided with a sheet metal bottom 3 to enable water and suds to be heated and maintained in a heated condition by a liquid hydro-carbon burner 4. The liquid hydro-carbon burner is provided with a vertical tube or pipe 5 supporting a reservoir 6, and it is provided at the bottom of the vertical tube with a T-shaped portion 7, arranged beneath the bottom of the washing machine body at one end thereof and having one of the burner arms 8 projecting from the body at one end thereof, whereby water may be simultaneously heated in a boiler 9, and the washing machine body 1. The boiler 9 is supported by horizontal arms 10, projecting from one end of the Washing machine body and having pivoted to their outer ends legs 11, which are connected at their lower end-s by a cross-piece 12.

The sides of the body are provided with open bearings 13 receivingjournals 14 of a rubbing Serial No. 470,128. m. model.)

roll 15; the journals are preferably formed by a shaft extending through the roller and projecting from the ends thereof; and one of the journals or ends of the shaft is extended to form a crank handle 16. On the ends of the rubbing rolls are arranged circular bearing plates 17, which are provided on their inner faces with annular flanges 18 bearing against the ends of the roll; and the plates are Socured to the roll by fastening devices arranged at the inside and outside of the annular flange. These plates serve to prevent the ends of the roll from binding against the sides of the washing machine body and sticking.

The face .Olf the roll is provided with series of knobs or projections 19, having rounded convex ends and serving the purpose of knuckles and co-operating with a yielding carried over the curved rubbing surface 21 of the bed 20.

The bed consists of a frame, and is capable of vertical movement, and is mounted on vertical pins 22 on which are disposed spiral springs 23 for forming cushions. The vertical pins 22 extend upward from a rectangular frame 24, which rests upon the bottom of the washing machine body. The sides of the bed are provided with vertical strips 25 of leather or similar material to enable the bed to fit sufficiently snug without liability of binding or sticking by swelling or the like.

The rubbing roll is held down upon the clothes being washed with sufficient pressure to carry the clothes back and forth over the rubbing surface of the bed by V shaped springs 26, arranged at the sides of the washing machine body on the outer faces thereof. Each spring is disposed substantially horizontally and consists of upper and lower arms 27 and 28, and a connecting coil 29 of wire forming an eye and receiving a pivot bolt 30, which secures the spring to the body. The lower arm 28 of the spring engages the adjacent journal of the rubbing roll, and the upper arm 27 is engaged by a vertically disposed spring catch 32, provided with an eye at its lower end to receive a bolt 33 and hav ing a shoulder or tooth 34 at its upper end for vengaging the upper arm of the spring. By means of the supporting spiral springs and the V-shaped springs, both the roll and the bed are yieldingly mounted, and clothes may be passed back and forth over the rubbing surface of the bed and be rubbed without liability of tearing, wearing or otherwise in uring fabrics of heavy or light nature.

'lhe washing machine body has the said boiler located at one end, and its other end has secured to it a detachable shelf 35, which has ts inner edge recessed at the sides and provided with eyes 36 to engage books 37 of the body. The shelf has a brace 38 hinged to ts lower face, and the brace when in pos tion bears against a cleat 39 disposed vertically on the body.

Du ring the operation of washing the clothes are boiled in the usual manner in the boiler at one end of the machine, and are taken therefrom and passed back and forth over the rubbing surface of a bed which serves to rub and wring, and after passing through this operation they are placed on the shelf ready to hang up for drying. In washing the clothes are moved back and forth over the rubbing surface of the bed by reversely semiosc llating the rubbing roll, and when it is desired to ascertain whether or not the clothes have been sufficiently rubbed the roll may be completely rotated several times to carry all the clothes before the eye of the operator.

The crank handle is provided with a gutta percha sleeve, which may be of some other substance that is a non-conductor of heat to prevent the operator being burned. The sides of the body are provided with handles 40 of similar material each of which is mounted on a rod 4:1 having its ends threaded and provided with nuts 42 and arranged in openings of arms 43. The arms 43 are provided at their outer ends with threaded openings, in which are mounted binding screws a l for clamping the rods against longitudinal movement.

It will be seen that the washing apparatus is complete and dispenses with the necessity of employing tubs, and that the operation of washing may be quickly and thoroughly effooted without injury to fabrics.

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.

What I claim is In a washing machine the combination of a body having bearing slots, a bed having a rubbing surface, a rubbing roll provided with extended journals arranged in the bearing slots, the horizontally disposed pivotally mounted V-shaped springs having their pivots arranged at their apexes and having their lower arms engaging thejournals and adapted to swing on their pivots to release the journals, and the spring catches vertically disposed on the body and secured thereto at their lower ends and provided at their upper ends with teeth engaging the upper arms of the springs, substantially as described.

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

JAMES FARLOW.

Witnesses:

THOMAS ABRAMS, WILLIE F. WILLIAMS.

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