US601121A - Washing-machine - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

` 'J.'H. BULLOCK,

WASHING MAGHIlm.,

No. 601,121.` l Patented MaInIZZ, 1898.

' Mn l f UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. BULLOOK, OF LOGAN, UTAH.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent No. 601,121, dated March 22, 1898.

Application tiled April 24, 1897. Serial No. 633,614. (No model.)

To all whom it may con/cern;

Be it known that I, JOHNHIBULLOOK, re-

siding at Logan, inthe countyof Cache andy State of Utah, have invented a new and useful Washing-Machine, of which the following is a specification. Y

My invention relates to washing-machines, and has for its object to generally improve the construction and operation of such de? with reference to the accompanying drawings,

in which- Figure l is a View of a washing-machine constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is avertical transverse section. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view `of the rubber. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view, and Fig. is a sectional detail view showing a modified form of bottom for the body.

In the said drawings, A represents a suitable base provided with the standards B, in which is journaled the shaft C.

D represents the washerbody, which is semicircular in construction and provided with the corrugations D` on the interior thereof. This corrugated surface may be form ed integral with the bottom, as illustrated in Fig. 2, or formed of a separate sheet d and supported away from the bottom by strips e. It is suitably supported from the shaft C, so that it can be oscillated thereon, `and it is provided withvthe handle E, by which it is operated, and with the hinged cover F.

Located within the washer-body is a rubber G. It is of any desired material and shape and is provided with the corrugated face G.

This rubber is connected with the shaft O byv means of the rigid arms H, which fit on the vertical opening I in the rubber. The advantage of this construction is that when the clothes are placed in the washer the rubber will ride up on the arms, so that the clothes can get between it andthe corrugations of the washer-body.

J represents a crank rigidly connected with the shaft C for the purpose of turning the shaft to move .the rubber out of the body when the clothes are placed therein.

J represents a hook for holding the handle when the washer-body is being oscillated.

In one end of the washer-body I provide an Opening through which the water is discharged, and carried in the adjacent standard is atrough K. The opening is normally closed by a plug L.

ais a wringer-boX having the wringer-rolls b positioned therein, said wringer-box being attached to one of the longitudinal edges of the body at the upper end thereof and communicating with said body by the longitudinal opening c, so that as the water is removed from the clothes by the wringer it is conveyed back to the body and is thus prevented from falling upon the floor.

The operation of my device is as follows: The hinged cover is raised and the rubber turned to one side as far as possible and the clothes then inserted. The rubber is then moved back into the body and adjusts itself on the arms according to the amount of clothes in the body. The crank is then locked and the washer-body oscillated on the shaft, so that the clothes willv be washed. It will be understood that the rubber will be held from oscillating when the body is moved, so that the clothes will always be between the two corrugated faces.

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

In a washing machine, the combination with the standards, of an oscillating shaft mounted therein, a body through which said shaft loosely extends, so that the body is supported thereby, arms carried by said shaft within the body, and a rubber having openings therein to receive the arms, whereby said rubber is movable vertically thereon ,substantially as set forth.

p JOHN H. BULLOCK.

. Witnesses:

WILLARD W. MANGHAN, JOSEPH F. SQUIRES.

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