US611306A

US611306A - Washing-machine

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Publication number: US611306A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1898-09-27
Anticipated expiration: 1915-09-27

Description

Patented Sept. 27, I898.

No. 6|l,306.

a. T. WINTERS.

WASHING MACHINE.

(Application filed Apr. 7, 1898.)

(No Model.)

III I asses rc-uma, WASHINGTON n, c.

I UNITED STATES PATENT rrrcn.

GEORGE T. WINTERS, OF CAMERON, WVEST VIRGINIA.

WASHING-MACHINE.-

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 611,306, dated September 27, 1898.

Application filed April 7, 1898. Serial No. 676,791. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE T. WINTERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cameron, in the county of Marshall 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 im prove the construction'of washing-machines and j, to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one capable of rapidly and thoroughly washing clothes and adapted to dispense with gearing and other operating mechanism liable to catch the clothes of the operator or injure the fingers of children.

A further object of the invention is to provide a supporting frame designed to receive an oscillating washing-machine body and provided with a wringer-support adapted to hold a wringer in position over the washingmachine body and to form a stop for the same when taking clothes out or putting them into the machine or supplying the same with water and capable of enabling the wringer to be arranged at one side of the washing-machine to avoid detaching it entirely therefrom when the oscillating body is in operation.

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

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a washing-machine constructed in accordance with this invention and showing a wringer in operative position. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view, the wringer being swung downward at one side of the Washingmachine body to permit the oscillation of the latter. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail sectional view of one of the bearings of the washingmachine body.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawlngs.

1 designates a supporting frame or stand composed of oppositely-inclined standards 2 and 3, arranged in pairs at opposite sides of a washing-machine body 4 and connected be low the body by transverse rungs 5 and trans verse rods 6, arranged between the rungs, as shown, the-ends of the rungs being fitted in sockets at the inner faces of the standards and the rods being passed entirely through the same and provided with a head at one end and a nut at the other to retain the rungs in the sockets and prevent the sides of the frame from separating. A washer or plate is interposed between each of the nuts and the adjacent standard to avoid injuring the frame or stand.

The washin -rnachine bod which is arstand, is detachably journaled therein by means of fixed horizontal journals 8, extending inward from the sides and provided at their inner ends with heads interlocking with bearing-slots 9 of plates 10, which are secured to the outer faces of the sides of the washingmachine body. The journals 8 are located at the juncture of the oppositely-inclined standards 2 and 3 of the frame orstand. The shanks of the journals are threaded to receive nuts 11 and are provided at the inner faces of the sides with collars or flanges 12, rigid with the journals and forming stops to enable the nuts to be screwed up tightly against the sides of the frame without drawing the journals outward too far. The collars or flanges also space the washing-machine bodyfrom the sides of the frame and prevent the said body from contacting with the frame or stand when in operation. The bearing-plates 10, which are vertical, are 'bowed out. to offset their central portions from the washing-machine body and provide a central longitudinal opening. The slots 9 extend upward from the lower ends of the bearing-plates, and the washing-machine body may be readily lifted off the journals when desired. One of the bearing-plates is extended to the upper edge of the adjacent side of the washing-machine body to form a socket for a removable han-- dle 10, by means of which the washing-machine body is oscillated.

The washing-machine body, which is elliptical in longitudinal section, preferably consists of wooden sides and a sheet-metal bottom and ends, and it is provided on the inner faces of the said bottom and ends with a suitable rubbing surface, preferably formed by transverse strips or bars 14. The top of the washingmachine body is provided with an opening in which is arranged a removable cover 15, secured when closed by suitable fastening devices.

The standards are connected near the j on rnals by horizontal rods 16, arranged on the outer faces of the sides of the frame and having their terminals bent at an angle and em bedded in the standards or otherwise secured to the same.

The front standards are extended above the rear standards 2 to provide arms 17, which project above the upper face of the washingmachine body, and are provided with recesses 18, receiving a transverse wringer-supporting bar 19. The wringer-supportin g bar 19, which has a wringer 20 mounted upon it, is pivoted at one end by a bolt 21 to the arm 17 at one side of the frame. The handle for opcrating the washing-machine body is located at the other side of the washing-machine, and when it is desired to oscillate the washingmachine body the wringer and the wringersupporting bar are swung downward at one side of the washing-machine body, as clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the accompanying drawin gs. The washing-machine body is provided adjacentto the hinged end of the wringer-supporting bar wit-h a substantially U-shaped clip 22, having resilient sides and engaging the lower edge of the wringer-supporting bar, whereby the washing-machine body is retained stationary when the wringer is in position and when it is desired to put clothes in the washing-machine or remove them therefrom or supply the machine with water. The weight of the wringer retains the free end of the wringer-support-ing bar in the recess of the arm 17, and the wringer and the frame or stand supporting the wringer, the weight of thesame not being on the washing-machine body.

The invention has the following advan tages: The washing-macl1ine,which is simple and inexpensive in construction, is adapted to wash clothes thoroughly and rapidly by simply oscillating the washing-machine body, which does not wear, tear, or otherwise injure the fabrics. The Wringer supporting bar is mounted on the frame and operates as a stop to prevent the washing-machine body from oscillating when the wringer is in position, and it enables the wringer to be readily swung out of the way without removing it from the washing machine. when swung out of the way is located at one side of the washing-machine, and the handle is located at the other side of the same, so that the wringer does not interfere with the free oscillation of the washing-machine body.

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

hat I claim is- 1. In a washing-machine, the combination of a frame or stand having oppositely-inclined standards arranged in pairs at each side of the frame, one of the standards of each pair being extended to form an arm, the upper ends of the arms being recessed, a washingmachine body jonrnaled in the frame orstand, and a transverse wringer-supporting bar extending across the top of the body and supported in said recesses, one end of the bar being pivoted to one of the arms, substantially as described.

2. In a washing-machine, the combination of a frame or stand provided at opposite sides with inwardly-extendin g journals, a washingmachine body, bearing-plates mounted on the washing machine body at opposite sides thereof and having outwardly-bowed portions, said bearing-plates being provided at their lower ends with bearing-slots receiving said journals, one of the bearing-plates forming a socket to receive a handle for operating the body, 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.

GEORGE T. \VINTERS.

\Vitnesses:

W. C. DAWSON, '1. E. FLETCHER.

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