US62275A - Improved washing machine - Google Patents

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Be `it known that I, JAMES KING, of North Vernon, Jennings county, State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful improvements in IfVashing Machines; and I do hereby declare the following description and accompanying drawings are snicient to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which it most yproperly appel-mins to make and use the said invention or improvements without any further invention or experiment. Y

The nature of my invention andimprovements consists in the combinationl and arrangement of devices described in the following specification and represented in the drawings. In the accompanying drawings- .Figure 1 is an elevation of my machine with one side removed to showthe interior;

Figure 2 is a pla-n or top View.

rIn these drawings, A A are the sides, B the bottom, and C G the vends of' the box or vat of' the machine, which is supported on. the four legs, D D, fastened to the sides A. In one end of this box Imake a hole to dra-w ofi' the water, and stop it with the plug E. I fasten. two cleats, F F, to the bottom of the box on the inside, te hold the lower wash-boards G G, which kare grooved on their upper surfaces, as shown in fig. 1, and fastened to the cleats F. I make a movable clothes-box, I-I, about half the length ofthe inside of the main box., and about two inches and a half narrower, and fasten the bars I I to the end s, which bars have pivots on t-h'eirends for, thc rollers J J, which-roll on the cleats K K, fastened tothe sides AA of the box, so as to hold tlie lower edges of the box H alittle distance above the lower wash-boards G G, as shown in fig. 1. The tops of the rollers J J are a little below the top of the box, and the strips L L are fastened to thc top of' the box and made to project over the rollers, to hold the bo\Y H down as it is traversed in washing the clothes.` The box H is open at the bottom, and is provided with two standards, M M, at the top, which are connected by the bar N, which is mortised for the stem P of the upper wash-board Q, which is fastened to the lower end of'thelstem P, and grooved on its under side, as s'hown in fig. 1, to act on the top of the clothes wliile the wash-boards G G act on" the bottom of the clothes. ,'Ihe stein P is perforated with a series of holes, and'the board Q maybe raised up and a pin pnt through the stein above the bar N, to hold it up while the clothes are pnt in or taken ont. The sides of the box H are made to project beyond the ends at the top in the form of a bracket, and are connected by the round bars R R, which are-seized by the washerwoman when she traverses the box H and board Q to wash the clothes.

To use my machine, I till the box with Water about three inches deep above the top of the boards G G, and raise the board Q, and put the clothes to be washed intothe box H, and press them down with the board Q, and fasten-it down by putting the pin through the stem P below the bar N, to hold the board-down on the clothes and press them against the boards G G while the bex H is traversed alternately in each direction by the attendant, who seizes the bars R R to work the box and rub and roll the clothes between the board Q and' the boards G G4 until they are clean.

Having described my improved washing machine- I claim the combination and arrangement of the traversing bex l`with movable wash-board Q and stationary wash-boards G G, constructed to operate in the box or vat as described.

' v JAMES KING.

AWitnesses:

HIRAM FEATHER, DAVID Snnnvn.

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