US628076A - Clothes-pounder. - Google Patents

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No. $28,076. Patented July 4, I899. c. w. cnoss.

CLOTHES POUNDER.

(Application filed Mar. 17, 1897.) (No Model.)

WITNESSES 7 [NI/ENTOR I Clarence WCT S,

UNITED STATES CLARENCE W. CROSS,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF GRINNELL, IOWA.

CLOTHES-POUNDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 628,076, dated July 4;, 1899.

Application filed March 1'7, 1897. Serial No. 627,917. (No model.)

To all whom, it nutty concern:

Be it known that I, CLARENCE W. (JRoss, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grinnell, in the county of Poweshiek and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Founders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My object is to facilitate the labor of washing clothing and other articles of textile fabric by pounding and pressing the soiled material and repeatedly forcing water and air through the meshes.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claim, and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawin gs, in Which- Figure 1 shows my clothes-pounder detachably connected with a tub, as required for practical use. Fig. 2 is an outside view, and Fig. 3 an interior View, of my air and water forcing mechanism combined in a case adapted for pounding clothing therewith in a tub.

The letter A designates a sheet-metal case of circular shape in cross-section, open at the bottom and tapering to terminate in a contracted top, that is adapted to serve as a bearing for a reciprocating handle G of a plunger adapted to force air and water through the meshes of the articles placed in a tub to be washed. 7

F is an open-ended cylinder fixed concen-- trically inside of the case A by means of flanges fixed to the top and bottom portions of the outside of the cylinder and the inside of the case to produce an annular air-tight chamber 0 and open spaces above and below the cylinder and within the case, as shown in Fig. 3.

Openings 7a in the top portionof the case A admit air, and openings k in a hollow piston g, fitted in the pump-cylinder F, admit air to pass into the cylinder and piston at each upward motion of the handle G and the hollow piston and down through a spring-actuated valve 0, that normally closes an opening in the bottom of the piston. The valve is fixed to the lower end of a coiled spring 19, and the top of the spring is fixed to the inside face of the top of the piston.

L is a lever fulcrumed to a bracket that is connected with the tub, as shown in Fig. 1, for operating my invention when the handle G is pivotally connected with the said lever. It is obvious, however, that the pounder and pump can be operated in a tub by simply seizing hold of the handle and reciprocating it to pound and press clothing with the bottom of the case A and at the same time operate the piston in the cylinder within the case to force currents of air and water through the meshes of the articles at the same time they are subjected to pressure and submerged with water prepared for detersive action upon the dirt in the articles placed therein.

h is an extensible Wire spring fixed to the top of the case and coiled aroundthe handle G and fixed thereto at its lower endin such a manner that at each downward motion of the handle and piston power will be stored in the spring that will lift the piston in the cylinder when the downward pressure on the handle is relaxed.

I am aware that cone-shaped washers of the class to which my invention belongs have had cylinders fixed in concentric'position and diaphragnis fixed to the bottoms of the cylinders in such a manner as to leave large open bottomed chambers under the cylinders that admitted a large quantity of water immediately under the cylinders and did not allow the bottom of the cylinders to contact with and press clothing as contemplated by my invention, in

which the cylinder is extended down to near the bottom of the cone-shaped case and an annular water-chamber produced between the cylinder and thelower and largest part of the case.

In the practical operation of my invention, the piston being in its normal position and filled with air, the spring-actuated valve in the bottom thereof will be closed and the open bottomed cylinder will be filled with air and water, and when the piston is forced down and the bottom of the case and cylinder pressed upon clothing submerged in water the air and water int-he cylinder will be forced out and through the meshes 0f the clothing pressed thereby, and in the upward motion of the piston a vacuum and suction will be produced in the cylinder and draw air through the hollow piston into the cylinder, and repetitions of the operation will, by means of air and water,

wash textile fabrics advantageously, pressing them with the bottom edges of the cylinder and the concentric case.

Having thus described the construction, operation, and utility of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent therefor, is

The case A having a contracted top and bearing for a handle and opening to admit air at its top portion, an open-ended cylinder F fixed to the inside of the case by means of annular flanges at its top and bottom and extended to the bottom of the case to produce an annular chamber 0, a hollow piston g fitted in the cylinder and provided with openings CLARENCE V. CROSS.

Vitnesses:

R. N. KooNs, C. E. WHITED.

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