US695556A - Washing-machine. - Google Patents

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SAMUEL HERR, OF AKRON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONEIIALF TO WILLIAM H. NEESE, OF AKRON, OHIO. y

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SPEGIFICATION forming' part 0f Letters Patent NO. 695,556, dated March 18, 1902. Application filed November 4, 19017. SerialNo. 81.073. No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Beit known that I, SAMUEL HERR, a citizen of the United Statesresidi ng at Akron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio,have invented a certain new and useful Improvementin Washing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to improvements in that class of washing-machines in which a swinging rubber is arranged to be reciprocated in a tub with a curved bottom concentric with the pivot of the rubber.

The object of my invention is to produce a new and improved washing-machine in which the cleansing effect shall be produced by agitating the articles to be washed in soapy water and repeatedly squeezing them between oppositely-disposed separately-placed slats, whereby wearing of the articles on or between rubbing-surfaces shall be avoided.

To the aforesaid object my invention consists in the peculiar and novel construction, arrangement, and combination of parts hereinafter described and then specifically pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the Iaccompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar reference-numerals indicate like parts in the different figures, Figure 1 is a view of my improved machine in section at the line a: a: of Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a plan of the machine with the cover partially broken away and the l arms of the squeezer in section at the line y y of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 asection of the machine at the line z z of Fig. 1.

Referringto these figures, 1 is the tub or tank, supported on legs 2 and having side pieces 3, the upper edges of which are in a common horizontal plane. Secured on the outside of each side' piece,extending a short distance above and extending beyond it at each end, is a strip 4. At one end of the tub is a partial cover 5, that rests on the upper edges of the tub, and to this is hinged a swinging half-lid 6, having its outer edge beveled to meet and match the removable lid 7 on the opposite side. At the opposite end of the tank is secured a partial cover 8, inclined toward the center of the tank to cause the water to iiow back from the articles in the l wringer, and to the front edge of this partial Vcover is secured an upright board 9, to which,

to attach a wringer. The partial lid 7 extends slightly under the edge of the partial cover 8, and is thus retained until it is desired to remove it. At the opposite ends of the interior of the tub are similar ranks of upwardly-curved parallel fingers 10, the lower edges and ends of which are rounded to avoid wearing the articles to be washed. The vback ends of these fingers are fastened to` a strip 11, that rests againstthe interior wall of the tub, and near their front ends the fingers are secured to a cross-bar12, the ends of which slide vertically into and rest in grooves in the inner faces of the sides of the tub. By this arrangement these ranks of Vfingers can be raised out of and removed from the tub when desired. v

The squeezer consists of two side levers 13,

united at their upper ends by a'handle-bar l 14 with a strengthening counter-bar 15 below it and at their lower ends by a cross-bar 16, curved on its under faceconcentric with the inner face of the tubV and in operation sus'- pended a short distance from it.

that fits in a bearing in the edge of the sides 3. Between the journals and cross-bar 16 is a cross-bar 18. Ranks of curved blades 19 On the outer face of each lever 13 is a journal 17,

of substantially the same thickness and curv In operation, the tub being partially filled with soapy water,the articles to be washed are placed therein, the squeezer placed therein, and the lids 6 7 put in place. The

squeezer is then rocked, thus agitating the' articles in the water and alternately'raising a part of them up against the fingers- 10 and squeezing them at each upward movement, whereby the articles are cleansed. The lid 7 is then removed, the squeezer lifted out, and the articles raised and passed through a wringer on the board 9. Y

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

I. An improved washing-machine consisting of a tub having a curved bottom, ranks of curved fingers on its inner opposite ends, the back ends of which are fastened to a strip that :rests against the interior wall of the curved bottom and near their front ends are secured to a cross-bar the ends of which rest in grooves in the inner faces of the sides of the tub, and a removable swinging squeezer pivoted in the sides of said tub and having ranks of curved blades on its opposite sides alternating with said fingers and arranged to be brought into juxtaposition therewith, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination with a tub having a curved bottom of ranks of curved fingers SAMUEL HERR.

In presence of- C. P. IIUMPHREY, C. E. IIUMPHREY.

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