US707126A - Washboiler. - Google Patents

Description

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UNITED STATES P TIENT OFFIGE.

GEORGE LEEsoN, OF LAKE CITY, MINNESOTA.

WASHB-QILER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.- 707,126, dated August 19, 1 902.

' Application filed February 17, 1902. Serial No. 94,548. (was) To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE LEEsoN, a citi zen of the United States, residing at Lake City, in the county of Wabasha andState of Minnesota, have invented a new-and-nseful Washboiler, of which" the following is a specifica-tion.

This invention relates to. devices to be em-.

ployed in connection with .washboilers; and it consists in a device adapted to; be placed within the boiler whereby the clothesmaybe more thoroughly subjected to action of the. hot water or supported in'aposition to be subjected to the action of steam above the water and also in a position to be drained after being boiled or steamed, as hereinaftershown and described and specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings illustrativeofthe invention and in which like'characters are em Figure 1 is a perspective'view of the device complete and removed from the boiler. Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse section on the line mac of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal-section of a washboiler and of the improved device arranged'therein, also in'longitudinal section;

The device consists in a base-plate 1,'having a series of perforations 2 therein, arranged in rows, preferably at equal distances apart. The plate will conform closely to the interior of the washboiler, (represented in outline at 3,) so that when placed therein it will form sub- The sides of the plate 1 will be turned upward, as shown at 4, to assist in supporting the clothes and will also be provided with handles atthe ends by which it may be lifted from and adjusted in the boiler. Each handle is formed with two side members 5 and a transverse member 6, with the lower ends of the sidemembersmovement of the handles and prevent them from being folded inward, but which-will not prevent them from being turned ontward,'as willbe readily understood. By this means the handles will never fall inward intothe 4 hotwater' in the boiler orlbecome submerged 'therein-or covered by the-clothes, but will always remain in a substantially upright position and projecting out of the water convenie'nt to the hand'of'the operator. The handles will not be long enough to project upward above the upper line of the body of the boiler, iso that their-presencewill not interfere with the placing: off the cover in position on 'the boiler- At one or'more points the side members 5 of the handlesare'formed into hooks 9, adapted to engage the upperrim of the boiler to afford means for suspending the plate 1 at one or more points above the bottom of the boiler to support the clothes above the waterline in the boiler to permit them to be subjected to the action of the steam or for the purpose of drainage, as may be required; As many of tliGSO'hOOkS 9 may be employed as may .be reqni'red;'-but generally two in each side member, as shown, will be sufficient.

Upon the under and upper surface of the plate 1 are a series of guard-strips 10, each strip being concave on"one-side and convex on the other and perforated at suitable intervals and arranged to cover the perforations 2,. as shown, the guard-strips-on the upper surface of the plate adaptedto form guards to support the clothes and prevent them from shutting off or clogging the perforations in guard-strips both above and below the same perforations. Hence,. as will be seen in Fig.

2, where the guard-strips arearranged above the perforations none are arranged beneath that particular set of perforations, and then, on the contrary, where the guard-strips are arranged beneath the perforations no guardstrips are arranged above that particular set of perforations. .Thus no'unn'ecessary guardstrips are employed. The guard-strips, in

addition to the functions' alre'ady described,

perform another and important function in that they serve as longitudinal-braces t9 the plate 1, which is especially importantwhen the latter'is suspended at an elevation, supporting the clothes thereon. The said plate being to some extent weakened by the perforations therein would be liable to bend and yield under the pressure if it were not strongly braced, and the guard-strips thus in addition to the functions already ascribed to them act as braces, whereby the brace-plate is enabled to support any weight that may be placed thereon Without bending or yielding to the pressure. By this simple arrangement the clothes are supported in the boiler in a very convenient position to be handled, either for entire removal or to suspend them in the boiler intermediate of its depth, as before described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- 1. A washboiler attachment comprising a plate conforming to the interior of the boiler and having parallel rows of alined perforations arranged longitudinally,said plate being provided with perforated semitubular guardstrips secured longitudinally to cover the rows of perforations therein, said guard-strips being disposed alternately on the upper and under sides of said plate and serving to brace the same longitudinally, and part of said guard-strips being disposed on the under side of said plate to form supports for the latter, substantially as set forth.

2. A washboiler attachment having means at the ends thereof wherebyit maybe elevated and suspended at various points of elevation, said plate being provided with longitudinallydisposed rows of perforations and with longitudinally-disposed guard-strips covering said perforations and serving also as braces to prevent the plate from flexing or yielding under the weight of the clothes disposed thereon, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

GEORGE LEESON.

Witnesses:

O'rro E. ANDERSON, S. O. SEVALL.