US769A - Washing-machine fob washing clothes - Google Patents

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R. W. OLIPHANT, OF NORTH GRANVILLE, NEW YORK.

WASHING-MACHINE FOR WASHING CLOTHES.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 769, dated Julie 7, 1838. l

To all 'whom it may concern Beit known that I, ROBERT W. OLLPHANT, of North Granville, in the county of Wash,- ington andV State of New York, have invented an Improved VVashing-Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.

I construct a suitable trough to contain the soap suds, and the clothes to be washed; and within this trough I place a pounder. or beater, by means of which the clothes are to be forced against one end of the trough, by which operation they will be eifectually cleansed. The pounder, or beater, is to be worked back and forth by hand, instead of by such machinery as has heretofore been employed for that purpose; and in consequence of thus working it, the stroke will always be. adapted to the quantity of clothes contained in the trough.

The accomp-anying drawing Figure l, represents the trough and its appendages, one side of the trough being removed to exhibit the whole arrangement. The machine may be varied in size, but the dimensions which I shall designate are such as I have found to answer the intended purpose in a satisfactory manner. The trough A, B, may be three feet siX inches long, and fourteen inches wide at the bottom; the sides are made to flare out, making it three cr four inches wider at the top. The bottom forms an inclined plane lengthwise, it being twelve inches deep at the end A, and fifteen at the end B, thus giving it an inclination of three inches, which may be increased if desired. This inclination of the bottom will be found to facilitate the operation of the machine very considerably. A cover, or lid, C, eX- tends along a considerable portion of the trough, leaving only suiiicient opening at the upper end for the working of the beater. This cover rests on ledges, andmay be removed at pleasure. A roller D, which turns easily upon gudgeons at each end, extends across the upper edge of the trough, at the end A. This roller sustains the two shafts i to which the beater, and the handlef by which it is worked, are attached, or the shafts may be suspended by a cord, as shown at (J, Fig. 2) and the beater allowed to vibrate. .Y

E, Figs. l and 2, is the beater which is nearly as wide as the bottom of the trough,

and otherwise formed in the mannerv represented in the drawing. Under the front edgesof this beater, I place two friction rollers, I, I, which rest 0n th bottom ofthe trough, enabling the beater to move backward and forward with but little resistance. F, F, are two shafts, attached at their lower ends to the beater, and at their upper to the handle G. A board H, ext-ends under the roller D, to prevent the splashing of the suds from that end of the trough. In using this machine, the shafts rest upon the roller D, the operator takes hold of the handle G, and works the beater back and forth, causing the beater to press forcibly against the clothes contained between it and the end K of the trough.

The whole operation is performed with butlittle labor, in consequence of the aid afforded by the inclination of the bottom, and the diminution of friction by the rollers.

Having thus fully described my machine, and the manner in which it operates, I claim as my invention- The particular arrangement ofthe operating parts, as above described; that it to say, I claim the combination of the beater, moved by hand, with the respective rollers or cord, and the inclined bottom of the trough, constructed and operating substantially as above set forth. i

ROBERT W. OLIPHANT.

Witnesses:

LINTON THORN, C. H. A. ALTBERGER.

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