US83277A

US83277A - goodwin

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Publication number: US83277A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1868-10-20
Anticipated expiration: 1885-10-20

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To all who/m it ma/yconcern:

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.tant @anni s. A. GOODWIN, OF BUFFALO, Nnwronn.v Leners Paten: No. 83,277, dated October 2o, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT m WASH-Bomans.

Be it known that I, S. A. GOODWIN, of the city of Bulalo, State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in the Construction ofWash-Boilers; and I do declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawing, and to the letters of reference thereon, the same letters referring to like parts.

My inventionrelates to the class of wash-boilers, in which the washing-solution isforced up, by the action of steam, through tubes or conduits from the bottom of the boiler to the top, on to the clothes or other articles washed, and allowed to percolate through or among them to the bottom again, to be forced up in the same manner in a continuous circulation.

The object of my invention is to separate the heavy parts of the dirt, discharged from the clothes, from the washing-solution, so as to keep it comparatively clean.

I accomplishthis vby means of the deposition or subsidence of these parts in a pan, or p`ans,.or their equivalents, placed at some point or points on the line of the circulation.

I take advantage of `the circulation ofthe washingitto flow into a pan, or pans, in which the heavy dirt subsides or settles to the bottom, and the solution flows over the edges of the same, falling into the current of the circulation, to be again carried valong with it, that the operation may be constantly repeated.

I will now proceed to-describe a mode of construction by which this result is accomplished, not conning myself, however, to any particular mode or manner of construction, in which the same'object is reached on the same principle.

Figure I is a vertical longitudinal section of my in- Figure II represents a perspectiveview of the lower settling-pan, with tube for conveying the solution to the top of the boiler. y

Figure III represents a perspective view of the rack on which the clothes rest.

' A is the boiler.- l

D, a rack or its equivalent, on which the clothesrest.

B, a plate or diaphragm, forming, in connection with its rim and the bottom of the boiler, a chamber for the generation of steam, and also with its upper rim the lower settling-pan.

.12', a tube to conductv the washing-solution, mixed with steam from the steam-chamber, to the top of the boiler.

E, the upper settling-pan, in which f represents a mortise near each end (surrounded with a rim) for the more even distribution of the water over the clothes.

c, pins or legs for the support of D.

c', pins or legs for the support of B. Y

The operation is as follows: The washing-solution is put into the boiler, and then the clothes are laid or spread upon the rack D. Steam is 'then generated in the chamber under B, causing the washing-solution to flow up through the tube b', because that is the most open and' easiest way for it to flow.

^ W'hen it reaches the top of this tube, it flows into the' settling-pan'E, the heavy dirt settling to the bottom, and the solution owing over its rim, falling upon the clothes, percolating through them, and falling, through the rack D, on to the lower pan, the heavy dirt settles in the same, and the solution flows over its rim and under the plate B, when it is again forced up through the tube, in a constantly-repeated circulation, until the clothes are washed.

If found advantageous,I proposeto cover the bottom of these pans with sponge or other porous substance,

for the purpose of destroying the effects of currents, causedby the flowing of the water into the pan, or I may iind it advantageous to place near the top of the pan a nely-perforated plate for the same purpose, or to divide the pan into smaller pans by vertical divisionplates. p

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by `Letters Patent, is-

1. In a wash-boiler, the separation. and collection from vthe washing-solution of the dirt discharged from the articles washed, automatically, by subsidence or deposition, by means of an elevated pan or pans E, or their equivalents, placed at some point or points on the line of circulation, as set forth.

2. The plate B, with its two rims and the settlingpan E combined, substantially as and for the purposes described.

S. A. GOODWIN. Witnesses:

GEO. D. EMERSON, GnorVELzY.