US866527A - Washing-machine. - Google Patents

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C. A. SHIVE.

WASHING MACHINE. APPLIOATION FILED SEPT.15. 1905.

PATENTED SEPT 17, 1907.

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G. A. SHIVE. WASHING MACHINE. APPLIOATION 211.111) SEPT. 15, 1905.

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UNITED s'rA ssEA'rENT OFFICE.

CALVIN SHIVE, OF INEEPENDENCE, KANSAS, ASSI GNOR TO THE PEERLESS PROMOTING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF PHCENIX, ARIZONA TERRITORY.

WASHING-MACHINE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 17, .1907.

Application filed September 15,1905. Serial No. 278,581.

To all whom rt may concern:

Be it known that I, CALVIN A. SHWE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Independence, in the county of Montgomery, State of Kansas, have invented cer' tain new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines; 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.

This invention relates to washing machines.

One object of the invention is to provide a Washing machine embodying such characteristics that the body of the machine may have an oscillating movement by a continuously driven shaft.

Another object of the invention resides in the provision of a simple, inexpensive, durable and efficient washing machine wherein the clothes may be thoroughly washed without tearing or otherwise injuring the same.

With these and other objects in view, the present invention consists in the combination and arrrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion, size and minor details may be made, within the scope of the claims, without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view. Fig. 3 is a lace view of one end of the clothes receiving body illustrating the arc-shaped rack and guide. Fig. 4 is a detail view of one of the journal bearings for the clothes receiving bod y. Fig. 5 is afragmentary view illustrat ing the mounting of the yielding shaft within the guides disposed against the inner face of the corresponding end of the frame. Fig. 6 is a detail view of the block arranged for sliding movement between the guides. Fig. 7 is a plan view of the gear drive. Fig. 8 is a fragmental perspective view of the rack formed on one end of the body of the machine.

tcferrin'g now more particularly to the accompanying drawings, it will be seen that the body 1 of the machine is mounted within a suitable, frame 2. The ends 3 and 4 of this frame 2 are circular as shown, each having forward and rearward feet 5 and 6 to support the circular shaped ends above the floor or ground. Connecting the ends 3 and 4 between theirlegs 5 and (i is a connecting brace 7.v The inner faces of the ends 3 and 4 are reduced in thickness throughout their lower portion corresponding to the semicircular ends Sand 9 of the semi-circular shaped bottom 10 of the frame, there being an opening 11 formed through the end 8 of the bottom of the frame and alining with a perforation in the bottom of the end 3 of the frame for the insertion of a short tube 12 designed for the passage of water from the frame.

Secured to the inner faces of the respective ends 3 and 4 of the frame are suitable hanging bearings 13 and 14, each bearing having a groove 15 formed in its outer face, which groove 15 communicates with a somewhat deeper groove 16 formed in the lower end of each hearing, the side walls of the deeper groove 16 diverging upwardly to permit of the ready insertion of the corresponding trunnions 17 of the clothes washing body 1 within the frame. "It will be seen that the body portion connecting the ends of the clothes receiving body is of corrugated material and provided with internal ribs A, which ribs obviously agitate the clothes which together with the suction caused by reason of the perforations 52 of the clothes receiving body result in the clothes being always at the bottom of the said body.

Formed through the side 4 of the frame near the upper end thereof is a perforation 17 in which is fitted the flanged neck 18 of a plate 19 secured in any suitable manner to the outer face of said side 4, the said plate 19 having a perforation 20 concentric with the perforation 17, there being a plate 21 secured in any suitable manner to the outer face of the aforesaid plate 19 and provided with a perforation 22 for alinement with the perforations l7 and 20 for a purpose presently explained.

Secured in any suitable manner to the outer face of the side 4 is bearing block 23 which is arranged preferably in alincmcnt with the aforesaid plates 19 and 21 and of such thickness as to correspond with the thick-' ness of both of the aforesaid plates. Disposed upon this bearing block 23 and upon the aforesaid plate 21 are strips 24 and 25 connecting which is a plate 26.

It will thus be seen that the plate 26 is spaced from the block 23 and the plate 21 which space is provided for the large and small gcar wheels 27 and 28, the larger gca-r wheel 27 being fixedly mounted upon the shaft 29 journalcd n the plate 26 and the block 23 and arranged for mesh with the smaller gear wheel 28 which latter is fixedly secured upon the shaft 30 journaled through i the said plate 26 and the perforation 22 of the plate 21.

This shaft 30 has its inner end provided with oppositely disposed lingers 31 and 32 adapted to embrace a ball 33 and be secured thereto through the instrumentality of a suitable pivot pin 34, there being another shaft 35 provided with fingers 36 and 37 adapted to embrace the said ball 33 and be connected thereto with the fingers 36 and 37 intermediate the aforesaid fingers 31 and 32, theconncction between said fingers 36 and 37 being made through the instrumentality of a suitable pivot pin 38'arrangcd at a direct right angle to the plane of the aforesaid pivot pin 34. It

will be seen that the shaft 35, which is in reality a sectional part ofthe shaft 30, projects somewhat within the interior of the frame and it is obvious that when the shaft 30 is revolved, that the shaft 35 is revolved with it and in the same direction. A pinion 39 is fixedlysecured to the free extremity of the short shaft 35 adjacent which and upon the shaft 35 is loosely mounted a guide block 40 whose opposite sides are flanged as indicated by the reference characters 41 and 42 respectively whereby the said block 40 may be guided upon the inwardly curved guides 43 and 44 which are spaced apart and provided with feet portions 45 whereby the said guide members 43 and 44 may be fixedly secured by means of suitable fasteners 46 to the inner face of the side 4 adjacent the aforesaid perforation 17 of the latter. By reason of the peculiar connection between the short shafts 30 and 35, there is provided a universal joint, the joint being disposed within the perforations 17 and 20 of the side 4 and the plate 19 respectively and it obvious that by reason of the loose mounting of the short shaft 35, in the sliding block 40, and the sliding movement permitted of the latter between the said guides 43 and 44 that a vertical adjustment or movement of the short shaft 35 is permitted.

From the foregoing, it will be understood that the body 1 of the washing machine is journaled for oscillation in the aforesaid hangers or bearings 13 and 14 of the frame. Now in order that this body 1 may be oscillated, I provide a peculiarly formed rack 46 upon one end of the body 1. This rack 46 comprises opposing parallel portions arranged in arc'shape about the corresponding trunnion 17, the ends of the said areshaped rack 46 being connected as indicated by the reference character 47. Formed in the end of the body 1 intermediate the opposing parallel toothed portions of the rack is a suitable guide 48 which comprises spaced parallel grooves as shown, with their ends connected at 49.

It will be seen that the pinion 39 secured to the ex tremity of the short shaft 35 is fitted for mesh with the opposing portions of the rack 46 with its extremity engaged in the guide-way 48. Therefore, when the shaft 29 is rotated through the instrumentality of a crank handle (not shown) or a motor (not shown), the gear wheel 28 is caused to rotate and in turn cause a rotation of the pinion 39. Since the teeth of the pinion 39 mesh with the' teeth of the arc-shaped rack 46,

the body 1 is caused to turn in one direction. How ever, when one end 47 of the arc-shaped rack engages the said pinion 39, it is obvious that by reason of the teeth of the rack, and the teeth of the pinion and the extremity of the shaft 35 working in the guide 48 that the body 1 willbe reversed in movement even though neither the short shaft 35 nor the short shaft 30 are reversed. It will thus be seen that the body 1 is oscillated through the' instrumentality of a continuously rotating shaft and pinion connection.

A soap receptacle 49 is secured in any suitable manner to the back of the frame with its ends 50secured to the sides 3and 4 of the frame and also to a suitable strip 51 which bridges the rear of the sides 3 and 4 to which strip is also connected another strip to bridge the space between the outer wall of the soap receptacle and the cylindrical shaped bottom of the frame.

It will be obvious that the drippi'ngs from the soap will fall between the cylinder and its frame and, together with the drippings from the cylinder itself which escape through the perforations 52 therein, will pass out through the pipe 12. The cylinder is further provided with a hinged door 53, while the frame is likewise provided with a door 54 similarly mounted, the frame door being in practice somewhat larger than that of the cylinder.

What-is claimed is:

A washing machine comprising a frame; a clothes receiving cylinder mounted for movement within said frame; an arc-shaped rack disposed upon one end of said cylinder, and comprising inner and outer parallel members connected at their ends and spaced apart intermediate their ends, said cylinder end having an arc-shaped guide formed in its outer face in registration with the space between said rack members; an inner and an outer shaft mounted for rotation through one end of said frame; a pair of vertically disposed curved guides secured to the inner face of said frame end on opposite sides of the inner shaft; a guide-bloek carried by said inner shaft, and adapted to travel between said curved guides; a pinion mounted upon said inner shaft in advance of said guide block and in engagement with said ra-ck, said inner shaft having its extremity extending between the members of said rack into said arc-shaped guides; a universatjoint connection between said inner and outer shafts and means for rotating the shafts in one direction, whereby the cylinder may be oscillated.

In testimony whereof, I aifix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

CALVIN A. SHIVE. Witnesses B. S. TURNER, M. F. TAYLOR.

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