US90581A - Improved washing-machine - Google Patents

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MARCUS W. BIKER AND DANIEL T. TORREY, OF HASTINGS, M ICHIGAN, ASSIGNCRS Y y BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO DANIEL T. TORREY.

Letters Patent No. 90,581, dated May 25,1869.

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The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

.Be it known that we, MARCUS W. Rrxnn and'DAN- JEL T. TORREY, of Hastings, Barry county, Michigan, have invented a newand useful Improvement in Washing-Machines, called Riker and Torreys Improved Clothes Washing Machine and Wringer, Combined and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction anhoperation of the same, reference being had tov the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view, and

Figure 2, a sectional view of said machine.

The letters marked on fig. 2 refer to the different parts of said machine, as follows, to wit:

v A, The largecylinder, composed of slats on outside, with a movable slat at I, which, by means of a' spring, is made to clasp and hold the clothing to be Washed.

b, the roller, covered with rubber, and operating, by means of the crank C, in the double capacity of a wringen and, -by friction, becomes a means of turning the large cylinder A.

vD D, the tivo ends of awocden spring, marked D in iig. 1, which spring, by means of screw E, may be made to regulate the pressure of the roller b against the large cylinder A.

F F, two rollers underneath the cylinder A, so arranged as to press clothing against said cylinder as it is made to revolve.

vg, a stiff brush, which, by means of the spring K, is pressed against the clothing while in process of washing.

H, a ribbed rubbing-board at end of the machine, to be used in washing the edges of such clothing as is fastened between the slats oi' A, at I.

The inode of using the machine is to fasten, say,

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two sheets, by their edges, on A, at I, and place be'- tween them all the other clothes of a common washing. Then, by turning crank C, they are wound around the cylinder A, and, by alternate saturation in the Water, pressing by rollers F F, brushing by brush g, and wringing by wringer b, by a few revolutions of cylinder A, the clothing becomes fit for rinsing. The dirty water is then drawn olf by means of' a cock, marked L in fig. l, and rinsing-water put into the trough, and the whole Washing, rinsing, and wringing completed without removing the clothes from cylinder A until they are in a condition for the line.

We claim for this machine, that, by reason of the combination of washer, brush, and wriuger, a large washing of clothes may be completed in the same time that ordinary machines will wash one piece.

We claim- 1. The combination, in a washing-machine, of the brush g and rollers F F with the cylinder A, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, in a washing-machine, of the brush g and friction-roller b with the cylinder A, all operating substantially as described,

3. The combination, in a washing-machine, of the following elements, namely, a revolving cylinder, adapted tocarry the clothes with it in its revolutions, a series of rollers which shall press the clothes against said cylinder, a brush, for scouring the clothes, and a MARCUS w. ninna. DANIEL T. Tonner.

Witnesses:

ALoNsoN WHITE, J. W. BUCKLE.

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