US920987A - Clothes-washing appliance. - Google Patents

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F. NOWAK. CLOTHES WASHING APPLIANCE. APPLIOATION FILED FEB. 24, 1908.

920,987. Patented May 11, 1909.

FRANK NOWAK, or

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CLOTHES-WASHING- APPLIANCE.

No. 920,987. specification of Application filed February 2 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK NowAK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cool: and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful 11a provements in fllothes VlashingAppliances, of which the following is a specification. 1

My invention relates to that class of clothes washing appliances comprising ahan dle, on the lower end of which is a device intended to clean the clothes by forcing water through the same when the handle isv manipulated up and down. In addition, myimproved construction has ribs orrubbers on the bottom which contact with the clothes and rub the same when a rotary motion is imparted to the handle at the same timethat the handle is pressed or forced down on the clothes. My improved appliance is so constructed that during its 0 eration on the clothes a liberal quantity 0' water is played or oured upon and forced through the clot es causing their thorough cleansing and also at the same time the rubbers assist in the cleaning action. a

On the accompanying drawing forming. a part of this s ecification and to which reference should e made, I have illustrated a preferred and desirable embodiment of my invention, and on'this drawing Figure 1 is a side elevation of the lower: portion of my clothes washing appliance, the handle being. broken away asis also a part or section of the outer conical casing; Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1, and in its lower portion illustrates a central section through the-internal structure of the device, and Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the washing appliance.

On the lower end of the handle 10, only a portion of which is shown on the drawing, I attach a sheet metal, preferably zinc, conical, inolosing or housing casing 11, which at its up er end is supplied with a cylindrical soc et 12 which receives the lower end of the handle; the latter being held therein by a plurality of screws13. As is clearly illustrated in the drawing, the lower circular edge or margin of the metallic cone 11 is bent upwardly to form a smooth bead or roll 14 for the obvious purpose of not injuring the, clothes during the washing or cleansing action of the device. The open bottom mouth of this cone is closed by a smaller sheet metal cone frustum 15 held in place somewhat. within the mouth of the outer cone 11 by Letters Patent. 1 Patented May 11, 1909.

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any suitable holding means, such as solder. "At its center, this cone frustum closure has a jdepending cylindrical chamber or casing 16 open at its bottom end and closed at its upper end by a top wall 1.7. As is shown, the lower margin or edge of this cylindrical casing or chamber is substantially at the same level as the bottom edge of the outer cone 1]. A' plurality, in the present instance three, of ho es or openings 18 are provided in the internal conefrustum 15 and the top wall 17 is supplied with a corresponding number of smaller openings or holes 19. Connecting the corresponding apertures of the cone frus- 'tum'15 and the to wall of the central chamber or casing 16 .I provide a plurality of tapered pipes 20 which are reversely bent, as clearly illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. The openings 18 are considerably larger than the apertures 19 so that when the device is pressed down on the clothes and into the water in the tub containing the clothes this liquid is forced upwardly through the openings 18 into the pipes 20 and is discharged through the latter and the orts or apertures 19 centrally on the top of the clothes. Since the pipes 20 are tapered as described, the water issues from the mouths or apertures 19 at a much greater velocity than that at which it enters the admission openings 18, the result being that the water is poured or played on the clothes in such a'manner as to effectively and efliciently remove the dirt from the soiled clothes.

In the large lower-mouth of the inolosing cone 11, below the cone frustum 15 and disposed between the apertures 18, I provide a plurality of ribs or rubbers 21 which radiate from the external surface of the central chamber or casing 16 to the wall of the housmg] cone 11, the lower edges of these ribs or ru bers being substantially in the same plane as the lower margins or edges of the cone 11 and chamber 16. As is illustrated, these ribs increase in width as they approach the bottom surface of the metal cone frustum 15 and therefore aid in directing the water to the apertures 18.

The operation of this device is substantially as follows: Assuming that the soiled or dirty clothes have been placed in a tub of the usual and ordinary construction with a liberal supply of soapy water, the clothes are acted u on by my improved washing appliance y an operator or manipulator pressing or forcing the same downwardly into the water and onto the clothes, at the same time turning the appliance in the hands so that the rubbers or ribs 21 during this rotary motion may rub the clothes and assist in the cleansing action. When the bottom of the cone 11 enters the water the latter, on continued downward movement of the appli ance, passes into the tubes or pipes 20 and issues through the discharge openings 19 with a considerably increased velocity and pours upon the top of the clothes also aiding in the cleaning of the clothes acted upon. Not only is this cleansing soapy water played or poured upon the top of the clothes, but since the clothes have somewhat a tendency to float more or less in the water in the tub the water is also forced upwardly through the same when my washing appliance is pressed down on the top of the clothes as described above. It is obvious therefore that by the combination of rubbing the clothes, forcing the water through the same and playing or pouring the water at a considerable velocity on top of the clothes a thorough cleaning and cleansing action occurs.

Although I have described with some degree of particularity the exact structural features of my improved device, my invention is not limited to the precise construction shown and described, and hence this may be varied Within wide limits without departing from the heart and substance of my invention; for example, the exact shapes of the 5 various parts of my washing device are quite immaterial and the number of ribs or rub bers and pipes or tubes may be varied or modified as found desirable or necessary.

I claim:

1. In clothes washing appliances of the character described, the combination of a handle, a cone shaped inclosing casing fixed to the lower endof said handle, a closure for the open bottom mouth of said casing, and a tapered, reversibly bent pipe in said casing, having a liquid admission mouth at one end through said closure, and at its other end a discharge mouth, substantially as described.

2. In clothes washing appliances oi the character described, the combination of a handle, a cone-shaped inclosing casing fixed to the lower end of said handle, a closure for the open bottom mouth of said casing, and a plurality of tapered reversely bent pipes in said casing each having a liquid admission mouth at one end through said closure and at its other end a discharge mouth nearer the axis of the casing than its admission mouth, substantially as described.

3. In a clothes washing appliance ol' the character described, the combination of a handle, a cone-shaped inclosing casing lixed to the lower end of said handle, a closure for the mouth of said casing in the formv of a cone lrustum, a chamber centrally located in said cone frustum closure, and a plurality of reversely-bent tapered pipes with liquid admission months at one end. through said closure, and smaller discharge months at their other ends through the top wall of said central chamber, substantially as described.

4:. In a clothes washing appliance of the character described, the combination of a handle, a cone-shaped inclosing casing fixed to the lower end of said handle, a closure for the mouth of said vessel in the form ol a cone irustum, a chamber centrally located in said cone frustum closure extended downwardly substantially to the lower margin of the said outer cone-shaped inclosing casing, a plurality of reversely-bent tapered pipes having liquid admission months at one end through said closure, and smaller discharge months at the other end through the top wall of said central chamber, and a plurality of ribs below said cone frustum closure and between the said. central chamber and said outer inclosing casing, substantially as described.

FRANK NOlVAK,

Nitnesses:

WALTER M. FULLER, ALLEN W. Moons.

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