US93880A - Improvement in washing-machines - Google Patents

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tlntd time new @niet ORRIN L. HART, or` M ILLVILLE, WISCONSIN.

Letters Patent No. 93,880, dated August V17, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN A WASHING-MACHINES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the 62m9- To all whom it lmay concern Beit known that I, ORRIN L. HART, of Millville,

It consists iu, a novel arrangement of devices, by

means 'of which soiled clothing may be easily and expedtiously cleansed.

The letter A, of the drawings, represents the washing-tub, and

rlhe letters B, two'pendulurn-beaters,'arranged and operating upon a cross-bar that passes through the, head of the vertical standards C, as shown.

The cover of my wash-tub is constructed in two sections, with suitable slots therein, to provide for ther movements of the beater-bars.

The letters a represent wedges, above the cover, and

Letters c, two pivoted bars, arranged to t upon the top of said wedges, and hold the same securely, and also to provide for the removal of the wedges andcover at will.

The letters E represent arms, extending from the beater-bars, respectively, towhich they are pivoted to the crank-shaft vGr,.next mentioned.

The letter 'G represents a crank-shaft, arranged, as shown, in bearings, upon the upright standards K, that l portion of which between the standards being bent into the form of cranks, as shown on fig. 2.

The respective endsY of shaft G, outside standards K, are constructed in a qnadrangular form, to adapt them to receive `thestaple's n, next mentioned.

The letters wepresent staples, adapted, respectively, to t. closely upon the s'qnare ends of shaft H. The letters'R represent levers, attached to the stadle extended toward the right and the other toward the left, for convenience in operating thc same.

The letter s represents a treadle, pivoted to a legy of thetub, as shown, and connected with a lever, R, by means of the rod lv, and a return-motion secured by the spring W.

The letters y represent handles, attached to the ends of the tub toaid iu moviu'gthe saine.

suds in the tub, and actnate the beaters by means of' the levers It or the treadle s, as may be most desirable.

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

a, and bars c, adapted to the slotted sectional cover, arms e, shaft G, staples u, levers R, and treadle s, con- ,In testimony that I claim the above, I have here- DGSSBS.

ORRIN L. HART. Witnesses:

WILLIAM HoRsFALL, J oHlv HORSFALL.

ples n', as shown, one of said levers having its han- To operate my device, I place the soiled clothingand.

A washing-machine, having tub A, beaters B, Wedges structed, arranged,'and operating substantially as speci- `nnto subscribed my name, in the presence of two wit-

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