US940499A - Washboard. - Google Patents

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H. A. BIERLEY.

WASHBDARD.

APPLICATION HLED 113.10, 1909.

Patented Nov. 16, i909.

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WAsHBoARD.

4 I Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented 'Nm-v. 16, 1909.

Application filed February 10, 1909. Serial No. 477,139.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY A. BIERLEY, a citizen of the United:Y States, residing at Portsmouth, in the county of Scioto and State .of Ohio, have invented certain new and `useful Improvements in W'ashboards, of

l which the following is a specification.

My inventionrelates to an improvement in Washboards, and the object is to provide a Simple and inexpensive washboard, the main portions of which can be stamped out of sheet metal and when assembled, will constitute not only the washboard surface, but also the sides of the washboard.

In addition to the main object of strengthening, and economy of construction, it is the purpose of my present invention to provide means for facilitating the rapid disposal of water from the board during the scrubbing process, and to this end the strengthening ribs are utilized as drains for the quick disposal of the water.

' My invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of @parts lwhich will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims. In the accompanying drawings Figures 1 and 2- are views of the 'opposite sides of the board, Fig 3 is a bottom plan viewof the board inits upright position, Fig. 4 is a section on line 4 4 of Fig. l, and, Fig. 5 is av section on line 5--5 of Fig'. 2. Fig. 6 is a n modification.

The -board is .mainly composed of' two :layers ll and 2, of sheet metal, as shown in the drawings, placed back to back, with their opposite vertical edges bent into tubular form and fitted together concentrically or telescopically, as illustrated in Fig, whereby the sides 3. and 4 ofthe frame of the board are rendered rigid, as well as smooth supercially, and given an attractive appearance, and they being integral with the sheet metal composing the washing surface, they 45,. afford strength to the washboard, and at the same time are easily and cheaply constructed.

` The two surfaces differ somewhat from each other, although in some particulars are alike For instance, the obverse side of the board'illustrated in Fig. 1 has more or less sharp angular corrugations 5, all of which incline in one direction across the board, they being subdivided by the vertical or 1on- ,gitudi'nal channels 6, 6. These channels have two functions, one being to form strengthensible interval of time. s

On the reverse side, the washing surface is subdlvided into alternately arranged short and long Atransverse corrugations 7 and 8,

respectively, the line of juncture 9, similar to the rib-like drains 6, 6, on the obverse side, between said corrugations constituting strengthening previously.

The u per portion of the frame may be made o .wood or other material, and the soap panel l0, of a sheet of corrugated metal, if desired, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, and the legs 11, 11, of the board, may be made of wood or other material, secured into the lower end of the side tubing or sides i Inthe modification shown inFig. 6, I have illustrated the channels back to back, and in engagement with each other,--where 4by each afords a support f or the other, thus adding greatly to the strength` of the washing surface In this way, I have rovided a commercially inexpensive was board, the initial cost of which is small, because so much of it may be made by machinery, and the parts may be so easily and quickly assembled.- It also has the further advantage-that it is of superior strength, and the construction is such that the operation of washing or rubbing is greatly facilitated.

More or less slight changes mlght bere-v sorted to in the form andl arrangement of the several parts described, without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention, and hence I do not wish to limit my self to the exact construction herein set forth, but

Having fully described..my. invention,

what I claim as new and desire to Letters Patent, is l 1. As an article of manufacture, awash board comprising in the main two plates of sheet metal, the extreme edges of which are bent correspondingly into tubular form', one tted and held frictionally within the other and permanently joined whereby to give strength to the edges, and the metal immedii ately `adjacent thereto bent parallel and secure by ribs, anddrains as alluded to 3. As an article of manufacture, a washboard, the two washing surfaces of which are made of channeled and corrugated sheet metal, the channels forming strengthening ribs and drains, the backs offthe channels abutting each other the board.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature,v

in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY A. BIERLEY. Witnesses:

VERNON E. Honens,

VVAT'rs T. EsTARooK.

whereby to afford support to strengthen the washing surfaces of@

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