US95573A

US95573A - Improved washing-machine

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Publication number: US95573A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1869-10-05
Anticipated expiration: 1886-10-05

Description

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CHARLES r. DODGE',

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Letters Patent No. 95,573, dated October 5, 1869.

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The Schedule referred. to :in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe same.

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Figure 2, a plan of the same, with a box that enuloses the gearing, andserves as a-support for the attachment of a wringer, removed..

Similar letters of reference indicatev corresponding parts.

My invention relates to a well-known description of washing-machine; and consists in a special construction of certain parts, whereby increased facility is afforded for itting together or taking apart the machine, and space reduced in packing the same for transportation.

Referring to thevaccompanying.drawing- A represent-s the tub of the washer, which may be covered by loose or hinged lids, arranged on either side ofa cross-bar, B, that is secured by screws made to pass through the sides of the tub, said bar serving to carry, by4 suitable bearings thereon, the operatingshaft (t, with its crank or handle, b, and bevel-pinion c, by which the revolving-stirrer C is driven through a bevel-pinion, d, cuits vertical shaft, e.

Said stirrer is made up of a,v diskand wings that operate in connection with vertical ribs, arranged on or around the inside of the tub, or it may otherwise be suitably constructed.

vD is a box or barrel-shaped covering, set on topvof the bar B, and serving to enclose the gearing, also answering as a support for the attachment of a wringer by or through a rib, jl

Such constitutes an ordinary land well-known description of washing-machine that, while perfect as regards its working-qualities, presents, as the same has heretofore been constructed,.certain difficulties or objections, as regards fitting together or taking apart and packing of said machines for transportation, which it is the object ci" my invention to remove.

Thus, it has been customary to attach vvthe box or barrel-like covering D, by pins made permanent in the barB, and arranged to project upward through the box for Aholding down nuts to screwbn their upper ends. v

This is objectionable, bot-h as to the fitting and taking apart the machine, inasmuch as the box is apt to stick on the pins as well as to the surfaceof the bar B, but mainly on account ofthe projection of said pins above the lids or upper edge of the tub,4 that not only interferes with the packing of the machines in the crates they are usually transported, but exposes y them to being bent or broken, if left uncovered, by the box D, which, accordingly, is left secured to its place on the bar B, that cannot very conveniently be removed, or,'if detached, requires some skill and considerable labor to fit the parts together again, owing to the upper journal of the stirrer-shaft e being invariably below the driving-pinion d, which, accordingly,

would have to be first taken oi. f

All these difculties I obviate, first, by substituting for the fast pins and upper nuts, which hate been used to hold the barrel or box D to the bar, thumb-screws f f', capable of operation from above, and arranged to screw into fixed nuts or boxes, g g, connected with lthe bar' B, so that on unscrewing and lifting out or removing said thumb-screws, the box D is at liberty to be taken oli, .and no fastening-pins are left projecting or standing.

Furthermore, the upper journal, h, to the vertical stirrer-shaft e, I-arrange above the pinion Land connect it with the bar B, so that on taking out the end screws, which, secure said bar to the tub, and raising the bar, the journal h is slipped oli or over the shalt e, withoutany disturbance of the -pinion d;

By this construction I am enabled to, detach and' pack within the tub both the box D and the bar B, with its attachments, and so incline or tilt the stirrer and its shaft as that the whole arereadily stowed away;

within the tub, and below the upper edge thereof, which, in packing a number of such machines within a crate, largely econoinizes space and reduces freight,

also albrds protection against breakage or injury, n0ris this accompanied by any difficulty in fitting the parts together on arrival at their destination or placing of the machines in working order on the market.

What is here claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the box or barrel D of the machine, and cross-bar B, of the thumb-screws f f', arranged to enter from above, and made to lit boxes or nuts connected with said bar, substantially as shown and described.

GRAS. F. DODGE.

Witnesses FRED. HAYNES, HENRY PALMER.