US95989A - Improved washing-machine - Google Patents

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I nitell gieten gaat entre Letters Patent No. 95,989, dated October 19,1869..

mpnovnn WASHING-MACHINE.

The Schedule referred to inxhele Lettera Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN W. CORD, of Pleasant Hill,in the county of Montgomery, and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Washing-Machines ;v and I do hereby declare that the Ifollowing is a clear, full, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the machine, with my improvement attached.

Figure 2 is a'longitudinal sectional view.

Figure 2'is a view ofthe rocker.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the gures.

Thenature of my invention consists in constructing a washing-machinewith an inner and outer bottom-oi` zinc, or other suitable material, the inner one being perforated.. In the intermediate space are placed slats in a horizontal position. Supported by uprights, placed on each side of the machine, is a rocker, the weight of which may be increased or reduced at pleasure by means of cross-pieces placed in the bottom of the rocker. This rocker is employed for the purpose of compressingthe garments against the head, placed in' one end of the machine, thus forcing the water through them in such a manner as to remove all the dirt By the use of a machine, thus constructed, they will he clothes, but pass into the chamber between the two bottoms.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my improvement, I will 'proceed to describe its con- I- struction and operation, as Ihave carried it out.

.A B represent the frame of the washing-machine;

C, the outer bottom; and

D, the inner perforated bottom.

a a are strips extendingacross the machine, and in the chamber between the two bottoms, for the purpose of preventing the agitation of the water in that chamber during the operation of washing.

E F are standards, placed on each side of the machine, for the purpose of supporting the rocker G.

The construction of this rocker is such that its weight may be increased'or diminishedl at pleasure, by means of the wooden bars b b, secured in the frame by means of the screws o c.

I I are the head-blocks, with an intermediate space for the purpose of allowing the water to pass through from the clothes and into the chamber between the bottoms.

mis a guard, liung'on hingesv for the purpose of preventing the water from splashing over.

n is a corrugated zinc board, placed in one end of the machine, to be used as an ordinary-wash-board in removing any dirt which may happen to remain after the clothes have been passed through the machine. t

L is a button to hold the rocker back whilethe clothes are being placed in or being removed.

M is a spout for draw-ing oli' the water.

The operations of the machine are as follows:

' A suilicient quantity of clothes is placed in the mach'iue, and then pressed forward by the rocker against the head I I.

'lhe water driven through the clothes passes down into the space between the two bottoms, where the dirt settles at the bottom, and the water, being prevented from agitation byrthe strips aa, again returns, in a manner clear and clean, through the perforated inner bottom D.

W'hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The rocker G, with its bars b l1 and screws c c, in combination with the bottoms O and D, and the headblock I I, all arranged and operated as and for the v

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