US971232A - Clothes-washer. - Google Patents

Description

J. W. WHITELY.

CLOTHES WASHER.

I APPLICATION FILED JUNE 7, 1910. 9?19' QB Patented Sept. 27, 1910?.

= E II WITNESSES:

JOHN W. VFHITELY, F DANBUBY, CONNECTICUT.

CLOTHES-WASHER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented dept. 2%,

Application filed June 7, 1910. Serial No. 565,631.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN W. \Vnrrnnr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Danbury, county of Fair-field, State of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement in Clothes-Embers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a simple and inexpensive clothes washer adapted to be used in ordinary laundry tubs, which shall be within the reach of all, shall not easily get out of repair, and will do away with the washboard and the necessity for putting the hands in hot water.

With these and other objects in view I have devised a novel washer which is itself rncved over the clothes as they lie in the tub,

. 2'. e. rubbed upon the clothes instead of it being necessary for the clothes to be rubbed upon a board in order to cleanse them.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is an end elevation of my novel washer; Fig. 2 a side elevation thereof; Fig. 3 a detail view on an enlarged scale, showing the construction of the roller; Fig. 4 an end elevation of one of the roller heads as secnfrom the right in Fig. 8, the tie rods and a. portion of the rubbing strips being in sect-ion; and Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5 5 in. Fig. 4, looking in the direction of the arrows, and showing the shaft and side piece.

My novel washer comprises simply a roller of peculiar construction and a frame or carrier for the roller. The frame comprises side pieces 10 and a plurality of cross pieces 11 by which the side pieces are spaced apart and secured rigidly in position and which also serve as hand pieces. The roller, which is mounted to rotate at one end of the frame, comprises essentially heads or end disks 1'3. rubbing strips'13, which are preferably of wood, and a plurality of tie rods '14. The heads are provided on their inner faces near their peripheries with bosses 15. These bosses are shown as elongated and as provided with rounded ends'alihough it should be understood that the invention is not limited to any special configuration of the bosses and rubbing strips. The operatiw portions of. the rubbing strips project beyond the peripheries of the heads, as clearly shown in the drawing, each operative portion consisting of a plurality of planes, indicated by 1 6, which lie at an obtuse angle to each other. In the present, instance, I

have shown the operative portions of these stripsas comprising a top plane and two side planes. Below the side planes on opposite. sides ofthe strip are retaining grooves 1 17 which receive the bosses. The rubbing strips are so spaced apart as to give what i have found in practice to be the most effec tive action upon the articles to be wash" the bases of the strips being spaced enough apart to leave passages 18 bctwi in them through which the water may circulate freely. In assembling, the ends of the rubbing strips are placed between the bosses on inner faces of the respective heads or end pieces, each rubbing strip being securely held between two bosses at each crid, clearly shown in Fig. 4. The ends of the tie rods are passed through holes 15; in the heads which. are surrounded by countersunk recesses 20 which receive nuts ngagmg the threaded ends of the tie rods, the nuts and the ends of the rods both lying slightly below the outer faces of the heads, leaving no projections on the ends of the roller. It is of course immaterial so far as the principleof the invention is concerned whether the roller turns on a shaft which is fixed in the frame or the roller is fixed to a shaft which turns in the frame. In the present instance I have shown the heads as prd vided with holes 2:2 through which a shaft 23 passes, the roller turning freely on the shaft which is secured in the frame by so pins 24. I

25 denotes bearing plates which are preferably placed between the heads of the roller and the side pieces of the frame. Tb bearing plates may be secured to the by a drive fit or may if preferred be scour f to the side pieces by screws.

The operation of my novcl washcr will. b,- obvious from the (lGSCl'lpl'lOIl already given.

The clothes or other articles to be cleansed 106 planes of the rubbing strips. By changing the position of the ciothes in the tub pram tically all portions of the articies to he cleansed may be subjected t0 the rubbing and pressing action of the strips. I

Having-thus described my invention 1 claim "the heads and rubbing strips are secured to Jgether.

2. A roller of the character described comprising heads having bosses on their inner faces, and conntersunk recesses in their outer faces rubbing strips having grooves to receive the hesses, and tie rods having threaded ends engaged by nuts lying in the recesses.

3. A roller of the character described comprising heads having bosses on their inner faces st rip's having rubbing planes lying at an pbtuse angle to each other and grooves to receive the bosses and tie rods by which the heads and rubbing strlps are secured together in 'tES L11DOI1y Wilf0f I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses. v

JOHN 'W. WHITELY.

Witnesses CHARLES J. KVIIITELY, JOHN W HALEY.

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