USRE1385E - Improved washing and wringing machine - Google Patents

Description

stand my invention, Iwill proceed to describe flexible wash-board, lnto which the clothes to JOHN YOUNG, OF WEST GALVAY, NEW YORK.

|MPROVED WASHING AND WRINGING MACHINE.

July 30, 1861; Reissue No. 1,385, dated January 6, 1863.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 5,788, dated September 19, 1848; Reissue No. lll, dated DIVISION A.'

which it passes. The rubbing-box is held in its position by the frictionrollers 1'., which are placed on the sides of the box for this purpose.

Ou the sides ofthe rubbing-box the arched frames A are raised, which are connected on the top by the cross-piece g. The follower f is held down upon the clothes by passing a piu through its stem beneath the cross-piece g. Between these arches the conical squeezingrollers. j jz are placed, the roller'j turning on its axis, which rests in suitable bearings formed To aZZ whom/'it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN YOUNG, of West Galway, in the county of Fulton and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Tashing Clothes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved machine; Fig. 2, a vertical longitudinal section through the same.

The first part of my invention consists in the employment of a pair Of pressure-rollers, between which the clothes are passed either for the purpose of rubbing themy in the process of washin g, or of squeezing or expressing the water therefrom. after they are washed, in combination with a hinged platform for the purpose of receiving them after they have passed through the rolls.

The second part of my invention consists in the employment of conical rollers, between which the clothes are passed, for the purpose of producing a rubbing as well as a squeezing action up'on the clothes, which greatly accelrrates the operation of washing, as will now be more particularly described and set forth.

To enable others skilledin the art to under- The joint-pin x, on which the platform turns, is placed -to one side and below the bearing of the axis of the upper roller, f2, in order that the rollers may open and shut like a pair of pinchers, to lay hohl of and squeeze the water out of the clothes. The rollers are covered with gum-elastic, india-rubber, or similar 1naterial, to prevent injury to the clothes as they pass through. rlhis, however, forms no1 part of my present invention, but will form the subject of another application for patent made simultaneously with this.

The conicalV shape of the rollers cau/ses them, when acting together, to produce a lateral and forward ru b, as well as squeeze, of.' the clothes; for, one being driven by the other, and the parts in contact beingof changing relative diameter throughout the entire length, the driver tends to move the driven slower than itself' at one end and faster at the other, thus causing constant though slight rubbing of the clothes in conjunction with the squeeze, which greatly accelerates the operation of washing.

The rubbingbox is moved backward and forward by the lever l, which is hinged at its the manner in which I have carried it out.

In the accompanying drawings, the box a to contain the suds and clothes may be made of any suitable form, having through its middle a ertical division-board, b, for the purpose of separating the rubbing from the wringing apparatus. The wash-board c is made in segments, which are suspended on a cord, d, e'ther passing through or beneath them. The upper surfaces of these segments are iiuted, in the manner of a common wash-board. Upon this wash-board is placed a rubbing-box, e, which runs on friction-wheels e', which rest in grooves parallel to the sides and formed in the lever is jointed to the hinged platform k, which serves the double purpose of a connecting-rod and conveyer, on which the washed clothes slide down by their gravity into a basket or other receptacle placed to receive them, whenthe lever l and dropped for that purpose.

The wash board c is raised up by tighteningA the cords on which it rests, which is done by turning the windlass m, to which' these cords are connected.

be washed are placed. Upon the clothes so placed in the box a follower, f, is put to press them'down, which follower has a stem, 71 projecting upward to the cross-piece g, through in the side pieces ot' the turning platform lf.

lower end to the upper edge of the tub. The t ever the outer end of the same is detached from volved by means of a handcrank, O,-being any suitable manner. I do not, however,

' boxed permanently in the frames and the claim any particular method of accomplishing lower one in the side rails, I), of the platform this end, nor any precise form or size of the L, which are piyoted at g to the frames. The rolls. Neither do I claim making the rolls, rolls are covered with india-rubber to prevent shafts, or axles to which the rubber is affixed their injuring the clothes and to prevent abraof any particular. form, site, or material', so sion of the woodby friction, and also to protect long as they have the required strength to it from the solvent action of the suds. When sustain the pressur and suicient surface to the rolls are employed to assist in the operahold the rubber. 4 tion of washin gd, the clothes are returned again What I claim as my invention, and desire to and. again to the tub after passing between secure by Letters Patent, is them. When they are thoroughly cleansed, The application of india-rubber or other they are again passed through between the L elastic gum impervious to water, substantially rolls and removed to be dried. ,A in the manner and for the purposes described,

The rolls in the machine represented in the tothe rolls of machines for washing and squeezaccompanying drawings are made conical. YI ing clothes. do not, however7 limit myself to this form.

' The india-rubber may be applied to the rolls y Witnesses:

by Winding them with sheet-rubber, or by JAMES YOUNG, means of a sleeve or cylinder of rubber, or in JAMEs B. GALnWoon.

JOHN YOUNG.

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