USRE7284E - Improvement in tumbler-washers - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT 'CEEICE.

MATTHEW SCEANNAGE'QE BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

lmanovra'Mani' IN TuMBLER-wAsl-IERS.

Spelcilcation forming part ofrLetters PateniLNo: 822,997, dated October 13,- 1868; reissue No.` 7.284, dated August 29,1876; application led July 15, 1876...

lTo all whom it'may concern:

' Be it known that -I, MATTHEW SGRANNAGE',

I of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Tumbler-Washers, of which the followingis a full, clear, and

' exact .(lescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my irnproved tumbler-washer, with a tumbler vin place thereon."Fig.2 is a vertical section through the same, the tumbler being removed.

My invention consists in 4a tumbler-washer in which thetumbleris placed upon a suitable vertical supportand revolved -in its longitudinal axis by the action of one o'r-more jets of ,.water, by which means the washing is effected in a thorough manner with much less Water thanwbere the tumbler is stationary, as in the tumbler-washers heretofore constructed.

T01 enable others skilled in the, art, to n ny derstandand use my invention, I will lpro-V ceed to describe the m-anner`in which l have carried it out. Y

In the said drawings, A represents a tube a is a a, Eig. 2. L is a valve attached to the stem E, and so arranged within the tube CA that the action of thewater pressing iipward will completely close the tube Gat its bottom, thus preventing the water -from entering a rose, D, attached to the upperend of the tube G, unless the valve is pressed down by a'force acting through the'stem KE. The 'rose D is pro-l vided with a number of perforations, dd', those d being arranged vso as'to dischargethe water tangentially. K is a swivel, which is free to revolve upon the valve-stemI E, and carries a numberfof arms, H 1I, which serve to support the tumbler when 'inverted' and placedl thereon, as seen in Fig. 1L l The operation of myV tumblerwasher is as follows: When there is no weight upon the spindle E, thevalve L is pressed upward against th-e lower end of the tube O, so as to prevent the ow of the water; il", however,

the spindle E is subjected todownward pressure, the valve L will y be depressed,when the water will be admitted tothe rose D, and thence discharged through the orifices d d.

If a tumbler is placed upon the arms H, asI` represented in Fig. 1, its Weight will keep the valve L open and allow the water to be discharged against the interior surface ofthe tumbler `for the purpose of cleansing it, and, as the .support H upon which the tumbler is placed, is free to rotate upon the stem E, the action of the jets` of .water from the orilces d of the roseD'against the Vinterior of the tumbler will lcause it to revolve, thus insuring the contact of the water with 'all .portions of its interiorsurt'aemtwhereby 1t 1s.

thoroughly cleansed with a much less num-ber i v ot' jets than have heretofore been required What I ,claim 'as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent', is f 1. A tumbler-washer, provided with a vertical revolving support, adapted to rotate ,the

tumbler on its longitudinal axis, substantiallyl as and for the purpose set/ forth. a

2. The rose D, provided with tangentially-- discharging orifices', in combination with a rotating support for the tumbler, substantially as and forl'the purpose described.

Witness my hauditls 13th day of July, A. 13.1876. k

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