US1121610A - Operating mechanism for washing-machines. - Google Patents

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E. BUSWELL.

OPERATING MECHANISM FOR WASHING MACHINES. APPLICATION FILED 0OT.27. 1913.

1,121,610. Patented Dec.22,1914.

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. Specificationof Letters Batent.

' P tente Dear 22519 Application filed (1ctober27j19132 Serial No. 797,585.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EUGENE BUswELL, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Waterloo, Blackhawk county, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Operating Mechanism for Washing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvementsin washing-machines, and the object of my improvement is to furnish a simple and a convenient actuating mechanism for the rocker-body within the tub, said means comprising hand-levers which may be alternately manually actuated by the operator to rock said body. I T

This object I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described, and

claimed, and which are illustrated in the ac companying drawings, in which: I

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the washing-machine equipped with my improved actuating-means. Fig. 2 is an upper plan view of the tub of said machine, and the cable connections only for the hand-levers,

the latter not being shown. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the bracketcasting, its bearings,

and the hand-levers pivotally connected thereto, the upper parts of said levers being broken away; p

Similar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The washing-machine tub 6 has a hinged top cover 5, with means for securing same in a closed position, and said cover having a central opening, through which extends a central vertical shaft, having a clothes steering rocker-body secured to its lower end within the tub, the upper end of said shaft having mounted thereon, a pulley 1 provided with two horizontal cable-grooves .to seat the two short cables 3 and 4, respectively. Said pulley has a housing 2 about it, mounted upon the said cover 5, the housing having openings to permit of the passage of said cables 3 and 4, whose ends are secured to said pulley to work and be seated in its said groove, while the outer ends of the cables are respectively provided with the blocks 8 and 7 said blocks having integral pintles l0, and 9, respectively, which are rotatably secured in bearing studs on the handle- bars 14 and 13, respectively. 7

jected thereinto from the lower extremity of the hand-lever 14, the last-mentioned le- .ver being fulcrumed on a pintle 16, supported in the bracket 15; y Y The hand- levers 13 and 14 are 3 respectively to rock. said pulley 1, its vertical shaft and the attached rocker-body in alternate directions. The manner in which the lower end of the lever 14: is pivoted, by means of the pin 17 in the slot 18 of the outer lever 13', has the efiect of doing away with the abruptness of the change of movement in the rocking operation, since one lever thus. retains the other at the end of its stroke, and in that way the strokes are equalized in length, with a consequent freedom from uneven or jerking action. This grasped'in I thejhands of the operator for alternate oscillation, which causes the short cables 4 and permits a smooth and even reversal of action, and equalizes the manual draft. In

case of any slackness in the cables, the same i may be tightened up by'adjusting the setscrews 11' and 12, respectively.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a washing-machine, a rock-shaft mounted therein, bearings, hand-levers fulcrumed in said bearings, a slidable connection between said levers, limiting their movements to equal oppositelydirected simultaneous oscillations, and operative connections between said levers and said shaft adapted to rock the latter alternately in opposite directions when the hand-levers are oscillated.

2. In a washing-machine, a rock-shaft mounted. therein, bearings, hand-levers, one lever having its lower extremity fulcrumed in one bearing and having a slot above said bearing, the other lever having a pin on its Signed at Waterloo, IOWa, 11th day lower extremity slidably seated in said slot of Oct. 1913. and being fulerumed above said pin in another bearing, and operative Connections be EUGENE BUSWELL' tween said levers and said shaft adapted to VVitnesseszY- cause the latter to be rocked alternately re- GEO. OLKE NEDY,

v versely When the hand-levers are oscillated. I W. H; BRl NN f' Gopiei of thispaten't inlay be obtained for five cents each, by'addressing the "Commissioner of-Pathts.

Washington, D. G.

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