US1814698A - Combination laundry tray and washboard - Google Patents

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July 14, 1931. M. w. HUBER COMBINATION LAUNDRY TRAY AND WA5HBOARD 2 Sn e 1.: S n" Flled June 5, 1930 INVENTO.R- Marne Wifuber ATTORNEYS July 14, 1931; Y M. w. HUBER COMBINATION LAUNDRY TRAY AND WASHBOARD Filed June 5, 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet '2 v INVENTOR v Mar-222W Huber ATTORNEM Patented July 14, 1931 UNITED STATES MARIE HUBER, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON COMBINATION LAUNDRY TRAY AND WASHBOARD Application filed June 5,

. My invention relates to the art of laundry tray making and more particularly to a combination laundry tray and washboard.

Practically every modern home or apartment house has in its laundry, built-in tubs, normally termed laundry trays, which most usually consist of two similar basins formed in a single unit. These are usually made of cast material, bound together with cement.

Such trays are used, even, although a washing machine is also provided, as it provides a convenient means for givlng special attention to certain garments which ma be unusually delicate or which may have een soiled toan unusual degree, and to assist in this operation a conventional type of washboard is normally used. These are made of many materials and are very wellknown but all the various types rely upon a corrugated 2 or ribbed surface to give a rough backin upon which to lay the garment as-it is treat'e with soap and rubbed thereupon.

The use of a washboard in a laundry tray, while very common, is rather inconvenient, and further as it must be held securel during the process of rubbing the clothes 1t usually tends to wet the operator about the waist line. When a washboard is used in a laundry tray it in effect reduces the effective size of the same and further-the-feet of the washboard often injure a delicate fabric as it moves about somewhat during the rubbin operation. It is to overcome. this genera condition that I provided my combination laundry tray and washboard,-therefore:

The principal object of m invention is to provide a laundry tray whic has the roughened surface normall found on a washboard the tray.

and whichis formed as an integral part of' ture at this point.

1930. Serial No. 459,307.

Fi re 1 is a top plan view of a double laun ry tray, showing my improvement as embodied in each tray.

. Figure 2 is a vertical cross-sectional taken along the line 2--2 Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional view taken on a vertical plane substantially along the line 33 of Figure 2,

Figure 4 is an enlarged'fragmentary section of a portion of Figure 3. s

Figure 5 is an enlarged fragmentary view of a portion of Figure 2. Referring to the drawings throughout which like reference characters indicate like parts, numeral 8 designates the main molded portion of a conventional laundry tray, which consists of the two basins 10 and 12. This tray may be supported in any convenient manner as by the metal stand 14 and has the usual water supply faucets 16, an overflow and the drain 18, which will normally at some point in'its line have the conventional inverted U trap. This much of the laundry tray is a conventional design and forms no part of my present invention.

My invention resides in providing a ribbed,

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corrugated or otherwise roughened surface 20 and forming the same as part of the laundry tray when the same is manufactured. The exact nature of the roughened surface is a matter of individual preference and might be any of the various types found in washboards of the conventional type. The most preferred roughened surface would be one moulded into the laundry tray as it is cast. When moulded into a concrete tray thecorrugations must not be too fine and further it is usually desirable to use a rather rich mix- Small pea gravel ma be used to produce a verysatisfactory sur ace.

Another form I have found very satisfactory is to make a corrugated metal sheet as will be more clearly understood by referring to Figure 5. This metal sheet 22 should be of some non-corrosive and rust proof material, such as brass, copper, zinc or the like, which is formed in regularcorrugations and then imbedded in the laundry tray as it is manufac tured. With certain materials such as baked or vitriolized clay products, it is possible to create a very fine roughened surface in the from its center toward itsendsand terminat-. l

tray itself. This is also true of that type of in in discharge openings from the niche. construction which employs a metal base and n witness whereof, have hereunto subwhich is covered with enamel. I have found, scribed my name this 23rd day of May, A; D,-

however, that the cement-bound concrete con- 1930. 70

struction is the most economical and very sat- MARIE W. HUBER. isi'actory. g

Manymanufacturers have very expensive molding equipment for producing laundry m trays, and in order to make it possible to use 75 the principal parts of this equipment, I propose that when my corrugated plate is used that the front wall 24 have its outer surface 26 as is normally used, and that the thickness of wall 24 be increased substantially as is shown 89 in Figure 2. This gives the tray additional strength where the strength is desired, and also provides a more gradual slope for the surface 20, which is very desirable. 7

I have further found that persons accus tomed to use a washboard, deslre a place for the soap at the top of the board. To provide for this condition I formed inthe upper por- I tion of wall 24 a soap-receivin led or niche g 28. The exact construction in be ter 1111- 4- 9 d'erstood from Figures 4 and 5, wherein the soap niche 28 is rovided with a lower surface 30. This I have found should be substantially at right an ice to surface-26. In '0 some forms I have use i an upwardly extending lip at the outer edge forming the same as i part of late 22. This is not very satisfaca to in t at a new bar of soap is usuallytoo wi e to lie inside of it so I refer-the form 5 shown in Figure 5. I have in addition {310- I vided a water drain channel 32 which slantsdownwardly each way from the center of surface 20, as will be observedby the showing in dotted lines in Figures 3 and'4. is v 0 provided at each end with the discharge 1 openings 84. .While other methods OfdlS- v posing of this waste water might berovided it is quite desirable that some efinite means be employed for this purpose otherwise the soa will soon dissolve and be reduced to a 'e ly-like substance, which is very wasteful o. the soap.

The foregoing description and the accompanying drawings clearly disclose a pree will be understood that this disclosure is merely illustrative and that such changes in the invention may be made as are fairly within the, scope and spirit of the following What I claim is: .f The combination in a laundry tray ha an inclined f ront wall and an inner inclin face on said wall, of acorrugated area on rred embodiment of my invention but it 116 said inner face forming a washboard, said I p wall having a niche in its upper portion above the washboard and extending the length of the washboard, the bottom wall of the niche V bein perpendicular to the lane of the washw B5 boar sald bottom wall eclining laterally V

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