US44200A - Improved washing-machine - Google Patents

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ing drawings, forming part ot' this speci tic-at ion,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

A. A. KENT, OF OWATONNA, MINNESOTA'.

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 114,200, dated September 13, 1864.

To all whom fit may concern:

Beit known that I, A. A. KENT, of Owatonna, in the county of Steele and State ofMinnesota, have invented a new and Improved Clothes-Washing Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to malte and use the same, reference being had to the accompany.'

in which- Figure l is a side sectional view ot my invention, taken in the line v x, Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a plan or top ofthe same, a part of the rubber being in section.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a new and improved clothes-washing machine of that class iu which an oscillating rubber and a stationary concave are used; audit consists in a novel manner of constructing the concave-to Wit, with projections, covered with zinc, and arranged as hereinafter shown and described, and also in covering theprojections of thei rubber with zinc, and employing metal bearings for the journals of the rubber, all being arranged as hereinafter set forth, whereby an f exceedingly durable machine is obtained, and one which will not be liable to wear or injure the clothes. l

A represents the suds-box, which is provided with a semicircular bottom, a, of zinc, and supported at any convenient heightl by a suitable framing, B. The sides b b of the suds-box are of wood7 and in the inner surface of each side there is made a simicireular groove, c, concentric with and a short distance above the bottoni a. (See Fig. 1.)

C repn sents a concave, which is composed of alternate projecting V-shaped bars (I, and at strips or slats e, the bars and slats being of wood, with their ends fitted in the grooves o. The bars d are covered with zinc,f, and the slats e are notched at each edge, as shown at g, to admit ofthe suds passing freely through the concave.

D is a rubber, composed of two sides, h h, which form the greater portion of a circle, and are connected by one or more cross-bars, i1', in which an upright bar or handle, j, is litted. Around the edges of the sides h h there are slats k, the ends ofthe latter being tted in recesses in thc sides h, the slats projecting beyond the, sides and rounded and covered with zinc, Z.

To the upper slat.- k, at one side of the concave C, there is attached a` stationary handrubber, E, which is designed for rubbing such portions of the clothes which the machine will not fully cleanse. The rubber D is provided at each side with journals m, which are fitted in metal bearings un, the latter being inserted in grooves made in the upper edges ofthe sides b b of the suds box A. These bearings n may be cast in proper form. The clothes, it will be seen, are subjected to the necessary pressure an-d rubbing between the rubber D and the concave C, the zinc-covered slats 7c and bars d acting upon the clothes, while the notches or openings g admit of the suds passing through the concave and the dirt settling on the bottom (t. The zinc covering ot' the slats 7c and bars d prevents the clothes being injured or torn, while it adds greatly to the durability of the machine. The metal bearings n n also prevent wear.

I do not claim, broadly, a zinc bottom for a washing-machine; but

I do claim as new and desire to secure Letters Patent- The concave U, composed ofa seriesof alternate bars, d, and slats c, the former being covered with zinc,f, and the bars and slats fitted at their ends in semicircular grooves c, made in the inner surfaces of the sides b b of the suds box, in combination witha rubber,

D, provided with slats lc, with or Without a zinc covering. I, substantia'ly as and for the purpose set forth.

A. A. KENT. Witnesses ALsoN SELLEOK, I. B. CRooKER.

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