US613444A - Washing-machine - Google Patents

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N0. 6l3,444. Patented Nov. l, I898.

W. F. DAY.

WASHING MACHINE.

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NITED STATES WILBUR F. DAY, OF AUSTIN, MINNESOTA.

WASHING- MACHINE:

$PEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 613,444, dated November 1, 1898.

Application filed August 2, 1897. Serial No. 646,744. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I,WILBUR F. DAY, of Austin, Mow'er county, Minnesota, have invented certain Improvements in Washing-Machines, of which the following is a specification. 3

My invention relates to improvements in that class of washing-machines in which a rocker is used, its object being to provide means for obviating the ordinary injurious effect of; the rocker upon the clothes and in other ways to make a more efficient and easilyoperated construction.

Other objects and advantages will be hereinafter more particularly described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved machine,partly broken away to show the guides for the rocker, the rocker itself being shown in raised position supported upon the operating-handle. Fig. 2 is a top view of one end of my machine, showing the cover in place. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section of my machine, and Fig. 4 is a vertical cross-section of the same.

In the drawings, A represents the suds-box, preferably rectangular in shape, provided with a sheet-metal bottom 2 for the'purpose hereinafter stated, the box being supported by suitable legs E. These legs, as shown in the drawings, are angle-shaped, so as to fit over the corner of the box, and thus serve as a covering for the joint to prevent leaking.

Arranged a slight distance above the sheetmetal bottom 2 and supported upon the beams 3 is the sectional auxiliary bottom B. This auxiliary bottom'is made up of the central loose section 4 and upon opposite sides the similar sections 5 and 6, having hinge connection 7 all of which sections are formed with suitable corrugations. 8 and perforations 9.

The sections are of suflicient width so that one of the hinged pairs of sections will always stand in raised position, as shown in Fig. 3. The ends of said auxiliary bottom bear against suitable abutments, which may be strips'or blocks a, suitably located inside the suds-box, for instance,as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings.

Arranged above the auxiliary bottom B is the rocker 0, one end of which is connected with the rod 10 by means of the lever-arms 11, mounted upon the rod and connected with the rocker by the links 12, the lever-arms 11 being formed upon their journal ends with brackets 13 to receive the side bars .of the handle D, said side bars being formed with slots 14, through which passes the rod 10. In

order to hold the rocker with resilient pressure against the clothes, I provide the crossbars 15 and 16, the cross-bar 15 being provided with"downwardly-projecting arms 17, engaging with spurs 18 upon the sides of the rocker. The upper cross-bar 16 is connected with the cross-bar 15 by bolts 19, fixed in the bar 16 and working through openings in the bar 15, coil-springs 2O surrounding said bolts intermediate of the bars to furnish the desired resiliency.

Secured to the side walls of the box are guide-plates 21, provided with the vertical grooves 22 and inwardly and downwardly projecting fingers 23, adapted to be engaged by pivots 24, projecting from the ends of the cross-bar 16. Suitable thimbles 25 are secured upon the end of the cross-bar 16 to hold the pivots 24 in place. The grooves 22 in the side plates 21 are flared at the top of the box, as shown in Fig. 1, to allow the easy removal of the rocker. With the rocker in lowered position, as shown in Fig. 3, the pivots upon the ends of the upper cross-bar will stand beneath a desired corresponding pair of the fingers 23, the spurs 35, projecting outwardly from the arms 17, standing in the grooves 22, preventing the rocker from coming in contact with the ends of the suds-box.

Secured to the under side of the rocker C are the cups 26, the rocker being also formed upon its ends with the downwardly-projecting flanges 27 to hold the water.

In use the clothes are placed upon the auxiliary bottom B of the box and the tank filled to the desired height with water, the rocker 0 being held in supported position upon the handle, with the ends of its cross-bar 16 resting in brackets 28 upon the side bars of the handle D, as shown in Fig. 1. l A suitable stove may be placed under'the sheet-metal bottom 2 of the box to suitably heat the water. The rocker being then released from the handle and placed in lowered position, with the cross-bar secured under the fingers 23, the machine is ready to be operated. This is done by oscillating the rocker by means of the ham dle D. As the ends of the rocker are alternately raised and lowered, it will be evident that the corresponding hinged sections of the auxiliary platform B will simultaneously be raised and lowered, being limited in their upward movement by the stops 29, secured upon the side of the box. This raising and lowering of the platform in connection with the rocker will cause the suds to be forced through the clothes and the perforations in the platform, passing from one end of the box to the other. The cups 20, secured to the under side of the rocker, serve as suction and pressure cups to aid in forcing the water through the clothes and cleaning the same. A slight vertical travel of the rocker is also obtained by means of the yielding of the springs between the crossbars. By means of the movable auxiliary platform B working in conjunction with the rocker 0 all injury to the clothes by the action of the rocker is obviated and the most efiicient results accomplished.

As already mentioned, the sheet-metal bottom 2 allows the machine to be used also as an ordinary boiler for the clothes. A trough is formed at one end of the box, connected therewith by an opening 31, a wringer being adapted to be secured to the vertical wall 32 of the trough, the water from the clothes runnin g back into the box through the opening 31.

Vhen the machine is not in use, the handles are adapted to be removed from the brackets l3 and placed within the box. In order to close the top of the box, I provide a suitable cover 33, having slots 34:, in which the side bars of the actuating-handle D work.

I claim-- 1. In a washing-machine, the combination with the suds box or tank, of the rocker having pivotal support in said box, the auxiliary bottom loosely arranged below said rocker, abutments for the ends of said bottom to bear against,said bottom being made up of sections, the length of said bottom being greater than the distance between said abutments, whereby certain of said sections are held in raised position.

2. In a washing-machine of the class described, the combination with the suds-box, and the contained rocker, of the transverse cross-bars arranged above and pivotally supporting said rocker, the guide-plates secured to the sides of the box, and the series of downwardly-projecting fingers upon said guideplates, underneath which the ends of the crossbars are adapted to be carried, as and for the purpose described.

In a washing-machine of the class described, the combination with the suds-box, of the rocker, the transverse cross-bars above said rocker having downwardly-projecting arms in which said rocker is pivoted, the guide-plates secured to the sides of the box and provided with vertical grooves, the studs upon said arms fitting in said grooves, whereby the rocker is held from longitudinal movement, and the downwardly-projecting fingers upon said guide-plates and above said grooves, adapted to receive and serve as supports for the ends of the cross-bars,

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

IVILBUR F. DAY.

WVitnesses:

PARKE Goonwm, F. A. DAY.

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