US1115373A - Washing-machine. - Google Patents

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L. s. ANSELL & 0. SPEER. WASHING MACHINE APPLICATION FILED DBO. 4, 1913.

1 1 1 5,373. Patented Oct. 27, 1914,

"crap s LOUIS S. ANSELL AND CORNELIUS SPEER, OF HUNTINGTON, TEST VIRGINIA.

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Patented Oct. 27, 1914.

Application filed. December 4-, 1913. Serial No. 804,647.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LOUIS S. ANsELL and CORNELIUS SPEER, citizens of the United States, and residents of Huntington, county of Cabell, State of WVest Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in l/Vashing-ldachines, of which the follow ing is a full and clear specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in section, showing our apparatus applied to a wash-tub; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the apparatus, the tub being omitted; and Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section, part of the large corrugated roller being broken away for the purpose of better illustration. Fig. 4; is a detail plan view showing the manner in which the cap plates are swung to one side to take the parts out of engagement with the shaft of the main roller.

This invention has relation to that type of clothes washing apparatus in which the clothing is passed between a series of rollers mounted upon a frame which is removably set upon the rim of the tub, the washing apparatus being connected to the wash-bench in such manner as to be swung upwardly and over to one side out of the way; and the object of this invention is to improve and simplify'the apparatus, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings, a designates the baseboard which is adapted to be removably and adjustably affixed in the tub by means of clamps I), each of which consists of a hook or neck carrying a thumb screw 0 adapted to bear upon the outside of the tub and a depending part adapted to depend into the tub and being provided with a flat plate (Z which is secured against the underside of thebaseboard a, this securing means consisting of a bolt 6 passing through a longitudinal slot in said plate d. Two of these clamps are attached to one end of the base-board and one clamp at the opposite end. The bolt and slot connections with the board or. enable the clamps to be adjusted inwardly and outwardly to accommodate tubs of different diameters.

Aflixed. to the base-board a is a pair of wooden standards f and pivotally attached to the outer face of these standards are links or bars g. These outer ends are respectively provided with a longitudinal slot h. C0mpanion bars or links 2' pivotally connect the bars 9 to the cross rod j of the wash-bench, these bars 11 overlapping theadjacent ends of the bars 9 and being provided with longitudinal slots 72. The connecting means between each pair of bars is a clamp bolt Z, by means of which and the slots in and 7c the washing apparatus may be properly adjusted in the tub, and be swung upwardly and backwardly out of the way when not in use. When the washing device is adjusted and clamped to the tub, it is desirable that the clamp bolt Z shall be tightened, so that the bars 9' and i serve to assist in bracing the apparatus properly in the tub.

Journaled in bearings in the pedestals or standards is the shaft of a large corrugated roller m, suchshaft being extended at one end to form an operating crank a. Under this roller is mounted in the standards a series of five companion rollers 0, the end rollers being preferably larger than the intermediate rollers. The corrugated roller is yieldingly pressed toward the smaller or bed rollers 0 by means of coil springs 70, each of which is mounted in a vertical slot in one of the pedestals f and normally tends to force a bearing block 9 against the shaft of the roller. Each bearing block q is attached to the lower end of a rod 1" which passes down through the spring and each spring presses upwardly against a cap plate 8 mounted on top of the pedestal. The rod 7" passes through a hole in this cap plate and it is provided with a handle 25 of ring or other form, by means of which the bearing block q may be pulled upwardly whenever it is desired to relieve the corrugated roller of the pressure of the springs.

It will be understood that in the operation of washing the clothes, it is simply necessary to rotate the corrugated roller and pass the clothes between the same and the bed rollers.

When it is desired to remove the corrugated roller from the apparatus for the purpose of cleaning or repairing the same or the bed rollers, this may be done in a very simple manner by simply swinging the cap plates to one side, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2 and in full lines in Fig. 4. To enable this to be done conveniently, one end of the cap plate is pivotally fastened by screw bolt a while the opposite end of the cap plate is clamped by a similar screw or bolt 0;, this screw being passed down through an open notch in the inner edge of the cap plate. With this construction, by simply loosening screw 11, the 'cap plate may be swung around on the other screw as a pivot, thus carrying the rod 7*, spring 39 and bearing block 9 out of the slot in the pedestal and far enough to one side to be out of the Way of the ready removal of the shaftrof the corrugated roller from the slots. It Will be observed that When the parts are thus swung out of the slots in the pedestal, the ring or head at the upper end of the rod Will prevent the rod from being detached from the cap plate and Will hold the spring under compression.

Having thus described our invention, What We claim is:

, In a machine of the type set forth, the combination of a base board and means for supporting it in a tub,pedestals or uprights mounted thereon, each of which is vertically slotted, a series of bed rollers, a main roller mounted upon the bed rollers and having its shaft extended through said slots, a cap plate mounted over each of said slots, one

end of this cap plate being'pivotallyconnectedto its pedestal, so as to be capable of swinging: to one side to uncover the upper end of the slot, rods carried by these cap plates, each rod carrying a bearing block LOUIS s. ANSELL] CORNELIUS SPEER.

\Vitnesses:

HOWARD L. DESMOND, M. M. BEVAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents eacln by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, D. G.

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