US1341073A - Clothes-boiler - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES NATHAN BUBENSTEIN, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOTHES-BUTLER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 25, 1920.

Application led March 2S, 1919. Serial No. 285,748.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, NATHAN RUBENSTEIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York in the county of New York and State of i ew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes- Boilers, of which the following is a specifi cation.

This invention relates to wash boilers and more especially to clothes strainers to be used in connection therewith and its object is to provide the boiler with a false bottom adapted to be elevated to raise the clothes toward the surface of the water in the boiler so they may be removed without difficulty and certain portable means are provided carrying said bottom and the elevating means which may be readily placed in position or removed, as will be more fully set forth in the following specification, specified in the claims and illustrated in the drawings, wherein:

Figure l is a vertical longitudinal sectionalwiew of a wash boiler showing the device applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of one end of the same.

In the use of wash boilers great difficulty has been experienced in placing soiled clothes therein or removing and draining thel same on account of the location of the boiler on a hot stove and of the boiling wa ter in the vessel and the difficulty of lifting the washed clothes from the interior of the boiler, especially when there are few clothes in much water.

Various attempts have been made to overcome these diiculties but the inventions have been permanent attachments that make the boiler an expensive device and when slightly worn or leaking will require the discarding of the whole machine.

The presentinvention may be applied to any wash boiler or removed and replaced on another and consists of saddles 5 of a shape conforming with the ends of the boiler 6 and having uprights 7 with bearings 8 at their outer ends.

The lower ends 9 of the uprights are bifurcated and welded or otherwise secured to the inner sides of the saddles 5 Awhile the bearings 8 carry a shaft l0 with a winch 11 at one end and a ratchet wheel 12 near the other end and whose teeth are engaged by the pawl 13. Pins 14 may be provided to enter appropriate holes in the shaft to ad just the distance apart of the saddles so that the device-may be arranged for any size boiler' and pins 15 are also provided and over which may be hung chains 16 whose ends are secured to loops 17 at the extremities of rods 18 on which are located slats 19 and spacing spools 20, the whole making a frame that is a false bottom and is a strainer and may rest on the bottom of the boiler or be hung a slight distance above the same while the boiling of the clothes is in progress.

If desired, the saddles with the shaft may be removed and set aside so that the depositing of the clothes in the boiler may not interfere with the work and when it is dcsired to remove them the winch is turned and the chains 16 are wound upon the shaft and the frame slowly moved toward the top of the boiler and above the water. The clothes may now be removed singly therefrom or the whole device lifted ofi' the boiler with the clothes on the frame, or as the pawl 13 engages the teeth of the ratchet wheel 12 it locks the shaft in the desired position and the clothes with the false bottom may be left suspended above the surface of the water to drain until it is found desirable to dry them, or a paddle may be used on them to squeeze the water therefrom.

When the operation is over the saddles may be removed and the whole device stored in the boiler or when any part is injured or broken it may be easily removed and replaced with a new one.

It is obvious that the parts may be other wise arranged without departing from the essential features above described or from the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim as new is:

` 1. In clothes boilers, the combination of a boiler, removable reinforcing saddles comprising a semi-circular plate with a flange enveloping the upper edges of the ends of said boiler, a shaft journaled in the saddles, a slatted false bottom in the boiler, chains from the sides of the said bottom and adapted to be wound about the shaft, and a ratchet wheel and pawl for the shaft.

2. In clothes boilers, the combination of a boiler, removable reinforcing saddles oomprising a plate and overhanging ange conforming with and fitting over the upper ends and inside of the boiler, extensions above the saddles, a shaft journaled in the kextensions and having a crank arm, a false bottom comprising slats strung o11 cross rods, Chains secured on the ends of tho rods and adapted to be Wound about the shaft, 10 a ratchet wheel 011 the shaft, and a pawl on the vextension.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature. NATHAN RUBENS'I EIN.

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