US1364434A - Washing device - Google Patents

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0. P. GREENSTREET.

WASHING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 27. 1920.

Patented Jan. 4, 1921.

0 P6765726 fre OLIVER P. GREENSTREET, OF QUAPAW, OKLAIEOMA.

WASHING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Jan. 4:, 1921.

Application filed March 27, 1920. Serial No. 369,258.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, OLIVER P. GREEN- srnnm, a citizen of the United States, residing at Quapaw, in the county of Ottawa and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing Devices, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain improvements in washing devices, and it is an object of the invention to provide a novel and improved device of this general. character which is adapted to be placed within a clothes boiler or other container and which is so constructed to prevent a constant boiling of dirt and sediment into or through the clothes.

Another object of the invention is to provide a novel and improved device of this general character which operates to deliver boiling water down upon the clothing and wherein means are provided to collect the dirt or sediment which may be accumulated during a washing operation.

Furthermore, it is an object of the invention to provide a novel and improved device of this character which comprises a member, adapted to substantially snugly fit within the lower or bottom portion of a boiler or other container, having its ends rolled and its side marginal portions provided with open tubes, said rolled ends operating to deflect the dirt or sediment into the tubes, together with means carried by the member for delivering boiling water down upon the clothes arranged within the boiler or other receptacle and above the member.

The invention consists in the details of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts of my improved device wherebv certain important advantages are attained and the device rendered simpler, less expensive and otherwise more convenient and advantageous for use, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The novel features of my invention will hereinafter be definitely claimed.

In order that my invention may be the better understood, I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accom panying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a view partly in longitudinal vertical section and partlv in elevation, illustrating a washing device constructed in accordance with an embodiment of my invention and in applied position;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken substantially on the line 22 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view taken through a side marginal portion of the device and illustrating in detail a collecting tube.

As disclosed in the accompanying drawings, B denotes a boiler or container of requisite dimensions and configuration and in which my improved device is adapted to be inserted.

In the present embodiment of the invention, my improved washing device comprises an elongated member M adapted to substantially snugly fit within the lower portion of the container B and having its side marginal portions upwardly and inwardly rolled to provide the tubes 1. The free marginal portion of the rolled portion producing the tubes 1 is slightly spaced from the upper surface of the member M proper wherein each of said tubes is provided with a restricted entrance slot 2 extending the entire length thereof. The end marginal portions of the member M are also rolled upwardly and inwardly to provide deflecting aprons or flanges 3 for a purpose which will hereinafter be more particularly referred to.

While the member M fits substantially snugly within the lower portion of the container B, it is to be understood that there is sufficient space between the marginal portions of said member M and the adjacent wall of the container to permit flow of fluid from above the member M to the chamber therebelow when the liquid level is above the tubes 1.

The member M in cross section is substantially in the form of an inverted U with the ridge a at substantially the transverse center of the member.

Depending from the central portion of the member M adjacent the opposite ends thereof are the inverted funnels 4 having their lower or open ends terminatinginwardly of the side or longitudinal margins of the member M, the lower margin of each of the funnels being notched or recessed to facilitate the entrance of liquid within the funnel. Extending upwardly from each end portion of the member M at the transverse center thereof and in communication with a funnel 4 is a tube 5 Suitably coupled with the upper end portion of the tube 5 is an elbow 6 having a branch thereof substan tially at right angles to the tube 5. Coupled to the horizontal branch of the elbow 6 is a tube 7 having its inner wall or the wall thereof opposed to the member M provided with a series of longitudinally spaced perforations or openings 8.

One of the tubes 7 is slightly less in diam eter than the second tube so that when said tubes 7 are in alinement, the inner or opposed end portions may readily telescope so that the same will be substantially in continuity.

In practice, the member M and the parts carried thereby are inserted in the boiler or other receptacle B with the tubes 7 in separated relation and, in practice, I find it of especial advantage to have the central portion of the member M spaced about three inches from the bottom of the boiler or receptacle B. After the clothes have been applied within the boiler or receptacle B, the tubes 7 are swung inwardly and with their inner end portions telescopically engaged. It is also to be understood that a requisite amount of liquid is applied within the boiler or receptacle B and which liquid is preferably a saponified solution obtained by either dissolving soap in water or adding washing powder, or both. The liquid within the container B is then caused to boil, resulting in the liquid being carried up through the tubes 5 and through the tubes 7 above the clothes. Said liquid percolates through the perforations or openings and falls over the clothes. By this means, the dirt or sediment, during a washing operation, does not return to the boiling water below the member M but is collected within the tubes 1, hereinbefore referred to, and which dirt or other sediment is directed into said tubes by the rolled end of the flanges The slots 2 permit the dirt or other sediment to readily enter within the tubes 1 and said tubes are of such a character to prevent the collected dirt or sediment, during a washing or boiling operation, to pass outward there through.

To remove the collected dirt and sediment after the washing or boiling operation, the tubes 7 are separated or, if desired, entirely removed and the member M withdrawn from "within the boiler or container B. The member M is then preferably disposed vertically or stood on one end and boiling water poured through the tubes 1 on each side. This operation is continued until all the dirt or sediment has been removed. After this cleansing operation, it is desired that the member M be thoroughly dried and it can then be replaced in the boiler or other receptacle B for further use.

It has been fully demonstrated in actual practice that with the use of my improved device, the clothes or articles washed or boiled therein will be clean and white and free from dirt and stain.

From the foregoing description, it is thought to be obvious that a device constructed in accordance with my invention is particularly well adapted for use by reason of the convenience and facility with which it may be assembled and operated, and it will also be obvious that my invention is susceptible of some change and modification without departing from the principles and spirit thereof, and for this reason I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the precise arrangement and formation of the several parts herein shown incarrying out my invention in practice except as hereinafter claimed.

I claim l. A Washing device comprising a member adapted to be positioned within the lower portion of a receptacle, beside marginal portions of the member being provided with tubes extending therealong and provided with restricted entrance slots, the ends of the member being provided with upstanding aprons, the central portion of the member being raised, funnels depending from the raised portion of the member and in spaced relation, and a tubular connection between said funnels extending above the member, the central portion of said connection being provided with openings discharging in a direction toward the member.

2. A washing device comprising a member adapted to be positioned within the lower portion of a receptacle, the side marginal portions of the member being provided with tubes extending therealong and provided with restricted entrance slots, the central portion of the member being raised, funnels depending from the raised portion of the member and in spaced relation, and a tubular connection between said funnels extending above the member, the central portion of said connection being provided with openings discharging in a direction toward the member.

In testimony signature.

OLIVER P. GREEN STREET.

whereof I hereunto aflix my

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