US1560970A - Wash boiler percolator - Google Patents

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Nov. 1,0 1925., 1,560,970

` c. M. BROWN r d WASH BOILER PEncoLA'roa #ned June 29,'1925 INVEN IDR ATTORNEY WITNESS:

Patented Nov. 10, 1925.

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application ,ined annees, 1925. `serial No. 40,378.

To all fu/tem t may concern:

Be it known that I, GLYDnM. .Beowmra citizen of vthe United States, .residino'at Sedalia, rin theicounty of Pett-is and tate .of 'Missourn have invented ,new and nsefulflmprovenients .in `Wash Boiler .Peicolators, of which the following is a specification. y

My "present kinvention has reference to an automatic clothes washing device.

In carrying out my invention it is my purpose to produce a means which is arranged in a boiler with clothes to be washed, the said means including a hollow base having openings for the passage of water thereinto and provided with spaced upstanding pipes communicating of course, with the base but having their outer ends closed, said pipes being provided at determined intervals with hollow peripheral flanges, substantially V shaped in cross section, and perforated, and whereby boiling water and steam passing from the base into the pipes will be directed through the apertures thereof in three sepa rate directions, that is, at outward angles through the apertures in the pipes proper and in upward and downward diagonal directions through the apertures in the flanged enlargements, so that a continuous circulation of hot water will be eected in the boiler to act on the clothes therein and to remove the dirt from the clothes.

To the attainment of the foregoing reference is to be had to the drawings which accompany and form part of this application.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation through an arrangement of my improvement in a boiler, parts being in section.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the improvement.

In Figure 1 of the drawings, I have illustrated a wash boiler 1 of the usual construction provided with the ordinary cover 2.

In carrying out my invention I arrange in the bottom of the boiler 1 a hollow base member 3. The base has its end and side flanges, from the outer edge thereof, notched, as at 4, to provide water inlets to the base. Preferably each of the sides is formed with two spaced notches, and each end, which is round, with one notch.

The base has its top, at suitable points from the ends thereof, provided with spaced openings. These openings are surrounded by sleeves 4 which enter the said openings .'and'havc their .lower edges hanged .out-

wardly,1as at .5, to contact -with the "inner 'face of `the base f3. Thesleeves from their outer ends are .rounded downwardly and outwardly, as at 6,andthe edge ,of this portion ,of each offfthesleeves, is jin .contact with Lthe vouter [face .o'f .thetqp of the'base. 4By such .constructionlthe .sleevesgmay be .easily attachedto the base and present no sharp or abrupt surfaces. In this connection it should be stated that the lower edge of the hollow base is beaded and that the sides thereof are inclined toward the top 3 and the edges between the sides and top are rounded.

Designed to be received in each of the sleeves 3 there is the lower and non-perforated end of a pipe member 7. Of course, the sleeves 4: are not necessarily round in cross section and likewise the pipes 7 may be of a cross sectional contour to correspond with that of the sleeve. Each of the pipe members is formed with an outstanding bulged portion or fiange 8 to contact with the outer edge of the sleeve t, and thereby limit the movement of the pipe member inwardly through the sleeve. The outer end of each of t-he pipes 7 is closed, and the said pipes throughout the length thereof, are provided with angularly spaced series of apertures 9. Also at determined spaced intervals through the length thereof the said pipes 7 are formed with outwardly bulged portions defining opposite angle walls 10 and 11, respectively. Thus thewalls provided by the bulged portions are substantially V-shaped in section. VThe angle faces 1() and 11 are apertured, as at 12 and 13, respectively. Also the points or apeXes of the said bulged portions are apertured, as at 14.

The operation of the improvement will, it is thought, be perfectly apparent to those skilled `in the art to which such invention relates. The improvement .is placed in the boiler as are the clothes, and saponaceous fiuid for washing clothes. After the fluid becomes heated to a boiling point the same will be directed from the hollow base through the pipe members 7. This heated fiuid will find outlets through the apertures 9 and 14. Also the heated fluid and steam will find opposite diagonal outlets through the apertures 10 and 11. Thus the fluid inthe boiler is continuously circulated but is initially forced against the clothes therein in three separate and distinct directions. The result is that the clothes are automatically washed in an expeditious manner.

I am aware that devices for accomplishing my purpose have been already produced and therefore make no broad claims to such construction.

The combination with a boiler having clothes therein to be washed and a fluid for washing 'said clothes also therein, of a means for circulating the fluid around the clothes in all directions for cleaning said clothes, said means comprising a hollow base resting on the bottom of the boiler and having notches providing iuid inlets therethrough, the top of the base having openings theredescribed the invention, I

through, a sleeve received in each of the openings having its lower end langed out- Wardly to contact with the inner face of the top of the base, the outer edge of each sleeve being rounded downwardly and outwardly for contacting engagement with the top of the base, a perforated pipe having an outer closed end received in each of the sleeves, each of said pipes having an outstanding flange to rest on the sleeve and each of said pipes having spaced outwardly bulged portions deiining walls which are arranged at opposite angles to each other, and which walls are perforated, as are the apeXes oit said bulged portions.

In testimony whereof I aiix my signature.

CLYDE M. .BROIVN

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