US1563015A - Laundry appliance - Google Patents

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Nav. 24, 1925- Mi C. ACHRISTY LAUNDRY APPLIANCE Filed Aug. 28, 1925 Fig. 2,

5.14 ventola MAY C'. C'HRisTY Patented Nov. 24, 1925.

1,563,015 rric.

MAY C. CHRISTY, OF CLEVELAND, GEIQ; JAMES CHRSTY ADMINISTRATOR OF SAID MAY C. CHRSTY, EECEASFID.`

LAUNDRY AEPLIANGE.

Application filed .august 2%, 1923. Serial No. 659,719.

To all 'whom t may concer/n.:

Be it known that I, MAY C. CHRISTY, citizen of the United States, residing` at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Uhio, have invented certain new Aand useful improvements in a Laundry .fiplpliance, of which the following is a specilication.

My invention relates to laundry appliances, and my general object is to provide an improved hand rubbing `device which may be used in connection with a corrugated wash board to expedite the work of hand washing and to promote thorough and complete cleansing of clothing or other fabrics. .i further object is to provide a hand rubbing` appliance faced with rubber, preferably corrugated on angular intersecting lines toprovide numerous small projections adapted to effect a medium friction upon one side of the goods While the other side is in rubbing engagement with the relatively larger and ycoarser corrugated surface of a wash board. Another object is to connect a supplemental rubbing appliance to a wash board in a simple and practical way whereby the two devicesmay be conveniently handled and manipulated and used together or separably as occasion may require.

In the accompanying drawing, Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a wash board and my improved rubbing appliance connected together and shown in working position with in a wash tub. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of my improved rubbing appliance alone.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a wash board and my improved rubbing appliance operatively connected to the upper end of the wash board.

The invention 'comprises a fiat rectangular rubbing member or block 2 which may be made of wood or other material, An elongated handle 3 having incurved or slanting sides i extends lengthwise over the middle of the block to provide a. comfortable hand grip for both hands and to permit a uni form pressure to be applied to opposite ends of the block. A thin sheet 5 of rubber or rubber coated fabric is nailed or otherwise affixed to the flat bottom of bloclr 2, and the main body of this sheet is preferably formed with a moderately roughened rubbing surface 6 to promote washing of the goods and to produce suilicient friction to move the goods over the corrugated body 7 of a wash board 8 when the block is manipulated with that end in view. The rubbing surface 6 is preferably composed of a multiplicity of small rubber studs or projections closely set or related, and these projections may be of the form shown or any other suitable shape. The rubbing surface being formed of rubber a yielding or resilient rubbing effect is produced and by applying pressure variously the friction on the goods may be lessened or increased correspondingly and the rubbing block either moved over the goods itself or the goods carried over the corrugated wash board with the rubbing block.

ln Fig. l, l show rubbing member 2 con nected to the legs 9 of wash board 8 by an articulated wire frame, comprising a bail 10 pivotally united with handle 3, and a pair of wire links 11 hinged to the extremities of the side arms of the bail and to the inner sides of legs 9 of the wash board. The joints may be sufliciently loose or free to permit rubbing member 2 to be moved freely within limits in a lateral direction upon the corrugated body 7 of the wash board, and member 2 may be reciprocated the full length of the corrugated body without hindrance and also raised and removed apart therefrom. The articulated connections also permit rubbing member 2 to be thrown forward and folded over the front wall of the wash tub, that is to say, placed temporarily out of the tub while the wash board is being used separately for any reason. Rubbing member 2 may also be turned upon the connecting portion 12 of bail 10 to place rubbing surface 6 uppermost so that exceptionally fine fabrics may be scrubbed or washed solely upon this finely corrugated or moderately roughened rubber surface.

In Fig. 3 l show rubbing member 2 connected by an articulated wire frame to the upper end of a wash board instead of to the lower end as in Fig. l. In this form of the invention the side arms of a bail lli are pivotally connected to a second wire bail 15 having a. cross connection 16 fastened iu hinged union with the wash board frame by means of staples 17 driven into the side bars relatively near top cross piece 18. A jointed connection of this kind permits member 2 to be operated freely back and forth over the corrugated body of the wash board and bail 15 may be wide enough to permit its arms to clear the side bars of the wash board and to permit member 2 to be turned over the top andto the rear.

In Fig. 3 the Wash hoard is lying flat on horizontally, andit may loe used in this Way,v

with rubbing memloeiv 2, but it may also he use. o'f'w Wash bc nidz filone, and they Work: of'.l Washing 1s greatly expedited and'nlso'nno're` efficiently accomplished.

Brieiy, goods which are otherwise rliH- cultto Wash absolutely clean can yhefpeizfe'ctly cleansed with quickness vand despatch wit l1 tliiszdevices, and Both :md coarse fobie-ics can be., thoroughly Washed Without damage.

What I regard as my invention or discoyery, andldesii'e to elziin, is

A lundiyfland appliance adapted to he usedco.operatively with the corrugated sulface of a Washboard, consisting of a solid fiat rubbing bloeknrand a. thin finely-corrugated rubber-e0ated sheet of textile fabric' aifixed to the bottomirifaceithereof@ In' testimony whereof Lzdxfmy;signature here this 25th -dayaof VAugust7K 19231 MALY G. GHRISTY.

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