US20099A - Washing-machine - Google Patents

Description

UNITED STATESEATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES M. SW'ANY, OF RICHMOND, INDIANA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 20,099, dated April 27, 1858.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OHAnLns M. SWANY, of Richmond, in the county of Wayne and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Vy ashing-Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a vertical central section of my improvement. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section, taken in the line (a: m) Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

The nature of my invention consists in the use of a rubbing disk with both horizontal and perpendicular rubbing surfaces, in combination with a case of rubbers, which case has also both horizontal and perpendicular rubbing surfaces, said rubbing disk and case of rubbers being placed within a tub and so related and adjusted as to be capable of simultaneous motion in opposite directions. By this contrivance I am enabled to give a friction upon the clothes more nearly resembling the action of human hands than can be obtained by moving either the disk or case of rubbers separately.

My improvement further consists in a peculiar arrangement of the rubbers or ribs upon the lower side of the rubbing disk and also upon the bottom of the case of rubbers hereinafter shown, the object of which arrangement is to retain the clot-hes in their place during the process of washing.

To enable those skilled in the art fully to understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A, is a tub of the usual form.

B, is the rubbing disk which is attached to a vertical arbor or shaft, O. The lower end of this shaft is secured to the bottom of the tub at its center, D. The disk, B, is attached to shaft C, by means of a metal socket o, the upper part of which has a hole through its center for the reception of a pin S. The shaft is similarly perforated with holes 2. By this contrivance the disk may be retained at any requisite height upon shaft, O.

In consequence of the socket being made in two parts in the form of a swivel joint the upper part being secured by a pin as shown in Fig. 1, the other or lower half is free to turn around the shaft, and at the same time preventing any vertical play of the disk B. On the upper side of the disk a lever or handle F is attached. The disk B, has projections or rubbers on the side, 6. The outside row is put on in the form of an octagon, J Fig. 2. The inside rows are placed one within another in rectangles. Of these there may be three or more. The bottom or lower side of the case of rubbers, is provided with three friction rollers attached radially to the bottom of the rubber case i 2'. This arrangement allows the rubber case to vibrate without unnecessary friction. This case is so adjusted that its upper horizontal surface antagonizes with the under or horizontal rubbing surface of disk, B. This surface is also constructed similarly to its antagonist, with rubbers placed octagonally and reotangularly. It will be observed that disk B and this case of rubbers antagonize both horizontally and perpendicularly, and are capable of motion in opposite direction at the same time, thus giving a double or compound motion upon the clothes between their surfaces.

, Operation: The clothes to be washed are placed within the case inside of the tub, A, the disk, B, having been previously removed. The tub is supplied with the requisite quantity of suds and the disk replaced in the tub, and adjusted at the proper height on the shaft. The rubber is vibrated by one hand applied to the lever or handle F. The case is vibrated in an opposite direction, by the other hand upon handle R. hen the clothes are washed, they are removed from the tub, and such portions of each article (as the collar and wristbands of shirts) as are not thoroughly cleansed, are placed between the rubbers at the circumference of the disk and subjected to additional rubbing until thoroughly washed. This method it will be seen prevents unnecessary wear upon the cleaner parts of the clothing.

Now I do not broadly claim either set of rubbing surfaces herein shown, when separately considered, as analogous devices are separately in use. But

I do claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. Such a construction and arrangement of the disk, B, and rubber case with the tub, that the disk and rubber case are free rubber case, for the purpose of keeping the to move in opposite directions simultaneclothes in place during the process of Washously, the above being-made and fashioned ing. 1

substantially as shown and described. CHARLES M. SWANY. 5 2. I claim the manner herein shown of Witnesses:

arranging the rubbers or ribs upon the horizontal rubbing surfaces of the disk and JOHN FINLEY, E. VIOKERS.

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