US326860A - Clothes-was her - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

J. D. GARDNER & J. N. BRUMBELOW.

CLOTHES WASHER.

No. 326,860. Patented Sept. 22, 1885.

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TEXAS.

CLOTHES-WASHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,860, dated September 22, 1885.

Application filed September 27, 1884.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J AMEs D. GARDNER and JAMEs N. BRUMBELOW, citizens of the United States, residing at Morgan, Bosque county, Texas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Olothes-Washers, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to that class of washing-machines in which air is driven by the action of a piston through the clothing and the water surrounding it, thereby producing such agitation of both a rapid cleansing of the soiled fabric. It is the purpose of our invention to provide a simple and efficient apparatus for accomplishing this result, and one in which either water or air may be used alternately; and to this end our invention consists in the several novel features of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully set forth, and definitely pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings forming part of) this application, Figure l is a central vertical section of the apparatus. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the piston.

In the said drawings, the referencenumeral 1 denotes a cylinder, preferably made of metal, having its lower end flared, as shown at 2, and provided with a diaphragm, 3, having a suitable number of perforations, 4. A haudle, 5, is placed upon the side of this cylinder to enable the operator to handle it with convenience. In the upper end is fitted a removable cap, 6, having one or more air-openings, 7, and provided with a short central tube or sleeve, 8,which receives a piston-rod, 9, carrying a piston-head, 10, having a suitable packing, 11, the latter being formed of rubber or other proper material, and fitting within the cylinder as closely as is consistent with its easy reciprocation. Coiled upon the piston-rod 9, above the cap 6, is a spring, 12, bearing against a flange, l3, rigidly mounted upon the upper end of the rod, and having its lower end fastened to the tube 8, or rest ing upon the top of the cap 6. A central airopening, 13, is formed in the piston-head 10, leading up into the hollow end of the pistonrod and communicating with an opening, 14, forated (No model.)

in said rod. The opening 13 is closed by a valve, 15, composed of a flat disk which rises and falls on two pins, 16, which are rigidly secured to and depend from the piston 10.

The operation is as follows: The operator, placing the cylinder in the tub, forces the piston-rod down, whereupon the valve in the piston head closes, and the air contained within the cylinder is driven out through the water and clothes, producing an agitation of both and forcing the suds into and through the fabric. Upon completing the stroke the piston-rod is released, when the spring surrounding it lifts the pistonhead to its former position, the valve opening on the upward stroke and allowing the air to flow through the perforated rod to the under side of the piston-head.

When the clothing is very badly soiled, or when it is for any reason desirable to force the Water and soap through the clothes instead of air, the air-opening 14 in the hollow end of the piston-rod is closed, whereupon the reciprocation of the piston-head will draw the water into and expel it from the cylinder with great force, effecting a rapid and thorough cleansing with great rapidity.

In using the apparatus the cylinder should be raised from the tub after each stroke and placed in a different spot, thereby cleansing each portion of the clothes equally.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim is- 1. A clothes washer consisting of the cyliuder 1, having the perforated diaphragm 3 and flare 2 at its lower end and a detachable perforated cap, 6, at its upper end, the piston-rod 9, carrying the piston 10 and having its lower end provided with the central opening, 13, having the air-hole 14, for connect ing the central opening with the cylinder at a point above the piston, and a rising and falling valve carried by the piston, for opening and closing the central opening in the pistonrod, substantially as described.

2. A clothes-washer consisting of the cylinder 1, having the perforated diaphragm 3 and flare 2 at its lower end and a detachable percap, 6, at its upper end, the pistonrod 9 carrying the piston '10 and having its In testimony whereof we affix our signatures 10 lower end provided with the central opening, in presence of two witnesses. 13, having the air-hole 14, for connecting said central opening with the cylinder at a point JAMES D. GARDNER. 5 above the piston, the pins 16, rigidly secured JAMES N. BRUMBELOW.

to and depending from the piston, and the disk-valve 15, sliding vertically on the pins Witnesses: to open and close the central opening in the T. P. WEsT, piston-rod, substantially as described. J. W. CLARK.

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