US323336A - Washing-machine - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

W. B. HUBER.

WASHING MACHINE.

No. 323,336. Patented July 28,1885.

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WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 323,336, dated July 28, 1885.

Application filed April 5, 1884.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, WILLIAM B. HUBER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fremont, in the countyof Dodge and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and useful lVashing-W'Iachine, of which, the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has relation to steam Washing-machines; audit consists in the construction and novel. arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Figure l is a View in perspective of my improvements. Fig. 2 is a transverse. vertical sectional View, 'and Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view.

ei'erring by letter to the accompanying drawings7 a designates the central compartment or Iorcingclnunber ofthe steamer, which is provided with tivo vertical pipes, b b-one at each end ofthe forcingchamberwhich are perforated in their opposing faces near their upper cnds,as at c. At the middle portion the forcing-chamber is provided with a valve cap or guard, d, secured to its upper face; a valve-opening, e, belen7 the valve-guard; a valve, j", Within the forcing-chamber, having a stem, g, working in a guide, Il, within the chamber a. The ends of the steam-table are curved on their horizontal flanges to tit the interior of an ordinary Wash-boiler, and their vertical Walls are made angular and provided with verticai slots k l.' and l l, which form the bearings for the journals or shafts m m. of the triangular-shaped (in cross-section) agitators a n and y) p. The intermediate agitators 9 1 are longer than the outer ones n n. l 7 'D 7 (No model.)

In operation the steamer is placed in an ordinary wash-boiler and rests ou the bottom of the same. About two inches of Water is then poured in the boiler and the clothes to be Washed are placed upon the steamer table. When the Water boils, the agitators Work up and down and keep the clothes moving and loosen'them, and at the saine time the valve closes the valve-opening and streams of water are forced up through the pipes and pour down upon the clothes and thoroughly steam and Wash them.

rIhis steam eris cheap and simple and Washes the clothes thoroughly.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a steam Washing-machine, the combination, with the vertically-slotted end Walls ofthe steamer-table, of the triangular-shaped agitators, having bearings in the vertical slots, substantially as specified.

2. A steam washing-machine having the forcing-chamber provided with the vertical perforated pipes and the valve and the agitators, substantially as described.

3. A steam Washingmachine having the forcing-chamber provided with the vertical perforated pipes and the agitators, which are secured in vertical slots in the end walls of the machine, substantially as described.

lu testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

IVILLIAH BIGLER HUBER. lWitnesses:

LINCOLN J. LEE, A. W. AVERY.

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