US431557A - Washing-machine - Google Patents

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WASHING MACHINE.

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HENRY F. CARRICO, OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,557, dated July 8, 1890.

Application filed March 15 1890. Serial No. 343,998. (No model.)

.To all wiz/0m it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY F. CARRIoo, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paducah, in the county of McCracken and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Washing-Machine, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to washing-machines, more especially of that class in which an oscillating rubber rubs the clothes over a rough `ribbed periphery and stationary portions at the ends of its top, an oscillating shaft mounted in semicircular bearings at the center of the sides and in their upper edges, a removable top piece closing the otherwise open top of the box, and an operating-lever pivoted in standards on said top piece and carrying a toothed segment engaging a gear-wheel on said shaft, the whole operating as hereinafter more fully described, and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of this machine complete. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section thereof. Fig. 3 is a plan View with the top removed, and Fig. 4 is a bottom plan of said top.

The letter B designates a box of substantial semicircular shape, having its periphery of corrugated galvanized iron forming a rubber or Wash board W, all as is common in this class of machines. The top of this box is open at the center; but end pieces E securely close the ends of said top, as illustrated in Fig. 3. The box is supported on suitable legs, as shown, and may be of any desi-red size and material preferred. At the center of each side piece of the box and in its upper edge is formed a semicircular bearing S, and in these bearings are removably seated the reduced ends h of a shaft H. Pendent bars P preferably extend downwardly from near each end of this shaft, and sliding loosely upon these bars, near their headed ends, isa dasher or rubber D, pressed normally downward by the coiled springs C. The lower face of this dasher is provided with studs or spurs U, which take into the clothes being washed and prevent the dasher from slipping over them without rubbing them over the corrugated bottom, all as will be clearly understood by a person familiar with this branch of the art.

The letter T designates the removable cover for the box B, which cover maybe secured to the box proper by any suitable means, as buttons X. Rising from the upper face of this cover is a pair of standardsrs, between the upper ends of which is pivoted the operatinglever O,which has a toothed segment o at its lower end. The shaft 'H carries a gear-wheel G, whose upper face stands normally above the upper edges of the sides of the box, and the coverTis provided with a hole t, through which this gear extends when the parts are assembled, whereby the segment and gear are permitted to interinesh. A reciprocation of the operating-lever O therefore causes a simultaneous reciprocation oroscillation of the rubberD and effects the washingof the clothes.

When it is desired to insert the clothes to be washed, the cover T is unfastenedand removed, after which the shaft H, and with it the dasher D, is bodily `removed from the box. Access can then be had to the latter through the opening in the top, as will be obvious. After the clothes are inserted the shaft and cover are replaced, and the lever is reciprocated` to wash the clothes, as above described. The clothes when washed are removed in the same manner.

Much difficulty has been heretofore experienced in machines of this character, owing 'to the cover leaking varound the sides and ends of the box where the water is splashed up against it, and this difculty I overcome in the present instance by securely and irremovably fastening the end portions E of the top of the sides of the box and having only the central portion thereof removable. The

peculiar compound motion of the reciprocating mechanism also adds to the eiciency of the machine, because it permits the pivot of IOO the dasher to be placed lower in the box, and therefore the latter can be made on a smaller circle than heretofore, and yet the same amount of power is imparted to the machine as formerly.

I claim as the salient points of my invention- 1. In a Washing-machine, the combination, with the box, a shaft pivoted in the sides thereof, a dasher supported by said shaft, and a gear-wheel thereon, of the removable cover having a hole through which said gear projects, standards on said cover, and an operating-lever pivoted between said standards and having a segment at its lower end meshing with said gear, as set forth.

2. In a washing-machine, the combination, -With the semicircular box having corrugated bottom and ends, the vertical sides thereof having semicircularbearings at their centers in their upper edges, and irremovable end pieces forming portions of the top, of a shaft having reduced ends journaled in said bearings, a dasher carried by said shaft and a gear thereon, and a removable cover closely fitting between said end pieces and provided with a hole through which said gear projects, standards on said cover, and an operatinglever pivoted between said standards and having a'toothed segment at its lower end engaging said gear, as set forth.

3. In a washing-machine, the combination, with the box having journals in its sides open at their upper ends and having stationary end pieces at its top, of the dasher-shaft mounted in said journals and carrying a gear, the removable cover fitting between said ends and closing the open upper ends of said journals, an operating-lever pivoted in said cover and having a segment meshing with said gear, and fastening devices for said cover, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY F. CARRICO.

Witnesses: V

N. S. ALLEN, I. BLITZ.

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