US57348A - Improved washing-machine - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES JAMES E. MADISON, OE ONEIDA, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

- Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 57.3118, dated August 21, 1866.

To atl whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES R. MADISON, of Oneida, in the State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Washing-Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description ot' the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawin gs and the letters of reference marked thereon.

Figure l is a side view ot' my machine. L is acrank; A, a balance or iiy wheel. O is also a crank; D, a pitman; E, a sliding cogged rack, which slides on the guide-rod G. This cogged rack E gears into a cogged wheel, S. (See Fig. 3.) l 2.3 are the pendulum rubbers or washers attached to three arms, 4, (see Fig.

4,) and these arms are attached to a perpen-V dicular shaft, on the upper end ot' which is the Wheel S. By this construction the rubbers are made to revolve alternatelr from left to right and from right to left. O is the Wash- Fig. f5 is a top view of my machine. A is the iiy-Wheel on the shaft M 5 K, the pinion; B, the large cogged Wheel; D, the pitman; F, the cogged rack; S, the cogged Wheel on the shaft on which the rubbers l 2 3 are suspended.

Fig. 4 is a top View of the arms on which the pendulum'rubbers l 2 3 are hung.

Fig. 5 is a side View ofthe rubbers.

The clothes are put in the box O with the water, and on turning the crank L they are thoroughly cleansed in a few moments.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The rubbers l 2 3, operated by the crank O and the pitman D, and the cogged rack F, in combination with the wheel S and ywhcel A, when the same are constructed inthe aforesaid combination, and for the purposes Set forth.

. JAMES It. MADISON.

Witnesses G. W. ROE,

G. F. DUNTLEY.

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