US61352A - Improved washing machine - Google Patents

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Letters Patent No. 61,352, dated January 22, 1867.

IMPROVED WASHING MACHINE.

1ro ALL WHOM rr MAY ooNonnN:

Be it known that I, GEORGE PALMER, of Iiittlestown, in the county of Adams, in the State of Pennsylvania.) have invented new and useful Improvements in'a Combined Washing and wringing Machine; and the following is a. full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specication, in whichi Figure l represents a section through a side elevation of the Washing machine.

Figure 3 shows an inside end View of the washing machine.

Figure 4 is a section, through a ball to be placed inside of the revolving cylinder to aid in rubbing the clothes, enlarged.

The object of my invention is to facilitate-and make easy the washing of clothes, by increasing the power and diminishing the speedlof the operative mechanism, and combining the processes of rubbing and compressing, so that they can be operated alternately for cleansing clothes, thereby performing the same functions by machinery that are by hand-washing, in a much easier and more effective manner. Y

My invention consists, first, in the construction of the revolving cylinder, with its revolving bars 'or rollers, in combination with the washing balls, so constructed as to be revolved by the action of the water, operating in the manner hereinafter described. y

To enable others to make and use my invention, I will describe it more fully, referring to the drawings and to the letters marked thereon.

I make my tub or suds-box, A A, octagonal or circular, and support it at a suitable height on four legs,

B B B B, set bracing, so as to make it stand firm when in use. On the bottom of each leg I place a roller, b so that they may be brought into the position of truck rollers to .more the machine on, and turned np, so as not bear on the iioor when in use. In b oth sides of the suds-box A I have`sliding journal-boxes, a a, for the shaft.V

C of the revolving cylinderv washing apparatfus to run in, 'so that the cylinder-D can be raised or lowered in the box A to bring the clothes placed in it in` contact with as much or little suds or rinsing water as `may be desired; 4the slides a @being adjusted, are secured by the thumb-screws, or their equivalents; the Washing apparatus being rotated `by a spur gear-wheel or pinion, c, on the end of the journal C, and a corresponding lgear-wheel, cl, to which the crank-handle E is secured for operating. The Washing is performed equally well by turning the cylinder-very slowly, or by an oscillating movement, the crank not requiring to be moved but onethird of the-distance to.revolvc the cylinder or turn it once round, so that a grown person. or a child can have the crank-handle E `in such a position as to stand or sit, and cperate the machine easily. Thc'cylinder D D is made of Wood. The two side wheels or disks D' D ma have me1al-bushin rs, e e, for thearbors of the rollers F F'to run iii, if desired. 'I'he rollers F F maybe rou-nd or oet-agonal, or bothi a portion of the cylinderfGrj being made to open, to put in and take ont the clothes, it being hinged on one side to the disks D and secured by hooks, g g. Ln the cylinder D, with the clothes tobe washed, are placed a number of weighted balls, I I I, they being constructed` with angular grooves, z'z'z'i, and with holes in them, so that the action of the Huid will turn them in various directions, as they are tumbling about among the clothes when in operation, thereby rub- .hing every place; the whole washing apparatus being encased by placing the covering-box H over, whichY keeps jall ofi the heat and steam in while in operation, which greatly facilitates the cleansing of the clothes, and prevents condcnsation in the room in cool weather, andmuch lessens the exposure and risk of taking cold.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-I- The washing cylinder D D, as constructed with the revolving bars or rollers F `F, into which cylinder the clothes are placed, andsecur'ed, to be washed, with the balls I I I, constructed as shown and described, theY Washing apparatus being' arranged and combined with the gear-wheels ol and e and the crank-handle E, operating substantially in the manner herein described for the purposes speciied.

GEORGE PALMER.

Witnesses:

W. J. KETCHUM, J. B. Woonsurr.

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