US1029778A - Washboiler. - Google Patents

Description

L. WEST.

WASHBOILER.

APPLICATION FILED 00127, 1910.

Patented June 18, 1912.

'LEWIS WEST, OF MONETT, MISSOURI.

WASHBOILER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 18, 1912A.

Application filed October 7, 1910. Serial No. 585,844.

To all 'whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, LEwIs WEST, a citizen of the United States, residing at Monet-t, in t-he county of Barry and State of. Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washboilers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in wash boilers and similar devices, and has for one of its objects to improve the construction and increase the efficiency and utility of devices of this character.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character wherein provision is made for supporting the garments spaced from the bottom of the boiler and likewise for draining the garments after the boiling operation before they are removed from the boiler.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of lthis character having a draining appliance and with means for suspending the appliance within the boiler and spaced below the top.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character having a cover supported within the boiler and a short distance below the rim so that all danger of the water boiling over is effectually prevented.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character having a cover supported below the top of the rim to prevent the water fromboiling over, and adapted to be locked from upward movement so that they pressure produced by the boiling of the water and the expansion of the garments will not result in displacing the cover.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claim; and, the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional View of the improved device.. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the drainer member. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 2 2 of'Fig. 1. Fig. t is a transverse section showing the drainage member in its upward position, or in position to drain the garments. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the cover locking devices.

The boiler portion of the improved device is represented conventionally at 10 and `provided with the usual outwardly directed rolled rim at 11. The boiler may be of any required size and any suitable material, but will generally be the ordinary form and of the ordinary material, as Vthe improved attachments do not require any change whatever in the boiler, and may be adapted without material structural changes to different forms and sizes of boilers. Located within the boiler is a perforated drainage member 12 having a concave under face and a convex upper face. Located upon the upper face of the member 12 are a plurality of concentrically arranged ribs 13 which serve to support the garments above the body of the drainage member, and to this end any number of these ribs may be employed and spaced any required distance. Generally two of the ribs will be suiiicient, but it will be understood that it is not desired to limit the number of the ribs in any manner o-r to any distance between them. In practice strips which are L-shaped transversely are employed as shown.

The perforations indicated at 14 are preferably so spaced that they come between the ribs, with none of the perforations covered by t-he ribs. Wash boilers are generally constructed with flat sides and rounded ends, and the drainage'member 12 conforms to the outlines of the boiler, but it will be understood that the drainage member will be formed to correspond to the outlines of the boiler whatever form the lat-ter may possess. Rising from the member 12 are a plurality of brackets 15, preferably two at each side, and with sockets in their upper ends to receive the rods 16. Mounted to swing upon the rods 16, preferably outside of the brack ets 15 are bails 17, each bail having eyes 18 at its terminals for engaging around the rods 1G and with offsets 19 next to the eyes. By this arrangement when the drainage member 12 is located in the bottom of the boiler, as shown in Figs. 3 and t the bails will bear at their upper bight ends against the sides of the boiler with the space between them for the garments. After the boiling operation the bails are utilized to elevate the drainage member 12 together with the garments, the bails then swung in opposite directions upon the rods as hinges and the offsets 19 of the bails bearing upon the upper rim of the boiler and the bodies of the bails directed downwardly alongside of the boiler, as shown in Fig. 4. By this meansy the bails are utilized to hold the drainage member in its upward position, and after the drainage is completed the bails may again be employed to lift t-he drainage mem,- ber together with thefgarments thereon bodily from the boiler. v

It will thus be noted' that a simply constructed and convenient device is produced whereby the clothes are supported away from the bottom of the boiler by the upwardly-,directed drainage member, and then supported in position until the drainage is completed and then removed from the boiler,

the drainage member thus performing three j distinct and separate functions. A cover to the boiler also forms a part of the improved device and is represented conventionally at 20 and is convex upon the upper face and concave on the lower face, and will conform substantially to the shape of the boiler, but will be slightly smaller than the boiler so that water can pass freely between the closure and the sides ofthe boiler. At its ends the cover 2O is provided with hooks 21 for bearing over the rim 11 of the boiler, and thus supportingl the cover inposition. Rising from the sides of the cover 20` are loops 22, and swinging upon these loops are hooks 23, preferably formed of sheet metal and with inwardly directed tongues 524; for en- Y gaging beneath the outwardly turnedV roll or rim 1l of the boiler when the cover 20 is in position, and thus effectually lock the coverV fro-m upward movement. This is an important advantage in devices of this character, as the upward pressure created by the boiling water and the swelling of the garments is'considerable and frequently result-s y in displacing the cover. This would be espei cially true in a construction such as shown Y in this application with the cover located a short distance below the top of the boiler,

whereby t-he upward pressure against the cover is greater. Preferably, the cover 20 is formed with any desired number of per-Vk forations, as best illustrated in Fig. l.

The improved device is simple in cQnstruction, can be inexpensively manufactured, and can be applied without material structural changes to different forms of ,boilers and without requiring any change whatever in the boiler. y

By this means if the boiler is required for other purposes' than boiling clothes the attachments may be readily'removed, as will vloe obvious.

Having thus described my invention, what fis ,claimed as new is. 1 Y Y The combination with a wash boiler'having an outwardly projecting rim, of a cover removably fitted within the `boiler and lying yfin a plane below the said rim, and means for `supporting the cover and for holding it lagainst, upward displacement, said means comprising loops `secured upon the cover at lopposite sides thereof and'keepers Vpivotally gconnected one with each of the loops, each Vof the keepers comprising a plate bent to form a right angularly projecting flange having an extension bent toxform a pivot flug connectedwith the respective loop, the lsaid liange being arranged to project over the said rim with the body ofthe plate eX- ltending down beside the rim exterior to the boiler, and the said plate having a lug stampedto project at an angle from the in- ;ner side thereof and engaging beneath the said rim.

In testimony whereof, I aiiiX my signature ,in presence of two witnesses.

LEWIS VEST. [1.. s]

Witnesses:

JAMES E. MCWILLIAMS, Q. O. HUDSON.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

` Washington, D. C.

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