US14111A - Washboard - Google Patents

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IRA S. PARKER, OF SHARON, VERMONT.

WASI-IBOARD.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

To aZL whom z' may concern:

Be it known that I, IRA S. PARKER, of Sharon, in the county of Vindsor and State of Vermont, have invtend a new and Improved /Vashboard; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1, is a side or face view of my improvement. Fig. 2, is a horizontal section of ditto, (as), (as), Fig. l, showing the plane of section.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

The nature of my invention consists in forming the wash-board of a series of cylindrical beaded bars arranged as will be presently shown and described.

A, represents the bars which are of cylindrical beaded form. The upper ends of the bars A, are inserted in the edge of a-board B, and the lower ends are inserted in the edge of a board C. The beads designated by (o), are of elliptical form and are at equal distances apart on the bars A, leaving suitable spaces (b) between them. The bars A, turned out of wood and are of a suitable length and thickness, the beads (a), being rather larger inv diameter than the thickness of the boards B, C, as shown in Fig. 2. Any proper number of bars A, may be used and the beads (a), when the ends of the bars are secured in the edges of the boards B, C, are

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side by side in horizontal rows thereby leaving spaces (e), between the beads and bars. The beads (a), form the necessary corrugations over which the clothes are rubbed in the usual way, the wash-board being placed in the tub as usual.

The wash-board thus constructed may be used on either side and the water is not scattered around during the process of rubbing the clothes, as it passes through the spaces (c), into the tub. rlhe clothes also in consequence of the beads (a), are rubbed over the ends of the grain of the wood and the clothes are thereby subjected to more friction than the ordinary corrugated boards, the flutes o-r corrugations of which run lengthwise of the grain of the wood.

The invention is simple, durable, economical to manufacture, and far preferable to the ordinary wash-boards in use.

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

Constructing the wash-board of a series of cylindrical beaded bars A, the ends of which are secured in boards B, C, the beads (a), of the bars being side by side in horizontal rows so as to leave spaces (c), between them, substantially as shown and described.

IRA S. PARKER. Witnesses PELATIAH METCALF, MosEs PRESTON.

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