US271795A - Gearing for operating washing-machines - Google Patents

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(No Model.) G. H. CONNOR.

GEARING FOR OPERATING WASHING MACHINES, GHURNS, m. No. 271,795. Patented Peb.6,1883.,

.WI'INESSES v INVENTOR UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE H. CONNOR, OF COLUMBUS, KANSAS.

GEARING FOR OPERATING WASHING-MACHINES,,CH'URINS, 86C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,795, dated February 6, 1883.

Application filed August 3, 1882. (No modeLl letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the motive power. Fig. 2'is a front view of the drivingwheel, showing the teeth on the face of the drivingwheel. Fig. dis a sectional view through the solid and hollow shafts.

This ini ention relates to a motive power which is especially designed for churns, but which is applicable to other machines; and the nature of my invention consists in the combination of a driving-wheel the face of which is provided with segmentally-arranged teeth, with piniuns having flanges on their ends and nuts adapted to bereceived in said flanges, as will be hereinafter explained.

In the annexed drawings, let A designate the top of a churn; B B, standards secured upon it; and C, a horizontal shaft, on one end of which is a hand -crank, G. 011 the opposite end oftheshaft G is keyed a disk, 0 on the face of which spurs or cog teeth are formed, as indicated by a. The teeth form the arc of a semicircle.

The remainder of the face of the disk is plain. V V The letter I) designates a tube, which is fitted over a vertical shaft, E, and which serves as a sleeve or shoulder, against which the recesses in the pinions are adapted to bear, as seen in Fig.3 ot' the drawings, and the object of which will presently more fully appear.-

On the upper end of the shaft E is applied a pinion, F. This pinion is recessed from the under side, the recess being of a diameter slightly larger than that of the tube D, whereby it easily tits down upon said tube. The

pinion and shaft.

upperend of the shaft is screw-threaded, and

the upper side of the pinion is provided with radial feathers or lugs G, between which is I adapted to fit a nut, H. Th'isnut being screwed on the shaft untilit reaches the lugson the pinion,itisthen slipped betweenthem,and the nut and pinion revolved together until the recess in the latter binds against the upper end of the tube, thus making a connection between the The shaft E is also screw-- threaded near the lower end ofthe tube D. By

this construction the pinion F and nut H are applied and held in the manner above mentioned, and by which construction the pinions may be removed and new ones instantly applied when they have become seriously worn or a tooth gets broken.

. The lower guide and bearing for the shaft E is through the head A, and the upper bearing and guide is through the horizontal por' tion of the bracket J, which latter is rigidly secured to the head A. The teeth a of the disk G will alternately engage with the wheels F F and the toothed pinions F F, having feathers G G, and nuts engaging therewith, all constructed and adapted to operate substantially in the manner and -for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereofl affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses, this 26th day of April, .1882.

e. H. CONNOR.

Witnesses JOHN D. LEWIS, O. W. DURKER.

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