US700194A - Washing-machine. - Google Patents

Description

Patented May 20, I902.

E. D. HAMILTON.

WASHING MACHINE.

(Application filed Feb. 6, 1902.)

(No Model.)

2 Sheets-Sheet I."

llllllllllllll l I x lmtrmmlmlm IIIIH 7 H N m H m.

m m d h A III 3 A I INVENTOH A TTORNEYJ No. 700,194. Patented May 20, I902.

E. n. HAMILTON.

WASHING MACHINE.

(Application filed Feb. 6, 1902.)

(No Model.) I v 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

ATTORNEYJ.

YHE Noam's PETERS ca. PHoTo-Lmia. wnsmuu'rou. n. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD .1). HAMILTON, OF VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 700,194, dated May 20, 1902. Application filed February 6,1902. Serial No. 92.869. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD D. HAMILTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Vancouver, in the county of Clarke and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to Washing-machines, and particularly to that class of washing-machines having a stationary rubber within an oscillating suds-box.

The object of my invention is to improve the construction and operation of such machines.

A further object is to provide improved and novel means for hanging the rubber Within the suds-box at the'axis of the oscillation.

A further object is to provide improved hangers for the rubber which may be adjusted vertically within the suds-box to accom modate diiferent thicknesses, of clothes.

With these and other objects in view the invention is hereinafter described and is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- I i I Figure 1 is a top plan view of the machine. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a central trans-' verse vertical section. Fig.4 is a side view of a portion, showing the bearing.

Referring specifically to the drawings, the

machine is supported upon braced standards, (indicated at 6,) at the top of which are secured uncapped pillow-blocks 7, forming the hearings, in which the suds-box 8 oscillates upon hollow trunuions 9, projecting from the sides of the suds-box. The bearings are not capped, so as to permit the ready removal of the suds-box from the supporting-frame when desired. The interior of the suds-box is provided with corrugations, as usual, and within the same, at a each end thereof, are; splashboards 10, fixed to the sides of the suds-box and extending vertically below the top of the rubber 11. This prevents water splashing out ofthe machine when it is being operated. A deck 12 closes the top of the suds-box between the splash-boards and the outer edge. The rubber is hung within the suds-box by means of hangers 13 from a bar 14, which extends across the suds-box and through the hollow trunnions thereof. The portion of this bar within the suds-box is squared, as indicated at 14:, and the ends thereofextending through the trunnions are rounded, as at 14". Rotation of the bar is prevented by means of a pin 15, extending through a hole in the pillowblock and the end of the bar. The hangers for the rubber are provided with a succession of longitudinal slots 16, which are shaped to receive the squared portion of the bar 14, which may be entered therein through openings 17 By this means the rubber may be hung on the bar in any of the slots, according to the thickness of the clothes, and when so hung a vertical movement of the rubber is permitted equal to the length of the slot. It will be seen that the rubber may be readily placed or removed.

By the construction described the suds-box is free to oscillate on its trunnions, while the squared portion of. the bar within the slots of the hangers prevents oscillation of the rubber.

The bar is thinner horizontally than vertically at its squared portion, so that to enter the same through the openings 17 the rubber must be turned till its hangers are substantially horizontal. Then the thin side of the bar will be presented to the openings and pass therethrough, and being entered into the slots the rubberis dropped until its hangers are vertical, which presents the broad side of the bar to the openings, and as said side is made wider than the openings the accidental disengagement of the hangers from the bar is prevented.

The rubber is provided with a handle 18 to facilitate its manipulation, and each end of the suds-box may be provided ,with a handle 19 to operate the same. The top of the sudsbox above the rubber is closed by a removable box-like cover 20.

What I claim is- V 1. In a washing-machine, the combination with a frame and a semicircular oscillating suds-box supported thereby, of a bar supported by the frame and extending across the rgengaging theable, non-oscillatr ends of the hanglar bar across the same, of a. removable, vertically-movable rubber supported inthe sudsbox by hangers, said hangers having angular slots receiving the bar, whereby oscillation of the rubber is prevented but vertical movement permitted.

7 ol'llXe to the lowe within the suds-box.

:4. In a washing-machine, the combination with an oscillating suds-box mounted on holiow trurmions, of a stationary bar extending through the trunnions and across the sudshox, non-oscillating hangers detnehebly enin presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD D. HAMILTON.

ltttttthmntn In testimony whereof Iaiirx my signature 2o

Images