US96780A - Improved washing-machine - Google Patents

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Letters Patent No. 96,780, dated November 16, 1869.

IMPROVED' WASHING-MACHINE.

The Schedule referred to in thel'a Letters Patent and making part of tha nannal To all -whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HERRMANN ORAMER, of Sonora, iu the county of Tuolumne, and State of California, have invented a new and .useful Improvement in 4 fully described.

1u the accompanying,drawing- Figure l represents a side view of the machine, showing the gearing and lever, by which motion is imparted to the cylinder, with a portion of the side of tub broken awayto show the cylinder.

Figure 2 is a vertical section of fig. 1, through the Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin parts. I

A is the tub, which may be circular or angular in i'orm, in which the cylinder revolves.

B represents the cylinder.

This cylinder is composed of two circular heads, covered with slats or staves, which are angular-orvshaped ou their inner sides, so that the inner surface ot' the circumference or rim of the cylinder is serrated, as seen in lig. 1.

v The clothes to be cleansed are placed in this cylinder, a suitable hinged door, iu the rim, being provided for this purpose, and the portion c of the tub being also hinged, for closing the machine when the cylinder is-in motion. n

D is a pinion, on the end of the cylinder-shaft,

Eis a gear-wheel, which is revolved ou a stud-pin on the side ofthe tub.

The cylinder is given a partially-revolving or vibrating motion by means of thevlever F, which passes over the stud-piu of the' wheel, and takes hold of tue rim atY one or more points,l as seen at g g.

By this back-and-forth motion, the clothes are thrown against the serrated rim ofthe cylinder, ou which they roll and rub, by which operation the dirt is readily expelled. This motion may be given by hand, or by any other convenient power.

The cylinder revolves partially immersed in water, and there being open spaces between -the staves, the

water passes readily into the cylinder, while the dirty removed settles down on the bottom of the tub.

The cylinder is removed from the tub by drawing out the grooved slides h h, which confine the cylinder-journals to their boxes.' l

These slides, h h, may be held down to their places Vby any suitable device.

In tig. 1, I is a key, and J is a hook, attached to the slide h for that purpose.-

Beneath the bottom of the tub, (which is made of metal,) I arrange a furnace, K, composed of la tapering cylinder or iiue, L, and a sliding tire-place, M.

N is the flue, through which the smoke escapes.

By means of this furnace, the water in the machine may he boiled, and the clothes being, at the same time, agitated in the cylinder, as before stated, the laborious operation of washing is rendered easy.

Having thus described my invention, n

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent'- In combination with the tubA, and the cylinder B, the furnace, composed of the part-s L and M, all constructed and arranged as. and for the purposes specied.

AWitnesses:

WM. ROTHER, J. L. HosKING.

' HERRMANN (iR-AMER.

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