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UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
HENRY E. SMITH, OF MIDLOTHIAN, TEXAS.
WASHING-MACHINE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 600,600, dated March 15, 1898.
Application filed November 30, 1896, Serial No, 614,017. (No model.)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, HENRY E. SMITH, a citi-
zen of the United States, residing at Midlo-
thian,in the county of Ellis and State of Texas,
5 have invented a new and useful Washing-
Machine, of which the following is a specifi-
cation.
My invention relates to washing-machines,
and particularly to supporting devices or
10 means in connection with the roller-support-
ing frame for supporting the same either upon
a horizontal surface or upon the top of a tub
or receptacle in connection with which the
machine is used, the object in view being to
15 provide clamping or receptacle-engaging bars
which are adapted to form rests adjustable
to occupy the desired positions upon opposite
sides of the plane of the roller-supporting
frame, whereby said frame may be arranged
20 in the desired position with relation to the
receptacle, as over the center thereof or at
any desired point upon either side of the cen-
ter, and, furthermore, to provide clamping-
bars upon which the frame is adapted to rest
25 when the machine is detached from the tub
or receptacle.
Further objects and advantages of this in-
vention will appear in the following descrip-
tion, and the novel features thereof will be
30 particularly pointed out in the appended
claim.
In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective
view of a washing-machine constructed in
accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a
35 vertical longitudinal section of the same.
Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view
on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.
Similar numerals of reference indicate cor-
responding parts in all the figures of the draw-
40 ings.
The roller-supporting frame 1 comprises
parallel uprights or sides 2 and top and bot-
tom cross-pieces 3 and 4, connecting the up-
rights, and secured transversely to said roller-
45 supporting frame at opposite ends of the bot-
tom cross-bar 4 are forwardly and rearwardly
extending sills 5, to which are adjustably at-
tached clamping-bars 6, having concaved in-
ner faces.
50 Various means may be employed for secur-
ing the clamping-bars at the desired adjust-ment with relation to the roller-supporting
frame 1, the adjusting devices for each bar
being independent of those of the other to
adapt each clamping-bar to be arranged in 55
the desired position with relation to the plane
of the roller-supporting frame. This inde-
pendent adjustability of the bars 6 enables
the operator to position the roller-supporting
frame either over the center of the tub or re- 6o
ceptacle engaged by the clamping-bars 6 or
in rear of the center to suit the particular
operation to be performed. In the construc-
tion illustrated the clamping devices consist
of thumb-screws 7, extending through longi- 65
tudinal slots 8 in the sills 5 and engaging the
clamping-bars, said slots being closed at their
extremities and extending approximately
from the sides of the roller-supporting frame
to the extremities of the sills. For instance, 70
it may be desired to arrange the roller-sup-
porting frame contiguous to one side of the
receptacle, in which case one of the clamp-
ing-bars may be adjusted inwardly to a point
close to the plane of the contiguous side of 75
said supporting-frame.
Mounted in suitable bearings in the uprights
2 is the spindle of a main or lower roller 9,
said spindle being terminally provided with
a balance or fly wheel 11 and an operating- 8o
crank 12, and mounted in suitable vertical
slots 13, above the plane of the roller 9, are
the spindles of upper cooperating rollers 10,
adapted to be depressed into contact with the
surface of the main roller. Bearing-blocks 85
18 are fitted to slide in said slots with their
lower extremities resting upon the spindles
of the upper rollers, and bearing upon the up-
per extremities of said blocks are terminal
extensions of a follower 17. Also terminally 90
mounted in said slots, above the plane of the
follower, is a tension-bar 16, having depend-
ing guide -pins 15, which operate in alined
openings in the follower, tension-springs 14
being coiled upon said guide-pins and bear- 95
ing terminally against the contiguous faces
of the tension-bar and follower. rThe tension-
bar is adjustable by means of screws 19,
threaded in the upper cross-bar 3 of the roller-
supporting frame. It is obvious that by ioo
adjusting the screws 19 the tension-bar may
be depressed to increase the tension of the
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Smith, Henry E. Washing-Machine., patent, March 15, 1898; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth509745/m1/2/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.