Improvements in Washing Machines.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Aug, 1896
Complete Specfiication Left, 4th May, 1897--Accepted 24th July, 1897
I, WILLIAM POWE, of No. 1327 Richard Street, Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada, Inventor, do hereby delare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates more especially to that class of washing machine consisting
of a plunger adapted to the pounding of linen, by hand.
The object of this invention is to provide simple means whereby the pounding
may be effected in a more efficient manner.
A washing machine comprising my invention consists of an open receptacle
preferably supported by a stool or the like. A standard projects upwardly from
the stool and bas a horizontal guide adjustably fitted to its upper end. A block is
adapted to slide upon the guide and has a hand-lever pivoted thereto so as to be
capable of radial movement. The lever is jointed so as to be capable of
vertical movement also. A suitable plunger is pivoted, at its upper end, to the
hand-lever in such manner that it remains always vertical and is adapted to be
reciprocated vertically by the hand lever, to pound the articles contained in the
receptacle.
Dated this 4th day of Angust 1896
PERCY R. J. WILLIS,
Agent for Applicant.
Improvements in Washing Machines.
1, WILLIAM POWE, of No. 1327 Richard Street, Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada, Inventor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:
The object of this invention is to improve the means for mounting the plungers of
washing machines so that they may be more effectively supported by means other
than the tub, and also so that they may be readily disconnected from the tub when
it is desired to empty or otherwise manipulate the latter.
To this end the invention consists in certain peculiar features of construction and
combinations of parts, as will be fully described hereinafter, and finally embodied
in the claim.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this
specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts
in all the figures.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improvement a portion of the tub being
broken away.
Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the sleeve and post with which the operating-lever
and plunger slide.

page_text: Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the sleeve that embraces the post shewn in Fig. 2,
and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the sleeve which is attached to the plunger-
shaft.
The bench 1 is provided with a standard 2, to the upper end of which the
angular casing 3 is rigidly secured by means of two downwardly projecting portions 4,
which embrace the standard. Rigidly secured in the casing 3 is one arm of a
U-shaped bar 5, the ends of both arms of the said bar being held by means of a
link 6, which is seated in notches formed in the said ends. Freely movable on the
upper arm of the bar 5 is an angular sleeve 7, which carries a perpendicular post 8,
the same having its upper end threaded to receive a nut 9, and being adapted to
have a sleeve 10 rotatably mounted thereon. This sleeve 10 is formed at its upper
portion with two opposing lugs 11, and with a collar at its lower portion, from
which project two oppositely arranged trunnions 12.
The lever 13 of the washing machine comprises a handle and two parallel bars 14,
which are rigidly secured to the handle, have their rear extremities pivoted to the
trunnions 12 of the sleeve 10, and are pivoted at 23 to the sleeve 17. Extending
between the bars 14 of the lever is the shaft 15 of the plunger 16, and this shaft is
provided with a mutilated sleeve 17, comprising a middle portion, having
longitudinally projecting arms 18 extended in opposite directions, which arms are
adapted to lie alongside the shaft 15, and carry the clips 19, which embrace the
shaft, and are clamped against the same by suitable bolts passing through the
lugs 20 of the clips. Pivotally mounted between the lugs 20 of the upper clip 19 is
one end of a link 21, which has its other end pivotally mounted between the cars or
lugs 11 of the sleeve 10.
The plunger 16 is of the usual funnel type, and is adapted to operate on the
clothes within the tub 22, as is usual in the class of washing machines to which my
invention belongs. It will be seen that by means of the construction abovo
described, the plunger is mounted for universal movement and its support is
independent of the tub, so that the tub may be taken from the bench whenever it is
desired, without interfering or causing displacement of the plunger and its
supporting mechanism.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The combination with a bench, of a standard rigidly supported thereon, a casing
at its upper end, a U-shaped bar, having one arm held by said casing, a sloeve
movable on the remaining arm of the bar, a lever, pivotally supported by the sleeve,
and a plunger connected with the lever, substantially as described.
Dated this 4th dow of Mar 1907
P. R. J. WILLIS,
Agent for Applicant.