US35816A - Improved washing-machine - Google Patents

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J. GILL. WASHING MACHINE,

No. 35,816. Patented July 8, 1862.

U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' JOSEPH GILL, OF WILLISTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

, Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 35,816, dated July 8, 1862.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OSEPH. GILL, of Willistown township, Ohestercounty, and-State of Pennsylvania, have invented and improved a new Washing-lilachine, for the purpose of washing clothes by means of a newly-contrived and arranged combinations of levers, rods,

arms, and segmental tub and rubber; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and to the-letters of reference marked thereof.

upon the axles II, and is acted upon by the convex segmental andeorrugated rubber L. The motion is caused by the operator working the brake A forward, thereby moving the levers -B B, which work upon a fixed center shaft, D, the levers B B aclingat the same time upon the rods F F, connected by the shaft 0 to the arms H H, swinging the tub M towardthe operator, while the upper rods, G G, con nected with the gallowsframe by the upright levers J J, move the rubber L backward. The brake moved back again gives a reverse action, thus producing an opposite motion at one and the same-time. The inner uprights, K K, of the rubber have a fixed shaft, R, having axles which rise or fall in the slots of the arms H H, thereby adj nstin'g the rubber to the quantity of clothing in the tub, and affording a traveling center for the free working of the rubber.

Having described my invention, I do not claim the opposite motion atoneand the same time, nor the application of the semicircular tuber box, rocking rubber, or the slots of the arms; but 4 What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The arrangement, adjustment, and combination of the levers, rods,and arms, acting in connection with the concave corrugated segmental tub and the rubber, as set forth, and before described.

JOSEPH GILL. Witnesses:

EDWIN F. DURANG, HIBBARD G. GILL.

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