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UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
JOHN W. WRIGHT AND HOWELL H. BURKES, OF LAMPASAS, TEXAS.
MECHANISM FOR CLEANSING CLOTHING OR TEXTILE FABRICS.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,932, dated December 21, 1897.
Application filed May 24, 1897. Serial No. 637,945. (No model.)To all whomI t mafq concern
Be it known that w e, JOHN W. WRIGHT and
I-OWELL H BURKES, citizens of the United
States, residing at Lampasas, in the county of
5 Lampasas and State of Texas, have invented
new and useful Improvements in Mechanism
for Cleansing Clothing or Textile Fabrics, of
which the following is a specification.
Our invention relates to mechanism for
io cleansing clothing and textile fabrics,our pur-
pose being to provide a simple and econom-
ical construction and combination of parts
whereby the clothes or fabrics operated upon
shall be disturbed and displaced at each suc-
15 cessive stroke of a pump forming part of the
mechanism, the currents of boiling water
being forced into and sprayed through the
clothes with such rapidity as to cleanse the
same thoroughly in from three to five minutes
20 of continuous operation, or thereabout, and
entirely remove every impure or foreign sub-
stance that has worked into or adhered to the
clothes or fabrics.
It is our further purpose to so construct and
25 arrange the parts of a pump-washing mech-
anism as to permit a free circulation of the
boiling water, independently of the pumping
action, and to allow the clothing and fabrics
operated upon entire freedom of movement
30 while preventing them from settling around
the bottom of the tank and arresting or ob-
structing the free passage of water through
the pump.
It is our purpose also to provide a simple
35 easily-operated mechanism which may be pro-
duced at a comparatively low cost, by the
use of which clothing and textile fabrics can
be thoroughly cleansed in a few moments
without injury to the finest qualities of the
40 same, all rubbing upon corrugated or rough-
ened surfaces being avoided.
Our invention consists to these ends in the
novel features of construction and new com-
bination of parts hereinafter fully explained,
45 and then particularly pointed out and defined
in the claims which conclude this specifica-
tion.
For the purpose of the following desciip-
tion reference will be had to the accompany-
50 ing drawings, in which-
Figure 1 is a central vertical section of a
pump washing mechanism, illustrating ourinvention. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the per-
forated shield and its sleeve detached from
the machine. Fig 3 is a horizontal section 55
upon the line 3 3, Fig. 1, looking in the direc-
tion of the arrow.
The reference-numeral 1 in said drawings
indicates the vat or tank in which the water,
clothing or fabrics, and pumping mechan- 6o
ism are contained. This tank is of any re-
quired size according to the amount of work
to be done by the machine. It is preferably
of circular form, increasing somewhat in
diameter from the bottom upward. 65
The tank 1 is closed at the top by a remov-
able cover having a conical upper wall 2, be-
tween which and a nearly horizontal wall 3 is
a water-chamber 4. This chamber is entered
by a central pipe 5 of comparatively large 70
diameter, which extends downward to and
rests upon the bottom of the tank 1, its lower
end being provided with notches 6 to permit
free passage of water from the tank into the
lower end of said tube. A sleeve 7 closely 75
surrounds the pipe 5, but is removable from
it when necessary, and upon the lower end of
said sleeve is a shield or diaphragm 8, which
lies a suitable distance above the bottom of
the tank 1, upon which it is supported by four 8o
angular walls or partitions 9, each being sub-
stantially right-angled and so arranged that
the angle lies near the lower open end of the
sleeve, while, the two walls extend nearly to
the periphery of the diaphragm. The latter 85
is provided with perforations 10 to permit a
free circulation of water. The diameter of
the diaphragm 8 is such that its edge lies
close to the circular wall of the tank.
Within the pipe 5 is a pump-piston 12, to 90
which is connected an operating-rod 13. This
rod is packed through a stuffing-box 14 at the
center and highest point of the conical wall
2 and is connected at its upper end to a yoke
15, which carries two parallel rods 16, both of 95
which are packed through the top of the tank
and extend downward on opposite sides of
and close to the pipe 5. To their lower ends
is rigidly secured a band 17, which surrounds
the sleeve 7 and carries a beater 18, having 100
the form of a truncated hollow cone. The
lower end of the beater 18 is provided with
a bottom 18a, which surrounds the sleeve 7,
which serves to guide the beater in its verti-
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Wright, John W. & Burkes, Howell H. Mechanism for Cleansing Clothing for Textile Fabrics, patent, December 21, 1897; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth509206/m1/2/: accessed May 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.