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UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
GEORGE VALENTINE CESINGER, OF EAGLELAKE, TEXAS.
WASHING-MACHINE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 719,185, dated January 27, 1903.
Application filed September 22, 1902, Serial No. 124,341. (No model.)To call whom it may cancer n:
Be it known that I, GEORGE VALENTINE CES-
INGER,a citizen of the United States,and a resi-
dent of Eaglelake, in the county of Colorado
5 and State of Texas, have invented new and
useful Improvements in Washing-Machines,
of which the following is a full, clear, and ex-
act description.
This invention relates to washing-machines
io of the rocker type, and has for its object to
provide novel simple details of construction
for a device of the type indicated which adapt
the machine for easy operation and effect the
cleansing of fibrous material placed in it in
15 an expeditious and perfect manner.
The invention consists in the novel con-
struction and combination of parts, as is here-
inafter described, and defined in the append-
ed claims.
20 Reference is to be had to the accompanying
drawings, forming a part of this specification,
in which similar characters of reference indi-
cate corresponding parts in all the figures.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a washing-
25 machine embodying the features of the inven-
tion. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same,
partly broken away, showing the cover rocked
upward, exposing interior parts. Fig. 3 is a
plan view of the improvement, partly broken
30 away; andFig. 4isatransversesectional view
substantially on the line 4 4 in Fig. 3.
A base-frame 5 is provided as a suitable
support for the operative details of the wash-
ing-machine, and comprises an elongated rec-
35 tangular structure which is level on its up-
per surface. The suds-box 6, that receives
support from the base-frame 5, is essentially
quadrangular in its body and is convexed ex-
teriorly on its lower side, thus affording a
to rocker formation 6a, that is seated upon the
side members of the frame 5 and held to rock
longitudinally thereon by means hereinafter
described.
The open top of the suds-box 6 is furnished
45 with a downwardly and inwardly inclined
draining-shelf 7, secured within the suds-box
at one end thereof, and at said end of the box
the transverse wall is projected sufficiently
above the draining-shelf 7 to afford support
5o for a wringer-machine of any preferred style,
which may be clamped thereon in the usual
manner.A cover 8 is fitted in the open top of the
suds-box 6 and is pivoted therein by a hinge-
joint a, formed at the end of the suds-box 5,
opposite that having the shelf 7. The cover
8 is preferably constructed with a depending
marginal flange b thereon, and within the re-
cess defined by said depending flange an agi-
tator device is held to rock. 6o
The agitator consists of a preferably cylin-
drical head-block 9, provided at its ends with
journals c, that loosely engage opposite per-
forations in the side members of the marginal
flange b, whereby the head-block is held to 65
rock at or near the longitudinal center of the
cover S.
From the head-block 9 a plurality of agi-
tator-arms 9 project angularly, these arms
being spaced from each other and- radiating 70
from the head-block at points that dispose
them throughout the length thereof in a gen-
eral direction that will locate said arms within
the box 6, approaching the concave interior
lower side thereof when the cover 8 is in 75
closed condition, said concavity of the bot-
tom being corrugated transversely, as shown
in Fig. 2.
Upon the outer end of each journal c on the
head-block 9 one end of a rock-arm 10 is se- 8o
cured, said arms extending parallel with each
other and at right angles to the axis of the
head-block.
Upon the outer side surfaces of the base-
frame 5, at a suitable point between its ends, 85
two rock-arms 11 are pivoted, the pivots d
of the arms loosely engaging perforations in
the opposite rock-arms at or near their lon-
gitudinal centers. The rock-arms11, that are
preferably curved edgewise. and upwardly, 90
have their ends which project toward the
draining-shelf 7 each loosely connected with
the lower ends of two similar link-bars 12.
which bars at their upper ends have pivotal
engagement with the lower ends of the rock- 95.
arms 10.
When the suds-box 6 is level on the base-
frame 5, the link-bars 12 incline toward the
corners of the suds-box, whereon the cover 8
is jointed, and below said forward top corners 10
of the suds-box, near the front end wall of the
same, the upper ends of two similar link-plates
13 are oppositely pivoted upon the side walls
of the suds-box, the lower ends of said link-
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Cesinger, George Valentine. Washing-Machine, patent, January 27, 1903; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508584/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.