US1204498A - Dish-washing machine. - Google Patents

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J. W. SEGRAVE.

DISH WASHING MACHlNE. APPLICATION FILED MAY 5, 191a.

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JOHN W. SEGRAVE, F PLATTSMOU'I'H, NEBRASKA.

DISH-WASHING- MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 14, 1916.

Application filed May 5, 1916. Serial No. 95,640.

Nebraska, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Dish-Washing Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to I make and use the same.

This invention relates to dish washing machines.

The object of the invention is to provide a dish washing machine embodying an improved construction of mechanism for agitating the water so that same will be carried through the dishes being washed with considerable force, such mechanism being easily operated and largely eliminating the drudgery incident to washing dishes and at the same time enabling a large number of dishes to be washed in a relatively short space of time.

With the above and other objects in view v the invention consists in the details of con-- struction and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In describing the invention in detail reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters of reference denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in which- Figure 1 is a view in elevation of the improved washing machine, same being associated with a rinsing receptacle and with means for transferring the washed dishes from the washing machine to the rinsing receptacle and from the rinsing receptacle; Fig.2, a plan view of the washing machine with the dishholding basket removed; Fig. 3, a vertical section through the dish washing machine; Fig. 4, a view similar to Fig. 3 and taken at right angles to what is shown in Fig. 3, and Fig. 5, a fragmental perspective view of the dish holding basket.

Referring to the drawings 10 indicates a wash bench which has mounted thereon an arch A including uprights 11 and a top portion 12. The uprights 11 are connected by a bar 13 on which is slidably mounted a pulley 14 and trained over this pulley is a cable 15 having a hook 16 secured to one end thereof. Seated upon the bench 19 between the uprights 11 is the improved wasl. 1g machine B and a rinsing receptacle 0.

c The improved washing machine is shown as comprising a receptacle 17 on the bottom of which is secured a plate 18 having mounted thereon bearings 19. Rotatably mounted in the bearings 19 is a shaft 20 and fixed on the ends of this shaft respectively are beveled gears 21 and 22. Mounted on the side wall of the receptacle 17 are vertically alined bearings 23 and 24 in which is rotatably mounted a shaft having fixed on its lower end a gear 26 meshing with the gear 21 and on its upper end a gear 27.

Secured against the outer face of the side' wall of'the receptacle 17 is a plate 28 through which a bearing 29 is engaged. Rotatable in this bearing is a shaft 30 which has fixed on its outer end a gear 31 and on its inner end a gear 32 which meshes with the gear 27. Fixed on the extreme inner end of the shaft 30 is an agitating wheel '33 the blades of which are disposed respectively in planes at right angles to the plane of rotation of the wheel. Ro'tatably mounted on the plate 28 is a gear 34 which meshes with the gear 31 and has secured thereto an operating handle 35. Also mounted on the side wall of the receptacle opposite to the shaft 25 are vertically alined bearings 36 and 37 in which is'rotatably mounted a shaft 38. Fixed on the lower end of this shaft is a gear 39 which meshes with the gear 22, while a gear 40 is fixed on the upper end of said shaft. Rotatab'ly mounted in a bearing 41 secured to the receptacle B above the shaft 38 is a shaft 42 which has mounted on its inner end an agitating wheel water or other liquid in the receptacle botlr transversely and longitudinally of the receptacle.

Mounted in the receptacle are oppositely disposed longitudinal guide rods 44 which are received by notched guide plates 45 carried by a dish holding basket 46 and whereby the basket can be readily removed from the interior of the receptacle by lifting same vertically, a bail 47 being provided on' the basket to facilitate the lifting of same.' The basket as when disposed within the receptacle is adapted to rest on an inverted U- shaped member 48 secured against the bottom of the receptacle in a plane at right angles to the plate 18.

In the use of the machine the basket 46 is simply filled with the desired dishes to be washed and placed within the receptacle B after the latter has been supplied with a suitable cleaning liquid. The agitating wheels 33 and *3 are then rotated in the manner heretofore described until the dishes are thoroughly cleaned by the passage of the cleaning liquid tll6l'()V8I'.- The hook 16 is then engaged with the hail l7 and the cable 15 operated to lift the basket out of thereceptacle B. Thepnlley H is then moved along the bar 13 and the basket lowered into the rinsing receptacle C. The basket is then lifted from the receptacle C and 1,204,aee

placed upon a suitable support and the dishes removed.

What is claimed is:

In a washing machine, the combination of a receptacle, oppositely disposed transverse shafts rotatably mounted in the Wall of the receptacle, means for rotating one of said shafts, connections between said shafts whereby the rotation of onewill effect rotation of the other, and agitating wheels fixed on the inner ends of said shafts respectively, the blades of one wheel being arranged to force a cleaning liquid transversely of the receptacle and of the other wheel' to force the cleaning liquid longitudinally.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature, in the presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN l/V. SEGRAVE. WVitnesses:

H. N. DOREY, F. E. SCHLATER.

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