US1282344A - Quill and housing for moisture-extractors for drying clothes. - Google Patents

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UNITED sTATEs PATENT oF IoE.

ISAAC F. WILLEY, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

QUILL AND HOUSING FOB MOISTURE-EXTBACTORS FOR DRYIIIG- CLOTH ES.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC F. WILLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented anew and useful Quill and Housing for Moisture Extractors for Drying Clothes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a novel construction of quill and housing employed in connection with motor driven extractors or clothes-drying devices of a character generally similar to that disclosed in Letters Patent, No. 1,252,214, granted to me January 1, 1918, in which the basket is located at the upper portion of the machine and driven or rotated from underneath by means of an electric motor the armature of which acts as a spindle for the basket, and the mo tor case of which is 'hung at the top and as heretoforeconstructed free to vibrate to a greater extent than. desirable.

As heretofore constructed, machines of this character have possessed certain disadvantages which it is an object of my invention, generally stated, to overcome by a simplification of parts and the elimination of certain of them which have been found unnecessary.

The special object of my present invention is to so mount the spindle and the, quill which it rotates, with reference to the cup within which they are both contained, and with reference also to the base within which the cup is maintained, as to provide means which not only permits rapid rotary movement of the spindle but also and at the same time automatically takes up the wear and maintains the rotary parts in a vertical line, with a minimum of friction.

Further objects of my invention are' to provide means of an eflicient character through which the motor-supporting devices are assembled with reference to each other, supported from the base, and controlled or stayed against such rocking or vibratory movement of the motor and basket as are inseparable from machines of this character.

For the purpose of illustrating my invention, I have shown in the accompanying drawin s a certain type and embodiment of it whic is at present preferred by me be- Specification of Letters Patent. Patented O t. 22 1918. Application filed m 15, 1918. i

Serial No. 234,614.

cause in practice it will give satisfactory and reliable results. a 1

It is to be understood, however,that the various instrumentalities in which my invention is shown as embodied can be Variously arranged and organized, and that my invention is not therefore limited to the precise arrangement and organization of the instrumentalities which are typified in the construct1ons shown in the accompanying drawings and hereinafter described.

The drawing represents in central, vertical, sectional elevation so much of an extractor as it is necessary to illustrate, in connection with the devices which my invention comprehends and in which it is embodied, a part only of the motor and of its housing being shown.

In the drawings. 1 designates the base of the machine, it being a fiat plate centrally apertured at 2, and having superposed upon it a hollow, cylindric, upstanding base-housing 3, which is formed with a radially outwardly extending flange 4, adapted to be connected with the base upon which it rests by headed screws 5.

The hollow cylindric interior of this base-' housing 3 is internally formed or provided with stepped circular ledges 6 and 7 for the purpose of receiving and supporting against downward movement outer and reversely correspondent ledges 8 and 9, of a stepped sleeve 10, of rubber or equivalent cushioning material.

Internally this cushioning sleeve is formed with circular ledges 11 and 12, and its top is flattened to form an additional ledge 13, upon which rests an outwardly extending flange 13 on the cup, so as to support said cup. I

14: is a cup which supports the base plate 15 of the motor housing 16. 17 is any usual I an internal central ledge 23 upon which rests a hollow circular supporting plate 24, which carries the central ball race of the quill.

25 is the quill' which surrounds and is connected with the motor spindle 26. Thls spindle near its upper part is formed with? a-step 27 which rests upon asleeve 28,- preferably packed within the base plate 15 of the motor housing 16.

The quill is formed with an upper overhanging ledge 29 and witha lower ledge 30, which respectively rest upon the upper c rcular bearing plate 31 and the lower circular bearing plate 32,the lower bearing plate being held in place by a basal 'fiange 33 which is secured by bolts 34 to the motor spindle 26.

35 are a preferablv double set of upper ball bearings, which are confined and travel in a raceway composed of an outer circular I internally chan ieled raceway plate 36 which concentrically surrounds an inner raceway plate 37 which rests upon a step 38 formed near the upper end of the quill.

39 are a set of central ball bearings which are confined between the plate 31 and a secondary plate 40 which rests upon the supporting plate 24, the plates 31 and 40 together forming the raceway for aid balls.

41 are a preferably double set of lower ball bearings which are confined and travelin a raceway composed of the inner lower ball bearing plate 32 and an outer ball hearing plate 42, as clearly illustrated.

Obviously, the central set of balls and their ball races'constitute a roller bearing for the support of the quill and spindle as rotating within the cup and resist end thrust,while the upper and lower balls within their respective ball races serve as roller bearings to resist the radial thrust of the rocking of the cup and its contents.

Extending radially outward from the upper part of the base housing 3 is a lug 43 from which is erected the standards 44, encompassing which is a tubular cushion 45 of rubber of other-preferred material which, in the mounting of the device, is entered within an apertured ring 46 extending laterally from the cup 14. The function of this device is by its cushioning effect to resist any throw or rocking of thecup and its ioning material interposed between the basehousing and the lowerexterior of the cu a quill, a motor spindle within said qui 1, an a plurality of all-bearings between the quill and the cup and within the cup.

2. In a moisture extractor, the combination of, a central, apertured, supporting base, a cylindric, vertically extended internally stepped base-housing erected from the base and encompassing the a rture of said base, a cup which supports t e motor housing and contains within it a quill and motor spmdle, and which is externall stepped, and a cylindric cushion interposed base housing and the cup and both externally'and internallystepped in corres ndence with the steps of said cup an said base housing.

3. In a moisture extractor, the combination of, a central, apertured, su porting base, a cylindric, vertically exten ed basehousing centrally erected u on said base, a cup the lower ortion of which extends within the base an to the up er portion of which is secured the 'motor material interposed between t e base-housing and the lower exterior of the on a quill, a motor spindle within said qui 1, a

between the ousin cushioning plurality of ball-bearings between the quill withm the base and to the upper portion of i which is secured the motor housm cushionmg material interposed between t e basehousing and the lower exterior of the cup, a

quill, a motor spindle within said quill, and a cushioning device extending laterally outward from the base-housing and operative in connection with the cup.

5. In a moisture extractor, the combinaation of, a central, apertured, supporting, base, a cylindric, vertically extended internally stepped base-housing erected from the base and encompassing the aperture of said base, a cup which supports the motor housing and contains within it a quill and motor spindle, and which is externally stepped, a cylindric cushion interposed between the base-housing and the cup and both externally and internally stepped in corres ondence with the steps of said cup an said base-housing, and a cushioning device extending laterally outward from the basehousing and operative in connection with the cup.

6. In a moisture extractor, the combinaation of, a central, apertured, su porting,

base, a cylindric, vertically exten ed inter nally stepped base-housing erected from the base and encompassing the aperture of said base, a cup which supports the motor housing and contains within it a quill and motor spindle, and which is externally stepped, a cylindric cushion interposed between the base-housing and the cup and both externally and internally stepped in correspondence with the steps of said cup and said base housing, a cushioning device extending lat- 10 era-11y outward from the base-housing and operative in connection with the cup, and a plurality of ball-bearings between the quill and the cup and within the cup.

ISAAC F. WILLEY.

Witnesses:

E. HAYWARD FAIRBANKS,

H. S. FAIRBANKS.

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