US2615321A - Rinse cylinder for attachment to rotary washing machine baskets - Google Patents

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Patented Oct. 28, 1952 mNsE CYLINDER Vnon ATTACHMENT To ROTARY WASHING MACHINE BASKETS Clifford T. Maloy, Englewood, Colo;v Application Apriigo, 1949,- serial'v N6. 88,512 r2 claims. (c1. azi-.148)

This invention relates to rinse cylinders for washing machines, and more particularly to a rinse cylinder adapted to be mounted in the drying basket of a certain type of washing machine, i. e., those models of the Easy washing machine manufactured during the years 1937 to 1947, inelusive, by the Easy Washing Machine C'orporation, Syracuse, New York.

The main object of my invention is to provide a rinse cylinder which is simple in construction, economical in cost of production, self-contained in that it comprises a cylinder equipped with built-in means for supplying water directly to the cylinder from a source of supply without passing through the cover or body of the washing machine, and provided with means whereby the cylinder may be installed with ease in the drying baskets of existing washing machines of the character described.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional view of my improved rinse cylinder, with the means for supplying water thereto broken away at the top, showing the cylinder mounted on the upper end of the rotatable hub or spindle of the drying basket of a washing machine of the type referred to herein.

Fig. 2 is an elevational sectional view, on a smaller scale, showing a drying basket of a washing machine, with my rinse cylinder positioned therein.

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view showing the uppermost spacer member in the rinse cylinder.

Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view showing the intermediate one of the three spacer members.

Fig. 5 is a side elevational view of the rinse cylinder and means for supplying water thereto.

In that embodiment of the invention shown in the drawings, the rinse cylinder is indicated as a whole at 3 and the drying basket at 9. In conventional washing machines of the models referred to, the drying basket 9 is mounted on and rotatable with the rotatable member 20 in the tub of the machine (not shown). My rinse cylinder 3 is mounted on the upper portion or hub I6 of the rotatable member 20, the basket and cylinder being coaxial.

The cylinder 3 is provided at its upper end with a spacer 2, in the form of a ring, provided with a roller bearing I made of a plurality of ball bearings I2, said roller bearing I being fitted in the spacer 2 to surround a short length of hollow pipe 5 which extends from the top of the cylinder through said spacer 2 andthrougha water seal 4 into the interior of the cylinder 3.

,The water seal 4 prevents water from entering the bearing member I.

Water is supplied to the pipe 5 through'an elbow 6 from a hose I connected to any suitable source of supply such as a household faucet (not shown), the. hose 1 beingconnected to the elbowv 6 b-y means of a connection 8. f

The dryer basket 9 is provided with a plurality.A

of apertures I U which extend through the side walls of the basket, and the cylinder 3 is provided with numerous apertures as indicated at I I in the drawings.

Additional spacers indicated at I4 and I8' serve to mount the cylinder on the hub I6 in the dryer basket S. Preferably I employ set screws I3 of the Allen type, three of such screws I5 extending through the cylinder wall and spacer I4, and three of such screws I'I extending through the cylinder wall and spacer I8, to position the cylinder vertically on the hub I6 of the rotatable member 20.

Screws I9 fasten the spacer 2 to the cylinder wall adjacent the top of the cylinder.

Operation- After clothes have been washed they are transferred to the drying basket 9, to occupy the space between the rinse cylinder 3 and side walls of the basket 9. Water is supplied from any suitable source through the hose 1, elbow 6, and pipe 5 directly into the cylinder 3, from whence it flows through the apertures II in the sides of the cylinder to rinse the clothes in the basket 9. The water also passes through the holes 2I in the spacers I4 and I8 so that it will emerge through the apertures I I in the lower portion of the rinse cylinder as well as through the apertured cylinder wall above the spacer I4. The basket and cylinder preferably are rotated during the rinsing operation to cause the Water to pass radially outwardly through the clothes under influence of centrifugal force.

After the clothes have been rinsed, the. water supply may be cut off and the rotation of the cylinder and basket continued until the clothes have been dried to a desired degree.

From the foregoing it willbe observed that I supply water directly to the rinse cylinder 3 through the stationary pipe 5 without providing water conduits which extend through the cover or body of the washing machine. 'Ihis arrangement enables me to provide a low cost self-contained rinse cylinder for existing washing machines of the type described, mountable in exist- 3 ing machines without alteration of the cover o1 other parts of the machine proper.

Another important feature of the invention resides in the means for quickly and eiciently mounting the rinse cylinder and the water supply means directly on the rotated hub of existing machines of the type mentioned, without alteration or modication of said machines.

Changes may be made in the form and in details of construction ofty the mechanism described without 'departing from the scope ofmy invention as set forth in the appended claims.

I claim: 1. A quickly removable and replaceable selflcontained rinse cylinder uniti forw'r/ashingfma` chines, comprising a hollow opentV ended. einer.`

tured cylinder, a bearing member coaxially mounted in the cylinder, a conduits'for:conveying:

water directly into the cylinder mounted in and extending through said bearing member i'nto the interior of the cylinder, said conduit being supportedflsclelyfby the cylinder' and bearing, the bearing member being' rotatable relatively to the conduit; and meansmounted `in the lowerpo'rtion of the cylinder for removably and ffrict'ionallyv engagingaf rotatablehubv in' the Washing machine tozpositionhthecylinder coaxiall'yZ on said hub.

2; A--quicklyf' removable4 anci-Y replaceable selfcontained rinse cylinder: lunit fory washing machines, comprising aliolloWf-open ended lapertured cylinder, a bearing member coaxially mounted in the cylinder, a conduit for conveying water directly into the cylinder mounted in and extending through said bearing member into the interior of the cylinder, said conduit being supported solely by the cylinder and bearing, the bearing member being rotatable relatively to the conduit, a pair of vertically spaced apart spacer members mounted in the lower portion of the cylinder, and means radially adjustingjfthe' spacer'members for removably and frictionally engaging a rotatable hub in the Washing machine to position the cylinder coaxially onsaid hub.

CLIFFORD T. MALOY.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of' this' ,patentiy UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,-682'347'3 Bercaw Aug. 281 1928 1,747,293 Geldhoff' Feb. 18; 1980 1,'757i250-3 May' 6; 1930 117-8735242 Gfeldhof.l Dec; 30g1930 1,8265816 Ogonowski Oct. 13, 1931 FOREIGN 'PATENTS Number Country Datei 788,815 France Au'gy 5.1'935

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