Washing Machine (Patent No: 276347)

Inventor: Bibby, Reginald

Location: Edmonton

Comments: N/A

Description: I am aware that prior to my invention washing machines have been made with rotating bowls to throw off the surplus water centrifugally. The object in such machines is to do away with the use of a clothes wringer. I am also aware that devices to change gears are already manufactured. I therefore do not claim such devices broadly, but

What I do claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is

(1)In a washing machine, a plurality of stationary tubs and a rotatable clothes receptacle in one of said tubs, having feed and discharge pipes at its upper and lower ends respectively, a pressure means intermediate of said feed and discharge pipes, and a false bottom below said clothes receptacle within one of said tubs, and cups forming part of the underside of said clothes receptacle rotating in a current of water rising through said false bottom and adapted to return a portion of the water to the said clothes receptacle.

(2)In a washing machine a plurality of stationary tubs of different sizes and a rotatable perforated bowl within the larger of said tubs, said larger tub having a central inlet at the top, and a false bottom having a series of cups designed to create a current of water in the opposite direction to the rotation of said bowl, a series of cups projecting from the bottom of said bowl to augment the flow of water through said bowl, said other tubs having outlets connected by pipes to said central inlet in rotating bowl and pressure means intermediate of said outlets and inlet, means for selectively connecting said outlets and inlet and means for connecting said outlet from said larger tub to said other tubs.