Washing Machine (Patent No: 118719)

Inventor: Breedham, Albert

Location: Calgary

Comments: N/A

Description: Albert Breedham and James A. MacCullough, assignee of a half interest, both of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 8th June, 1909; 6 years. Filed 30th April, 1909. Receipt No. 167,745.

Claim.—1. A washer comprising a suitable receptacle having a false bottom with an aperture therein, and a pounder reoiprocative above the aperture.

2. A washing machine comprising a receptacle having a cover, a pounder having a shaft extending through the cover, a lever pivoted to the shaft, a link pivoted to the lever, and means for releasably pivoting the lever to either side of the cover.

3. A washer comprising a suitable receptacle, a cover thereof, a pounder having a shaft extending through the cover, a lever pivoted to the shaft, a link pivoted to the lever formed with divergent spring ends, and projections on the cover releasably pivotally connected to the spring ends.

4. A clothes washer comprising a suitable receptacle, a reciprocative pounder comprising a conical member having apertures in the sides thereof, and a convex perforated member below the apertures.

5. A clothes washer comprising a suitable receptacle, a clothes comprising a conical reciprocative member having apertures at the sides, and cylindrical shield members on the exterior for the apertures.

6. In a clothes washer, a pounder comprising a cylindrical member having apertures therein, screens for the apertures, and partially cylindrical grate members extending over the screens.