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Drive Mechanism for Washing Machines | 1900s | A. J. Fisher

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Alva J. Fisher invented some novel and useful Improvements in Washing-Machine Drive Mechanisms. The present invention relates to a motor-driven drive mechanism for rotating the operating or clothes cleaning member of a washing machine, or a similar operating part of a similar machine, the drive mechanism including means for automatically reversing the rotation of the operating or clothes cleaning member, the latter rotating through a number of complete revolutions in one path and then in the opposite path to effectively and efficiently clean clothes.

US Patent Number: 966,677

Invention: Drive Mechanism for Washing Machines

Inventor: A. J. Fisher

Year: 1910

Material: Ink on Japanese museum-quality archival paper. Thickness of paper: 10.3 mil (0.26 mm). Weight of paper: 5.57 oz/yd² (189 g/m²)

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