HAND-OPERATED WASHING APPARATUS Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: cloth washing. SUBSTANCE: apparatus has cylindrical drum provided with spiral blades and mounted in bearings within sidewalls of cylindrical housing. Drum is rigidly connected with pulley, which is connected with large-diameter pulley through belt drive. Large-diameter pulley has rotating handle. Apparatus may be attached to bath by lower rubber vacuum suckers, to bath sides by side vacuum suckers and rolls to prevent slippage of apparatus during rotation of drum. While rotating at higher speed due to pulley diameter difference, drum scoops washing solution with its curved blades from bath bottom and urges it through cloth fabric pressed from inside to blades due to centrifugal force. EFFECT: increased efficiency, simplified construction and maintenance, improved quality of washed cloths. 1 dwg