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On this day in 1904, Louis Etienne Barbe was granted U.S. Patent No. 757,011 for an APPARATUS FOR WASHING, DISINFECTING, AND DRYING.
This invention has for its object an apparatus for washing, disinfecting, and drying based on the principle of recuperation and having for its object the application of this principle to washing and disinfecting machines.
This apparatus is characterized by the combination with a perfectly-tight double external casing of a movable internal barrel concentric to said casing and having a pipe parallel to its axis, which introduces hot gas which then escapes into the interior of the apparatus, the movement of said movable barrel being imparted to it by means of an improved operating apparatus causing a rapid rotation intended to produce the drying of the articles treated, to succeed or to follow after the oscillatory movement which the barrel must have during the washing period, said transformation of movement being insured by means of the improved arrangement so as to avoid any possibility of accident if a wrong movement be made at the moment of this transformation.
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