ES2292340A1 - Folding clotheshorse - Google Patents

Abstract

Of the type that has a rectangular frame (1-2) wherein a plurality of "cords" (3) are established of any appropriate type, a frame (1-2) that rests on legs (5) and that optionally has complementary extensions (8), focusing its characteristics on the fact that the side lengths (1) and cross lengths (2) of the frame are independent and are joined to each other through articulations (4) that convert said frame in a deformable parallelogram, capable of adopting a linear configuration. The legs (5) are also joined in an articulated manner to the frame (1-2) and are collapsible over the letter, and the same occurs with the arms (B) corresponding to its complementary extensions, thus achieving that in the clotheshorse's inoperative position it adopts the most reduced possible dimensions, facilitating its storage and transport.

Description

Folding clothesline.

Object of the invention

The present invention relates to a clothesline, of the type of those that constitute an autonomous element, based on a frame with "ropes" that is conveniently raised with respect to the ground by means of complementary legs.

The object of the invention is to achieve a clothesline that, in parallel to a good operational capacity, is able to reduce its dimensions to a minimum, in situation inoperative, becoming a virtually linear element, so that its volumetric occupation is minimal allowing easy storage and / or transport thereof.

Background of the invention

Within the wide range of clotheslines existing in the market, one of the usual solutions is that in which the clothesline materializes in a frame rectangular, sometimes plastic and sometimes metallic, in any rigid case, in which a plurality of "strings" and that constitute the elements themselves for the laying of clothes, this frame being supported by folding or folding legs, sometimes with a type structure "scissors", the aforementioned frame being able to extend in two Extreme semi-frames that enhance the load capacity of the clothes line.

In any case, the folding of the same is determined by the aforementioned rectangular frame on which the legs are foldable and in their case the complementary extensions, so that the maximum that is achieved is a "flattening" of the clothesline in such an inoperative situation but with perimeter dimensions that remain very important
tes.

Brief Description of the Invention

The clothesline that the invention proposes constitutes a remarkable technological advance in this field of folding, of way that said clothesline is able to become, in situation inoperative, in an element practically mono-dimensional, that is to say in an elongated element, of reduced section, without empty spaces and that consequently It can be very easy to store or transport, with an occupation minimum volumetric, which can hardly be more reduced

To do this and more specifically the clothesline which is recommended incorporates, as conventional clotheslines previously cited, a rectangular frame or frame, among whose crossbars set the "ropes" of the clothesline, which they can materialize in strings themselves or in filaments metallic or other wired, with the special particularity that said frame is fragmented into four profiles, in correspondence with the four sides thereof, joined articulated with each other, constituting a deformable parallelogram, which can adopt a rectangular configuration, the use one, or a linear configuration, in which two of its angles, opposed, 0 are made while the other two are made of 80 °, without the Strings interfere with this transformability.

The frame incorporates in correspondence with each vertex an articulated joint for one leg, so that in Inoperative situation the clothesline the aforementioned legs are foldable on the stringers and crossbars of the frame, adapting to these last and maintaining the aforementioned linear structure.

In the event that the clothesline must incorporate additional extensions, such as clotheslines conventional, the arms of these extensions will be equally articulated to the frame, being foldable on the latter.

Description of the drawings

To complement the description that is being performing and in order to help a better understanding of the characteristics of the invention, according to a preferred example of practical realization of it, is accompanied as part member of that description, a set of drawings where with illustrative and non-limiting nature, what has been represented next:

Figure 1 shows, according to a perspective view, a folding clothesline with complementary extensions made in accordance with the object of the present invention, which appears in a situation of
use.

Figures 2 to 6.- Show the same clothesline of the previous figure, in successive phases of folding it.

Detailed description of the invention

In view of the figures outlined, you can observe how the clothesline that is recommended is constituted, as any conventional clothesline, from a rectangular frame in which two stringers (1) and two crossbars (2) participate, being established between the crossbars (2) a plurality of "strings" (3), which can materialize in true strings textiles, plastic rods, steel rods or any other material deemed convenient.

According to the invention the stringers (1) they are attached to the crossbars (2) through joints (4) that turn said frame (1-2) into a quadrilateral deformable, as shown in figures 5 and 6, capable of transform, from the initial rectangular configuration into a elongated configuration in which stringer and crossbar align and adapt intimately and laterally to the other stringer and the other crossbar.

The legs (5) are in turn joined articulated to the vertices of the frame (1-2), specifically through joints (6) that allow its abatement on the stringers (1), said legs (5) being able to be  related to each other at the level of your lower limb by a crossbar (7) parallel to the crossbars (2) of the frame, joined articulated to one of the legs (5) and attachable with character removable to the other leg of the same pair, to facilitate the folding of the structure as shown in figure 3.

The extreme arms (8) form the complementary extensions of the clothesline, arms (8) on which transverse ropes (9) are established and which in turn are foldable on the stringer (1) through joints (10), such as show the figure
(2).

In another possible embodiment the clothesline lacks of the crossbars (7) and the extreme arms (8) becoming obviously in a simpler structure than the one shown in the Figures 1 to 6.

Whether the clothesline has expansions extreme and complementary (figures 1 to 6), as if it lacks they, offers a perfect stability in work situation, the shown in figure 1, and is able to become an element which could be called "filiform" since all its components are grouped linearly, in the absence of spaces dead among them, as shown in figure 6, It is very easy and convenient both its storage and its transportation

Claims (4)

1. Folding clothesline, of the type that incorporates a rectangular frame between whose crossbars a plurality of laying "ropes" is established, a frame that is raised above the ground by lower legs and that optionally has extreme extensions provided in turn of "ropes" that enhance its load capacity, characterized in that said rectangular frame is constituted by two stringers (1) and two crossbars (2) which, related to each other through joints (4), determine a deformable parallelogram capable of become a linear element of inoperative situation of the clothesline. 2. Folding clothesline, according to claim 1, characterized in that the legs (5) are joined to the vertices of the frame (1-2) through joints (6), which in turn allow the folding of said legs on the stringers and crossbars (1-2) of
framework. 3. Folding clothesline, according to previous claims, characterized in that the legs (5) are capable of joining two by two at their free end with the collaboration of crossbars (7), jointly connected to one of the legs (5) and equipped with means removable lock on the complementary leg, so that each crossbar (7) is capable of folding in a folded position on one of the legs (5). 4. Folding clothesline, according to previous claims, characterized in that in the case of having extreme extensions, these materialize in two independent parallel arms related to each other by means of a set of transverse cords, said arms (8) being articulated jointly to the vertices of the frame (1-2), for abatement on the stringers (1) of said frame.