US1024401A - Clothes-stick. - Google Patents

Description

S. HARDING.

CLOTHES STICK. APPLICATION FILED AUGIB, 1909. RENEWED 001'. 4, 1911.

1,024,401 Patented Apr. 23, 1912.

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' SAMUEL HARDING, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

CLOTHES-STICK.

Application n l ed August 16, 1909, Serial No. 513,149. Renewed October 4, 1911. Serial No. 652,845.

To a whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL HARDING,

citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Clothes-Stick, of which the following 1s 'a specification.

gage the clothes and This inven ion relates to clothes sticks employed in lifting clothes from wash b011- ers. V i

The principal object of this invention is to provide a device which will effectively enprevent the same from slipplng'ofi'.

Another object of the inventlon 1s to provide a device which is simple in construction, cheap to manufacture, and positive in operation.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the construction and novel combination of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended; it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size and minor details of construction, within the scope of the claims, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrlficing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawing:.Figure 1 is a plan view 7 of the stick. Fig. 2 is an end view thereof.

Fig. 3 is a detailperspective view of the wire head, and Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the end of the handle showing the Wire head secured therein.

Like reference numerals designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawlng.

Referring to the drawing, the Invention comprisesza handle 4 of any suitable construction and material, having arranged on one end thereof a clothes-engaging head formed from a single piece .of wire. The central portion 5 of the wire head is arranged transversely of the handle, and is re erably secured to the end of the handle y any suitable fastening means 6, the said means, in this instance, consisting of a staple, and" the said wire being arranged within a slot 7 in the said end of the handle. The wire is bent at both sidesof the handle to form oppositely arranged W-"shaped portions, that is to say,'one portion being upright and the other inverted. Each of. these portions embodies a plurality of spaced fingers 8 formed by the bends of the wire, and

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8*. Furthermore, each of thesefingers are respectively arranged to extend on opposite sides of the central line of the head, and at right angles with respect to the center of the handle. The fingers therefore constitute a substantially flat extended surface for the purpose of pushing the clothes down into the water in the boiler. The ends of the Wire are respectively bent rearwardly and inwardly toward the handle to form extensions or braces 9-9, the wire then continuing along the handle for a certain distance, as shown by reference numeral 10, and secured thereto by staples or other suitable fastening means 10. The ends of the wire are then bent outwardly from the handle to form arms 1111, which are shown in the drawings as being substantially V-shap'ed, although, as will. be apparent, any other angle or curve would answer the same purpose. The ends of. the arms 11 are then arranged along the handle for 'a short distance, and the extreme ends 12 thereof are 'bent inwardly' and arranged within the openings 13 of the handle, the said'end 12 being secured to the handle by staples or other suitable fastening means 12*. 7

From the foregoing, it will be readily apparent that the fingers 8 and 8 of the head will readily engage the clothes, and the arms 11-11 will serve as a support for the clot-hes. Thus, it will be observed that the stick can not only be employed for lifting clothes from a boiler but for supporting the said clothes while the same arebeing moved from the boiler to a tub or the like, the operation thereof eliminating all danger of the operator being scalded by the hot water.

It will be noted that the V-shaped arms 11 are arranged to extend at right angles to the handle and at right angles to the fingers 88 of the W-shaped portions. I

While the preferable construction is to make the arms 11 integral with the W- shaped portions, I do not wish to be limited thereto.

The arms 11 are shorter than the W- shaped portions at the end of the handle. When the'stick is used to take the clothes from the boiler, the braces 9 with the W- shaped portions forming the flat head cooperate with the arms 11 to provide a. wide support for the clothes which may be caught up by the stick.

What I claim is -l. A clothes stick comprising a handle having a head formed from a single piece of wire secured on one end thereof, said head including a plurality of transversely arranged fingers at the end of the handle and oppositely arranged clothes. supporting arms at an intermediate point of the handle.

2. A clothes stick comprising a handle having a head formed from a single piece of wire, said wire head being secured at its center to the end of the handle, the wire then extending in opposite directions and bent to'form a plurality of fingers, the wire then being bent rearwardly and inwardly toward and secured to the said handle.

3. A clothes stick comprising a handle, and a wire head secured to the said handle and formed from a single piece of wire, the center of the wire being secured to the end of the handle, the wire extending in opposite direotions from the handle and bent to form substantially W-shaped portions, one portion being upright and the other reversed, the bends of each portion constituting fingers which are arranged in the same plane, the free ends of the wire then being respectively bent rearwardly and inwardly toward and arranged along the handle for a certain distance and secured thereto by a fastening means, the free ends of the wire being respectively bent outwardly to form substantially V-shaped clothes supporting arms, and the extreme ends of the wire being bent inward and arranged to engage plurality of oppositely arranged fingers ar-- ranged in the same plane at right angles to the handle and forming a flat extended surface for pushing the clothes down into the water, an extension or brace at each. end of the head for connecting it with the handle, and arms extending from opposite sides of the handle in the same plane as the extensions or braces, said arms being shorter than" the latter and cooperating therewith to provide an extended support for the clothes when removing them from the boiler.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

, SAMUEL HARDING. Witnesses:

CHARLES HENRY MYERS,

ALBERT LEWIS HOENER, Jr.

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