US103424A - Improved clothes-drier - Google Patents

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Letters Patent No. 103,424, dated May 24, 1870.

IMPROVED CLOTHES-DRIER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the seme.

To Il whom it Amay concern:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM LIVINGSTON BROWNE,

of Shortsville, Ontario county, in the State of New York, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Clothes-Drying Machines; and I hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification.

,The nature or essence of my invention consists in the particular construction and arrangement of devices fori-ning an improved clothes-drying machine Or stand, described in the following specification, and represented in the drawing, which is a perspective view of the machine, showing the standard and four braces, the two rear braces and their attachments being omitted to render the figure more clear.

In this drawing- A is the standard Or center, provided 'with a ring at the top, by which the machine may be hung up to the top` of the room, limb of a tree, or other support.

lo this standard A, the stationary collar .l5 is fastcned with a pin or screw, with one movable traversing collar, O, below it, and two traversing collarsD and E, above'it.

These collars have six grooves on their peri pheries parallel to the standard, to receive the ends ofthe arms F F and braces G G of the frame, which are fitted to the grooves, and perforated for the wires H' H, which pass through the ends of the arms and braces, and lie in grooves around the collars, tO form screws I I, so that the arms and braces vibrate freely to Open and close the machine when desired. I

This machine is shown open in the drawing, and, by removing the pins J J from the standard, and moving the upper collar toward the top, the machine may bc closed up into a very small compass, for transportation Or removal out Of the way when not in use.

The clothes to be dried may be hung across the arms, and on the lines K K, which are passed around through the ,ends of the' arms for that purpose.

The Outer ends of the upper tier Of arms may be sustained by lines, L L, from the top of the standard to the ends Of the arms..

The drawing shows the lower set of arms tO be the shortest, and the next above a little longer, and the upper set the longest-l This construction allows the clothes on the second line, K, from the bottom to hang Outside Of those on the loweriline, and the clothes on the top line to hang out-side of those on the second line.

This machine may be used to set trays On to dry fruit, and, if trimmed with green bonghs or trailing villes, will make a fine Christmas tree; and it may be made with such a number of arms in each series as may be desired. i'

l claim the above-described dryiug-mac11ine,con sisting of a central standard, A, with one stationary collar, B, and three movable collars or fulcra, C, D, and E, for the arms and braces Of the machine, when the whole is constructed, combined, and arranged to Opera-te substantially as described. v

W. LIVINGSTON BROWNE.

Witnesses:

` H. E. WOODRUFF,

J. J. DEWELl

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