US1069540A

US1069540A - Safety extensible clothes-line holder.

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Publication number: US1069540A
Application number: US73726512A
Authority: US
Inventors: Charles Evrard
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1912-12-17
Filing date: 1912-12-17
Publication date: 1913-08-05
Anticipated expiration: 1930-08-05

Description

G. EVRARD. SAFETY EXTENSIBLE CLOTHES LINE HOLDER.

APPLIUATIONTILEDDEO. 17, 1912. y v l i Patented Aug. `5, 1913.

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- seras CHARLES EVRARD, 0F LITTLE FALLS, NEW JERSEY.

SAFETY EXTENSIBLE CLOTHES-LINE OLDER.

Specification of i Letters Patent.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES EVRARD, a citizen of France, residing at Little- Falls, in thecounty of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Safety Extensible Clothes- Line Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improved holder for an endless clothes line such as is adapted to be supported from a window for hanging out and taking in clothes and other articles for drying, the object of my invention bein -to provide an improved holder of this kin which may be turned to a position for operation from within a room at a window and, hence, avoid the necessity of leaning out of the window in 'orderto operate the line for running out or taking in clothes, the invention consisting in the construction, combinationand arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.l

In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a line holder constructed 1n accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view, showing a window with one of my improved line holders in one side thereofin closed position in full lines and in raised or open position in dotted lines. Figs. 3 and.. 4 are detail sectional viewsI on the planes represented by the lines a-a and b--b, respectively, of Fig. 1.

In the embodiment of my invention here shown, there is a supportingbracket 1 which has a horizontal arm 2, the bracket being adapted to be secured by screws or other suitable devices in one side of a window frame, as indicated in Fig. 2. I also provide a head 3 which has a horizontal arm 4 arranged to bear on the arm 2 of the bracket and connected thereto for angular movement by a bolt 5, the said head being provided at its outer end with an upwardly extending ear 6 and being also provided with a` pair of downwardly extending spaced ears?. On the inner side of the ear 6 Ais a horizontally arranged bar 8, secured in place by means of a screw 9. `This -bar has a U-shaped support 10 secured to one side of its outer end and an inverted AU- shaped support 11 secured to the opposite side of its inner end, pulleys 12F-13 being respectively mounted inthe said supports.

A n arm 14 is provided at one end with a circular portion 15 which is `arranged between the ears 7, pivotally mounted on a.

bolt 16 and provided with

peripheral notches

17, 18, 19, the notches 17-19 being opposite eachfother. This" arm 14 may be held either in al vertical'position or in a horizontal position, and for holding the said arm in adjusted position, I provide a key 20 which operates in openings' in the ears 7 and is engaged by a spring 21 with either of the said

notches

17, 18 and 19, as the case may be, according to the posit-ion of the arm 14. On the lower or free end of the said arm 14 is a sleeve 22 which is movable lonrateated Aug. 5,1913.

'tudinally thereon, on one side of which 1s mounted a pulley 23. This pulley is movable longitudinally of the arm with the sleeve and the latter is normally held in extended position near the outer or free end of the arm 14 by means of a spring 24 onel ate the line to run clothes in or out the arm 14 should be turned to and (secured in a horizontal position so as to extend into the room as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2.

Such movement of the said arm enables thev line to be readily operated from within the room and without the necessity of leaning out of the window. and running the risk of falling therefrom. While operating the line, it should preferably be released from the pulley 12 but this is optional. When the arm 14 is in horizontal position, the line is somewhat slackened and its operation facilitated. Having adjusted the line, the arm 14 is then turned to and secured in a vertical position, as shown in full lines in Fig. 2, the line having been first rengaged with the pulley 12 and such movement of the arm 14 tightens the line and keeps it from running looselv on the pulley.

The spring 24 is of such strength as to support the line and the clothes thereon under ordinary conditions and in the event that the line should shrink the pulley .23. owing to the action of the spring 24 will move sufficiently under the tension on the line to relieve the latter and prevent it from breaking.

'While I have herein shown and described a preferred form of my invention, I would have it understood that changes may be made nthe form, proportion and construction of the several parts without departing from the spirit of my invention and within the scope of the appended claim.

I clainn- The herein described line holder comprising a supporting bracket having a horizontally arranged arm, the said arm being provided with a vertically arranged head at its outer end providing an upwardly extending ear and also providing a' pair of downwardly extending spaced ears, a bar secured .transversely on the upwardly extendn ear,

a pair of pulleys mounted at the en s of said bar, an arm ivotally mounted between 15 the pair of ears or angular movement in a vertical plane, the said arm being provided with a pulley to form a bightin a line arranged on the rst-mentioned pulleys, and means carried bythe said head to secure the 2o sa-id arm either in vertical or in horizontal position. Y In testimon whereof l afix'rny signature in presencel o two witnesses.

- CHARLES EVRARD.

Witnesses HENRY PIN, WILLIAM Bownn.