US1100813A - Clothes-line support. - Google Patents

Description

G. YOUNG.

CLOTHES LINE SUPPORT. APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 7, 1913.

Patented June 23, 1914.

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GUSTAV YOUNG, OF WEST HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

CLOTHES-LINE SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed .Tune '7, 1913. Serial No. 772,325.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that GUsTAv YOUNG, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Nest Hoboken, county of Bergen, and State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Clothes-Line Supports, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to a class of devices adapted to be used in conjunction with clothes lines.

My invention has for its object primarily to provide a device, or form of support designed to be employed preferably upon the window of a building for permitting` a line to be adjustably carried thereon, whereby articles of clothing, or the like may be applied thereto by a person within the building, and subsequently directed out of the window for exposure to the air as well as enabling the line and the articles to be reversely guided' through the window and into the building for removal from the line, thus overcoming the requirement for a person to lean outwardly of the window as is incident to the methods ordinarily in use. This is accomplished mainly by providing a bracket which is secured exteriorly of the window, and to said bracket is removably mounted a supporting element, or bar. The bar is of sufficient length to extend through the window a desired distance interiorly of the building, and upon said bar is mounted a pulley which serves as a means for adjustably and detachably carrying part of the line inside the building so as to permit the articles to be suspended therefrom. The line and the articles are then directed through the window for exposure to the air after which the line is fastened to the bracket in a manner so that the bar may be removed from the bracket.

Another object of the invention is to provide means serving to detachably secure the line to the bracket, to allow the line to be readily re-adjusted upon the supporting bar so that the articles may be directed back into the building for removal from the line, and a further object of the invention is to provide an efficient form of device which is susceptible of being made to combine great strength and durability.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specication in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, the saidy invention being more fully described hereinafter, and then pointed out in the appended claim.

'In the drawing, Figure 1 is a fragmentary view, partly in section of the window of a building and a post, with one form of clothes line support embodying my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the form of bracket employed in the device. Fig. 3 is an end view of the bracket. Fig. l. is a perspective view, partly broken away, of the supporting rod used in the device, and Fig. 5 is an end view of a form of clutch adapted to be employed in conjunction with the device.

The device, or clothes line support has a retainer, or bracket 10 which is preferably applied to the exterior of the frame of the window, as 11, of a building, as 12. At a suitable distance from the building may be provided a post, or other desired support, as 13, to which is held a pulley 14, and over said pulley is movably guided a line 15 from which articles such as clothing or the like may be suspended for exposure to the air.

The retainer, or bracket 10 has a supporting plate 16 which is substantially L-shaped to provide two angularly disposed arms 17 and 18 whereby the bracket may be lirmly secured upon the exterior part of the frame of the window by the use of screws, or otherwise being passed through a number of holes provided in one or both of the arms of the plate 16. Projecting from one surface of the arm 17 of the plate 16 of the bracket is an approximately rectangular extension 19 which is tubular in form to provide a pas sage 2O therethrough. Upon the upper surn face of the tubular extension 19 of the bracket 10 is a vertically disposed flange 21, and upon the underneath surface of said extension is a similarly disposed flange 22. Both of the flanges 21 and 22 are spaced from the arm 17 of the plate 16, and at the corresponding ends of said ianges are provided two oppositely disposed lugs, or stops 23 and 24.

Adapted to be removably applied to the retainer, or bracket 10 when secured upon the frame of a window, is a supporting element, or bar 25. The bar 25 is preferably substantially T-shaped, as viewed transversely, to provide a longitudinally disposed flat strip 26 and a cross-strip whereby two oppositely extending lianges 27 and 28 are Patented June 23, 1914..

formed upon one edge of the longitudinal strip. The longitudinal strip 26 is longer than the flanges 27 and 28 whereby a projecting end 29 is provided, and said projecting end is of a dimension to permit it to be freely inserted in the passage 20 of the tubular extension 19 as well as permitting it to be readily removed from said passage. The T-shaped supporting element, or bar 25 is of sufficient length to extend a desired distance through the Window and interiorly of the building when the bar is detachably applied to the bracket 10. To the crossstrip of the bar 25 adjacent to its end which is opposite to the projecting end 29 thereof is a rotatable pulley 30, and serving as means to hold the bar 25 against accidental displacement when in use in an opening provided in the strip 26 of the bar is movably heldpone end of a hook 31, the other end of which is removably disposed through an eye 32 held upon the interior part of the window frame.

In operating the clothes line support the line 15 is directed through the window, and one part thereof is guided over the pulley 30 after the projecting end 29 of the T- shaped bar 25 is inserted in the passage 20 of the bracket 10 and the hook 31 is fastened to the eye 32. Upon the line 15 at a suitable part thereof interiorly of the window is arranged a carrier, or clutch, as 33. The clutch 33 is preferably of a form disclosed in my pending application serially num` bered 763,777, and which has a body portion 34 provided with openings 35 and 36 at opposite parts thereof. Extending from one side of the body portion 34 of the clutch 33 are two substantially L-shaped spaced flanges 36 and 37, and interiorly of said body portion are two dogs 38 and 39 adapted to be moved in unison back and forth transversely of the openings 35 and 36 by rotating the handle 40 of a locking cam, not shown, provided within the body of the clutch. The line 15 is movably passed through the openings 341 and 35 of the can rier, or clutch 33, and the carrier is disposed so that its spaced flanges 36 and 37 will be in movable straddle arrangement upon the flanges 27 and 23 of the bar 25. To the parts of the line 15 interiorly of the window may be suspended the clothing, or other articles, as 41, and by directing the line outwardly of the window the articles which have been suspended therefrom will be moved through the window for exposure to the air, and other articles may then be conveniently applied to the line in a similar manner without requiring the person to lean out of the window. Then a suliicient number of the articles have been suspended from the line and disposed in the open air the line is then locked to the carrier, or clutch 33 by rotating the handle 40 accordingly for moving the dogs 38 and 39 into engagement with the line. By subsequently removing` the line 15 from the pulley of the bar 25 and guiding vthe carrier, or clutch 33 along the bar so that the flanges 36 and 37 of the carrier will be in straddle arrangement upon the flanges 21 and 22 of the tubular extension 19 of the bracket 10 the bar 25 may be removed if desired to permit the window of the building to be closed. To remove the articles from the line the bar 25 is re-positioned in the manner above described. The carrier 33 is then moved from the bracket 10 to and along the bar 25 so that the line may be again disposed over the pulley of the bar 25, and by directing the line inwardly of the window the articles will also be moved into the building for removal from the line.

In the foregoing description, I have embodied the preferred form of my invention, but I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself thereto, as I am aware that modilications may be made therein without departing from the principle, or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention, therefore I reserve to myself the right to make such changes as fairly fall within the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In a clothes line support, the combination of a bracket, a line supporting arm removably carried by the bracket, a line clamp slidable on the arm and bracket, and adapted to be supported by the bracket when the arm is removed from the bracket, substantially as shown and described.

This specification signed and witnessed this sixth day of June A. D. 1913.

GUSTAV YOUNG.

Witnesses:

Roer. B. ABBOTT, It. J. ROBILLARD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D; 0;

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