US1169801A

US1169801A - Laundry appliance.

Info

Publication number: US1169801A
Application number: US5727015A
Authority: US
Inventors: Albert H Gray
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1915-10-22
Filing date: 1915-10-22
Publication date: 1916-02-01
Anticipated expiration: 1933-02-01

Description

A. H. GRAY.

LAUNDRY APPLIANCE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 22, 1915.

Patented Feb; 1, L916.

THE. COLUMBIA ILANOGRAPH C0,, WASHINGTON, D. c.

ALBERT H. RAY, oE GRAND RAPIDS, mrcmenu LAUNDRY APr iANoE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IAIL'BERT H. GRAY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Laundry Appliances; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a laundry appliance especially adapted foruse in placing paper bags over suits of clothes or the'like after they have been cleaned in a laundry.

It is the object and purpose of my'invention to provide a device of this character which may be utilized for placing a paper bag over a suit. dress or the like, irrespective of the length thereof and in which this operation can be much more quickly and readily effected than heretofore. To this end I have provided the construction shown in the accompanying drawing, in which;

Figure 1 is a plan view; Fig. 2 a side elevation; and Fig. 3 an end elevation of the device.

Like reference characters refer to like parts throughout the several views of the drawing.

In the construction of the appliance there is provided a board 1 of considerable length at each side of which thin upwardly projecting members 2 are attached, one end of the board, hereafter termed the front end, being brought substantially to a point as indicated at 3 at which there is permanently secured a screw 1 having a closed eye positioned as and of the formation best shown in Fig. 2. This board is supported a distance above the floor by the inclined supports 5 and 6 which cross each other, a pair of said supports being provided at each side and adjacent the rear end of the board and connected at their upper ends by cross members 7 which are attached to the underside of the board 1.

A plurality of

shelves

8, 9, 10 and 11 progressively decreasing in length are provided and located one above the other, being supported and connected together by

uprights

12 and 13, at each side of the shelves. The rear ends of each of the shelves, which are formed, preferably, of spaced apart slats or the like, are connected by cross bars 14: which rest againstthe; front upper edges of supports 6, the structureas' a whole being adapted to be secured to these supportsby means of hooks l5 pivotally mounted on 'par'tsG and detachably connected with eyes 16 as shown.

A bail is secured at the front ends of the shelves having depending legs 17 which are attached to the uprights 13, the upper ends of the legs being connected by an integral cross member 18 which lies length in inches from the front end of the board to this line. The-

shelves

8, 9, 10 and 11. in length are somewhat over 60, 50, 4:0 and 30 inches respectively, and on' these shelves paper bags of various lengths are placed.

In use, after a suit of clothes has been cleaned and pressed and placed on a garment hanger, the suit is laid on the board 1 lying between the sides 2 and the hook of the garment hanger is passed through the eye of the member 4. If the lower end of the suit comes at about the line indicated by 40 a bag is taken from shelf 10 and placed over the suit as it lies on the board, the bail with its upper cross member 18 serving to guide and hold the bag in proper position to easily pass it over thesuit and the board. The bag is drawn until the member 4: with the hook of the garment hanger therein punches through the bottom of the bag after which the hook of the garment hanger is disengaged from the eye and the suit of clothes with its covering bag thereon taken from the device. For different lengths of suits bags from different shelves will be taken. For instance, a suit that is nearly inches in length will be covered by a bag taken from the upper shelf 8.

arious changes in form and proportion of parts and in material of construction may be resorted to without departing from my invention which is defined in the appended claims.

I claim 1. In a device of the character described, a flat horizontal member, means to support said member at one end thereof leaving the opposite end free to draw bags or the like opposite end free and unobstructed, and a device having means to engage and hold the hook of a garment hanger secured at the free end of the horizontal member.

3. In a device of the character described,

I a fiat horizontal. member, means to support said member at one end thereof leaving the opposite end free and unobstructed, a device having means to engage andihold the hook on a garment hanger attached to the free end of the horizontal member, a horizontal bar located a distance from said free end of the member and in substantially the same horizontal plane, and means to support the bar in said position. i i

, 4. In a device of the character described, a flat horizontal member, a support therefor at one end, a device having means for engaging with the hook of a garment hanger secured at the opposite and-free end of the member, a support below the horizontal member, and a bail secured to said support Copies of this patent may be obtained for having a horizontal. portion positioned a distance from the free end of the horizontal member and in substantially the same plane therewith.

5. In a device of the character described, a member, means to support said member at one end thereof leaving the opposite end free and unobstructed, and a device having means to detachably engage and hold the hook of a garment hanger secured at the free end of the member, whereby bags may be drawn over said member and garments on a garment hanger held by said device and thereafter removed from the member together with the garment and hanger.

6. In a device of the character described, a fiat member located in substantially horizontal position, means to support said member at one end thereof leaving the opposite end free and unobstructed, and upwardly projecting members attached at each side edge of said member to provide a place therebetween in which articles of Wear may be positioned and serve as means to guide bags over said articles, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my s1 gnature.

ALBERT H. GRAY;

five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents,

Washington. D. C.