US1235352A - Clothes-line support. - Google Patents

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WILLIAM MACK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOTHES-LINE SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 31, 1917.

Application filed May 24, 1917. Serial No. 170,649.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IVILMAM MACK, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Man hattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Clothes-Line Support, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to clothes lines of the endless type which ride over near and distant pulley supports.

The invention has for its general objects to provide an improved device for supporting the outer extremity of the endless line, so that both lengths of the line can be used for hanging clothes, the said line support being of comparatively simple and inexpensive construction, reliable and efficient in use, and so designed that the clothes on the line can readily pass in either direction around the distant pulley.

I'Vith such objects in view, and others which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention comprises various novel features of construction and arrangement of parts which will be set forth with particularity in the following description and claims appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates one embodiment of the invention and wherein similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views,

Figure l is a side view of the device mounted on a pole;

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line 22, Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line as, Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing, the clothes line support A is shown attached to a pole B and fastened by a suitable brace 1.

The device A comprises upper and lower plates 2 and 8 which are fastened together by bolts or equivalent means 4:, and between these plates is a central wall 5 to hold the plates spaced apart. Behind the wall 5 is a pulley or roller 6, which turns on a vertical axis 7 carried by the upper and lower plates. Around the pulley passes the clothes line 8, to which articles are attached in the usual manner by clothes pins 9. On the bottom plate and at opposite sides of the device is a guide track formed by upwardly inclined portions 10 and a curved connecting portion 11, which latter lies behind and approximately concentric with the pulley 6.

The straight inclined portions 11 of the track are disposed in front of the pulley. This track is approximately entirely above the clothes line, which latter runs over the top edge of plates 12 in the end of the device away from the pole B. The clothes line sags from these plates 12, and the latter serve to maintain the portion of the clothes line that passes around the pulley 6 in a fixed plane. The clothes pins in passing into the device A strike the downwardly deflected extremities 10 of the tracks 10, and the clothes pins ride partly up the tracks 10 and are turned over thereby so that the heads will extend downwardly as they pass around the pulley, the articles C on the line being folded over the track portions 10 and 11, as clearly shown in Fig. 9. The plates 12 have surfaces 13 which incline upwardly and outwardly from the bottom plate 3, so that the heads of the inverted clothes pins will ride upwardly on these inclined surfaces and thereby the clothes pins are returned to upright position as they pass away from the device A. In this manner the clothes pins can turn freely around the drum or pulley 6 with the length of the clothes pin parallel therewith and in contact with the circumference thereof. The device acts on the clothes pins and articles in the same manner, no matter in which direction the clothes line is moved, and the device is so designed that it does not loosen or detach the clothes pins.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying" drawing, the advantages of the construction and method of operation will be readily understood by those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains, and while I have described the principle of operation, together with the device which I now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shown is merely illustrative and that such changes may be made when desired as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A clothes line supporter comprising a supporting structure and a pulley thereon, a clothes line, means for maintaining the clothes line approximately in a predetermined plane on the pulley, a track inclined upwardly toward the pulley in a position above the said plane, and the track extending around the pulley in concentric and spaced relation thereto, whereby the clothes pins on the line are caused to be inverted by the track, and means for turning the clothes pins upright after passing the pulley. v

2. A device of the class described coni prising a supporting structure,v a pulley thereon, a track comprising portions inclined upwardly toward the pulley and a curved connecting portion .QXtGllCllll, aroundvthe pulley, and inclined surfaces extending upwardly and outwardly away from the pulley.

v A device of the classdescrihed comprising connected upper and, lower plates, pulley mounted between the plates, a

track having parallel portions inclined upwardly toward the pulley and a connecting curved portion concentric with the pulley, and inclined plates at the end of each track and inclined upwardly in the opposite direction therefrom and away from the pulley.

l. A clothes line supporter comprising a supporting structure, a pulley thereon, a clothes line passing around the pulley, and means for turning the clothes pins upside down before reaching the pulley andirestoring the Clothespins to normal position after passing the pulley, said pulley being of cylindrical form, whereby the clothes pins can lie parallel with the ,aXis of the pulley as they pass around the same.

TVILLIAM MACK.

Copies of this patent may bevobtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

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