US1326911A - Clothespole - Google Patents

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C. G. CARLSON.

CLOTHESPOLE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 26, 1917.

1,326,91 1 Patented Jan. 6, 1920.

CHARLES G. CARLSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CLOTHESPOLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 6, 1920.

Application filed December 28, 1917. Serial No. 208,989.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES G. CARLSON, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothesoles, of which the following is a specification.

The main objects of this invention are to provide an improved form of clothes pole constructed so that the clothes line may be easily attached and securely retained thereto so as to prevent the pole from becoming detached from the line, even though the pole may be caused to swing from side to side as the line with the clothes thereon is whipped back and forth in the wind; and to provide an improved pole of this kind which is simple and exceedingly inexpensive in construction and has no parts likely to break or get out of order or catch on or tear the line of clothes.

An illustrative embodiment of this invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective view of a clothes line supported at the middle part thereof by a clothes pole embodying this invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse sectional detail of the upper end of the pole.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 13-13 of Fig. 2.

In the construction shown in the drawings, the pole or staff member 1 comprises a strip of wood 2 to 1 thick, 11; to 2 wide, and about 8 feet long. The upper end of the pole has a slit 2 extending inwardly from the upper end thereof a distance of 8 or 10 so as to form a pair of integral jaws 3 and 4t which have sufiicient resiliency to allow them to be moved slightly toward and away from each other. Semi-circular recesses 5 and 6 are formed in the opposed faces of the jaws 3 and 4: near the upper end of the pole 1 and extending transversely therethrough so as to coact to form a seat or ropehole 7. The upper ends of the opposed faces of the jaws 3 and 4c are cut away at 8 and 9 so as to form a V-shaped slot extending inwardly from the end of the pole in alinement with the slit 2. The lower end of the slot 10 is spaced a short distance from the rope-hole 7 and is adapted to serve as a guideway for causing the clothes line to be readily forced into the rope-hole 7.

A pin 11 extends through the pole 1 a short distance below the rope-hole 7 transversely thereto. One end of the pin is rigidly secured to the jaw 4: whereas the jaw 3 is provided with a bore 12 surrounding the pin so that the jaw 3 is free to move relative to the pin 11. The purpose of the pin 11 is to provide an abutment directly below the rope-hole 7 which will prevent the clothes line from being intentionally or inadvertently forced from the rope-hole 7 into the slit 2 below said hole, which if it did occur would usually result in splitting ofi one of the jaws from the remaining part of the pole.

The formation of the pole is a simple and inexpensive operation. The hole 7 is first bored through the end of the stick 1, after which the pole is placed on a circular ripsaw and the slit 2 cut therein. The upper ends of the jaws 3 and 4 are then cut away so as to form a guideway 10. Following this, the hole 12 is bored through the jaw 3 and the pin or nail 11 driven therethrough into the jaw 4:.

The pole is used by simply forcing the clothes line 13 down through the guideway into the seat or rope-hole 7 the jaws springing apart sufiiciently to allow the rope to pass through the slit 2 between the end of the guidewav 10 and said seat. There is sufficient resiliency in the jaws to cause the clothes line to be rather firmly held in the rope-hole 7, and no amount of swinging of the pole back and forth will result in its being disengaged from the end of the line.

Although but one specific embodiment of this invention has been heroin shown and de scribed, it will be understood that some details of the construction shown may be altered or omitted without departing from the spirit of this invention as defined by the following claims.

I claim:

1. A clothes line prop, comprising a staif member, having a narrow longitudinally disposed slot extending inwardly from one end thereof so as to form a pair of jaws integral with said member and yieldable relative to each other, said jaws each being provided with a recess substantially semicircular and the same size formed in the opposed faces thereof inwardly from the end of said slot, said recesses coacting to form a seat adapted to receive and retain a clothes line, and an abutment extending across said slot adjacent to and slightly removed from the bottom ofisaid recesses so as to prevent the clothes line from passing into said slot beyond said seat.

2. A clothes line prop, comprising a stall member having a narrow longitudinally disposed slot extending inwardly from one end thereof so as to form a pair of jaws integral with said member and yieldable relative to each other, said jaws each being provided with a recess substantially semi-circular and the same size formed in the opposed faces thereof inwardly from the end of said slot, said recesses coacting to form a seat adapted to receive and retain a clothes line, and a pin carried by one of said jaws and slidably passing through the other, said pin being located transversely to and immediately beneath said seat so as to prevent a clothes line from passing into said slot below said seat.

Signed at Chicago this 19th day of De ceniber, 1917.

CHARLES G. CARLSON.

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