US1365264A - Clothesline-support - Google Patents

Description

M. C. MYERS.

C-LOTHESLINE SUPPORT.

APPLICATiON FILED JAN. 12. 1920.

1,365,264, Patented Jan.11,1921.

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UNITED STATES MILTON CLARKE MYERS, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

CLOTHESLINE-SUPPORT.

Application filed January 12, 1920.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MILTON O. MYERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of Washington, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clothesline-Supports, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in clothes driers and refers more particularly to clothes line supports adapted to feed a line from the point of attaching the clothes out into the open air, or away from a building.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive drier of the above character, having effective and easily operable means for feeding out one or more clothes lines, and for drawing the same in, together with means for supporting the line to prevent sagging when the clothes are applied thereto.

With the foregoing object in View, this invention comprises the new and useful details of construction and arrangement, which will be fully described herein, illustrated in the annexed drawing, and more specifically claimed. hereinafter.

In the drawing the invention is shown applied to a house, the view being in perspective.

Referring now to the drawing, numeral 5 designates a post or similar outer supporting means, which when the device is constructed to hold two or more clothes lines, is provided with a cross-arm 6, to which are attached the outer ends of fixed wire cables 7 and 8, the inner ends of the cables being anchored to a building, or other support 9. Cables 7 and 8 are preferably strung taut, eyes 10 being applied to the crossarm and building to receive the cable in an obvious manner.

On cables 7 and 8 is a carrier pendent from grooved trolley wheels or pulleys 11 and 12 adapted to roll on the cables. The carrier comprises a cross bar 13 having upturned arms 14 at its ends on which the wheels are j ournaled. On the inner edge of the cross-bar are spaced apart eyes such as 15 and 16 to which are fastened clothes lines 17 and 18, the lines being strung over pulleys 19 and 20 fixed to the building 9. The inner ends of the lines 17 and 18 are attached to a reel 21 mounted to rotate with a shaft 22 supported in a frame 23 fixed to the wall of the building in position to be accessible Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 11, 1921.

Serial No. 350,993.

to an operator. A manually operable crank 24: is fixed to the end of the shaft 22.

On the outer edge of carrier bar 13 is a centrally positioned eye 25 to which is attached a tail line cable 26 trained over a pulley 27 mounted on a post 5, thence down to weighted pulley block 28, thence upward and over a pulley 27 also mounted on post 5 above pulley 27, and thence inward and over a pulley 29 fixed to the building 9, cable 26 being attached at its inner end to a reel 30 Reel 30 is mounted to a shaft 31 in frame 23 parallel to reel 21, intermeshing gears 32 and 38 being carried on shafts 22 and 31 respectively, so that the two reels rotate together.

In operation, the carrier is drawn in toward the building where the clothes may be applied to the lines 17 and 18. As the clothes are fixed to the lines, the crank 24 may be rotated to reel out the lines on reel 21 in an apparent manner. Reel 30 will rotate in the opposite direction, through the medium of the intermeshing gears 32 and 33, and will reel in the cable 26, thus serving to move the carrier out as the lines 17 and 18 are fed out, weighted pulley block 28 functioning to keep lines 17 and 18, and cable 26 tight. When rotating crank 24 in the opposite direction, lines 17 and 18 will be drawn in on reel 21, and cable 26 will be unreeled by reason of the reverse rotation of reel 30.

The device is provided with an auxiliary supporting carrier 35, which may be used to support the lines 17 and 18 to prevent sagging when such lines are very long. It may be applied in place by engaging its trolley wheels 36 and 37 over cables 7 and 8, with the supporting cross-bar 88 positioned under the clothes lines, the length of arms 39 and 40 being such as to allow the lines to rest on the cross bar. The auxiliary carrier is adapted to be applied when substantially half of the lines have been fed out, and the weight of the filled clothes lines will be sufiicient to cause the carrier to be dragged out with the lines. Thus when the lines are completely reeled out, the auxiliary carrier will be positioned substantially half way between post 5 and the building 9. When greater lengths of lines are in use, several such carriers may be applied at spaced intervals.

From the foregoing description, it will be seen that this invention provides a simple and effective device for feeding out a clothes line and for drawing the line in, together with means for supporting the line to prevent sagging when filled with clothes. The drawing shows two overhead supports 7 and 8, but it will be understood that a single cable rail may be provided.

I claim:

A clothes-line holding device comprising 10 supports, cables fixed to the supports, a carrier movable on said cables, a clothes line connected to the carrier at one end, supporting means for the other end of the clothes line, a hauling cable attached to the carrier and an auxiliary carrier mounted on the supporting cables and having a supporting bar positioned beneath the clothesline.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

MILTON CLARKE MYERS.

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