US1467420A - Line tightener - Google Patents

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Sept. 11, 1923.

- c. BREER LINE TIGHTENER Filed Dec. 9, 1921 INVENTOR 4 ATTORNEY Patented Sept. ll, 1923.

" CARL BREER, or SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY.

LINE TIGHTENER.

'Application filed December 9, 1921. Serial No. 521,140.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL Bnnnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sum mit, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Line Tighteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is designed to form a convenient instrument which may be attached to a line to tighten it, the instrument being supported by the line.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings as follows Fig. 1 shows a plan view.

Fig. 2 a circumferential section of the locking device in locking position. i

Fig. 3 a similar section of the same device in position to release the clothes line.

Fig. i a side elevation, partly in vertical section.

1 marks the line and 2 a line engaging device which as shown is an ordinary clothes pin provided with a slot 3 through which the line -2 is passed. The pin extends through a bushing 4 and is locked with the bushing by means of a pin 5 extending through the slot 3 of the pin.

A plate 6 is journaled on the bushing at and has the outwardly extending arms with hooks 7 adapted to hook over a line.-

A plate 8 is locked on the bushing at and is provided with wings 8 by means of which the bushing may be turned relatively to the plate 6 rotating with it the pin 2. In operation the line is passed into the slot 3 and the hooks 7 placed over the line as clearly shown in Fig. 4 and by twisting the pin 2 the line may be wound up so as to tighten it, the device hooking on the line.

In order to lock the device with the line tightened a ratchet mechanism is preferably supplied. A pocket 9 is formed in the plate 8. The rear face of the pocket is slanting at 10. The front face of the pocket is abrupt at 11. A pocket 12 is arranged in the late 6 in position to be brought into register with the pocket 9. The pocket 12 has an abrupt shoulder 13 as clearly shown in Fig. 2. A locking ball 14: is arranged in the pocket 12 and is adapted when the pockets are brought into register to lock the plates against a return movement through its engagement with the shoulders 11 and 13. As the plate 8 is rotating forward the slanting surface 10 acting as a cam lifts the ball 14 into the pocket 12, thus permitting the continued forward movement of the plate. "When, however, the plate 8 tends to move in a rearward direction under the strain of theloop the ball drops into the pocket 9 and acting as before stated on the shoulders 11 and 13 locks the plate.

When it is desired to release the line it is reversed bringing the plate 8 at the top. A slight forward movement of the plate 8 will release the ball 14: permitting it to drop into the pocket'12 as clearly shown in Fig. 3 inwhich position the plate 8 may be readily rotated permitting the rope to unwind on the pin.

What I claim as new is:

1. In a line tightener, the combination of a winding reel; a mounting on which the reel is journaled; means on the mounting adapted to engage a line to lock the mounting therewith; a winding arm secured to and locked with the reel; and a releasable ratchet device between the arm and mountmg.

2. In a line tightener, the combination of a winding reel; a mounting on which the reel is journaled, said mounting having a ball socket therein; means on the mounting adapted to engage a line to lock-the mounting therewith; a winding arm locked with the reel and containing a ball socket adapted to register with the socket in the mounting; and a ball in the sockets, said ball engaging the walls of the sockets to form a ratchet.

3. In a line tightener, the combination of a winding reel; a mounting plate on which the reel is journaled, said plate having a ball socket struck up in. the plate; means on the mounting plate adapted to engage a line to lock the plate therewith; a winding plate locked with the reel and having a ball socket struck up therein; and a ball arranged in said sockets and operating in the walls thereof to form a ratchet.

4. In a line tightener, the combination of a winding reel; a mounting on which the reel is journaled; means on the mounting adapted to engage a line to lock the mounting therewith; a winding arm locked with the reel; and a ratchet device permanently secured between the mounting and the arm locking the arm againsta return movement with the mounting in one position and releasing the arm relatively to the mounting with the mounting turned to another position with the line as an axis.

5. In a line tightener, the combination of a winding reel; a mounting on which the reel is journaled; means on the mounting adapted to engage a line to lock the mounting therewith; a winding arm locked with the reel; and a ratchet device permanently secured between the mounting and the arm locking the arm against a return movement with the mounting in one position and releasing the arm relatively to the mounting with the mounting turned to an inverted position with the line as an axis.

6. In a line tightener, the combination of a clothes pin; a supportfor the clothes pin; a mounting in which the support is journaled; means on the mounting for lockin it with the line; a Winding arm locked with said support; and means for releasing and locking the arm with the mounting.

7. In a line tightener, the combination of a slotted reel a mounting plate on which the reel is journaled having hooked ends for engaging a line and having a ball receiving socket therein; a Winding plate fixed on the reel, said winding plate having a ratchet ball socket; and a locking ball in the sockets adapted to form a ratchet with the device in one position and to release the reel with the device inverted.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

CARL BREER.

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