US1470242A - Clothes-drying device - Google Patents

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ROBERT M. OVERTON, 0F WATERLOO, JIUWA.

CLOTHES-DRYING DJEVKCE.

Application led February 24, 1921. Serial No. 447,562.

-To' aZZ whom t may concern:

Be itknown that I, ROBERT M. OVERTON, a subject of the King of Great Britain and a resident of Waterloo, Black Hawk (lounty liowa, have invented certain new and usefu improvements in Clothes-Drying Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention'relates to improvements in clothes drying devices. One object of my improvements is to furnish a hollow, clpsed, foldable sectional casing or drying container for dam clothes, adapted to be connected removably to or placed in juxtaposition to a washing machine, and having therein or positioned to. propel an air-current through it, a rotatable fan-wheel adapted to be actuated by a motor 'as that of the Washing machine, the casing folding into small compass for storage or transportation when not in use.

Another object of my improvements is to associate with said casing a plurality of clothes holders, arranged therein in spaced arrangement, permeable to an air-current driven therethrough by said fan-wheel, and having spacing members which also serve to releasably clamp articles of clothing or any textiles upon the holders in a spread out and loose condition favorable to quick drying under the action of the air-current.

These objects have been accomplished b the means which are hereinafter describe and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. l is a perspective view of my improved clothes drying device as mounted upon a washing machine; Fig. 2 is a plan of the casing with the 'cover removed, showing the clothes holding means therein; Fig. 3 is a detail side elevation of two of the superposed clothes holders, and Fig. 4 is an end elevation of the same.

Similar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the several views.

My improved clothes drying device has a foldable casing or container made of hingedly connected sections. To a horizontal rectangular bottom plate l, like side plates 3 and a are connected by means of hinges 2. @ne end of the casing may be left open as shown, and there is anpend closure 9 at the opposite end, the latter connected to the bottom plateby hinges 10. A flanged top cover 6 i-s hinged to the side plate 4 by hinges 5,

and has a slotted hasp Z-for engagement with a staple 8 on the outside of the side plate 3. The side and end plates may be releas'ably secured together by any fastening means, such as overlapped oriced lugs 35 connect- @0 ed by split-pins. 0n the outside of the side plates at their lower corners, may be fixed sockets 36 in which legs 37 may be removably mounted, and fastened in any desired way. A hooked rod 13 may be pivoted to @5 the top of the end plate 9 to' releasably engage a stud 14; on an end flange of the cover plate 6 to prop the latter in an open position. When one end of the casing is left open as shown, the upper corners of the side l@ plates at that end may be detachably connected to a curved cross-bar 15, which permits the end of the casing to be brought into close' juxtaposition with a cylindrical washing machine 18to which it may be releas'- 75 ably fastened by hook and staple connections 16 and 17. rl`he motor, not shown, of the washing machine 18, may have a projecting powershaft 19 provided with a terminal belt-pul- 50 ley 20 carrying the lower end of a driving belt 2l. An oriliced bearing-body 28 is tired on the middle of the curved cross-bar 15 and in it is rotatably mounted a short shaft on which the fan wheel 22 is loosely and re 85 movably mounted together with a belt pulley rigidly connected thereto having a clutch member. Said belt 21 passes about the ul ley 241, and a clutch sleeve 25 is slida ly, non-rotatably mounted on said shaft for occasional engagement with the clutch face on said pulley. rl`he clutch-sleeve is annularly grooved to receive a terminal fork 26 on a reversely bent arm 27 which latter may be used to shift the clutch sleeve into or out of engagement with said pulleys clutch face.

When the clutch-sleeve 25 lis engaged with said pulley clutch-face the pulley 24 is locked against rotation, the driving-belt 21 sliding around the pulley, being somem0 what loose, as the fan requires but little tractive power while in operation. v

Openings 11 may be provided in the ends of the side plates 3 and d adjacent said washing machine, and the end plate-9 may have a M5 number of louvered openings 12.

lhe device so far described, may be successfully employed in the drying of clothes when the damp clothes are disposed within said casing upon any kind of supporting M0 means which will permit themv to be in a loose or spread out condition .to permit air currents, propelled by said fan wheel, to forcibly permeate them. y

I haveshown, however, certain means for performing this function which are thought to be of superior convenience and utility. An oriiced partition may be removably mounted across the interior of 'thecasing immediately to the rear of said fan Wheel 22 as a safeguard for the operator, and may be constructed of a rectangular open frame 30 carrying a large meshed netting, the uprights of said frame bein lslidably seated between lugs on bodies 29 racketed on the inner walls of the side-plates 4 near their tops'. This partition divides the interior oi the casing in two compartments of which the larger one is used as the clothes drying chamber. On the inner walls plates, near the lower edges and near the said partition, are fixed bracketed bodies 31 having vertically oriticed horizontal parts in which are stepped the lower ends of lvertical rods 32.

Referring to Figs. 2 to 4, inclusive, the numeral 34 denotes one of a plurality of like tabular clothes holders, referably having open frames covered with arge mesh netting 38. These-holders are placed in said clothes drying chamber in spaced superposition successively, to a desired number, but it is good practice to have the heights of spacing between the holders of the same heights of the louver openings 12 positioned at the same level for freer transmission of air currents therethrough. The ends of the holders 34 adjacent said endl plate 9'may have short legs 39 :fixed thereon to support the su rposed holders in spaced relation.

he opposite end of each holder 34 has a spaced 1plair of like downwardly bifurcated legs 40 Xedly mounted on the cross bar 12, whose forks are yplaced astride of the like cross bar of the holder below to serve as spacing legs. Referring to Fig. 2, it will be seen that said bifurcated legs 40 have the further function of serving as securing means by which lto hold or releasably fasten a spread out piece of cloth or garment 41 upon the netting of a holder, the weight of the holder above thus serving to secure the cloth at its end nearest the fan wheel 22, the other end of the cloth being left free to flap in the stron air current propelled by the fan wheel. referably, but a single layer of the textile should be placed upon a holder so that evaporation may more rapidly occur to effect quick drying. In this Way, when all the holders are used a full charge can be received thereon after washing in the machine 18, the operation of the fan wheel sufficing to thoroughly dry the clothes during the time that another charge is being washed in said machine.

It is to be understood that the fan wheel or other air propelling means may be actuated of said sidebe suitable and "available, as the device is not necessarily restricted to be an attachment to a washing machine.

The numeral 3l denotes oriiced lugs fixed on the lower inner faces of the side plates 3 and 4 to receivestandard rods 32. Oriced lugs 33 are fixed on both sides of the holders 34 to have their orifices in vertical alinement with the orifices in said lugs 31,*the rods passing therethrough to position and detachably secure the holders 34 in superposition. f

Having described my invention, what l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: 1. A device of the character described, comprising a hollow collapsible casing having inlet and outlet ports and a removable orificed partition therein, and means within and for creating an air-current through said casing partition.

2. A device of the character described, comprising a 'hollow vcasing composed of foldably-connected sections provided with openings, in said casing, and an orificed Apartition dividing the interior into a fan-wheel chamber and a clothes-receiving chamber.

3. A device of the character described, comprising a hollow casing having air-ports at its opposite ends, a fan-wheel rotatably mounted in one end of said casing, a plurality of oriiced tabular clothes-holding bodies removably and separably mounted in juxtaposition in said casing' and positioned lengthwise therein relative to said fan-wheel be.- tween said end air-ports.

4. A device .of-the character described,.

comprising a hollow casing having air-ports in Aits opposite ends, a fan-wheel rotatably mounted in one end of said casing, a plurality of horizontally disposed spaced tabular clothes-holding bodies removably and separably positioned in superposition in said casing, and means for spacing said bodies-apart.

5. A device of the character described, comprising a hollow casingl having airports in its o posite ends, a fan-wheel rotatably` mounte in one end of said casing, an orificed partition dividing the interior into a fan-wheel compartment and a clothes-receiving compartment, a plurality of fiat oriiiced superposed spaced horizontal trays positioned in the clothes-receiving compartment, and spacing-supports. depending from each tray shaped to t upon portions of the tray thereunder and to clamp between it and the traythereunder articles spread flatly upon the latter tray lengthwise in the casing with relation to both said fan-wheel and to said air-ports.

6. A device of the character described, comprising a hollow casing formed of foldably connected sections and having air-ports ,by any other motor connection which. may

a rotatable fan-wheel positioned Lavorare atfits opposite ends, a fan-Wheel rotatably mounted in said casing, standards removably mounted in said casing on opposite sides thereof, a plurality of clothes-holding trays positioned in spaced superposed horizontal relation in said casingr between said air-ports and lengthwise with relation to said fan- VWheel, said trays having means for clamping atly thereon articles to be dried, and having other means for releasably securing them l@ to said standards.

SignedA at Waterloo, llowa, this 16th day of 1F eb., 1921.

ROBERT M. OVERTN.

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