US1606614A - Line protector - Google Patents

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Nov.. 9 1926'.

w. DONNELLY LINE PROECTOR Filed June 29 fryi INVENTOR.

mum/v DOIYIYELLX ATTORNEY.

Patented Nov. 9, 1926.

meant WILLIAM DONITELLY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

/ LINE PROTECTOR.

Application filed June 29, 1925.

This invention relates to clothes line protectors and more particularly to a novel and improved means for covering the line while clothes, for instance,' are being fastened thereto by the usual type of clothes pin, and thus prevent the soiling of the clothes from the, dirt or dust that may have accumulated on the said line.

One of the objects of my invention is to provide a casing and a protective tape, which may be held on a reel, for instance, within said casing, so that said tape may be drawn over the surface of the line and in this way protect the clothes from dust or dirt which is deposited on the line while exposed.

A further object of my invention is to provide a protective device of the character above specified which may be attached and quickly detached from the conventional type of bracket and line pulley, including a reeling mechanism within the enclosed casing or housing whereby the line protective tape may be withdrawn and used as desired.

To enable others skilled in the art to fully comprehend the underlying features of my invention that they may embody the same in the various modifications in structure and relation contemplated, drawings depicting a preferred form have been annexed as a part of this disclosure and in such drawings, similar reference characters denote corresponding parts throughout all the views, of which,

Figure 1 is a view partly in section showing the application of my invention.

Figure 2 is a sectional view through the casing showing the manner of attachment to the pulley supporting bracket.

Referring now to the drawings, wherein like reference characters designate corresponding parts throughoutall the views, 5 designates the conventional type of grooved pulley wheel with the usual spiders 6 and rotatable on the shaft 7, which passes through a T-shaped bracket 8 and may be suspended from a hook or other supporting member.

My invention proper consists of a housing or casing 9 through the side of which is riveted a supporting bracket 10. The lower end of the supporting bracket 10 is curved upwardly as at 11 and adapted to engage the bottom 12 of the pulley wheel supporting bracket 8 above referred to. The upper end of the bracket 10 is slotted as at 13 to Serial No. $0,401.

receive a pin or stud 141 of a slotted arm 15. The said arm 15 is curved downwardly and in the oppositerlirection to the lower end of the bracket 10, said downwardlyextending portion 16 also engaging the top of the pulley supporting bracket, and held in adjusted position by the nut 1.7. It will thus be seen that in this manner the housing or casing 9 may be attached to the different sizes of'pulley supporting brackets for the purpose presently to appear.

Passing through the casing, I have provided the shaft 18, having a handle 19, said shaft supporting a reel 20 on which is wound a flat strip of material, such as wide tape 21, said tape being adapted to be drawn through a slot 22 and beneath a spring guide 23 on the body of the casing proper. One end of the tape is of course fastened to the reel 20 and the free end is placed over the pulley line 2 1 so that it may cover said line and prevent the clothes from coming in contact with any dust or dirt that may be present on the surface of the clothes line.

It will thus be seen that as the housewife begins to fasten the clothes on the line, the tape may be withdrawn from the casing and thus cover the line whereupon the clothes may be fastened and hung so that they will not come in contact with the soiled line but rather with the clean tape. Reversely, when removing the clothes, the handle 19 may be rotated so that the tape will be drawn back into the casing and subsequently the entire device may be detached from the pulley sup porting bracket, as shown. The shaft 18 eX- tends through an opening in the wall 25 which closes the housing or casing, thus the tape may be maintained free from dirt and may at times be removed, laundered and then replaced on the reel 20.

While I have illustrated and described my invention with some degree of particularity, I realize that in practice various alterations therein may be made. I therefore reserve the right and privilege of changing the form of the details of construction or otherwise altering the arrangement of the correlated parts without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the appended claims.

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

1. A line protecting device of the class described comprising a casing, a supporting bracket connected to an end Wall of the casing, an adjustable extension for releasably attaching said bracket to a pulley Wheel supporting bracket, a shaft and strip of tape Wound on the shaft Within the casing, said casing having an opening and a spring guide in its top whereby said tape may be Withdrawn and fastened to a line, and an operating handle formed on the shaft for Wind ing and unwinding said tape.

'2. A line protecting device of the class described comprising a casing, a supporting bracket attached to one end of the casing,

'the upper and lower ends of said supporting bracket being bent in opposite directions whereby it may be detachably secured to a pulley Wheel supporting bracket, a locking member for frictionally retaining the upper and lower members in adjusted relation, a shaft and a reel mounted on the shaft, a strip of: wide tape attached at one end to the reel, said casing having an opening in its body, a spring guide forwardly of said opening whereby said tape may .be Withdrawn and fastened to a line, and a handle fOTrnQd-O-ll-tl16'81'1dk0f the shaft and disposed exteriorly of said casing for Winding and unwinding said tape independently of the clothes line pulley.

In testimony whereoi I aflix my signature.

WILLIAM DONNELLY. [L. s]

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