US1700897A - Clothesline holder - Google Patents

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Feb. 5, 1929. v 1,700,897

c. A. KJELLIN CLOTHESLINE HOLDER Filed June l, 1927 1N VENTO/e Cf/ARLES. [LT/.5L L /M A TT ORNE Y Patented Feb; 5, 1929.

UNITED STATES CHARLES A. KJELLIN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CLOTHESLINE HOLDER.

Application led June 1,

This invention relates to clothes line holders and in particular to one that alleviates the necessity of the housewife leaning out o'l the window in order to place clothes upon a clothes line.

A particular object of the invention is to provide a simplified device which may be swung into and out of the window, which will carry the clothes line into the room so that the clothes may be hung thereon without the necessity of reaching out of the window to place the same upon the line.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a clothes line holding device which will be adjustable so that it can be placed. in position upon a window of any width and so arranged that it can be` swung to position ex terior of the window.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a device of this character embodying a line holding hook which will compensate for the distance the line holding member is swung so that slack in the linel will be taken up and the line prevented from sagging.

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, a drawing depicting a preferred form has 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 in side elevation, the section being taken through a window to show the position of my improved line holding device in connection therewith.

Figure 2 is an enlarged view partly in seetion showing the device as it would appear when swung into the room and in position for use, the sectional parts thereof being arranged to show the construction of the device.

Figure 3 is a view in perspective showing how the `device would appear when swung exteriorly of the window to support the line in position to dry the clothes, and

Figure -t is a sectional view taken on the line 4 -4 of Figure 2 showing how my improved device is secured to the casing of the window.

Referring to the drawings in detail and in particular to Figure 1, 5 indicates the wall of the dwelling and 6 a floor therein, the window sill being indicated as at 7 and the sash frame indicated by the numeral8. The sash frame, of course, holds the two sliding sash 1927. Serial N0. 195,805.

elements 9 and when the lower element is raised, my improved line holding device is adapted to be swung into the room so that clothes may he secured on the line without the necessity of the housewife reaching through the window opening.

In Figure 2 it will be evident that the device is secured to one side of the window frame 8 and consists of a bracket 10 having the extended portions 11 and 12 which, through the medium of the screws or other fastening element 13, are secured in position against the window frame 8 and atone side of the window so that the clothes line holding device is positioned as shown in Figure 3. The bracket 10 is provided with the sleeve portions 14 through which is adapted to pass and have sliding lit therein, the short piece of pipe 15 which is prevented from moving upwardly through the sleeve 14 by means of the cap 1G which is threaded to its lower end, the upper end of the pipe 15 receiving the elbow 17 which iinprisons between its end and the upper end of the bracket sleeve 14, the hook member 18. This hook member consists of a sleeve arranged to encompass the pipe 15 and has formed integral therewith, al holding hook.

It is quite evident, therefore, that the pipe member 15 has free swinging movement in the bracket sleeve 14 and consequently, the extended portion 19 which is made from a piece of pipe and is threaded into the end of the elbow 17 may bc swung in and out of the window.

This piece of pipe 19 is adapted to re ceive the pulley carrying arm or extension 20 which has sliding movement through the cap 21 which is not only threaded to the end of the pipe 19 and forms a closure therefor but has passing therethrough the .set screw 22 which is adapted to engage the extension 2() to retain the same in any adjusted position. The end of the extension or rod 2O is pro vided wit-h a turned over portion 23 arranged to hold in position the pulley bracket 24: in which, in the usual manner, the pulley 25 is pivoted over which passes the clothes line 26, the other end thereof passing over the pulley 27 which is held on any suitable support such as the clothes line holding pole 28. It is quite evident, therefore, that when the device has been drawn to the position shown in F igure 1 that clothes may be placed on the clothes line in that portion thereof which is disposed within the room and one side of to lreep it `out of the way of the other portion of the line when the clothes are being secured thereto, and whenthe line has been hung with clothes'and the line is advanced so that the last article of clothing hung thereon is outside the window, the piece 19 is swung out so that it extends beyond the window as shown in Figure 3. `When the device is swung into the roon'i, it is maintained in this position through the niediuni of a suitable pin 30 which passes througl'i an opening in the .sleeve portionlelof the bracket 1 0 and through matching openings in the pipe l5, the openings in the sleeve and in the pipe are diametrically opposite and consequently the pin 30 passing through. the openings maintains the device in the position shown in Figure 2, when it is desired to hang clothes on the line and in its outwardly swung position, as shown in Figure 3. lhe adjustinentof extension piec 9.0 permits the device to be used in connection i findows el" various width thereby perini the pulley to be drawn into the rooina inai. inuni distance.

When' the line is advanced to carry the clothesbeyond the window, the pin is rernoved and the device is swung about the bracket to the position shown Figure 3 but preparatory to doing this both sides ot the clothes line are put into the hoolr li and when the device is swung outwardly of the window, the line is folded as illustrated in Figure 3 and thus slaclrtherein is prevented andtalren up by reason of the told in the line when the bracket is moved to its extended position outside the window. lViren it has been moved to this position, the pin 30 is reinserted and the device is held in its extended position until it is desired to reinove the clothes troni the line.

lt is evident, therefore, that l have provided a device which eliminates the necessity7 ot' the housewife reaching out ot the window and also takes up the weight of the line so Vfhile l have illustrated and described iny invention with soine degree ot particularity, l realize that in practice various alterations therein niay be made. l therefore reserve the right and privilege of changing the torni of the details of construction or otherwise 'altering the arrangen'ient of the correlated parts without departing from the spirit of claim.

Having thus described my invention what l claiin as new and desire to secure by United States Le'tcrs Patentis :m

t clothes line holder comprising a bracket, a sleeve like housing thereon having oppositely disposed openings, a tubular ineinber revolvable therein and having openingsto match with those of the housing, a cap for the lower end ot the tubular member, an Velbow secured to the upper end thereof, a sleeve carried by the tubular member disposed between the elbow and the upper end of the housin` and provided with a clothes line holding hook, a pipe secured to the elbow, an extension armV slidableY in said pipe and having a hooked end,`ineans 'jor securing the arin in any vzu;l..jiistcd position in the pipe, a clothes line pulley carried by the hooked'end 'of said extension and a pin arranged to pass through the openings of the housing and the tubular inelnber 'tor retainling the saine in predetermined relative position.

ln testimony whereof I my signature.

CHARLES A.`AKJELL. s]

`the invention or the scope of the appended i

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