US1730887A - Take-up device for clotheslines - Google Patents

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US1730887A
US1730887A US198712A US19871227A US1730887A US 1730887 A US1730887 A US 1730887A US 198712 A US198712 A US 198712A US 19871227 A US19871227 A US 19871227A US 1730887 A US1730887 A US 1730887A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H75/00—Storing webs, tapes, or filamentary material, e.g. on reels
    • B65H75/02—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks
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    • B65H75/36—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material provided for particular purposes, e.g. anchored hoses, power cables without essentially involving the use of a core or former internal to a stored package of material, e.g. with stored material housed within casing or container, or intermittently engaging a plurality of supports as in sinuous or serpentine fashion
    • B65H75/368—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material provided for particular purposes, e.g. anchored hoses, power cables without essentially involving the use of a core or former internal to a stored package of material, e.g. with stored material housed within casing or container, or intermittently engaging a plurality of supports as in sinuous or serpentine fashion with pulleys
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F53/00—Clothes-lines; Supports therefor 
    • D06F53/04—Supports, e.g. poles, props for clothes-lines
    • D06F53/045—Supports, e.g. poles, props for clothes-lines comprising means for storing the clothes-line

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  • Vhen clothes-lines are not in use, it has been customary to take them down, especially in cities or places where the lines have to be stretched between buildings and the space is constricted. Naturally the line when taken down must be wound, coiled or folded, or put in some orderly arrangement. Usually one end of the clothes-line is fastened at the side 'of a window or door.
  • the present invention has to do with the device for taking up the line when not in use in amanner avoiding any entanglement of the line.
  • I provide a casing for the take-up device, this casing being adjustable in length so that it will allow for variations in the length of the line.
  • This casing also incorporates another feature of my invention which is the fastening of a part of the take-up device to the casing thereby anchoring one end of the line while in use and also eliminating any possibility of the device becoming disassembled and the parts mislaid. It is to be understood that this device may be used with clothes-lines at anyplace and the use is not restricted in location, the device being applicable to window-frames, doors, posts or any other available supports.
  • Figure 1 is a perspective View of a fragment of a door, having an embodiment of the pres ent invention applied thereto.
  • Figure 2 is a longitudinal, vertical section taken through the embodiment seen in Figure 1, the parts being shown on an enlarged scale and parts being broken away.
  • Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 2 on a still larger scale, the plane of the section being at right angles to that of Figure 2.
  • Figure 4 is a transverse, horizontal section taken on the plane indicated by line 4:it of Figure 1 and looking downward.
  • My take-up device depends on the well known mechanics of pulleys for the taking in It is an established principle that when two sets of pulleys are drawn together by the line passing between them, the single line will'move a distance in length equal to the distance that the pulleys move relative to each other, times the number of laps of the line passing between the pulleys. For instance, if there are six laps between the pulleys, the single line will move a distance six times the distance the pulleys move relative to each other.
  • a clothes-line 4 Within the casing 1 is a clothes-line 4: and the device for taking up the line when not in use.
  • the top 5 Atone end of the main body of the casing is the top 5 having the opening 6 therein.
  • the line t passes through this opening.
  • One end of the line has the knob or knot 7 thereon to prevent the line from passing completely into the casing.
  • the take-up includes two pulley carriers or blocks 8 and 9. 8 is fixed to the main body of the casing at one end thereof by the bolt 10, while the other carrier or block 9, which may be made of some heavy material as metal or may be weighted as desirable, is movable longitudinally in the casing. This block must be heavy enough to draw the line into the casing when the line is taken down and permitted to enter therein.
  • the device as illustrated is provided with three pulleys 11, in the same plane, mounted on the movable carrier or block 9, while the fixed pulley carrier 8 has two of the pulleys 11 also mounted in the same plane thereon.
  • One end of the line 4 is anchored to carrier 8, and is then passed around a pulley on the block 9, and back to the block 8, and so forth, until the free end is passed through the opening 6 in the top of the casing.
  • the easing is placed in a vertical position, the movable block 9 will be suspended, and the pulleys on both blocks will lie in the same planes, as will the line passing between them. This makes for a very compact arrangement of the device as the pulleys and line will take up only a very small amount of space in this arrangement.
  • the cover 5 and block 8 may be formed integral as shown, or otherwise as desired, the cover being sufiiciently larger than the block to provide marginal flanges l2 overhanging the casing 1, while block 8 is sufiiciently small to depend within the casing.
  • This device is assembled by securing one end of the line to the fixed block 8, and passing it around the various pulleys and then passing the free end of the line through the opening 6.
  • the weighted block 9 is then let down into the casing 1 until cover 5 rests on the casing.
  • the pulley carrier 8 is then secured to the casing by insertion of the pin or .bolt 10. lVhen the casing 1 is placed in the vertical position, the weight of lower block 9 will tend to keep the line within the casing.
  • the casing is then secured wherever one may wish as adjacent a window or door.
  • various lengths of the line may be accommodated by the lengthening of the casing by the addition of the sections 2.
  • the device may be originally designed to provide for more line by including a larger number of pulleys 11.
  • a cable apparatus comprising a casing of detachable extension sections enabling variation in the length of the casing, a removable top for the casing, and cable take-up means within the casing supported from said top.

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Oct. 8, 1929 A. H. HEMPEL TAKE-UP DEVICE FOR GLOTHESLINES Filed June 14, 1927 Patented Oct. 8, 1929 ALBERT H. HEMPEL, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO TAKE-UP DEVICE FOR 'e oTHEsmNEs Application filed June 14,
Vhen clothes-lines are not in use, it has been customary to take them down, especially in cities or places where the lines have to be stretched between buildings and the space is constricted. Naturally the line when taken down must be wound, coiled or folded, or put in some orderly arrangement. Usually one end of the clothes-line is fastened at the side 'of a window or door. The present invention has to do with the device for taking up the line when not in use in amanner avoiding any entanglement of the line.
A particular advantage of this invention is that it provides a device which will take up the line when not in use and also securely anchor one end of the line when it is in use. This arrangement saves quite a few steps every time a line is taken in or put out, as it is only necessary to fasten or unfasten one end of the line.
In carrying out my invention, I provide a casing for the take-up device, this casing being adjustable in length so that it will allow for variations in the length of the line. This casing also incorporates another feature of my invention which is the fastening of a part of the take-up device to the casing thereby anchoring one end of the line while in use and also eliminating any possibility of the device becoming disassembled and the parts mislaid. It is to be understood that this device may be used with clothes-lines at anyplace and the use is not restricted in location, the device being applicable to window-frames, doors, posts or any other available supports.
In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective View of a fragment of a door, having an embodiment of the pres ent invention applied thereto.
Figure 2 is a longitudinal, vertical section taken through the embodiment seen in Figure 1, the parts being shown on an enlarged scale and parts being broken away.
Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 2 on a still larger scale, the plane of the section being at right angles to that of Figure 2.
Figure 4 is a transverse, horizontal section taken on the plane indicated by line 4:it of Figure 1 and looking downward.
-While the preferred form of my invention of the line.
1927. Sean No. 198,712.
is herein set forth, I do not wish to be limited to the exact construction set forth because various modifications of these details may be provided in putting my invention in practise within the scope of the claims. I
My take-up device depends on the well known mechanics of pulleys for the taking in It is an established principle that when two sets of pulleys are drawn together by the line passing between them, the single line will'move a distance in length equal to the distance that the pulleys move relative to each other, times the number of laps of the line passing between the pulleys. For instance, if there are six laps between the pulleys, the single line will move a distance six times the distance the pulleys move relative to each other.
The casing for my take-up device for clothes-lines is designated by the reference character 1 as shown in Figure 1. This casing is adjustable in length, being made the length desired by the addition or subtraction of one or more of the sections 2 attached by telescoping joints 3.
Within the casing 1 is a clothes-line 4: and the device for taking up the line when not in use. Atone end of the main body of the casing is the top 5 having the opening 6 therein. The line t passes through this opening. One end of the line has the knob or knot 7 thereon to prevent the line from passing completely into the casing.
The take-up includes two pulley carriers or blocks 8 and 9. 8 is fixed to the main body of the casing at one end thereof by the bolt 10, while the other carrier or block 9, which may be made of some heavy material as metal or may be weighted as desirable, is movable longitudinally in the casing. This block must be heavy enough to draw the line into the casing when the line is taken down and permitted to enter therein.
The device as illustrated is provided with three pulleys 11, in the same plane, mounted on the movable carrier or block 9, while the fixed pulley carrier 8 has two of the pulleys 11 also mounted in the same plane thereon. One end of the line 4 is anchored to carrier 8, and is then passed around a pulley on the block 9, and back to the block 8, and so forth, until the free end is passed through the opening 6 in the top of the casing. When the easing is placed in a vertical position, the movable block 9 will be suspended, and the pulleys on both blocks will lie in the same planes, as will the line passing between them. This makes for a very compact arrangement of the device as the pulleys and line will take up only a very small amount of space in this arrangement.
The cover 5 and block 8 may be formed integral as shown, or otherwise as desired, the cover being sufiiciently larger than the block to provide marginal flanges l2 overhanging the casing 1, while block 8 is sufiiciently small to depend within the casing.
This device is assembled by securing one end of the line to the fixed block 8, and passing it around the various pulleys and then passing the free end of the line through the opening 6. The weighted block 9 is then let down into the casing 1 until cover 5 rests on the casing. The pulley carrier 8 is then secured to the casing by insertion of the pin or .bolt 10. lVhen the casing 1 is placed in the vertical position, the weight of lower block 9 will tend to keep the line within the casing. The casing is then secured wherever one may wish as adjacent a window or door. As ma be readily seen various lengths of the line may be accommodated by the lengthening of the casing by the addition of the sections 2. If desired the device may be originally designed to provide for more line by including a larger number of pulleys 11.
Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is
A cable apparatus comprising a casing of detachable extension sections enabling variation in the length of the casing, a removable top for the casing, and cable take-up means within the casing supported from said top.
In testimony whereof I afilx my signature.
ALBERT H. HElviIPEL.
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US2776093A (en) * 1953-07-20 1957-01-01 James H Cox Hose retriever
US3219289A (en) * 1962-10-08 1965-11-23 Ind Ovens Inc Strip accumulator means

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US2776093A (en) * 1953-07-20 1957-01-01 James H Cox Hose retriever
US3219289A (en) * 1962-10-08 1965-11-23 Ind Ovens Inc Strip accumulator means

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