US176366A - Improvement in clothes-driers - Google Patents

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E. S. SKE'EL. CLOTHES-DRIER.

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UNITED STATES PATENT omen.

EDWARD S. SKEEL, OF MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-DRIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 176,366, dated April 18, 1876; application filed a January 22, 1876.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, EDWARD S. SKEEL, of Meadville, in the county of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented. a new and valuable Improvement in Folding Olothesltack; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descrip tion of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, makinga part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of a top-plan view, and Fig. 2 of a bottomplan view, of my clothes-rack. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of the same, and Figs. 4 and 5 are detail views thereof. is

This invention has relation to improvements in folding clothes-racks, adapted either for airing or drying clothes or goods; and it consists in the arrangement and novel construction of radial sockets, which are capable of being detached from the supportingstaff, and of being folded around the same, whereby means are provided for removing the arms or sockets when necessary, and thus adapting inyimproved drying-frame to be placed in a corner of a room, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the annexed drawings, the letter A designates a preferably cylindrical stafl' or upright, t0 the lower end of which is secureda quadru 'fly-strapped hinge, B, to which are rigidly attached arms 0, flat on their under sides, which are designed to afford a base for the supporting-staff A. Arms 0 are preferably of wood; and when they are swung outward into the position shown in Fig. 3 their heels will abut against the lower end of the said staff, and they will thus be held against further outward vibration than what would be required to place them at right angles to the said staff, or nearly so. means afoldin g base will be constituted,w11ich, together with a folding drying-frame, hereinafter explained, will form a drier capable of being folded into a compact form, either for transportation or for being stowed away in a corner or closet. D represents a metallic collar of suitable strength, which is passed over staff A, and is adjustably secured at any de- By this G. This socket is provided with an angular heel, d, which is received in a curved recess,

6, out in the body of collar 1), which serves to hold the said-sockets against lateral vibration, A

and yet allows them free upward vertical vibration. The toe part of socket F is designed -to abut against the cylindrical partn of collar D, and will, in practice, be provided with a calk or projection, f, which, bearing against the said cylindrical part of the said collar,

will hold the socket s in a horizontal position, at right angles, or nearly so, to the staff. To detach the sockets from the collar, draw arms G outward. so as to pull the journals of the sockets outward into the lower end of curved notches b, when the heel of the socket will be disengaged from the recess between lugs a, and, by being raised, will be lifted out of their bearings, and be thus detached from the collar. These arms being detachable, a sufficient number may be removed, and the device set in a corner of a room, where space is wanting, and yet a sufficient number of arms retained to receive a considerable quantity of material to be dried. When the arms are thrown up into a vertical position the heeld of the socket will engage deeply in recesses e on collar D, and will thus be prevented from being detached from the said collar, and falling free therefrom.

In practice I shall employ two or more dryingframes in connection with asingle staff, should it prove desirable. The ends of arms -G will be providedwith an eyebolt, I, through V which will be passed a cord,H, the object of end of staffA with a ring-bolt, B, so that when desirable the folded apparatus may be hung up out of the Way.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters'Patent, is-

l. The collar D, having spaced lugs a, with curved notches b, a cylindrical part, n,-and a recess between the lugs in the said cylindrical part, in combination with the boot-shaped socket F, having journals 0, an angular heel, d, and a calk, f, substantially as specified.

2. In combination with the collar D, the vertically-vibratory and detachable sockets F, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD S. SKEEL. Witnesses:

W. A. SELBY, W. N. LooKWooD.

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