US1764072A - Clotheshorse - Google Patents

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June 17, 1930. w, FRAZER ET AL 1,764,072

CLOTHESHORSE Filed Nov. 5, 1928 Patented June 17, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT; OFFICE JAMES WILLIAM FRAZER, OF MON C'ION, NEW BRUNSWICK, AND GILBERT FERRAIBEE, OF MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA GLO'IHESHOBSE Application filed. November 5, 1928.

The invention relates to a clothes horse, as described in the present specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings that form part of the same.

The invention consists essentially of the novel features of construction pointed out broadly and specifically in the claims for novelty following a description containing an explanation in detail of an acceptable w form of the invention.

' The objects of the invention are to facilitate the drying of clothes particularly in apartments and dwellings in which the space is to a great extent limited; to economize in space in regard to the storage of this article while not in actual use; to produce the horse at a low cost, and thereby insure its distribution at a reasonable price to the consumer; and generally to provide a horse for drying clothes in which a rack will always be at hand during washing operations for the convenience of the washer.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the clothes horse as it appears in 95 actual use.

Figure 2 is a view of the clothes horse collapsed.

Figure 3 is a sectional view on the line 83 in Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a cross sectional view on the line 4-4 in Figure 2.

Figure 5 is a vertical sectional view through the base and socket.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the various figures.

Referring to the drawings, the standard, indicated by the numeral is a flanged member, formed of four sections 11, 12, 13 and 14, though it may be made in as many more sections as desired, however, for the purposes of description in this invention, it is shown with the right angularly arranged sections as mentioned.

This standard is seated in a correspondingly recessed socket 15, this socket 15. ex-

tending upwardly from a rotatable body 16 having a central pin 17 extending downwardly therefrom.

The base 18 is formed with the bearing surface 19 upon which the body 16 is Serial No. 317,435.

mounted and with a central journal orifice 20 for the pin 17.

The base 18 is slightly elevated by the feet 21 extending from said-base and forming the support for the standard 10.

The racks 22 are pivotally secured and extend outwardly from the sections 11, 12, 13 and 14 respectively and at their outer ends are pivotally secured to the props 23, and at the lower ends of the props, the castors 24 are secured, and these castors form the supports of the props from the ground.

In the operation of this invention the base is moved to a convenient position to the washer, and as soon as the clothes are ready for drying purposes, one section of the rack is filled up with clothes, and simply moved around so that the other section is ready.

This continues until the four sections are filled with clothes.

After the clothes have been dried and removed and the horse is no longer needed, then the several racks are folded up to the standard and the whole device moved over to the corner or such other place as may be convenient to place it.

What we claim is:

A clothes horse comprising a central flanged post and vertically folding arms and a pedestal formed of a centre standing on legs and having a central orifice therethrough and an adjustable socket member having a stub shaft journalled in said orifice and a body supporting a socket proper shaped to receive said flanged post.

Signed at Montreal, Canada, this 171: day of October, 1928.

JAMES WILLIAM FRAZER. GILBERT FERRABEE.

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