US1944808A

US1944808A - Clothesline attachment

Info

Publication number: US1944808A
Application number: US665574A
Authority: US
Inventors: Charles H Reske
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1933-04-11
Filing date: 1933-04-11
Publication date: 1934-01-23
Anticipated expiration: 1951-01-23

Description

Jan. 23, 1934. c. H. RESKE CLOTHESLINE ATTACHMENT Filed April 11. 1955 INVENTOR C'HH LE s ESX/E.' B gina/ ORNEYS.

Patented Jan. 23, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

This invention relates to improvements in clothes line attachments and has particular reference to a means for securing clothes or other objects to a clo-thes line.

The principal object of the invention is to prov-ide means on a clothes line for gripping the clothes thereon, and `entirely eliminating the use of the conventional clothes pins.

A further 4object is to p-roduce an attachment which is not harmful to the clothes being held and one wherein the gripping action may be readily accomplished.

A further object is to construct a clothes line with clamping means so positioned therein, that the tra-vel of the line over the supporting pulleys will, in no way, be interfered with or retarded.

A still further object is to produce a device which is economical to manufacture.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent during the course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specication and in which like numerals are employed gto designate like parts throughout the same,

Fig. 1 is a sideelevation of a pulley line having my invention applied thereto,

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of Fig. l,

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary detail view,

Fig. 4 is a cross sectional view on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3, and

Fig. 5 is an enlarged cross sectional View o-n the line 5-5 of Fig. 3.

Clothes are usually attached to clothes lines through the medium of a fastening element such as a clothes pin. Applicant has devised a simple and unique medium for securing clothes to the clothes line, entirely eliminating the use of pins, which are objectionable because they are often dropped and lost, easily become bro-ken and are difficult to handle. Applicant proposes to use a double line, with a plurality of xed clamps holding the two lines parallel with each other, and by providing a plurality `of sliding clamps upon the lines, a gripping action is eiective that retains the goods placed between the lines.

In the accompanying drawing wherein for the purpose of illustration is shown a preferred embodiment of my invention, the numeral 5 designates an ordinary pulley wheel as does also the numeral 6. Reeved over these pulley wheels is a clothes line which consists of strands '7 `and 8. It will be noted that the top portion of the line consists of a single strand 10, while the bottom portion, as before mentioned, consists of the double strands '7 and 8. These strands are parallel with each other, which permits a series of clamps 9 to be secured thereto. A series of sliding clamps 11 are movable upon the lines as indicated by the arrows in Fig. 3. It is, of course, understood that as many of these clamps may be placed upon the line, as the length of the line will permit in order to accommodate for goods or garments of various SlZeS.

The manner of using my device is as follows: If it is desired to clamp a piece of material between the lines, one of the clamps 1l is slid for instance, toward the right of the drawing. The two strands r7and 8 are then separated, and a portion of the goods placed therebetween. The clamp 11 is thereafter moved back toward the left of the drawing, thus effecting a gripping of the goods as illustrated in Fig. 1.

It is to be understood that the form of my invention herewith shown and described is to be taken as a preferred example of the same and that various changes relative to the material, size, shape and 4arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the subjoined claim.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:-

The combination with a pair of pulley wheels, of an endless clothes line reeved thereover, said line embodying Vin its construction a single strand portion and a double strand portion, secured one to the other, and means carried by said double strand portion for retaining therebetween articles to be hung, said means including a xed element and a sliding element.

CHARLES H. RESKE.