US20060138061A1

US20060138061A1 - Spinning clothes-hanger

Info

Publication number: US20060138061A1
Application number: US11/024,401
Authority: US
Inventors: Nopparat Thipchuwong; Aniruth Thipchuwong; Master Thipchuwong
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2004-12-27
Filing date: 2004-12-27
Publication date: 2006-06-29

Abstract

A spinning clothes-hanger which spins to help hastening drying of clothes comprises a shaft standing upright held in place through a shield having ball-bearing cartridge at both upper and lower ends where shield is mounted upright to a stand having at least three legs. A motor is installed at one end of the shaft and held in place by bars to the stand where upon turning on, motor drives shaft to spin freely about its axis. One or several circular or any geometric frames sharing same center mounted to bars extended from a body at the center where the body is fixed to another end of the shaft. Alternative holders are used in stead of stand to hold motor and shield for installing the spinning clothes-hanger from ceiling or against a wall. Spring or other mechanisms is alternatively used to spin the shaft.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

This invention is a spinning clothes-hanger to help hastening the drying of clothes in the area with limitation of space or in shade.

PRIOR ARTS

There has been invention of foldable clothes-lines to be used in an area with limit space (U.S. Pat. No. 6,308,843 of De Boer). Normally, clothes-line or clothes-rails are designed to be of linear shape where either rope or rigid rails are used Yet none is equipped with additional device for hastening the drying of washed clothes or with any better designs. The objective of the present invention, a spinning clothes-hanger, which is a clothes-hanging frame of circular shape or of any geometric shape is for hanging washed clothes to help hastening the drying by spinning of the clothes, thus moving clothes against the air while hanging.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

A spinning clothes-hanger for hanging clothes which spins to help hastening drying of clothes while hanging comprises a shaft standing upright inserted through a shield having ball-bearing cartridge at both upper and lower ends where shield is mounted upright to a stand having at least three legs. A motor is installed at one end of the shaft and held in place by bars to stand where upon turning on, the motor drives the shaft to spin freely about its axis. One or several circles or any geometric frames sharing same center mounted to bars extended from a body at the center where the body is mounted to another end of the shaft. Along the frame, there are teeth for hanging clothes. Alternative holders are used in stead of stand to hold motor and shield for installing spinning clothes-hanger from ceiling or against a wall. Spring or gear or cog-wheel or any other mechanisms are alternatively applied to allow spinning of the shaft.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 shows a side view of the spinning clothes-hanger.
FIG. 2 shows a top view of the spinning clothes-hanger.
FIG. 3 shows a longitudinal-sectional view through central axis of spinning clothes-hanger.
FIG. 4 shows hanging of conventional clothes-hangers to the teeth of spinning clothes-hanger.
FIG. 5 shows installation of spinning clothes-hanger to a ceiling.
FIG. 6 shows installation of spinning clothes-hanger to a wall.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

FIG. 1 shows the present invention which is a spinning clothes-hanger 1 made of metal or durable material having a central upright shaft 4 with its lower end mounted to a motor 3 where upon turning on, motor 3 drives shaft 4 to spin about its axis. Motor 3 is mounted through metal bars 31 to a stand 32 having at least three legs. Electric current is supplied to motor 3 through electric cord 33 (FIG. 4).
FIG. 2 is a top view of spinning clothes-hanger 1 where frame 13, made of metal or durable material, which is of single or multiple circular construction or any geometric frames sharing the same center. Along each circle there are teeth 6 standing upright or extending sidewise, at appropriate distances apart from each other for hanging the conventional clothes-hanger. Clothes are hung to the conventional clothes-hanger and hung to teeth 6. At the center, a square body 5A with four bars 12 being welded out from each corner horizontally where clothe-hanging frames 13 are to be mounted or welded to the bars.
FIG. 3 is a longitudinal section showing a cylindrical shield 7 having ball-bearing cartridges 2, one at its upper end and the other at its lower end to fix shaft 4 in a stable vertical position while allowing shaft 4 to spin freely about its axis. Cylindrical shield 7 is mounted to the upper end of stand 32 to be held in upright position. Motor 3 at the lower end of shaft 4, when turned on, drives shaft 4 to rotate about its axis at the center of shield 7 where gears or cog-wheels may be applied to adjust speed of spinning. Spring or any mechanisms which can drive shaft 4 to spin is alternatively applied to rotate shaft 4 manually or automatically.
As of FIG. 2 and FIG. 3, when square body 5A of FIG. 2 is brought to be fixed to element 5B of FIG. 3 which is at the top of shaft 4 through bolts and nuts or by any other means to make installation of the hanger-frame to the top of shaft 4 to form a spinning clothes-hanger of the present invention as in FIG. 1.
FIG. 4 shows how conventional clothe-hangers are hung from teeth 6 and where upon turning on motor 3 by switching ‘ON’ manually or automatically through a preset timer to allow flow of electric current or winding the spring or turning on any mechanisms which drives the shaft 4 to spin about its axis, shaft 4 starts spinning to cause rotation of the spinning clothe-hanging frames. This causes the clothes hung onto the clothe-hanging frame also spin thus move against the air, and shortening the time required for drying the clothes where mostly needs only half an hour to three hours to get all the clothes dried.
FIG. 5 shows, alternatively, the way the spinning clothes-hanger may be installed from the ceiling in a room using a different holder 8 to hold motor 3 and shield 7 in place instead of stand 32.
FIG. 6 shows, alternatively, how the spinning clothes-hanger may be installed against a wall through holder 9 which is a holder of motor 3 and shield 7 hanging from a bar made of metal or durable material fixed to a wall supported by another bar or any different designs to help strengthening or supporting hanging of spinning clothes-hanger of the present invention.
It will be understood that changes may be made within the scope of this invention by one of ordinary skill in the art without departing from the spirit thereof. It is accordingly intended that all matter contained in the above description be interpreted as illustrative rather than in a limiting sense.
It is also to be understood that the following claims are intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention as described herein, and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

Claims

1. A spinning clothes-hanger for hanging clothes which spins to help hastening drying of clothes while hanging.

2. A spinning clothes-hanger for hanging clothes which spins to help hastening drying of clothes while hanging of claim 1 comprises:

a shaft in an upright position inserted through a shield having ball-bearing cartridge at both upper and lower ends where said shield is mounted upright to a stand having at least three legs;

a motor is installed at one end of said shaft and held in place by bars to said stand where upon turning on said motor drives said shaft to spin freely about its axis;

one or several circular or geometric frames sharing one center mounted to bars extended from a body at said center where said body is mounted to another end of said shaft, and where along said frames there are teeth standing upright for hanging conventional clothes-hangers.

3. A spinning clothes-hanger for hanging clothes which spins to help hastening drying of clothes while hanging of claim 2 where alternative holder is used in stead of stand to hold motor and shield for installing said spinning clothes-hanger from ceiling or against a wall.

4. A spinning clothes-hanger for hanging clothes which spins to help hastening drying of clothes while hanging of claim 3 where spring or any other mechanisms is applied alternatively, to rotate said shaft.