US2475325A - Clothesline - Google Patents

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July 5, 1949. T. F. M. JENSEN 2,475,325

CLOTHESLINE Filed Nov. 18, 1947 2 Sheets-Shea; l

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CLOTHESLINE 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Nov. 18, 1947 INVENTOR. THOMAJI 44. JENSEN ATTOR/VEK I Patented July 5, 1949 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CLOTHESLINE Thomas F. M. Jensen, Amsterdam, N. Y.

Application November 18, 1947, Serial No. 786,752

2 Claims.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in clothes line holders, and it has for its object to provide a device which will make it possible for a person, or house wife, who washes her own clothes to put out such clothes from a window and retrieve them again without the danger of falling out of the window, which danger is ever present with the devices now commonly used for said purposes. 1

The said device is easy and comparatively simple to manufacture, and can with but little effort be attached to any window frame.

It is in view thereof thought that this device should have large market possibilities.

With the above and other objects in view, this invention consists of the novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter fully described, claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings forming part of this application, and in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a somewhat perspective elevational view, showing my device in operation and attached to a window frame.

Figure 2 is a view similar to Figure 1 showing my device with part of the clothes line swung into a room.

Figure 3 is also a view similar to Figure 1, showing the clothes line with my device outside a window.

Figure 4 is a view taken on the line 44 in Figure 3, and partly in section, while Figure 5 is a view taken on the line 5-5 in Figure 4 and partly in section.

Figure 6 is a view taken on the line 6-6 in Figure 4 and partly in section, while Figure 7 is a view taken on the line !-1 in Figure 6.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the numeral it! indicates a window frame, to the latter is attached a rod, or member II, for the support of one end of a clothes line, said rod is secured to the window frame by the usual brackets l2, l2. The rod ll comprises two parts 13 and M detachably threaded and held together by means of a coupling 1 5.

Turnably and slidably mounted on the rod section is is a T member 21, a knee member 28 is threadedly secured to the T member 21, and a rod I? has one end threadedly connected to said knee member and the other end thereof threadedly connected to a conventionally forked memher I!) which holds a pulley 20; another pulley 2| is arranged at the upper end of the rod l'l, said pulleys 20 and 2! being adapted to carry one end of the clothes line 22.

The T member 21 mounted upon the rod section l3 abuts at one end a spring 23 wound upon the extreme end of said rod section l3; said spring abuts, in turn, one of the brackets I 2.

The rod section I3 is near one end thereof formed with two or more studs 24, while one end of the T member 21 is formed with detents 25 therein adapted to arrest the inward movement, caused by the spring action, of said T member 27, as one of said detents will tightly engage one of the studs 24 due to said spring action. A lever 26 is also pivotally mounted upon the rod section I3; said lever is adapted to act upon one end of the T member 27 so as to compress the spring 23 and thereby release a detent 25 of T member from engagement with a stud 24.

This latter operation is performed when it is desired to bring the end of the clothes on the pulley 2% inside the room, as the T member 21, which is slidable and turnable upon the rod section [3, is swung into the room, and said T member made to engage another stud suitable for said position of the clothes line.

It is obvious that changes may be made in the form, construction and arrangement of the several parts, as shown, within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit of the invention, and I do not, therefore, wish to limit myself to the exact construction shown and described herein.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is:

1. A clothes line comprising a rod, means for securing said rod to a window frame, a T member slidable and turnable upon said rod, a knee member fixedly secured to the T member, a second rod connected to said knee member, pulleys mounted upon said latter rod and adapted to carry a clothes line, said first rod having studs thereon, the T member being formed with detents at one end thereof adapted to engage, respectively, one of said studs, a spring mounted upon said first rod and adapted to keep the detents of the T member in engagement with said studs, and a lever pivotally mounted upon said first rod and adapted to disengage the detents of said T member from said stud and permitting a re-engagement of one of the detents of the T member with another stud, whereby to bring the second rod into a horizontal or vertical position.

2. In a device, as claimed in claim 1, and wherein said rods comprise several sections, and couplings joining said sections together.

THOMAS F. M. JENSEN.

REFERENCES CITED The following referenlces are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 579,973 Frank Apr. 6, 1897 1,174,705 Furman Mar. 7, 1916 1,248,173 Schureman et a1. Nov. 27, 1917 1,428,418 Davison Sept. 5, 1922 2,008,467 Perry July 16, 1935 2,226,820 Jutras et al Dec. 31, 1940

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