US338923A

US338923A - Clothes-drier

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Publication number: US338923A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-03-30
Anticipated expiration: 1903-03-30

Description

(No Model.)

J. CARR.

CLOTHES DRIER.

No. 338,923. Patented Mar. 30,1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH CARR, OF ELK FALLS, KANSAS.

CLOTHES- DRIER.

SPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 338,923, dated March 30, 1886.

Application filed April 27, 1885.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH CARR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Elk Falls, in the county of Elk and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Bars; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective view of my improved device. Fig. 2 is aside elevation of the vertical post and the clothessupporting arms removed from the base and in a folded position. Fig. 3 is a top view of the base.

This invention relates to clothes-bars of that class having movable parts which, when required, can be folded or closed to lessen its size, in order that the clothesbar may be stored away in such manner as to economize in space when it is not desired to use the clothes-bar for supporting clothes, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates the support or base of the device, which support is made cruciform or in the form of a cross having two pairs of arms, B B and O C, said pairs intersecting each other at right angles and having spaces a Z) c d between them, in which spaces are pivoted four supporting legs, e f g h, rodsz' being passed through said pairs of arms and through said supporting legs. The upper ends of the pivoted legs are beveled or inclined, so that they will engage and bear against the vertical faces of the upright or post D, which latter is provided with a tenon, E, on its lower end, which fits in a seat, F, formed between the arms B B CO when the clothesbar is erected. The post D is preferably rectangular in cross-section, and two of its opposite sides are provided with headed pins or spikes G G, arranged in pairs, one pin or spike, G, of each pair being in a different horizontal plane from its fellow. The pin or Serial No. 163,583. (No model.)

spike G of each pair is driven through the slot H in an arm, I, (any desired number of arms I being used,) and the spike G of each pair of spikes is driven a little above the horizontal plane of the spike G, and near the opposite edge of the same face of the upright, and forms a bearing for the slotted end of the arm I when the latter is extendedfor use in supporting the clothes. By simply sliding the slotted arms I on the spike G of each pair said arms may be disengaged from the spike G, and may be folded for the purpose of storing the upright, which is then removed from the support or base A and stored away, the slotted arms having been previously folded, the pairs being folded those near one edge of the face of the post upward and those near the opposite edge of the face being folded downward, this being true of the two faces of the post which are provided with said folding arms. The arms I of the clothes-bar that fold upward are dropped down on their supporting-pins, the slots permitting this action, and their lower ends engage studs or rest-pins J, which prevent said arms from falling out wardly while the post is in its vertical position. It will be noticed in this construction that the ends of the arms, when folded, do not project beyond the ends of the upright, and that by this construction a large drying-surface is obtained when the clothes-bar is extended, and great economy in space results when the arms are folded.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the vertical posthaving the headed pins arranged in two vertical rows on opposite sides, and having the stop-pins J,

and the arms I pivotally held to the post by the said headed pins, substantially as shown, to serve with a base as set forth.

In testimony whereofl affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' JOSEPH CARR.

\Vitnesses:

A. H. BAKER, B. H. W001).