US576815A

US576815A - Clothes-drier

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Publication number: US576815A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1897-02-09
Anticipated expiration: 1914-02-09

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@.GRANT, r. GLOTHBSDR 10,576,815

Patented Peb. 9, 1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES GRANT, JR., OF REVERE, MASSACHUSETTS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 576,815, dated February 9, 1897.

Application iiled October 30, 1896. Serial No. 610,530. (No model.)

fo all whom t may concern/.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES GRANT, Jr. of Revere, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Driers, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to clothes-driers, and has for its object to produce a simple, light, and easily-portable folding rack for drying articles of clothing or the like, as well as one which possesses more stability when in use than is ordinarily found in clothes-driers of its class.

My clothes-drier iS constructed with long cylindrical wooden uprights and horizontal wooden cross-bars connecting these uprights at intervals along their length. The invention consists in the novel and simple method of iixing the cross-bars in place upon said uprights.

Of the annexed drawings, forming part of this specification, in which corresponding parts are indicated by similar letters of reference, Figure l is a perspective View of a clothes-drier constructed according to my invention, and Fig. 2 is a vertical section of one of the joints or hinges thereof.

Referring to the drawings, a d represent the upright wooden rods, which are preferably circular iu cross-section.

b b and b b represent the cross-bars upon which the clothes or other articles to be dried are intended to be hung, said cross-bars having annular apertures formed at their ends to embrace the upright rods. The cross-bars b b occupy alternate sections of the clothesdrier and are nailed, screwed, doweled, or otherwise rigidly secured at convenient intervals to the Wooden uprights a a. cross-bars b' b occupy the intermediate sections of the clothes drier and are loosely mounted upon said uprights ct a, thus adapting the device to be folded compactly.

The ends of the cross-bars of adjacent sections overlap each other, and the looselymounted bars b b are prevented from sliding up or down on the upright rods by means of the rigidly-secured bars b, and wooden-collars c c, likewise rigidly secured to the upright rods ce a, the end of each bar b having below The it the fixed end of a bar b and above it a fixed collar c, or vice versa, excepting on the first and last uprights, where the collars c c are omitted and the ends of all the bars are secured to the uprights.

In Fig. 2 d d represent nails driven into the collar c and into the bar b, securing said collar and bar to the upright a.

b2 b2 represent locking bars or yokes, each of which is adapted to slip over the upper ends of two uprights a. d and lock the included sections of the clothes-drier in the form of a V, thus'giving stability to the drier and an ample base to stand upon.

From the foregoing it will be observed that I have provided a peculiarly simple folding rack for drying clothes, the parts of which are secured together with the least expenditure of labor and at a very low cost. By forming the apertures for the standards directly in the ends of the cross-bars I obviate the necessity of eXtra parts for hinging them thereto, whereby thev whole rack may be formed of wood.

Having thus described my invention, what As a new article of manufacture,a sectional clothes-drier consisting of a series of standards or upright rods; a series of cross-bars having apertures in both ends for receiving the said standards, the cross-bars of the alternate sections being rigidly secured to their standards, and the cross-bars of the remaining sections being looselytted on said standards and resting in contact wit-h the ends of the rigidly-secured cross-bars; and collars for coacting with the rigidly-secured crossbars for the purpose of confining the ends of said loosely-secured cross-bars between the said collars and the ends of the rigidly-se` cured cross-bars.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specication, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 24th day of October, A. D. 1896.

CHARLES GRANT, JR.