US599871A

US599871A - Clothes-drier

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Publication number: US599871A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1898-03-01
Anticipated expiration: 1915-03-01

Description

(No Model.)

J. L. SIEPKES.

CLOTHES DRIER.

No. 599,871. Patelited Mar.1,-1 898.

flue 2mm UNITED STATES PATENT rion.

JOHN L. SIEFKES, OF WVEST POINT, OALIFORNIA,-ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE W.

BEATTY, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

CLOTH ES-D'Rl ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 599,871, dated March 1, 1898.

Application filed June 24:, 1897. Serial No. 642,104. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN L. SIEFKES, of West Point, in the county of Oalaveras and State of California,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Briers; and I do herebydeclare 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.

and thereafter to raise the drier to an ele-- vated point near the ceiling, where the artito the ceiling.

The detailed objects and advantages of the invention will be pointed out in the course of the subjoined description.

In the accompanying drawings,Figure 1 is an interior perspective view of a room, showing the improved clothes-drier complete and in operative position. Fig. 2 is a detail vertical section taken longitudinally of one of the guides, showing the manner-of mounting the guide and elevating the drier. Fig. 3 is a view in cross-section on line X X of Fig. 2.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

In carrying out this invention I employ two vertical guides or tracks 1, each of which is longitudinally grooved in one face,or,in other words, is composed of parallel side portions 2, connected at the back by a web 3 andleaving an intervening groove, way, or space 4:, in which the ends of the drier-bar are received. These guides or tracks are intended to be arranged contiguous to the opposite walls of a room of any size, and the ends of each guide or track are rotatably received in cup-shaped sockets 5, secured to the wall or any convenient point by means of screws or other suitable fasteners 6, passing through oppositely-projecting ears 7 of the sockets.

The guides or tracks extend preferably from the ceiling to a point within convenient reach of the operator, so that the drier-bar or clothes-support (indicated at 8) maybe lowered sufliciently to place the articles to be dried thereon. The drier-bar or clothes-support is sectional, comprising, preferably, a central tubular section 9 and end sections 10, which are also preferably'tubular for the sake of lightness and strength and which are slidingly fitted in the opposite ends of the central section 9, being held at any desired point of adjustment by means of binding-screws 11 on the central section 9. This construction enables the support 8 to be extended or contracted to any desired extent longitudinally. Each of the sections 10 is provided at its outer end with a fork 12, in which is j ournaled a grooved pulley 13, which moves up and down in one of the ways 4, being guided by the part 1. Connected at one end to one of the guides 1 is a cord 14, which extends downward and passes around the pulley 13, thence upward and over a stationary pulley 15 at the top of said guide, and thence across to the other guide at the opposite side of the room, and thence over a pulley 16 and downward,

where it may be fastened to a cleat or book may be lowered with equal facility when the clothes are dried.

By journaling or pivotally mounting the guides l in the sockets 5 the guides 1 may be arranged directly opposite or diagonally opposite, or they may be mounted on walls arranged at right angles to each other, according to the position in which it is desired to place the apparatus, the construction permitting the grooved sides of the guides to face each other no matter where the guides may be located.

The apparatus is also well adapted for exhibition or advertising purposes and may be located in stores or in store-windows for dis playing goods to advantage.

The device is also useful for other purposes which will readily suggest themselves to the mind, and I therefore do not wish to be limited to the particular use of drying clothes, but reserve to myself the right to change, modify, or Vary the construction and arrangement within the scope of this invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a pair of substantially vertical guides, of sockets in which said guides are journaled on longitudinal axes, and a longitudinally-extensible clothessupport having its ends arranged to slide upon said guides, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a pair of substantially vertical guides formed with longitudinal grooves and journaled on longitudinal axes, of a substantially horizontal support carrying at its ends rollers adapted to traverse said grooves, and hoisting means for said support.

3. The combination with a pair of substantially vertical guides, of a longitudinally-extensible support made telescopic and composed of relatively-adjustable sections, the ends of the support being forked, and rollers or pulleys journaled in said fork ends and adapted to engage the guides.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN L. SIEFKES. lVitnesses:

W. T. STEVENSON, E. G. WHITE.