US603132A

US603132A - Clothes-drier

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Publication number: US603132A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1898-04-26
Anticipated expiration: 1915-04-26

Description

(No Model.)

4 G DRAKE.

CLOTHES DRIER.

No. 603,132. Patented Apr. 26, 1898.

WITNESSES IN VENTOR M ATTORNEYS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT tribe,

CLOTH ES-DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 603,132, dated April 26, 1898.

Application filed April 24,1897. Serial No. 683,610. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES DRAKE, of Mannington, in the county of Marion and State of West Virginia, have invented a new and usefullmprovement in Clothes-Briers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of myinvention is to providea clothes-drier of exceedingly simple,-durable, and economic construction and which may be mounted upon a support or upon a bracket or suspended from an overhead support and turned readily eitherto the right or to the left.

Another object of the invention is to con struct a drier in an economic manner and so shape it that it may be placed in a position to occupy but little room in storage.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a sectional View through the drier, taken substantially on the line 1 l of Fig. 2, a portion of the support for the drier being likewise in section; andFig. 2 isa plan view of the drier and the support shown in Fig. 1.

The body A of the drieris preferably made as illustrated, in which it is shown as formed of one piece of wire of the requisite thickness, which is bent upon itself to form a helical coil, the wire at the center being carried downward and bent upon itself to provide a vertically-disposed eye 10 and a pin 11 below the eye. The members of the coil are strengthened, and the coils are prevented from sagging to too great an extent by connecting the members of the coil with cords or light wires 12, which extend radially from the center, as is particularly shown in Fig. 2.

In the drawings the clothes-drier is shown as carried by a support consisting of legs 13, arranged to form a tripod, the tripod being pivotally connected at its upper end with the body portion 14: and the legs being limited in their outward movement by means of wires or other flexible braces 15, located near the The body or block 14 of the support in this instance has an opening in its top, which receives the pin 11 of the drier, the eye resting on the top portion of the block or body, as illustrated in Fig. 1, whereby the drier proper is held in a horizontal position and may be freely revolved to the right or to the left, as required.

The flexible braces or strings 12, connecting the coils of the helix, prevent said helix from springing or stretching downward when suspended at the top farther than the adj ustment of the braces will allow. The braces also support all the excess of load above that which is supported by the elasticity of the wire of which the helix is made.

When the device is not needed, it is flattened and may be stood up against the wall, occupying but little room.

I desire it to be understood that the coil from which the body of the drier is made may be given any shape without departing from the spirit of the inventionas, for example, it may be polygonal, diamond, or of triangular formation. It is evident that clothes hanging on any section of the helical body do not hang immediately over or under another section, and hence the air can have free access to all the garments and all parts of the drier.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A clothes-drier, consisting of a wire bent into a helix, the inner end thereof extending to the center and being bent to form an eye, lying in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the helix, then extending perpendicular to the plane of the helix, the extreme end thereof forming a pivot upon which the whole may revolve, substantially as described.

2. A clothes-drier, consisting of a wire bent into a helix, the inner end thereof terminat ing in a pivot which is perpendicular to the plane of the helix and is connected to the body of the helix bya laterally-extending eye which acts as a shoulder, and a series of radially-extending connectors attached to the coils of the helix and limiting their relative movements, substantially as described.

3. Aclothes-drier, consisting of a wire bent into a helix, the inner end thereof extending to the center and being bent to form an eye lying/in a planeperpendieularto the plane of bentintocoilsof successively-increasing size, 10 e thehelix and then extending: perpendicular i' the coils being ;i oined by radialbmces or eon-v to theplane of the helix, the extyeme and nect0rs,and acentral supparting-pivotformed ,I I I, thereofforminga pivot upon which the Whole =upon the inner end of said wire, substantially 5 may 1ev01Ve, anda folding-sl'andzhaving a :as described. 7 e y I I socket in its upper end adapted to receive 1 i "CHARLES DRAKE. J 3 3 said pivot audio support the helimsnb'stan- I \Vitnesses: J I I iially as describecl I I i I I V J. W. HUGHEs, I

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4. A clothes-drier, formedrof a single wire