US63397A - Christian kuder - Google Patents

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Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN KUDER, of. Rochester, in the county of Monroe, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful article of manufacture which I call a Lifting Stick for Laundry Boilers;"

and I do hereby declare that'v the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making part of this specication, in which the figure is an elevation of my invention.

Very great inconvenience is experienced in wash-rooms or laundries in the process of removing the clothes from the boilers, and in many instances very serious accidents occur by the clothes slipping from the clothessticldy or poker ordinarily used for handling them, and splashing the hot water upon the person operating it, itc. ylfhe object of this invention is to provide a simple, cheap, and elcient substitute for such sticks, and its nature consists in the employment of a turned stick of suitable length and size, and having a sort of crescentshaped point at one end and a guard at au intermediate point between the ends to prevent the hot Watey.` from following down the stick to the hand of the operator, when the clothes end might happen to be raised above the other.

To enable others to make and use my invention, I will describe its construction .and operation.

I propose to turn the sticks S of different lengths and sizes, and from any desired variety of wood. They are turned with a suitable handle, h, at'one end, and a projecting rim, r, a few inches from the other end. At this end is made a projecting point, z', on two sides of the stick. These points are formed by cutting away two opposite sides of a sort of saucer-shaped ange, turned on that end of the stick.

When the clothes are to be taken from the boiler the barbed end of the stick is inserted into them, and a. partial turn given to it, which causes the clothes to adhere to it. Then they may be held up to drain, or entirely wound upon the stick, if desired, and removed from the boiler. When the stick is to be used for poking the clothes down, the end It should be inserted, because that end would readily free itself from the clothes when it was withdrawn.

A laundry stick might be formed of tinned wire, having a tin guard-plate soldered on, but I prefer wood, both as to economy and eiiciency. i

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, the laundry or clothes-stick S, constructed substantially as herein shown and described, with the ring or rim 7', and hooks or points t', for the purposes set forth.

CHRISTIAN KUDER. Witnesses:

Wn. S. Louennonouen, l. T. TURNER.

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