US81249A - Manly t - Google Patents

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TO ALL WBOM IT MAY CONCERNi Be it known that I, MANLY T. CAMPBELL, of Lima, in the county of Delaware, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clothes-Driers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is aside elevation of a clothes-drier embodying my invention, all the racks save one being folded,

asthey are when not in use, in order'to occupy but little space.

Figure 2 is a perspective view, showing the drier fully extended, all the racks being unfolded.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures. A

The subject'of this invention is a device having a number of jointed arms, which, when turned to and supported in a horizontal position', ati`o`rd means for suspending a large number of clothes or other articles to be dried by 'the air, .but which. when not in use,-aro folded in toward the main stand or support, so as to occupy but little space. l

In order that those skilled in the art to which my invention appertain's may be enabled to fully understand and use the same, I will proceed to describe its construction and-operation with reference to the accompanying drawings.

A is a main stand orgpost, which is supported upon legs, B, which diverge from the top, so as to enlarge the base, andA thus give steadincss to the drier, especially when the racks, or a portion of them, are folded un.`

The stand A is shown as being quadrilateral, but it may have a greater number of sides.

A rack is attached to each side of the stand A. Each of these racksfconsists of bars C C C, suitahlv jointed or hinged to thestand A and to the connecting-bar D, at their respective ends.

To the connecting-bar D of each rack is hinged a bar, E, which constitutes a leg to support the rack, when unfolded Vfor use. l l

In'order to effect a rigid connection between thc'bn-i` D 'and log E, while the latter is supporting its rack, I employ a bolt, F, which, when depressed, occupies sockets d e, on the adjacent ends of the bar D and leg E, thus retaining the latter in its supporting position. When the bolt F is raised so as to clearthe socket e. tho leg-E maybe turned up against the side of the bar D, as shown upon the folded racks in g. 1. f

The numerous arms C afford great suspending capacity, and one, two, or all the racks may be brought into' requisition', as occasion may require.

It will he observed that, by providing the racks with .the folding legs E, said racks are made ,capable of being folded downward', so that, in consequence of the distance of thc points of attachment of the arms C from; thebottom of the post A, and the relativo length of the said arms, the instrument, on being closed, up in oompact form, occupies no more vertical space than when in use. This would vnot be the clase if the construction were such as to require the upward movement of thc racks in closing or folding the same.'

This device is not oniy simple and cheap, but it may be easily managed, and will prove especially useful for those' who have limited yard-room.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claimias new herein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- The hinged. legs'E, applied to the racks C D of the main stand A, in the Amanner described, and held in supporting position by the bolts F, or their equivalent, for the purpose set forth.

To the above, I have signed my name, this sixteenth day of June, 1868.

. MANLY T. CAMPBELL. Witnesses:

WM. A. WIEDERSHEIM,

H. HYNEMAN.

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