US844962A - Folding clothes-drier. - Google Patents

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PATENTED FEB-5:19, 1907.

D. SHERLOCK.

FOLDING CLOTHES DRIER. APPLgQ'ATION I'ILEI] MAR. 28, 1905.

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FOLDING CLOTHES-DRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 19, 1907.

Application filed March 28, 1905. Serial No. 252,482.

To ctZZ whom, it may concern} Be it known that I, DOMINIC SHERLOCK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Drier, of which the following is a specifica tron.

This invention relates generally to clothesdriers, and more particularly to an improved construction of folding clothes-drier, the object being to provide an exceedingly simple, cheap, and efficient device which can be quickly and easily set up for the purpose of holding the-clothes to be dried and as easily taken apart and folded when not desired for use.

The invention consists in the details of construction hereinafter fully described, andv pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming a part of this speci- 'fication, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a clothes-drier constructed in accordance with my invention and set up ready to receive the lines upon which the clothes are to be hung. Fig. 2 is a detail view showing in top plan a portion of the device. Fig. 3 is a detail view, partly in section and partly in elevation, illustrating the manner of locking the legs of the rack together, the section being taken on line 3 3 of Fig. 2. F 4 is a detail view showing in side elevation that portion of the device shown in top plan in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of one end of the connecting-pole with the block arranged thereon, and Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of the pole without the block.

In carrying out my invention I employ two supporting-legs A, which are adapted to cross each other, as shown, and are provided with a series of hooks B upon their upper portion and to which the clothes-lines are to be connected. Each leg has an eye C adjacent its lower end, which eye is connected by means of a cord D to limit the movement of the said legs apart. I

E indicates a connecting-pole, which is intended to hold the cross-legs in their upright position at the properdistance apart. At each end the pole is undercut in both directions, producing a wedge-shaped end E, which is adapted to fit into the angle A, produced by the crossing of the legs A. Each l wedge-shaped end also has a block F arl i i i l transversely from opposite sides, as shown at F, in order to receive the cross-legs A, and it will be noted that the said slots are arranged out of alinemcnt with each other in order to be in proper position to receive the said legs, as it will be understood that the legs are of the same thickness throughout their length, so that the connecting-pole can be arranged at any desired height.

The slots F are of such width and so ar ranged that the legs A will iit snugly therein and after the lines have been stretched across and lengthwise of the device all dan ger of the device collapsing or any of the parts becoming disengaged entirely avoided.

It will thus be seen that I provide an eX- ceedingly cheap, simple, and eflicient form of 'foldable clothes-drier, as it will be readily understood that when the device is not in use the parts can be quickly and easily disengaged and packed away into a very small space. In use a clothes-line is run around the cross-legs, being supported by the hooks B, as shown in the drawings.

Ha ing thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A clothes drier or rack comprising a connecting-pole having blocks at each end, slotted transversely, supporting cross-legs adapted to iit into the said transverse slots and provided with means at their upper ends for receiving a clothes-line, the lower ends of the legs being connected to prevent displacement.

2. A folding clothes drier or rack compris ing a pole having wedge-shaped ends and blocks arranged upon said ends, said blocks being slotted transversely from the opposite sides, cross-legs adapted to fit into the slots of the block, the wedge-shaped ends of the poles being adapted to fit in the angle formed by the intersection of the cross-legs, hooks carried by the said cross-legs upon their upper portions, cords connecting the lower ends of the legs, and a clothes-line extending around.

the upper portion of the cross-legs and engaging the hooks, as set forth.

DOMINIC SHERLOCK.

Witnesses GEORGE ALoYoNEs SMITH, JAMES T. SMITH.

[ranged thereon, said block being slotted

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