US926576A

US926576A - Clothes-line reel and tightener.

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Publication number: US926576A
Application number: US43123908A
Authority: US
Inventors: Russell M Kneisley
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1908-05-06
Filing date: 1908-05-06
Publication date: 1909-06-29
Anticipated expiration: 1926-06-29

Description

B. M. KNEISLEY.

CLOTHES LINE REEL AND TIGHTENER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 6,1908.

926,576. Patented June 29, 1909.

3 wuenfoz 93W g3 y mum RUSSELL M. KNEISLEY, OF OARROLLTON, MISSOURI.

CLOTHES-LINE REEL AND TIGHTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 29, 1909.

Application filed May 6, 1908. Serial No. 431,239.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUSSELL M. KNnIs- LEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Carrollton, in the county of Carroll and State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Line Reels and Tighteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to clothes line reels and tighteners and has for its object to provide a simple and practical reel for the manipulation of clothes line, said reel embodying a plurality of drums in connection with means for winding and holding said drums independently of each other, one of the drums being adapted for the reception of the clothes line and another drum being adapted for the reception of a hoisting line, whereby the line of the clothes may be tightened and also raised and lowered.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts as herein fully described, illustrated and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation of the clothes line reel and tightener applied to a support, showing also a clothes line and hoisting line connected therewith. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the reel. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of the reel. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section through the reel taken in line with the shaft thereof.

The reel comprises a pair of oppositely arranged bracket arms 1, each of which is sub stantially U-shaped as shown in Fig. 3, the said arms being connected together rigidly by top and bottom cross bars 2 and 3 respectively, which cross bars are provided with apertures at and 5 for the reception of suitable fasteners such as screws whereby the reel as a whole may be secured to a suitable support 5 which may consist of a post, wall or fence and the like. The top and bottom cross bars are provided with terminal angular flanges 6 and 7 adapted to receive fasteners S by which the cross bars are connected to the top and bottom portions of the bracket arms 1. The projecting portions of the bracket arms 1 are also connected by an additional brace or cross bar 9 provided with terminal flanges 10 secured by fasteners 11 to said bracket arms. Journaled in the opposite bracket arms 1 is a reel shaft embodying a pair of

sections

12 and 13 and by reference to Fig. 4 it will be noted that one of the sections is provided with a pintle 14 which is received and works within a (mrrcsponding recess 15 in the other shaft section. In this Way, the shaft sections are connected by an inter'fitting engagement which admits of the relative and independent rotation of the shaft sections by means of operating cranks 16 and 17 which are mounted fast on the outer extremities of the shaft sections as indicated in Fig. 2. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the shaft sections are squared as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, and mounted upon each of said sections is a drum, one of said drums 18 being designed to receive the clothes line illustrated at 19 while the other drum 20 is adapted to receive the hoisting line 21. On each shaft section there is also mounted a ratchet wheel 22 which is engaged by a corresponding pawl 23 to prevent the drum from turning backward and unwinding the line after the line is wound thereon by means of the crank 16 or 17 as the case may be.

At a suitable distance above the reel there is arranged a guide 24 which is shown for convenience in the form of a ring secured to the support 5 by means of a staple 25. The hoisting line is provided terminally with a guide block 26 through which the clothes line 19 passes.

It will now be understood that after placing the clothes upon the line if), said line may be wound up to any desired tension by turning the appropriate drum. The other drum is then turned to wind up the hoisting line 2] which has the effect of elevating the pulley line 26 and raising the end portion of the clothes line in a manner illustrated in Fig. 1. The clothes line may be easily lowered by unwinding the line 21 to the desired extent.

I claim:

A clothes line reel comprising a bracket, a divlded shalt ournaled in said bracket and embodying sections having an interiitting 1 ing cranks on said shaft sections whereby engagement at their adjoining ends and they are independently operable. 10 adapted for relative rotation, drums fast In testimony whereof I aflix my signature on said shaft sections, one adapted to rein presence 0" two witnesses.

5 eeive and wind a clothes line and another RUSSELL M. KNEISLEY.

adapted to receive and wind a hoisting line, Vitnesses: pawl and ratchet means to hold said drums ERCELB SNAVELY, from rotation in one direction, and operat- KATIE B. CLARK.