US1538900A - Clothes post - Google Patents

Description

May 26, 1925. 1,538,900

- J. w. s. LOUGHLIN CLOTHES POST Filed .May 19. 1925 INVENTOR. JmesHSLazgA/Zin/ BY 2 JMWQATORNEYS Patented May 26, 1925.

UNITED STATES 1,538,900 PATENT OFFICE, f

JAMES W. S. LOUGHLIN, 0F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

CLOTHES POST.

Application filed May 19,

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES S. LOUGH- LIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes Posts; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates, generally, to improvements in removable clothes line posts; and the invention has for its principal object to provide a strong, durable and efiicient post which may be quickly set up or taken down, and which is provided with novel means for securing the clothesline thereto in such manner that the same cannot he accidentally loosened or detached therefrom.

The invention has for another object to provide in combination with the removable clothes-post a novel supporting socket which is sunk into the ground, and which is adapted to telescopically receive the lower end of the removable clothes-post: said socket hav ing a hinged cover member at its upper end to close the socket opening against the entrance of dirt, etc., when the clothes-post is removed therefrom,

Other objects of this invention not at this time more particularly enumerated, will be clearly understood from the following detailed description of the same.

lVith the various objects of this invention in view, the same consists, primarily, in the novel construction of removable clothes-post and supporting socket therefor hereinafter set forth: and the invention consists furthermore in the novel arrangements and combinations of the several devices and parts, as well as in the details of the construction of the same, all of which will be more fully described in the following specification, and then finally embodied in the claims appended thereto.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of the novel construction of removable clothes post erected in the supporting socket, the latter being shown, in part, in vertical longitudinal sec- 1923, Serial No. 640,277.

tion; Figure: 2 is a transverse horizontal section, taken on line 22 in Figure 1 Figure 3 is another transverse horizontal section, taken on line 3--3 in Figure 1.

Figure l is a top end View of the clothes post head, said View being drawn on an enlarged scale. Figure 5 is a side elevation of the clothes post head, a portion of the post member being shown in vertical section, said view being also drawn on an enlarged scale; Figure 6 is a longitudinal vertical section through the clothes-post head, taken on line 6'6 in Figure 1 and drawn on an en larged scale; and Figure 7 is a horizontal section through the head, taken on line 7-7 in Figure 6.

Similar characters of reference are employed in all of the hereinabove described views, to indicate corresponding parts.

Referring now to said drawings, the reference character 1 indicates the main body of the clothespost, the same being made of metallic tubing,'preferably a light steel tubing. The head member which finishes the upper end of the post, and which constitutes the member whereby secure attachment of a clothes-line is made relative to the post, comprises two members, viz, a hook or anchor member and a guard member. Said hook or anchor member comprises a main horizontal plate 2. Integrally connected with said plate 2, so asto depend fromthe central portion of the underside thereof is a shank member 3, which is cross-shape in cross-see tion. This shank member 3 is inserted in the upper end of the main body or column 1'. .of the clothespost, into which is deposited soft cement, mortar, concrete or other suitable binder at The binder 4 being plastic fills into the spaces intermediate the arms of said shank-member 3, and when it hard-ens, firmly secures the plate 2 to the upper end of the main body or columns 1 of the clothes-post. Integrally connected with said plate 2 so as to radiate therefrom, preferably at 90 degrees intervals, are a plurality of outwardly projecting up-turned hook members 5. Integrally connected with the upper side of said plate 2, so as to project upwardly from the central portion thereof is a hub member or center boss 6, the same having formed therein a receiving socket 7 provided with diametrically opposed vertical lock-ribs 8 projecting inwardly from its interior walls. Said guard member of the clothes-post head comprises a horizontal plate-portion 9. Integrally connected with said plate-portion 9, so as to depend from the central portion of the underside thereof is ashank member 10, which is also cross- .shape in cross-section. This shank member 10 is inserted in the receiving socket 7 of the hub member or boss 6 of the hook or anchor member, in such a manner that the lockribs 8 enter spaces between the arms of said shank member 10 (as shown in Figure 7) thus holding said guard member against rotative displacement relative to its desired cooperative relation to said hook or anchor member. Before inserting the shank-member 10 in said receiving scoket 7, a plastic cement 11 is deposited within the latter, which when the shank-member 10 is entered in said receiving socket fills .in the spaces around the former, and, when hardened, firmly secures the guard member against displacement from the hook or anchor member of the head. Integrally connected with said plate-portion 9 so as to radiate therefrom, preferably at 90 degree interval-s, are a plurality of horizontally and outwardly projecting guard or keeper fingers 12, which are disposed to project between the free ends of adjacent hook members 5. Integrally connected with the upper side of said plateportion 9 is a head-piece 13 of suitable shape.

The supporting socket, which is adapted to be sunk into the ground, with its upper end at ground level, comprises a tubular socket member 14 of a size adapted to readily accommodate the lower end of the main body or column of the clothes-post, when the latter is telescopically entered therein. Connectedwith the lower end of said socket- 7 member 14 is a conical foot-piece 15, having a shank-portion 15' secured into the lower end of said socket-member 14. The conical shape of said foot-piece 15 permits of easy penetration of the supporting socket into the ground, when the same is driven downwardly thereinto. In order to limit the distance of insertion of the lower end of the main body or column 1 of the clothes post into the receiving socket, the socket-member 14 is provided with a stop-lugs 16, which are struck out of its walls, and inwardly olf-set into the interior of the socket-member so as to engage the bottom of the main body or column 1, all as shown more particularly in Figures 1 and 3 of the drawings. The upper end of the socket-member 14 is provided with an annular exterior collar 17, the outer sides of which taper downwardly and inwardly. The opening of said collar 17 is provided at its upper end with an internal annular bead or rib 18, which engages the upper extremity of the socket member, to prevent downward displacement of the collar relative to the upper end of the socket member. Integrally connected Figures 1 and 2), or which may be closed down over the opening or mouth of the socket member, when the clothes-post is removedtherefrom, (as shown by dotted lines in Figure 1) to thus protect the interior of the socket, member against the filling thereof with dirt, etc.

When the clothes-post is set up the clothes line may be engaged in various ways in connection with the anchor or hook member, either as shown in Figure 4: by turning the same around the hub member or boss 6 and outwardly around the hook portions 5, or otherwise as may be desired, the guard fingers 12 preventing any upward dislodging or release of the line, when the same is thus connected to the clothes-post. More than one clothes line may be attached to the post, so as to radiate from the head member thereof to various outlying points, by associating the same variously with the several hook-members 5, etc.

From the above description it will be quite clear that my invention provides a very eflicient, neat appearing, and strong removable clothes-post, which may easily be taken down and stored away when not in use; and, furthermore, the novel head memher with its novel arrangement of tie hooks and associated guard fingers, is of such character, as to permit of certain and secure fastening of the clothes-line to the post, so that there is no danger, when the line is loaded with clothes of the same becoming accidently detached.

I claim 1. A clothespost comprising a main body, a head-piece connected with the upper end of said main body comprising a hook member having a plurality of radially projecting upturned hook-portions, and a guard member associated with said hook-member having a plurality of radially projecting horizontal guard fingers to extend between the free ends of adjacent hook-portions.

2. A clothes-post comprising a tubular main body, a plate-member having a central depending shank entered and cemented in the upper end of said tubular main body, said plate-member having at its upper side a central socketed hub, said plate-member being further provided with a plurality of radially projecting up-turned hook-portions,

a guard plate member having a central de- In testimony that I claim the invention pending shank entered and cemented in said set forth above I have hereunto set my hand 10 socketed hub, said guard-plate inglnber bethis 10th day of May, 1923.

ing provided With a plurality o radially projecting horizontal guard fingers to eX- JAMES LOUGHLIN' tend between the free ends of adjacent \Vitnesses: hook-portions, as and for the purposes set GEORGE DLRIOHARDS, forth. FLORA MILLER.

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