US326836A - Clothes-drier - Google Patents

Description

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A. BLANCHARD.

CLOTHES DRIER.

No. 326,836. Patented Sept. 22, 1885.

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ALANSON BLANCHARD, CF ARLINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CLOTH ES-DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,836, dated September 22, 1885.

Application filed February 9, 1885.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALaNsoN BLANCHARD, of Arlington, in the county of Middlesex, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clothes-Driers; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specitication and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a top view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 an end view, of a clothesdrier of my improved kind, the nature of my invention being duly defined in the claims hereinafter presented. Fig. 4 is a top view ot' the forked bar or clothes-retainer to be described.

The said clothesdrier has two pairs of legs, A, those of each pair being hinged orjointed together at their upper ends and to a brace, B, extending from them, as represented. The two pairs or' legs A are placed at a suitable distance apart, and are connected by bars C extended from each of the legs of one pair to those of the other, in manner as represented. Each brace B, at its foot, is connected with the ground or floor by a hinge or staple, a, going through the brace and into the iioor, or into a short post driven into the ground. A series of endless ropes, C', are applied to the pairs of legs and the inclined braces, each of such ropes being extended through all the legs and both of the braces and tied together at their ends, in consequence of which, on the legs of each pair being simultaneously moved away from each other, each of the ropes will be drawn taut. Resting on each part of each rope extending between the pairs of legs is a bar, D, which is forked at each end in order for it to receive and embrace the two legs, a top View of such bar being shown in Fig. 4. After clothes may have been hung on the rope the forked bar is to be placed on them to keep them thereon, it being used instead of clothespins. Vhen so arranged on the clothes, the

iurcations of the bar receive and embrace the two legs between which such bar is extended.

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Between one brace and the pair of legs immediately connected to it, and depending from such brace and 1egs,there is arranged a hanger, E, which answers as a seat for a person to sit upon, or as a support for a clothes-basket. I usually form it or' a rope rove through the brace and both ot' the legs and tied together at its ends, and having the parts that go between the legs and between them and the brace curved or bowed downward and tied together, so as to form a seat, which a person, by straddling it, can sit upon, or can use to support a clothes-basket when placed upon it.

The clothesdrier may be used to sustain a hammock slung within it, or it may answer to support a tent-cloth thrown over it.

W' hen not int-ended for use,the clothes-drier may have its braces and each of its pairs of legs folded together, so as to reduce it to a small compass, either for storage or transpor tation of it.

I claiml. The combination of the two pairs of legs having those of each pair hinged together at their upper ends with the two braces hinged to said pairs, and with the series ot" ropes going through the legs and braces, all being substantially as set forth.

2. The combination ofthe hanger E,extend ing between one of the braces and the neXt contiguous pair of legs and depending therefrom,with the two braces and the two pairs of legs, connected substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of the clothes-retainer D,i'urcated at its ends and applied to the legs and rope extending between them, as set forth,

with the clothes-drier consisting of the two pairs of legs, the inclined braces, and the ropes or bars arranged with and applied to such legs, as set forth.

ALANSON BLANCHARD.

Vitnesses:

R. H. EDD Y, S. N. PIPER.

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