US82657A - Henry d - Google Patents

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ritten tetes stent Letters Patent No. 82,657, dated September 29, 1868.

IMPBOVED CLOTHES-DRIRE.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, HNRY D. STRUSE, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, and State ot" New York, have invented a new and improved Clothes-Drying Frame; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ot" this specification, in which- Y Figure 1 represents a sectional elevation: view of a clothes-drying frame constructed according to my improvement. l i

FigureQ represents an end view, and

Figure 3 represents a plan view of the same.

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

The object of this invention is to provide for the elevationof clothing and other articles, whiledrying in the yardsof dwelling-houses, or i-n other'places where the room is restricted, to a height which will pla-ee them. out of the way of persons passing, and expose them to a more unobstructed circulation oi air; and it consists in the arrangement of vertically-sliding frames or stretchers, provided witha series of. connecting clothes-lines,

and movable up and down, under the control of cords,- upon snitablestationary frames or standards.` wherebyfacility is a`orded for lowering the lines to a. convenient height to enable theclothes to be'hung upon them, and afterwards raising themup out of the way of passers-by, and to such height that the circulation of air among them is unimpeded by fences or other obstructions near the ground.

In order that others may be better enabled to understand the construction and operation of my invention, I will proceed to describe it with reference to the drawings.

A A are two series of upright posts, secured to a suitable base, B, and braced at the top byeross-pieces, E E, the whole constituting a stationary frame. Instead of the base, B, the uprights A may have their lower ends driven into the ground, or may be secured nany other suitable manner, thereby dispensing with the said base. I l l v C C are the vertically-sliding frames or stretchers, each fitted to slide vertically on one of the series of uprights A A, upon which they are kepthorizontal by sliding jaws or clamps a. These stretchers C are provided upon their inner sides with h'ooks or loops e, to which is secured Va series of clothes-lines, a, which extend from one stretcher to the other, and upon which clothing or other articles may be suspended in theusual manncr to be dried. At the central and highest point of these btretchers C are provided pulleyspp. Within the" two centraluprights, A,vat each end of the stationary frame, and near the upper extremities thereof'farc arranged pulleys q g'. 4 On the outside of one of these central uprights, even withand opposite to pulley g', is an outside pulley, r. Inserted Ain the cross-pieces E E, just above'the pulleys g q,.are hooks or staples h h'. In the hook4 or staple h is secured-one end of a. cord, g, the other end of whichV extends downward and passes around pulleyp in the apex of the stretcher C. Extending upward, the said cord passes over the pulley q, in

the upper portion ofthe'central upright, A, and `thence extends across to the opposite end of the frame, and passes` over the pulley r. Another and similar-cord, which I will designate by g', is secured by one end to the hook or staple h', and extending downward, passes around the pulley p', whence it extends upward,and passes over the pulley q. I The ends of these two cords, g and g', which are not secured to the said hooks i h', may be secured to each other by a knot or otherwise. Y

In the operation of this invention, the sliding frames Aor stretchers C C are first lowered byloosening the lower end of the pulley-cord g from its place of confinement, and the said frames or stretchers permitted to descend by their own weight, which lowering of the said frames or stretchers brings the line or lines a to a convenient height to`enable the clothes or other articles to be hung thereon. The clothes orother articles are then hung upon the said cord a, and secured in the usual manner, with clothes-pins or otherwise; and the frames or stretchers C C are again drawn upward, by tightening the cord g, until the clothes or other articles are elevated to a: suicient height to place lthem out of the way of passers-by, and wherethey may have the benefit of a more unobstructed circulation of air, and the lower end of. the pulley-cord secured as before.

After the clohes are suciertly dry, they may be lowered a/nd taken off, or replaced by 'other wet clothes, by loosening and lowering the sliding frames C C, as above described.

What I claim as my yinveni:ion, and desire to have secured by Letters Patent, is

The combination ofthe stretchers C, having guides c at each end, end carrying the clothes-line a, with the corner-posts A, pulleys'p q r, and cords g, all arranged for operation, substantially as shown and described, for the purpose set forth. Y

HENRY D. STRUSE. Witnesses:

A. Ln CLERC, A. KINNIER.

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