US1283516A - Clothes-drier. - Google Patents

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J. E. HILL. CLOTHES DRIER. APPLICATION men saw. 4. 1912.

Patented Nov. 5, 1918;,

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MILLARD COTTBELL, OF BROOKLINE,

CLOTHES-DRIER.-

Specification of Letters Patent.

MASSACHUSETTS.

"Patented- Nov. 5, 191s.

Applicationfiled September 4, 1917. Serial No. 189,473.

To all whom it may concern:

Zen of the United States, residing at Melrose Highlands, county of hliddlesex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Clothes-Driers, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specificatiomlike characters on the drawing representing like parts. v

This invention relates to clothes driers of thattype which are adapted to be secured to the wall of a room and in which the clothes supporting arms are capable of vertical movement so th-atthey can be lowered and thus brought into convenient, reach of'a person standingon the floor, and when they are filled with clothes they can be elevated out of the way and retained in elevated position. I

The object of my invention is to provide a novel clothes drier of this type which is simple in construction, which can be cheaply manufactured and which can be easily manipulated.

In order to give an understanding of the invention, 1 have illustrated in the drawings a selected embodiment thereof which will now be described. after which the novel features will be pointed out in the appended claims.

n'igure 1 of the drawing is a perspective view of my improved clothes drier showing the clothes-supporting member in elevated position in full lines, and in lowered position in dotted lines.

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view enlarged.

Fig. 3 is a detailed view showing the manner of locking the head in elevated position.

Fig. i is an edge view of the head with the arms omitted.

Fig. 5 is a section on line 5-5, Fig. 2.

The elothessupporting member of my improved clothes drier comprises a head 1 having a plurality of clothes-supporting arms 2 extending radially therefrom. This head 1 is sustained for vertical movement on a holder or guiding member herein shown as a pair of guide rods 3 that may be secured to the wall in any suitable way. I have herein illustrated these guide rods as secured at their lower ends to a bracket 4., and as secured at their upper ends to another bracket 5.

7 means to hold the head These brackets may be secured directly to the'wall of the room or may besecured to a backing board 6 whichin turn is fastened to the wall in any suitable way.

" The head 1 is of novel construction. Said head will preferably and may conveniently be formed (-f sheet metal, and is provided 211 sockets toreceive the ends of the arms 2. One convenient way of forming these sockets is to provide the head 1 with slits and then to bend the metal on the inner side of each slit upwardly as shown at T, and to bend the metal on the opposite side of the slit downwardly as shown at 8. The downwardly bent portion constitutes a rest for one of the arms 2 and the corresponding upwardly bent portion constitutes a holddown, which rest and holddown. form together means for securely holding one of the arms 2 in proper position. The edge 9 of the rear slit constitutes a stop to limit the distance which the arms may be inserted into the sockets. I

, The head -1 is cut away at its rear edge as shown at 10 and is provided with two extensions or fingers 11 that embrace the guide rods 3 and form with the topof' the head a space in which the guide rods are received.

The head 1 hasa handle or stem 12 secured thereto and depending therefrom, which handle extends through an aperture 13 in the lower bracket 45. This handle or stem 12 together with the; fingers 11 serve to -hold the head in proper position as it is raised or loweredon the guide rods 3.

The stem 12'may be secured to the head in any suitable way. I have herein shown for this purpose a socket 1 L formed on the head in which the upper end of the stem is received.

The stem is provided on its back side with a notch 15 which is adapted to receive one edge of the aperture 13 after the head is raised, said notch thus operating as a in its elevated position. The aperture 13 is large enough to allow sufficient lateral movement of the stem to permit the notch to be disengaged from the edge of the aperture whenever it is desired to lower the head.

The notch 15 is purposely placed on the back side of the stem 12 for thereason that the clothes-supporting arms 2 extend in a forward direction so that the weight of the arms and'the clothes thereon will tend to other. This flexing swing the lower end of the stem rearwardly. Thus by having the notch 15 on the back side of the stem, the weight of the clothes will auton'iatically cause the notch to engage the edge of the aperture 13 when the head is raised.

It is intended that the device will be secured to the wall of the room relatively near the ceiling but yet in such a position that when the head is lowered to the bottom. of the guide rods 3, the arms 2 will be in a position to be conveniently reached.

In using the device the head will first be lowered into the dotted line position, Fig. 1 of the drawings, and the clothes to be dried. will then be placed on the arms The person using the device may then take hold of the lower end of the stem 12 and raise the head into its full line position, after which the lower end of the stem may be moved laterally in the aperture 13 so as to bring the notch 15 into locking engagement with the edge of the hole 13. In this way the head will be securely held in its elevated position and when in. this position, the clothes on the arms are entirely out of the way, and are also situated near the ceiling where the temperature is highest.

The guide rods 3 are somewhat resilient, the purpose of this being to permit a ready removal of the head from the guide rods. To accomplish this the head will be placed in a position approximately midway of the rods and then pressure may be applied to the guide rods to bend them toward each of the guide rods will carry them inwardly a sutiicient distance so that the fingers 11 may be disengaged therefrom. When the head is thus disengaged from the guide rods then the said head and its stem may be readily removed by simply lifting the stem vertically through the aperture 13. To apply the head to the guide rods the lower end of the stem is 1 first inserted into the aperture 13 and then the guide rods are bent inwardly from each other to permit the fingers 11 to be placed behind them.

The device is very simple and inexpensive to manufacture and is easily manipulated.

I claim:

1. In a clothes drier, a con'ibination with a head, of a holder on which said head is supported for vertical sliding movement, a plurality of clothes-supporting arms sustained by the head and extending forwardly therefrom, said holder having a laterallyextending plate or member beneath the head and provided with an aperture, and a stem depending from said head and slidable through said aperture, said stem having therein a notch adapted to engage one side of said aperture when the head is in elevated position, said notch being on the back side of the stem whereby when the head is elevated the weight on the clothes-supporting arms will automatically move the notch into locking engagement with the plate.

2. In a clothes drier, the combination with two resilient guide rods, of means to secure said rods to the wall of a room, a head pro vided with two oppositely directed fingers that embrace said guide rods, and clothes supporting arms sustained by said head, the resiliency of said guide rods permitting them to be flexed laterally sutliciently to be disengaged from said fingers.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

JOHN E. HILL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained, for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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