US55208A - Improved clothes-drier - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OrEICEQ VILLIAM W. S. ORBETON, OF HAVERHILL, ASSIONOR TO HIMSELF, GEO. W. CAMPBELL, OF BRADFORD, AND GEO. P. RUSSELL, OF HAVERHILL, MASS.

IMPRovED CLOTHES-DRIER.

Specilication forming part of Letters Patent No. 55,208, dated May 29, 1866.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM W. S. ORBE- TON, of Haverhill, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved OlOthesDrier; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully describedin the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a side elevation of my improved clothes-drying apparatus, the endless line being representedas passing through a door or window. Fig. 2 is a rear-end elevation of the said clothes-drying apparatus.

The nature of my invention consists in apeculiar construction and arrangement of certain parts of the said apparatus or drier, whereby nearly the whole length of the clothesline is rendered effective for supporting washed garments while exposed to the sun or air for the purpose ot' being dried.

It also consists in a peculiar adjusting device, so applied that the axis of the wheel or its plane of revolution may be adjusted and fixed at any desirable angle.

The invention in question relates to that particular class ot' driers in which an endless line is caused to travel around two or more pulleys or wheels.

The object of my invention is to obtain the use of as much of the clothes-line as possible.

In the said drawings, H denotes a post or standard whose foot is to be placedin the ground or otherwise properly secured in any desirable position. The said post near its top part has a cylindrical or other proper shaped hole made transversely through it, the same being to receive one end, a, of the adjusterD, which has the form as shown yin dotted lines in Fig. 2. The said adjuster is affixed to the post H, and clamped in any desired position, by means of a clamp-nut b, applied to the said end a, which has a male screw cut upon it to receive the said nut, b. From the upper end of the said adjuster a journal, d, extends upward and receives thehub I of the wheel A, whose under surface is supported by and revolves on the upper surface of the collar O.

By unscrewing the clamp-nut and turning the adjuster D the plane of revolution ofthe wheel may be either elevated or depressed, as circumstances may require. K is a screw-nut l which serves to confine the wheel A to its journal.

A By giving the peculiar forni to the adjuster D as shown in Fig. 2, I am enabled to readily adapt the wheel A to any desirable plane of revolution. In practice, such plane should be as nearly a horizontal one as may be, and maintain the endless line in its due place upon the Wheel. The said wheel has a series of spokes or radial arms, L, extending from its hub, each of which at its outer end is terminated by a curved or crescent-shaped bar, M, formed as shown in the drawings. The object of this peculiar construction of the wheel is twofold: irst, to prevent the line when filled with clothes from so sagging' as to run ofi' the wheel; and second, to prevent soiling or inj uring the clothes while being revolved around the wheel and during the act of drying. Around the said wheel A an endless line, O, extends, and is carried around a sheave or pulley, S, attached to a post, P, such post being disposed at any suitable distance from the post H, and either within or without a building or shelter, as may be desirable.

ln the drawings I have exhibited the line v as extending through a space or window, which may be supposed to be arranged in the side of a building. In order to cause the said line to maintain a proper degree of tension around the said pulley and wheel, I connect the said pulley S to a short lever, It, the upper end oi' which is hinged to the said post P, as seen in Fig. 1. This lever is provided with a rope or chain, r, which, when the endless line has received the desired amount ot' tension, is to be firmly fastened to a pin or device extending from the post P, as seen in said Fig. l.

From the above it will be seen that my improved drying apparatus possesses several important advantages: First, it can be coinpactly constructed, and besides, nearly the whole length of the line is rendered available. My said apparatus may be disposed entirely in the open air, or in a building, ora part may be in the open air and a part within a building or under a shed, as maybe desirable. Instead of using asingle wheel and a pulley, two wheels may be employed. IVhere long extent of line is required-say two hundred feet-ha third wheel might be employed. In this latter case another post would become necessary, which should be l ranged so as to operate as and i'or the purpose placed midway between the other two, and the set forth. wheel should be so arranged upon it as to sup- 2. The adjL1sterD,eo11strueted substantially port the lower portion of the endless line. in manner as set forth, and provided with a I am aware that the combination of an endclamping-screw and nut, and a journal, d, re-

' less line with a shed and a straining,` device is speotively applied to the post H and the wheel not new. Therefore I do not claim snob. A, the'whole being arranged in manner and I olailnso as to operate substantially as set forth. 1. The combination of the wheel A, the ad- W. W. S. ORBETON. juster D, the pulley S, the posts H and P, or Witnesses: their equivalents, and the endless line o, with CEAS. B. EMERSON, the lever 7L and its rope r, the whole being ar- GEO. F. TALBOT.

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