US892349A - Clothes-line reel. - Google Patents

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tion 4 which is contracted or bent sli l To all whom it may concern:

- Be it known that I, CHARLES H. BAILEY,

UNITED STATES CHARLES II. BAILEY, OF WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR TO JACOB HINKELMAN,

PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES M. FEASER, AND DENNIS C. FAHEY, ALL OF WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA.

4cLoTIsni:s-LI'NE REEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 30, 1908.

Application led February 13, 1908. Serial No. 415,716.

a citizen of the United States of America, residi at Wheeling, in the county of Ohio and tate of West Virginia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clothes- Line Reels, of which the following is a speciication.

This inventionrelates to clothes line reels, and one of the principal objects of the same is to provide a clothes line reel of simple construction'and made of wire of the required gage which lWill be provided with means whereby both ends of the clothes line will be held or gripped to prevent the" line from unwinding. l

Another object is to provide a clothes line reel, the body portion of which is to be made of nickel-plated or galvanized wire of the required gage, said reel being provided with a central shaft to which a handle is pivoted, said shaft having a centrally disposed bend therein to engage a knot on the clothes line and to thus hold the one end of the clothes line While it is being reeled up, a similar bend being formed in the body of the reel to engage the outer end of the clothes line or to engage the clothes line at any point to prevent unwinding.

These and other objects may be attained by means of the construction illustrated in unwind.

Referring to the drawing for a more spe- `ciiic description of my invention, the nur*` meral 1` designates the body, ofthe reel,

which is formed of wire of the required gage, said'wire being either nickel-plated or gal- -vanized The reel body comprises the guard members 2, the cross Vbars 3 upon which the lineis Wound and the central inward. The terminal ends of the ody bearings 5 which are brought together in alinement, and the handle 6 is provided with a wire pintle 7 which extends through the handlel and through the bearings 5, said pintle being upheaded at both ends and provided with asuitable washer 8, one at each end. The handle 6 is permitted to turn upon the pintle 7, and the pintle 7 is permitted to turn Within the bearing 5. A central shaft 9 is ymounted in bearings 10, said bearings being formed in the frame of the reel by one coil or bend in each side thereof, said shaft 9 being headed up, as at 11, and provided -with a washer 12 at one side of the reel frame, While the opposite end of the shaft 9 extends through a handle 13 and is headed-u as at 14, against a washer 15 outside the andle. The slliaft 9 is ermitted to turn in the bearings 10, and t e handle 13 is permitted to turn upon the shaft 9 when in use.

A substantiall formed centrally 1n the shaft 9, the urpose of which is to clamp the inner end of t e rope before said ro e is wound upon the reel. A knot may be ormed in the rope and placed in the notch 17 to hold the inner end of the rope firmly in place. A similar bend 18 is formed immedlately under the handle 6 to hold the outer end of the rope after it has been reeled, as shown in Fig. 2.

The operation of m invention ma be briefly described as fol ows:- rope 1s secured in the notch 17 in the shaft 9, andfby grasping the handle 13 in the left hand the reel is rotated b means of the handle 16 grasped in the rig t hand; After' the rope 19 has been wound upon the reel the terminal end 20 is secured in the notch 21, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawin f v y From .the foregoing it will ge obvious that a reelmade in accordance with my invention is of simple4 construction, may be produced at lowacost, is strong, durable and efficient for lts purpose and will operate quickly to reel up a clothes line.

Havingi thus described the invention, what is claime as new, iszn A clothes line reel comprising a body portion formed of Wire, the terminal ends of One end o thewhich form bearings for the intle of a hanturn u on the outer end of said shaft, subdle, a bend or notch in the ody portion of stantia ly as described. 1')

` the reel to hold the terminal end of the v In testimony whereof I affix mysignature clothes line, bearings formed on the frame in presence of two Witnesses.

' centrally thereof7 a shaft mounted to turn in CHARLES H. BAILEY.

said bearings, said shaft having a bend or Witnesses: notch therein to hold the inner end of the v E. MITCHELL, clothes line, and a Wooden handle mounted to JAMES M. FEASER.

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