US927553A - Clothes-line holder. - Google Patents

Description

R. KUMMER.

CLOTHES LINE HOLDER.

APPLICATION TILED SEPT. 15, 1908.

Patented July 13, 1909.

A TTORNEYS RICHARD KUMMER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOTHES-LINE HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 13, 1909.

Application filed September 15, 1908. Serial No. 453,190.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD KUMMER, a citizen of the United States, and residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes- Line Holders, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to clothes line h0lders of the class designed to be connected with a window frame and to serve as one support for an endless line which is passed around a pulley supported at a predetermined distance from the window, and the object thereof is to provide a device of this class which may be swung inwardly through the window and so constructed as to permit of clothes or other articles being suspended from the line and the line moved around on its supports without rendering it necessary for the operator to lean out of the window; a further object being to provide a device of the class specified which will prevent the serious and sometimes fatal accidents occasioned by the manipulation of clothes lines supported in the manner set out.

The invention is fully disclosed in the fol lowing specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a view showing one side of a window frame and a cross section of the bottom of the frame, and showing my improved clothes lines holder or support connected. with the side of the frame, Fig. 2 a view looking in the direction of the arrow .r of Fig. 1, and;Fig. 3 a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

In the drawing forming part of this specification, I have shown at a one side of a window frame and at a a cross section of the bottom of said frame, and the frame a is provided with the usual grooves a and o in which, in practice, the sashes are placed.

In the practice of my invention, I secure to the outer portion of the window frame and to the outer face thereof a plate I) provided with a threaded bolt if on which is placed a nut if. I also provide a plate a which is secured to the window frame inwardly of the plate I), and which faces at right angles thereto, and said plate a is provided with a horizontal U-shaped kee 7 er 0 which opens downn 'ardly, and the plhte c is also provided above the keeper with a hook c which, in the form of construction shown, is formed separately from said plate and provided with a shank c' which passes through said plate into the window frame and aids in securing said plate to said frame, and said plate is also secured to said frame by screws 0" or in any desired manner. I also provide an arm (Z, the end (1 of which is adapted to enter the keeper 0*, and the bolt 1) passes through said keeper and through said arm as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and said arm is free to swing in a vertical plane.

In Fig. 1. the arm (Z is shown, in full lines, as extending inwardly through the window frame and into the room or compartment inwardly of said frame, and said. arm is also shown suspended from the bolt 7) in dotted lines. Pivotally connected with the arm (1, or with a plate a secured thereto is a bracef which is adapted to be pivotally connected with the inner face of the window frame, or with a plate 9 secured thereto by means of a pin, screw, bolt or similar device It, and the arm (Z is also provided at its free end with a pulley i, and pivotally connected with the inner face of the window frame at i is a hook 7.: which is adapted to engage the arm (Z when the latter is in the position shown in Fig. l and to hold said arm against lateral or horizontal movement. I have also shown at m an endless clothes line which, in practice, is passed around the pulley i and around another pullcy, not shown, but supported at a predetermined distance from the window in the usual manner.

In practice, when the line is not in use, the arm swings from the pivot bolt or pin 1) as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. v i hen it is desired to put clothes on the line, the arm (Z is swung into the position shown in Fig. 1 and secured therein by means of the bracef and hook 7c and the line m is detached from the hookc. 'l he garments or other articles to be dried are then placed on the line in the usual manner, in which operation the line m may be drawn around the pull y, and said operation may be performed without the oporator leaning out of or from the window.

After the garments or other articles are suspended from the line both parts of said line are connected with the hook c as shown in Fig. 1, and said arm may be lowered. into the position shown in dotted lines in said ligure, and in practice, I also provide a strap or other device n for securing the arm in this position, said strap or other device being secured to the window frame.

It will be understood that myimproved clothes line holder is attached to the window frame below the top sash in the usual manner, and in the manipulation of said holder the lower sash must be raised. In removing the garments or other articles from the line the arm cl is again swung into the position shown in Fig. 1, the line m is detached from the hook c and the said garments or other articles are removed from the line in the usual manner.

Having fully described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A clothes line holder of the class described comprising a plate adapted to be secured to the outer face of a window frame and provided with a threaded belt which projects inwardly transversely of the frame, another plate adapted to be secured to the window frame inwardly of the first namedplate and facing at right anglesthereto and provided with a hook and with a horizontal keeper which is yoke-shaped in cross section and.

opens downwardly and which extends outwardly and through the outer end portion of which said bolt is passed, an arm pivoted on said bolt and adapted to swing in a vertical plane and to be raised into saidkeeper, and a brace pivoted to said arm and adapted to be connected with the inner face of the Window frame, said arm being also provided at its free end with a pulley.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of the subscribing witnesses this 14th day of September 1908.

RICHARD KUMMER.

Witnesses A. It. APPLEMAN, O. E. MULREANY.

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