US56926A - Improvement in clothes-driers - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

STEPHEN L, GEORGE, OF DEGATUR, MICHIGAN.

lM PROVEMENT IN CLOTH ES-DRI ERS.

A Specification forming part. of Letters Patent N0. 56,926, dated August 7, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN L. GEORGE, of Decatur, Van Buren county, State ot' Michigan, haveinvented an Im proved Clothes Drier and Carrier and l do hereby declare the foll lowing to be an exact description thereof, ret'- erence being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part ot' this specification.

The nature of my invention is the arrangement, construction, and combination of the` crank, pulleys, and posts as a portable clothes drier and carrier, `so as not to expose the washer-woman to the weather. t l

vA represents the plank, withan upright y post, B, at each end. The tops of the posts in which the key or piu G is inserted. The

outer end of the IarIn is broad and mortised for the tightening-pulley K to operate inA The posts may be lengthened or extended to any distance apart required. The rope or clothesline L is drawn around the pulleys frornpost to post, and tightened by drawing ontJ the arm F. The post B, With the arm F and crankpulley C, is placed at the back door of a house or under a shed, 'protected Jfrom the sun or weather, and as each piece. of cloth is hung on the lineV the crank E is turned,`and the clothes are carried the whole length ot' the rope; and again, by reversing the crank, the clot-hes are taken oft' when dried.

What I claim as my invention', and desire to secure by Let-tersPatent, is-

The arrangement and combination of the crank-pulley C, tightening-pulley K, grooved pulleys D l), with the posts B B, constructed and operated as herein described, and for the t Witnesses:

J. G. PAEKHURST, PHILIP G. DEDRIGK.

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