US945337A - Clothes-line-extension device. - Google Patents

Description

H. F. MAYNES.

CLOTHES LINE EXTENSION DEVICE.

APPLICATION IILEDDBO. 7, 1908.

Patented Jan. 4, 1910.

INVENTOR WITNESSES HYLA F. MAYNES, OF GAINES, PENNSYLVANIA.

CLOTHES-LINE-EXTENSION DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 7, 1908. Serial No. 486,392.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, HYLA F, MAYNES, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Gaines, county of Tioga, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented cer- 'tain new and useful Improvements in Clothes Line Extension Devices, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

My invention relates to improvements 1D extension devices for clothes lines of the intermediate type in which a portion of a clothes line which is normally located on the outside of a building may be drawn into a room through the window thereof, so that the clothes line may be manipulated, and the' clothes hung thereon and removed therefrom, within a. room thereby avoiding the necessity of the operator leaning out of the Wll'ldOW.

The main object of my invention is to provide an extension device such as will permit the free use of the clothes line in any of its positions, as when fully extended or when in its extreme oppositeposltion or m any osition, and also to provide that there sha l be no substantial movement of the main body portion of the clothes line when the extension device is manipulated.

In order that-my invention may be fully understood, I will now proceed to describe an embodiment thereof, havin reference to the accompanying drawings il ustratin the same, and will then point out the nove features in claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation showing a clothes line extension device embodying my invention, the samebeing illustrated as attached to a bnilding, and adjusted to a position part1 w1th1n a room thereof. Fig. 2 1s a simi ar view showing the extension device as adjusted to a position wholly without the building. Fig. 3 1s a top view of the extension device, and Fig. 4 a detail view in transverse section upon the plane of the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

1 with a slot or The extension device comprises, in general, a slide 10 having pulleys 11-12 at op: posite ends thereof, a guide 13 provided ide-way in which the slide is mounted, an a relatively stationary pul- .ley 14 mounted u on a fixed s u port, referably upon the. side of the gul e,-ass own in the drawings. The axes of'the pulleys 11,12, and 14 are parallel with-each other and those of the pulleys 11 and 12 are arranged in a single horizontal plane parallel with the slide 10. The axis of the pulley 14 is also preferably in the same plane, but

Patented Jan. 4, 1910.

thereof. Preferably the guide and bracket are connected together by means of a vertical pivot pin 20 whereby the said guide may be swung horizontally about the said pivot, notches or teeth 21 being provided for the purpose of preventin such movement except when desired. ien it is desired to make an adjustment, a nut 22 upon the central pivot 'pin may be slackenedand the parts properly adjusted, and thereafter upon the tightening of the nut, furthermovement will be prevented.

The normal position of the device is shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. When it is desired to manipulate the line from within the building 18, the window 19 having been opened, the operator draws the slide 10 into the room; this may readily be done by grasp- -ing a hand piece 23 which is provided for the purpose. In Fig. 2, I have shown the slide as partially drawn into the room and the clothes line may be manipulated from such position or the slide may be drawn all the way in, if preferred. When the slide has been properly adjusted, the clothes line is manipulated from the lower strand thereof, the c othes being hung thereon within the building and then "the line caused to travel in a direction'to carry the clothes out of the window, all in a manner which will be readil understood by reference to the drawings, Snnilarly the clothesmay be drawn into the room by pulling upon the lower strand of the rope, and the clothesthen removed from ,the line at a oint within the building. It will be noticed that the manipulation of the slide in no way affectsthe gosition of the' body ortion of the line nor cos it produce any s ack in the line because, while one portion of the line being paid off at one end,

an equal portion of the line is being picked up at the other end thereof, and it Wlll. also be .readily understood that the tension upon axes of the two pulleys 11 and 12in the same horizontal plane the rope may be so disposed as to largely reduce the tendenc of the slide to tip w en the rope is pulle and consequently the slide Wlll have less tendency to bind in the guide than might otherwise be the case. In order to take the weight off the extension device when it is to be manipulated, I have provided a hook 24 for temporarily supporting the clothes line at that point if such be desired. Under ordinary circumstances this hook is not necessary, but where the line is of great length and the slide of considerable length with relation to the guide in which it is carried, the use of such a' tension supporting device might be advantageous; at no times would it be necessary, however, to use such a hook except while the slideis actually being moved. I have shown this hook as located upon the guide iece 13 itself, and in order to make the guide piece suitable for use at either the right or left hand side of the window, I have provided a second hook 24 upon the opposite side of the guide piece so that such hook may be in proper position for use for the aforesaid purpose should the guide piece be inverted. I have shown the slide 10 as I-sha'ped in cross section, but it is of course obvious that other shapes may be employed. What I claim is: 1. A clothes line extension device comprising a guide, a slide arranged to move longitudinally through the said guide, pulleys carried by the said .slide at opposite ends thereof, the axes of the said pulleys being parallel and lying in'a single plane parallel with the slide, whereby a portion of the clothes line in passing over the same sideof the. said pulleys will lie in a line parallel with the said plane, and a relatively stationary pulley located intermediate the pulleys carried by the slide.

2. A clothes line extension device comprising a guide, a slide arranged to move longitudinally through the said guide, pulleys carried by the said slide atopposite ends thereof, the axes of the said pulleys being parallel and lying in a single plane parallel .with the slide, and astationary pulley carried by the said guide, the axis thereof lying in the same plane with the first said pulleys.

D. HOWARD HAYWOOD, LY AN S. ANDREWS, Jr.

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