GB2035079A - Clothes lines - Google Patents
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- GB2035079A GB2035079A GB7932966A GB7932966A GB2035079A GB 2035079 A GB2035079 A GB 2035079A GB 7932966 A GB7932966 A GB 7932966A GB 7932966 A GB7932966 A GB 7932966A GB 2035079 A GB2035079 A GB 2035079A
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- clothes
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- 239000004677 Nylon Substances 0.000 claims abstract description 6
- 239000004743 Polypropylene Substances 0.000 claims abstract description 6
- 229920001778 nylon Polymers 0.000 claims abstract description 6
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- 229920001155 polypropylene Polymers 0.000 claims abstract description 6
- 239000002184 metal Substances 0.000 claims abstract description 4
- 239000000463 material Substances 0.000 claims description 12
- 239000004033 plastic Substances 0.000 claims description 12
- 229920003023 plastic Polymers 0.000 claims description 12
- 230000015572 biosynthetic process Effects 0.000 claims description 3
- 238000001746 injection moulding Methods 0.000 claims description 3
- 238000001035 drying Methods 0.000 claims description 2
- 239000003000 extruded plastic Substances 0.000 claims description 2
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- D—TEXTILES; PAPER
- D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
- D06F55/00—Clothes-pegs
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- D—TEXTILES; PAPER
- D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
- D06F53/00—Clothes-lines; Supports therefor
- D06F53/02—Clothes-lines
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
- B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
- B29C48/00—Extrusion moulding, i.e. expressing the moulding material through a die or nozzle which imparts the desired form; Apparatus therefor
- B29C48/001—Combinations of extrusion moulding with other shaping operations
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
- B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
- B29C48/00—Extrusion moulding, i.e. expressing the moulding material through a die or nozzle which imparts the desired form; Apparatus therefor
- B29C48/001—Combinations of extrusion moulding with other shaping operations
- B29C48/0022—Combinations of extrusion moulding with other shaping operations combined with cutting
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
- B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
- B29C48/00—Extrusion moulding, i.e. expressing the moulding material through a die or nozzle which imparts the desired form; Apparatus therefor
- B29C48/03—Extrusion moulding, i.e. expressing the moulding material through a die or nozzle which imparts the desired form; Apparatus therefor characterised by the shape of the extruded material at extrusion
- B29C48/12—Articles with an irregular circumference when viewed in cross-section, e.g. window profiles
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
- B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
- B29C48/00—Extrusion moulding, i.e. expressing the moulding material through a die or nozzle which imparts the desired form; Apparatus therefor
- B29C48/03—Extrusion moulding, i.e. expressing the moulding material through a die or nozzle which imparts the desired form; Apparatus therefor characterised by the shape of the extruded material at extrusion
- B29C48/13—Articles with a cross-section varying in the longitudinal direction, e.g. corrugated pipes
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Abstract
A clothes line comprises a rope and clothes pegs each integrally formed with a resilient attachment to the rope. The clothes pegs are individually movable from a position adjacent to the rope, in which the attachment is relaxed, to a position in which they secure clothes on the line, in which position the attachment is stressed. In the illustrated embodiment, the clothes pegs 3 are integrally formed with a resilient strip 4 attaching their legs remote from the rope 2 to a thicker annular portion 5 which surrounds the rope. Hinges are formed at 6 and 7, and this embodiment may be manufactured by extruding parts 3 to 7 about the rope 2 and cutting slots 8 into the extrusion. In another embodiment the pegs and their attachments are individually injection moulded and threaded onto a rope, the annular portion preferably being frustoconical. The rope may be of metal wire or nylon and the pegs and attachments of polypropylene. <IMAGE>
Description
SPECIFICATION
Clothes lines
The invention relates to clothes lines.
Wet clothes for drying are usually secured on clothes lines by use of clothes pegs most usually carried by the user in a pocket or a shoulder slung bag. However, clothes which are bulky and heavy with adsorbed water, such as wet bedclothes or table cloths, may require both the user's hands for arrangement on the clothes lines so that the pegs are then inaccessible or at best inconveniently accessible.
The invention provides a clothes line comprising a rope and clothes pegs each integrally formed with a resilient attachment to the rope, the clothes pegs individually being movable from a position adjacent to the rope, in which position the attachment is relaxed, to a position in which they secure clothes on the line, in which position the attachment is stressed.
In a clothes line according to the invention, the pegs are readily accessible whilst the clothes are being arranged on the line so that the problem above outlined is obviated.
A preferred form of clothes line according to the invention may be manufactured by passing a rope through an extrusion die at the extrusion rate, extruding continuously around the rope a plastics member having the crosssectional shape of a clothes peg integral with a strip attachment to a thicker annular portion around the rope, and forming slots through the clothes peg and strip attachment portions of the plastics member at righ angles to the direction of extrusion to separate the clothes pegs one from another. The strip attachment preferably joins to the peg arm distant from the rope. The slots may be narrow in relation to the width of the pegs, so that a continuous series of substantially adjacent pegs is formed, or may be wide in relation to the width of the pegs, so that a continuous series of spaced apart pegs is formed.If the slots are wide in relation to the width of the pegs, the plastics material removed by formation of the slots may be collected and recycled. The rope may be of any suitable material, for example metal wire or nylon, and the extruded plastics member is suitably of polypropylene. This material has the required resilience and can be formed with hinges in known manner between the strip attachment and the pegs and between the strip attachment and the thicker annular portion which remains unslotted. The extrusion may stop a short distance from each end of the rope so as to leave a length of rope for tying the line to supports at its ends.
In another embodiment of a clothes line according to the invention, individual clothes pegs each integrally formed with a strip attachment to a thicker annular portion may be formed by injection moulding any suitable plastics material and these pegs then threaded on to a rope of any suitable material. The strip attachment preferably joins to the peg arm distant from the rope when the pegs are threaded thereon. In the pegs of this embodiment, it is preferred that the hole in the annular portion be frustoconical as this enables the rope to be threaded through more easily, from the end of greater cross-section, yet still be gripped, by the end of lesser cross-section. Hinges may be formed in known manner between the strip attachment and the peg and between the strip attachment and the thicker annular portion, as in other embodiments.
The invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings, of which:
Figure 1 is a perspective view from above and front of a clothes line according to the invention; and
Figure 2 is a perspective view from above and rear of the clothes line of Fig. 1.
With reference to the drawings, a clothes line generally indicated 1 comprises a nylon rope 2 and a plurality of clothes pegs 3. Each peg 3 is provided with a resilient strap attachment 4, the strap attachments 4 having a common portion 5 through which the rope 2 passes. The pegs 3, attachments 4 and their common portion 5 are formed of polypropylene. It is to be understood that the pegs 3, attachments 4 and their common portion 5 are continuous along the whole length of the line 1 save for a short portion of rope 2 exposed at either end for the purpose of tying the line 1 to supports (not shown). Hinged portions 6 and 7 between the attachments 4 and the pegs 3 and between the attachments 4 and their common portion 5 respectively may be formed in known manner.
The clothes line 1 is formed by passing the rope 2 through an extrusion die at the extrusion rate, extruding the pegs 3, attachments 4 and common portion 5 thereof as a single continuous extrusion containing the hinged portions 6 and 7, and cutting slots 8 in the extrusion.
The pegs 3 are readily at hand for the user, and may be employed in a quantity appropriate to the clothes to be hung. For example one peg only, as the peg 3a, may be clipped over a light article such as a sock (not shown), whereas for a blanket (not shown) several consecutive pegs could be used at intervals along the length of the blanket.
1. A clothes line comprising a rope and clothes pegs each integrally formed with a resilient attachment to the rope, the clothes pegs individually being movable from a position adjacent to the rope, in which position the attachment is relaxed, to a position in which they secure clothes on the line, in which position the attachment is stressed.
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Claims (14)
1. A clothes line comprising a rope and clothes pegs each integrally formed with a resilient attachment to the rope, the clothes pegs individually being movable from a position adjacent to the rope, in which position the attachment is relaxed, to a position in which they secure clothes on the line, in which position the attachment is stressed.
2. A method of making a clothes line, the method comprising passing a rope through an extrusion die at the extrusion rate, extruding continuously around the rope a plastics member having the cross-sectional shape of a clothes peg integral with a strip attachment to a thicker annular portion around the rope, and forming slots through the clothes peg and strip attachment portions of the plastics member at right angles to the direction of extrusion to separate the clothes pegs one from another.
3. A method according to claim 2 in which the slots formed are narrow in relation to the width of the pegs.
4. A method according to claim 2 in which the slots formed are wide in relation to the width of the pegs.
5. A method according to claim 4 in which the plastics material removed by formation of the slots is collected and recycled.
6. A method according to any of claims 2 to 5 in which the extrusion stops a short distance from each end of the rope.
7. A method for the manufacture of a clothes line, the method comprising injection moulding individual clothes pegs each integrally formed with a strip attachment to a thicker annular portion, and threading the pegs onto a rope.
8. A method according to claim 7 in which the annular portion is frustoconical.
9. A method according to any of claims 2 to 8 in which the plastics material is polypropylene.
10. A method according to any of claims 2 to 9 in which the rope is a metal wire or is nylon.
11. A method according to any of claims 2 to 10 in which the strip attachment joins the peg arm distant from the rope.
12. A method according to any of claims 2 to 11 in which hinges are formed between the strip attachment and the pegs.
13. A method according to any of claims 2 to 12 in which hinges are formed between the strip attachment and the thicker annular portion.
14. A clothes line substantially as described herein with reference to the drawings.
Priority Applications (1)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| GB7932966A GB2035079B (en) | 1978-09-22 | 1979-09-24 | Clothes lines |
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| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| GB7837745 | 1978-09-22 | ||
| GB7932966A GB2035079B (en) | 1978-09-22 | 1979-09-24 | Clothes lines |
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| GB2035079A true GB2035079A (en) | 1980-06-18 |
| GB2035079B GB2035079B (en) | 1982-08-25 |
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| GB7932966A Expired GB2035079B (en) | 1978-09-22 | 1979-09-24 | Clothes lines |
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Cited By (2)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WO1999002768A1 (en) * | 1997-07-11 | 1999-01-21 | Boettern Kenneth | A device for hanging laundry |
| WO2005111293A3 (en) * | 2004-05-12 | 2006-08-03 | Leifheit Ag | Laundry drying rack |
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- 1979-09-24 GB GB7932966A patent/GB2035079B/en not_active Expired
Cited By (2)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WO1999002768A1 (en) * | 1997-07-11 | 1999-01-21 | Boettern Kenneth | A device for hanging laundry |
| WO2005111293A3 (en) * | 2004-05-12 | 2006-08-03 | Leifheit Ag | Laundry drying rack |
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| GB2035079B (en) | 1982-08-25 |
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| PCNP | Patent ceased through non-payment of renewal fee |