US507835A - Clothes-line attachment - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

L. ,OPPBNHEIMER. CLOTHES LINE ATTACHMENT.

No. 507,835. Patented Oct. 31,1893.

JIVITI%EES: I I C /NVENT0/?" ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE- LEO OPPENHEIMER, OF COLLEGE POINT, NEW YORK.

CLOTH ES-LINE ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 507,835, dated October 31 1893.

Application filed December 27. 1892. Serial No. 456,502. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LE0 OPPENHEIMEE, of College Point, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Clothes-Line Attachment, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved clothes line attachment, which is simple and durable in construction, readily applied and more especially designed for preventing the lower strand carrying the clothes, from sagging.

The invention consists of certain parts and details, and combinations of the same, as will be hereinafter described and then pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improvement as applied. Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse section of the same on the line 22 of Fig. 3; and Fig. 3 is aside elevation of the same with parts broken out.

The improved clothes line attachment is provided with a clamp A, preferably made of spring metal in the form of a V, and arranged with sets of clamping jaws A, A near the lower end of the clamp, the said sets of clamping jaws being for different sized lower strands B of the clothes line B. As shown in Fig. 2, the sets of jaws A, A are formed directly in the members of the clamp by curving the members accordingly, half on each side, as plainly shown in Fig. 2.

On the upper end of one of the members of the clamp A is formed an inverted U-shaped extension A in which is journaled a roller 0 adapted to travel on the upper strand B of the clothes line B, as plainly shown in the drawings. The outer end of the front member of the clampA rests on the free end of the U-shaped extension A as plainly indicated in Fig. 2, so that the device can be opened for engaging the strands B and B of the clothes line, as above described.

It will be seen that the V-shaped clamp A firmly clamps by one of its sets of jaws A or A the lower strand B of the clothes line, while the under side of the pulley O rests on the top of the upper strand B and freely travels on the same, when the line is pulled in moving out the clothes or drawing the lower strand in, in the usual manner.

The distance between the under side of the pulley O and the sets of clamping jaws A and A is approximately equal to the diameters of the pulleys in the sheaves over which the line travels, so that the two strands B and B are held approximately parallel at all times, and consequently sagging of the lower strand is prevented when the clothes are attached thereon. If any sagging takes place, the upper strand 13 1s affected in the same manner as the lower one, as both are connected with each other by the clamp.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and'desire to secure by Letters Patent- I A clothes line attachment comprising a clamp A formed of a metallic strip bent in the form of a snap hook with the upper end of its spring member or tongue overlapping the lower end of its hooked portion A a pulley or roller O journaled in the said upper or hooked end of the clamp; thelowerehd of the clamp being provided with the two jaws A A substantially as described.

' LEO OPPENHEIMER. lVitnesses:

THEo. G. HosTER,

EDGAR TATE.

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