An Improved Device for Retaining Clothes and like Materials Upon a Line or Wire for Laundry and other Purposes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Aug., 1897-Accepted, 25th Sept.,
1897
COMECEI DI MULTICATION.
An Improved Device for Retaining Clothes and like Materials Upon a
Line or Wire for Laundry and other Purposes.
1. GEORGE FREDERIC HUSSEY, Chalk-House Green, near Reading, Berkshire,
Musician, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
This invention relates to a new or improved device for retaining clothes or any
linen, cotton, woollen or like materials upon a stretched line or wire for the purposes
of drying or airing them, and the like.
A block of wood of any suitable size or shape, but preferably, for ordinary pur-
poses, about 2 inches long by 18 inches wide by of an inch thick, has a space,
preferably about of an inch wide by 3 of an inch deep, cut out from its bottom
edge The said space is made wider on each side of it's upper end for conveniencies
hereinafter explained.
Centrally, and through the upper uncut portion of the block a hole is bored,
through which a tapered wood peg is passed, whose position, when in use, is vertical,
and central through the cut out space, or notch.
The tapered peg may be passed through from the top, or pushed up from the
bottom, in either case passing on one side of the line and material when in use,
and firmly securing the whole together, by forcing the line or wire bearing
clothing or other material, into the upper widened portion of the space, or notch,
the thickness of, or overlapped clothing or other material, only, passing down
through the middle narrow portion of the said space, or notch.
The middle narrow part of the space, when the peg is fitted thereto, preventing
any possibility of the device, clothing or other material secured thereby, falling
from the line or wire to which they are attached.
A wood turn-button, turning upon a metal or wood screw, or pin, and fitted to
the bottom edge of the block on one side of the cut out space, or other similar
arrangement, may be employed instead of the tapered wood peg, for securing the
device to a line, etc.
The accompanying sheet of drawing's illustrates the invention as described
above, Fig. 1 being a side elevation, Fig. 2 an end view and Fig. 3 as employed
securing clothing to a line over which it is hung.
In Figures 1, 2 and 3, A represents the block, B the cut out space, or notch,
and C the tapered peg. In Fig. 3 a represents the upper widened end of the
space, or notch, and 6 shews in section, the line and material as secured by the
device as above described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
A device for retaining clothes or any like material
non
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line or hire

page_text: consisting of a block of wood, having a suitable space cut therefrom for the reception
of a line or wire with clothing or any similar material hanging upon it, and
secured by a wood peg passed through a hole made to receive it, or secured by
other suitable means, substantially as herein described and shewn.
Dated this 5th day of August 1807
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