An Improved Clothes Prop.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 9th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 14th Sept., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Clothes Prop.
I, PHILIP CROSS of No. 10 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London, S.W. Carpenter, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of an extensible clothes prop which may be contracted within
a short length or drawn out and adjusted to any required extent for use.
It consists of two sliding sections connected together side by side by U shaped
metal strips or bands each attached to the end of the one section and embracing the
other section so as to permit of a sliding motion of the two sections relatively to one
another. The sections are fixed when drawn out to the required length by a cross
pin passed through one of a series of holes, in each section. The end of the one
section is notched to engage with the clothes line, whilst the other end is pointed to
prevent it slipping on the ground. The uppermost section is provided with a lifting
knob, and a bead is "stuck" or worked on each of the outer edges to remove the
sharp arris.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Clothes Prop.
I, PHILIP CROSS of No. 10 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London, S.W. Carpenter 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:-
My invention consists of an extensible clothes prop which may be contracted within
a short length or drawn out and adjusted to the required extent for use.
My invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings
forming part of this specification wherein figures 1 and 2 are views of the improved
clothes prop in its contracted and extended positions respectively and figure 3 is a
cross section of the same drawn to a larger scale. The same letters of reference
indicate the same parts in all the figures.
The improved clothes prop consists of two sliding sections or flat bars a b of wood
overlapping each other and connected together by U shaped metal bands c d respectively
attached to one section and embracing the other section so as to permit of a sliding
motion of the two sections relatively to one another whilst preventing their being
wholly disconnected. The sections are fixed, when drawn out to the required length,
by a cross pine passed through one of a series of holes fin the section a and entering a
hole in the other section. The end of the section a is notched to engage with the
clothes line, whilst the opposite end of the section bis pointed to prevent it slipping.
on the ground. The section a may be provided with a knob handle and a bead may
be "stuck" or worked on each of the outer edges of both sections to remove the
sharp arris.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is―
The herein described telescopically extensible clothes prop consisting of the over-
lapping sections or bars so connected as to permit of relative sliding motion of the
sections, and provided with means of fixing the sections when drawn out to any
required length, substantially as specified.
1000
P. CROSS.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Patent Agents.