Improvements in Clothes-horses or Airers.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 1st July, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 1st Apr., 1898--Accepted, 20th May,
1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clothes-horses or Airers.
I, FRED HOPLEY, of 4, Caird Street, in the City of Liverpool, Tailor, do hereby
declare the nature of the said invention to be as follows :-
:-
A clothes horse or airer according to this invention consists of one or more brackets
having apertures, one or more trays disposed about a foot and a half below said brackets,
and a number of wooden laths some two feet in length. When the airer is not in
use, the laths are inserted in the apertures of the brackets, their butt ends resting
in the trays beneath. The laths are then in a vertical or nearly vertical position, in
a cluster, and out of the way. When the airer is required, one, or more, or all, the
laths are withdrawn from the bracket and tray, and are reinserted in the apertures of
the bracket, but in a horizontal position, the apertures being formed so as to receive
them thus. The butt ends of the laths now rest against the interior of the bracket,
the lath projecting about two feet in a horizontal direction from the bracket, and
serving as a support for clothes to be aired.
In one form the perforated, lath receiving, upper bracket, and the tray, are
attached to a wall bracket of metal, adapted to be attached to a wall. The
perforated, lath receiving, upper bracket, and the tray, are semicircular, so that the
laths radiate when in use from said bracket. When not in use they are passed
downwards through their apertures and rest on their ends in the semicircular tray.
below, very much like the ribs of a closed umbrella.
In another form, the perforated, lath receiving, upper bracket, and the tray, are
circular, a supporting standard passing centrally through them. The standard may
be five feet in heighth and have two sets of brackets and trays, one above the other.
The foot of the standard is mounted in a pedestal, and may be rotated therein; or
the brackets may be rotated on a fixed standard.
Improvements in Clothes-horses or Airers.
I, FRED HOPLEY, of 4, Caird Street, in the City of Liverpool, Tailor, 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:
A clothes horse or airer according to this invention, consists of one or more brackets
having apertures, one or more trays disposed about a foot and a half below said
brackets, and a number of wooden laths some two feet in length. When the airer is

page_text: not in use the laths are inserted in the apertures of the brackets, their butt ends
resting in the tray beneath. The laths are then in a vertical or nearly vertical position,
in a cluster, and out of the way. When the airer is required, one, or more, or all,
the laths are withdrawn from the bracket and tray, and are reinserted in the apertures
of the bracket, but in a horizontal position, the apertures being formed so as to
receive them thus. The butt ends of the laths now rest against the interior of the
bracket, the lath projecting about two feet in a horizontal direction from the bracket,
and serving as a support for clothes to be aired.
In one form the perforated lath-receiving, upper bracket, and the tray, are attached
to a wall bracket of metal, adapted to be attached to a wall. The perforated lath-
receiving upper bracket, and the tray, are semicircular, so that the laths radiate when
in use from said bracket. When not in use they are passed downwards through their
apertures and rest on their ends in the semicircular tray below, very much like the
ribs of a closed umbrella.
In another form, the perforated lath-receiving upper bracket, and the tray, are
circular, a supporting standard passing centrally through them. The standard may
be five feet in heighth, and have two sets of brackets and trays, one above the other.
The foot of the standard is mounted in a pedestal, and may be rotated therein.
the brackets may be rotated on a fixed standard.
; or
In the drawings hereto annexed, Figure 1 is a front elevation and Figure 2 a plan
of a clothes airer arranged as a wall bracket. a is the lath-receiving bracket, and b
is the supporting tray, both of which are formed on or attached to the wall bracket c.
d are the laths. When the airer is not in use the laths are inserted in the apertures e
of the bracket a, as illustrated by the lath d', their butt ends resting in the tray b.
When the airer is required, one, or more, or all of the laths d are withdrawn from the
bracket a and tray b, and are reinserted in the apertures e of the bracket, but in a
horizontal position, as illustrated by the lath d². The laths are then supported by
the flange of the bracket, their butt ends abutting against the interior of the
bracket, as shewn in Figure 2. The laths thus project in a horizontal direction and
serve as a support for clothes to be aired.
Figure 3 is a front elevation, and Figure 4 a plan of a clothes airer in which the
brackets a and trays b are circular and are supported by a standard g g' passing
centrally therethrough. The standard 9 g' may be five feet in heighth and support
two sets of brackets a and trays b, one above the other. By preference the upper
portion g' of the standard is arranged to telescope into the lower portion g, and is
supported in two or more raised positions by the pin h being inserted through holes i
in the portion g¹. The brackets a and trays b may rest. loosely upon collars shrunk
on the standard g g¹, so as to be free to rotate thereon, or, the standard g may be made
capable of rotation in its pedestal k. The pedestal may be mounted upon rollers / or
upon suitable castors.
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:-
1. The clothes airer, arranged, constructed, and operating substantially as herein
described and illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings hereto annexed.
2. The clothes airer, arranged, constructed, and operating substantially as herein
described and illustrated in Figures 3 and 4 of the drawings hereto annexed.
J. A. COUBROUGH,
Registered Patent Agent (Qual. by Exam.),
10, St. George's Crescent, Liverpool, Agent for the Applicant.