Improvements in Apparatus for Suspending Laundry Poles and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Sept., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 26th July, 1898-Accepted, 27th Aug., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Suspending Laundry Poles and
the like.
We, ROBERT BELL, M.D., of Glenae, Aimisfield, near Dumfries, in the County
of Dumfries, and ROBERT MAGUIRE, of 4, Wellfield. Street, Springburn, in the
County of the City of Glasgow, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to provide simple and inexpensive means in
conjunction with apparatus for raising and lowering laundry poles, curtain poles
or like articles, whereby the hoisting ropes or cords are relieved of the load while
the poles remain suspended in their raised position.
The laundry poles are raised and lowered by means of the usual ropes or cords
passing over pulleys at the roof and having their ends secured to the poles, but
on the upper side of each pole a hook is pivoted near each end and is adapted to
engage with a stationary ring, loop or catch attached to the roof or other point
of suspension. The hooks extend upwards from their pivot pins by which they
are secured to the pole or to plates or blocks thereon and each is formed with a
tail piece extending in an approximately horizontal line under the hook part, so
that each hook is free to tilt on its pivot pin to a limited extent on either side
of the vertical line. When the pole is drawn up the hook ends clear the rings
or catches which strike the tail pieces and so tilt the hooks that on freeing the
pull on the hoisting ropes and thus allowing the pole to descend slightly the hooks
engage with the catches and the pole is thereby suspended. When the pole is
to be let down, the hoisting ropes are first pulled slightly so that the hooks which
are heavier than their tail pieces overbalance the latter and tilt clear of the rings
or catches, and the pole may then be freely lowered.
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Improvements in Apparatus for Suspending Laundry Poles and
the like.
We, ROBERT BELL, M.D., of Glenae, Aimisfield, near Dumfries, in the County
f Dumfries, and ROBERT MAGUIRE, of 4, Wellfield Street, Springburn, in the
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page_text: County of the City of Glasgow, Engineer, 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 has for its object to provide simple and inexpensive means in
conjunction with apparatus for raising and lowering laundry poles, curtain poles
or like articles, whereby the hoisting ropes or cords are relieved of the load while
the poles remain suspended in their raised position.
The invention is represented by the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 being a
longitudinal elevation and Figure 2 a plan of the improved apparatus for suspend-
ing laundry poles and the like. Figures 3 and 4 are respectively an end eleva-
tion and a part longitudinal elevation of a modified form of the apparatus.
The laundry poles A are raised and lowered by means of the usual ropes or
cords B passing over pulleys C at the roof and having their ends secured to the
poles A, but on the upper side of each pole a hook D is pivoted near each end
and is adapted to engage with a stationary ring, loop or catch E' formed on er
attached to the pulley bracket E or attached to the roof or other point of suspen-
sion. The hooks D extend upwards from their pivot pins D¹ by which they
are secured to the pole or to plates or blocks D2 thereon and each is formed with
a tail piece D³ extending in an approximately horizontal line under the hook
part D of the hook D, so that each hook D is free to tilt on its pivot pin D! to a
limited extent on either side of the vertical line.
the hook ends D clear the rings or catches E¹ which strike the tail pieces 1³
When the pole A is drawn up
and so tilt the hooks I that on freeing the pull on the hoisting ropes B and thus
allowing the pole A to descend slightly the hooks D engage with the catches E
and the pole A is thereby suspended in the position shown by the dotted lines
Figure 1. When the pole A is to be let down, the hoisting ropes B are first pulled
slightly so that the hooks D which are heavier than their tail pieces 13 overbalance
the latter and tilt clear of the rings or catches E, and the pole A may then be
freely lowered.
Figures 3 and 4 show a modified form in which the position of the pivoted hooks
and of the stationary rings, loops or catches is reversed, i.e. the hooks D) are
pivoted on extensions E2 of the pulley brackets E and the loops or catches E¹
secured on the upper sides of the poles A.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is:-
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The improved apparatus for suspending laundry poles and the like constructed
combined and arranged to operate substantially as described.
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way Of July 1898.
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Of the Firm of Cruikshank & Fairweather,
Chartered Patent Agents, 62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow,
Agent for the Applicants.