An Improved Clothes-horse.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 25th Apr., 1894-Accepted, 25th May, 1894
. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Clothes-horse.
:
I, SARAH ELIZABETH BRICE 12 Taswell Road Southsea in the County of
Hampshire, Widow, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to an improved clothes horse which differs from the
ordinary household horse, in general use, being steadier, & the horizontal wooden
bars on which the clothes are hung, to dry, or air are arranged, so as to take in- &
out, for the purpose of putting the said bars, through some articles of dress (frocks
&c.) by which they can be dried more rapidly, or aired after being ironed, without
the risk of crushing, or the annoyance of their falling off the bars, which renders
the clothes safer from fire.
The vertical portions are hinged together and the whole is made in various sizes,
so as to meet the requirements of households & laundries.
Dated this 16th day of Fehmiary 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Clothes-horse.
I, SARAH ELIZABETH BRICE of 12 Taswell Road, Southsea; in the County of
Hampshire, Widow, 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 relates to an improved clothes-horse, which differs from the
ordinary household horse in general use, inasmuch, that the wooden horizontal bars
on which the clothes are hung to dry or air, are so arranged that the whole of these,
(with the exception of the top or bottom bars, or both, which are necessarily
fixtures to connect, and maintain the rigidity of, the vertical portions) may be taken
in and out at will, and when such articles as frocks, skirts, shirts and the like are
to be dried, or aired after being ironed, the said portable bars may be passed
through the sleeves or other part of said garments, before being replaced, thus
obviating the risk of crushing the garments, and preventing the falling off of same,
thus also acting as a safeguard against such fallen garments being destroyed by
contact with the fire around which the clothes horse may be stood, and further,
this manner of suspending the said garments, permits of their being turned upon
the bars and more rapidly dryed or aired.
The said portable bars may also be employed in assisting to more rapidly dry
wet clothes when suspended upon the line, by placing these end wise inside the
skirt of a dress or other garment and permit a current of air to pass therethrough.
In order that my invention may be fully and clearly understood reference may be
made to the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which,
Fig. 1 is an elevation of one section of a clothes horse, constructed according to
my invention.
Figs. 2 and 3 are inside views of the left and right hand vertical portions
respectively of the same, for the purpose of illustrating the manner in which I
prefer to construct the slots for the reception of the portable bars.

page_text: Fig 4 is a plan or top edge-view, of so much of a three sectioned horse as will
serve to illustrate the mauner in which the vertical portions may be connected
together by double or compound butts, when these are used in lieu of the ordinary
webbing, which permits the three sections to be folded together enclosing the central
section in the usual way, and as shewn by 5.
My said improved clothes horse may be made in any size to meet the requirements
of householders or laundries, and may consist of two or more sections such as
Fig. 1, each composed of two vertical portions A and B, connected together at
their upper and lower ends by fixed bars C and D, preferably morticed thereto,
and the portion A may have formed therein, between C and D, any desired number
of recesses E, these being to receive the first ends of the bars F, the portion B
having a like number of angled slots G, coinciding with the recesses E, these being
for the reception of the final ends of the bars F, and the number of said slots being
in excess of the number of bars F necessary, permits of these being placed nearer
together or farther apart as occasion may require.
Each section may be connected to its neighbour or neighbours by-hinges formed
of webbing in the usual way, or I may connect these by the employment of double,
or two way, or compound butts H as at Fig. 4, the object being to so connect the
sections, that whatever number may be employed these may fold together as at
Fig. 5 to economise space when not in use.
When my improved clothes-horse consists of one section only, as at Fig. 1,
suitable feet may be fixed upon the lower ends of A and B in the usual way, as
shewn by the dotted outlines J in Fig. 1..
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is,
The improved clothes horse consisting of one or more sections, each mounted
upon suitable feet J, or hinged together by webbing or compound butts H, and
each section having in the vertical portions A any number of recesses E, and in Ba
like number of angled recesses or slots G for, the reception of portable bars F,
the whole connected combined and operating substantially as and for the purposes
herein described and shewn by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 25th day of April 1894
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1, Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.