An Improved Device or Apparatus for use in Drying Olothes and the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 4th Nov., 1889-Accepted. 7th Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device or Apparatus for use in Drying Olothes and
the like.
I ALFRED JOHN BARNES of 23 Montpelier Road Kentish Town in the County
of Middlesex Printer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to he as
follows:-
My invention is designed to provide an improved device or apparatus for use in
drying clothes and the like.
I employ a frame on which the articles can rest and such frame is constructed as
follows.
Diagonally opposite facing pairs of slats or ribs are used and through the apex of each
pair and also midway or at various positions in the slats or ribs and also at the
bottom, are fitted rods or bars on which the clothes or like articles rest and which
rods or bars may be of any desired length.
As the top rod or har may form the pivot of the triangular skeleton frame I use a
hinge and slotted link to engage in various positions with one or other of the rods or
bars, whereby I can increase the width of the triangular skeleton frame or diminish it
or even have it arranged to fold up flat and be fastened with a bolt or the like or I
can arrange it to be readily taken to pieces.
For house or like use I prefer to suspend it from the ceiling or otherwise by cords
chains or the like passing over pulleys and I prefer to use one or more double pulleys
over which the end chain or the like passes over so as to steady the motion.
The end of the cord chain or the like can be secured by cleat hook or
otherwise.
Thus articles can be kept before a fire and he readily raised therefrom when the
fire is to be used say for cooking purposes, meanwhile being held suspended in a
warm current of air.
The apparatus can also be used for outdoor purposes in which case the frame can be
fixed or travel in grooves in pillars or supports or be otherwise supported.
Dated 4th dox of Robruary 1889
POPPLEWELL, COLTON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device or Apparatus for use in Drying Clothes and
the like.
1 ALFRED JOHN BARNES, of 23 Montpelier Road, Kentish Town, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of my 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 is designed to provide an improved device for drying clothes and the
like, and in carrying it into effect, I provide two flat pieces or slats of wood or other
suitable material, and at suitable distances apart, in each of these slats, I form holes-
two, three or any desired number-through which I pass bars or rods of suitable material
and length. The top bar passes through each of these slats at the top 50 forming a
hinge. "The ends of the other rods or bars are passed through corresponding holes in
a similar pair of flat slats, thus forming an enlongated A shaped frame as will be seen
on reference to the accompanying drawings.
I
may if desired use a hinged and slotted link to engage with the bars so as to
make the frame wider or narrower as desired, or it may be made to fold up flat

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