US1752691A - Clothes rack - Google Patents

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H. PINTEL CLOTHES RACK April 1, 1930.

Filed Dec. 14, 1928 Patented Apr.. 1, 1930 UNITED STATES HERMAN PINTEL, F ARLINGTON, NEW JERSEY PATENT OFFICE i CLOTHES RACK Application filed December 14, 1928. Serial No. 325,970.

sists of a frame having clothes supporting means associated therewith, and being equipped with means to employ said frame to be secured to the outside of a window frame in order that the rack may be swung into the building when the sash is raised to facilitate the attachment of the clothes thereto. After the attachment of the clothes, the frame may be readily swung to the outside of the building to permit the drying of the clothes in the atmosphere. Furthermore, after the device 7 has been swung outward, the sashes may be raised or lowered at will, without in any manner interfering with the device. I.

7 An essential object of this invention is to provide such a clothes rack that may be manufactured and marketed at low cost, and that is well adapted for use in the drying of garments and the like by residents of apartment houses.

With the foregoing and other objects in view as the nature of the invention'will be better understood from the following specification in conjunction with the accompanying drawing, and wherein like reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary vertical section through a window frame with which my device is associated, the full'line illustration of the rack disclosing the device swung outward-,

1y of the building, and the dotted line illustration when swung inwardly of the building to enable the articles to be attached to, or removed therefrom, and

Figure '2'is a fragmentary horizontal section through one side of the window frame looking downwardly'upon the rack, which is shown partially in cross section.

Now having particular reference to the drawing, there is disclosed an ordinary type of window frame A, withinwhich are movable the usual sashes B. My rack consists of a pair of end bars 55 of any suitable material, and of any desired dimensions; Adjacent opposite ends of these bars 55, I the same are formed with registering threaded openings 6, the threads of one bar extending in a reverse direction to those of the other bar. 'These end bars are detachably interconnected by side bars 7-7 revers'ely threaded at their opposite ends for threaded engagement within the openings of the end bars '55 and obviously, when the bars 7-7 a'returned in one direction the end bars 55 will be drawn inwardly, and vice versa; Threaded. through openings in the bars 5-5 is; a single length ofcord or rope fto producespaced parallelhorizontal runs 8, to which the clothes may be conveniently pinned as 'illus- Z370 trated by the full and dottedlinesin Figure 1. The rack further'consistsof an elongated supporting bar 9, threaded adjacent itsouter end for threaded engagementiwithin a central opening 1 0-of the outermost end bar 5. The opposite bar. 5 is formed centrally with a 'wide unthreadedopening to enablethe bar 9 to move freely'ltherethrough. The end of the bar 9 beyond'the threads 10 is of reduced diameter, so that it may be arranged through Z39 'the'said threaded-opening 10 of the outermost bar 5 and providea handle 11. The opposite end of thisbar 9'is threaded andis adapted for engagement within a threaded socket 12 associated with one leaf of a relatively elongated hinge 13, theother leaf adapted for. rigid association with one side ofthe window frame A, exteriorly of the, building'as disclosed.

Obviously, the bar 9 may be simultaneously threaded into the frame bar 5, and into said socket 12 by turning the handle end 11 of said bar. Furthermore, when it is desired to apply or remove the clothes, the sash is raised, and the rack then swung inwardly of the building as per the dotted lines in Figure 1. When the clothes are to be dried, the device is swung outside of the building as disclosed by the full lines in the same figure. The sash F may then be closed to prevent a draft in the room.

Furthermore, when the device is not being used, it may be quickly detached from the Window and knocked down, after which it may be placed in suitable storage, and without requiring much space.

When in use any slack which may occur in the runs 8, due to stretching of the cord, as often occurs when new cord or rope is being used, may be taken up hy rotating the bar 7 in a manner to spread the end pieces 5 apart. It is to be understood that the end pieces 5 do not have to be removed from the bar 9 when the device is taken down, as it is only necessary to release the :end of the strand 8 and remove the bar '7, after which the innermost end piece 5 may slide toward the other end piece with the strands 8 threaded therethrough as will be apparent.

Having thus described my invention, what claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

a In a clothes rack of the class described, a .fmrne consisting oat a pair of end bars having unthreaded alined base openings and further having :adjacent their ends threaded openings, the threads of one bar extending in, reverse direction to those of the other'bar, a pair of side bars inversely threaded at their opposite ends and adapted for simultaneous threaded engagement within the openings of said end bars, and means associated with said atrame to facilitate the attachment of clothes thereto, comprising a flexible strand having its opposite ends anchored to the frame and its intermediate portion passed through the unthreadedopen-ing and extending back and forth between the bars, said side bars constituting the means for tightening the (strand, and an elongated supporting bar slidably-extending through one of the end bars and threaded through theother end bar and terinitiating at one end in a reduced handle forming portion and having means at its opposite end for hingedly mounting same on a support. HERMAN PINTEL.

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