US1680524A - Clothes drier - Google Patents

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S. KILLMNICK CLOTHES DRIER Aug. 14, 1928. 1,680,524

Filed July 2 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet l Aug. 14, 1928.

1,680,524 S. KlLLMNl CK CLOTHES DRIER Filed July 25, 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR M i K V J WMW llfwvwn [27W ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 14, 1928.

PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL KILLMNICK, PICHER, OKLAHOMA.

CLOTHES DRIER.

Application filed July 25,

My invention relates to improvements in clothes driers. It relates particularly to a clothes drier adapted for the drying of dresses, shirts, skirts and the like.

One of the objects of my invention is to provide a clothes drier of novel construction, which is adapted for the drying s1mul-' taneously and quickly of a plurality of garments, which issimple, cheap to make, durable, not liable to get out of order, is compact, and which is adapted for use in drying garments of different lengths and diameters.

A further object of my invention is to provide a drier of the kind described, wh ch has novel adjustable means for supporting the clothes in the path of a current of air.

My invention provides still further novel means by'which a single fan may be efficiently and economically used to propel a current of air against a plurality of garments.

The novel features of my inventlon, are hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the preferred embodiment of my 1nvention,

Fig. l is an enlarged side elevation, partly broken away, of my improved clothes drier.

Fig. 2 is a reduced side elevation of my improved clothes drier, a garment being shown mounted upon one of the hangers.

Fig. 3 is a top view, reduced, of what is shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a bottom View of the same.

Fig. 5 is a plan view of one of the clamp- 1n rings. 1

@imilar reference characters designate similar parts in the different views.

1 designates a vertical tube having supporting legs 2, and having located therein a rotary fan 3 attached to the armature 4 of an electric motor 5.

Three tubes 6 have their lower ends fastened together and to the upper end of the tube 1, so as to cover fully the upper end of the latter.

The tubes 6 extend and diverge outwardly and upwardly from the tube 1, and may have respectively mounted in them three dampers 7, by which passage of air therethrough may be regulated.

When the fan 3' is revolved in the proper 1927. Serial N0. 208,280.

direction by the motor 5, a current of air will be propelled upwardly through the tube 1 and will be split into three currents which will pass upwardly through the tubes 6.

I provide means for supporting garments in distended form respectively above the tubes 6, so that the air passing through said tubes will also pass through and dry the garments. Suitable means, not shown, may be provided for heating the air so driven, if. desired.

The" garmentsupporting means comprises three separate devices respectively supported by the tubes 6, and each of which comprises, preferably, the following described parts.

In each tube 6 below the upper end thereof is provided a transverse bridge 8 having a central threaded hole in which is fitted and supported a vertical rod 9, located in axial alinement with the discharge end of the tube containing it.

j Three garment supporting devices are respectively longitudinally adjustable onthe rods 9, each device consisting preferably, of a hub 10 slidable on the adjacent rod 9, to which it may be releasably fastened by a set screw 11 in the hub. Extending laterally in opposite directions from the hub 10 are two arms 12. g

In Fig. 2 a garment 13, such as a dress, is shown mounted on the arms12 of one of the hangers or garment supporting devices.

For distending and holding distended the lower ends of garments supported by the arms 12, there is provided on each of the tubes 6, at the upper end thereof, a distending means comprising, preferably, the following described parts, see Fig. 1.

14 designates a central hub having an axial hole therethrough in which is slidably fitted the adjacent rod 9.

Spaced apart upwardly and inwardly inclined rods 15 have their lower ends fastened to the upper end of the adjacent tube 6, their upper ends being fastened to the hub 14 The outer surfaces of the rods 15 of each set are adapted to be embraced by the inner side of the lower portion of the garment 13 supported, by the adjacent arms 12. The rods 15 distend the lower part of the garment and hold it distended so that the air passing upwardly through the adjacent tube 6 will pass upwardly through the garment, thus drying the latter.

For releasably holding the garment against the rods 15, I provide three transversely 16,

divided resilient clamping rings having normally overlapping ends and eing each adapted to tightly embrace the adjacent set of rods .15 at different horizontal planes thereon. To prevent the rings from slipping from the positions to which they are adjusted, the outer sides of each set of rods 15 may be provided with three rows of notches 17, the rows being disposed at different distances from the upper end of the adjacent tube 6.

Each ring 16 is adapted to be fitted in any one of the rows of notches in which it will be held by its resiliency.

By adjusting the hubs 10, the garment supporting devices may be disposed so as to properly support garments of different engths, and after such adjustment, the set screws 11 are tightened.

The rods 15 are made to converge inwardly from the upper ends of the tubes 6,

so that garments having different diameters at their lower ends may be made to embrace the rods 15. After a garment has been mounted on the arms 12 and the hub 10 has been adjusted and fastened by the set screw 11, the lower portion of the garment is made to embrace the rods 15 adjacent thereto, after which one of the rings 16 is slip over the garment and into the notches 1 which are next above the bottom of the garment, thereby holding the garment tightly on the rods 15.

By having the r ds 9 fitted in threaded holes in the bridges 8, the rods may also be vertically adjusted, if desired.

When the garments have been mounted in drying positions, causing the fan 3 to blow air through the garments. If a garment is not above one of the tubes, 6, the damper therein may be closed so as to cause all of the air from the fan to pass through the other two tubes 6.

I do not limit my invention to the structure shown and described, as many modifications, within the scope of the appended claims, may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention.

What I claim is 1. In a clothes drier, a tube, means for forcing air therethrough, means for supporting a garment at and in central alinement with the discharge end of said tube, means at the said discharge end having an outer surface converging from said discharge end and' having external notches at different transverse diameters thereof and adapted to be embraced by and to hold distended over said discharge end the adjacent end of the garment, and a resilient transforcing air through said the motor 5 is run, therebyversely divided ring adapted to embrace the outer side of the garment and adapted to be seated in any of said notches and to hold the garment against said surface at different diameters thereof.

2. In a clothes drier, a tube, means for tube, means for supporting a garment at and in central alinement with the discharge end of said tube, upwardly converging means for distending and holding distended over said discharge end the adjacent end of the arment and having external notches at di erent transverse diameters thercof, and a vertically adjustable resilient clamping ring arranged to i be seatedin any of sai notches and embrace the outer side of the garment and to hold the garment against said distending means at different diameters thereof.

3. In a clothes drier, a tube, means for 1 forcing air therethrough, means for supporting a garment at and in central alinement with the discharge end of said tube, means at the discharge end of the tube having an outer surface converging from said outer end and adapted to be embraced by and to hold distended the adjacent end of the garment, and having in said surface a plurality of transverse rows of notches, and a transversely divided resilient ring adapted to be fitted in the notches of any of said rows and to embrace the outer side of said garment for holding the garment against said surface.

4. In a clothes drier, a plurality of tubes, means for supporting garments respectively at and in central alinement with the discharge ends of said tubes, means for distendmg and holding distended respectively over the discharge ends of said tubes the adjacent ends of the garments, a tube dischargmg into said' 't'ubes and having" the center of its discharge end equi-distant from the centers of the inlet ends of said tubes and means for forcing air through said tube into and through said plurality of tubes.

5. In a clothes drier, a tube having a transverse rod support provided with a threaded central vertical hole, a vertical rod havinga threaded lower end fitted rotatabl in the hole in said support, garment distend ing means on the discharge end of said tube through which said rod is longitudina ly adjustable, and garment sup orting means on said rod above said disten ing means.

6. In a clothes drier, a tube, a vertical rod supported by and in axial alinement with said tube and projecting from the discharge end thereof, a central hub through which said rod extends, upwardly convergin rods having their lower ends fastened to sai tubt and their upper ends fastened to said hub garment supporting means on said rod abov said hub, and vertically adjustable means fol fastening a garment to said converging rods 7. In a clothes drier, a tube, a vertical rod in axial alinement with and supported by said tube, a central hub through which said rods extends, u wardly converging rods fas- 5 tened at their ower ends to said tube and fastened at their upper ends to said hub, and provided each on its outer side with notches,

one above the other, an ex ansible ring adapted to be mounted in sa i notches, and garment supporting means on said rod above 10 said hub. In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

SAMUEL KILLMNICK.

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