Buckles – buttons – clasps – etc. – Clasp – clip – support-clamp – or required component thereof – Having gripping member formed from – biased by – or mounted on...
Patent
1995-03-30
1996-11-19
Brittain, James R.
Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
Clasp, clip, support-clamp, or required component thereof
Having gripping member formed from, biased by, or mounted on...
24341, 24578, 211124, 2111191, D06F 5302
Patent
active
055750460
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
THIS INVENTION relates to a holder for supporting a cloth to be dried, and is more specifically, but not exclusively concerned with a pegless clothes line composed of a series of links formed with resilient pinches into which upper edge-portions of clothes to be dried can be slid and held.
STATE OF THE ART
Pegless clothes lines are disclosed in Australian Patent Specification nos. 118,620, 117229, 116484, 114289, and 111923. All of these specifications rely on wire links which are attached to one another by inter-engaging loops at the ends of the links. As far as is known, such clothes lines have not found commercial acceptance either because of their cost, the difficulty of adjusting their length to suit a particular site, their proneness to rust, or their tendency to provide sharp points and edges liable to damage articles of clothing suspended from them.
OBJECT OF THE INVENTION
An object of this invention is the provision of an improved holder for supporting the upper end of a suspended article in a readily disconnectable manner.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In accordance with the broadest aspect of this invention a holder for suspending a cloth or other flexible article from its upper end, comprises an elongated plastics moulding having two opposite end-portions and an intermediate portion containing an elongated and non-linear pinch slot formed between two resilient side-portions of the moulding which, at one end-portion of the moulding, diverge away from one another to define part of an opening through which the upper end of the article can be guided into the pinch slot for subsequent retention thereon.
In accordance with a narrower aspect of the invention a link for a pegless clothes line comprises a plastics moulding of elongated form having a stud-like formation, having a neck and a head, at one end-portion; a resiliently-sided non-linear pinch slot extending along its intermediate portion; an opening formed in its other end-portion and communicating with the pinch slot; and,a recess which is slightly wider than the neck of the stud formation but smaller than its head and which has a mouth shaped to allow the neck to pass through it with an interference fit, to provide a hinge attaching each link to its neighbour.
PREFERRED FEATURES OF THE INVENTION
The pinch slot is preferably parallel-sided with a minimum slot width of about one millimetre, and is of undulating form.
Conveniently the intermediate portion of the moulding is of flattened form and the slot is of V-shaped cross-section with the vertex of "V" lying in one flat face of the intermediate portion.
A clothes line of a desired length may be made up from a chain of the links of the invention, each link having its stud formation located in the recess at the adjacent end of the neighbouring link. Preferably the entrance to the recess is located at one side of the opening and the pinch slot communicates with the other side of the opening which may be of generally diamond shape. The plastics material of the link has a natural resilience which allows the links to be snap-fitted to one another, and the sides of the pinch slots to yield resiliently, but within their elastic limits, when an article of clothing is slid between them. With this construction of link, the links, when strung together, lie in parallel planes with their adjacent end-portions overlapping one another.
The side-portions of the link at each side of the pinch slot are conveniently formed from two substantially parallel, spaced ribs interconnected by inclined bars which yield resiliently when clothing is slid into the pinch slot. The pinch slot preferably has undulating parallel sides which may include bulges which resist unwanted sliding movement of the clothing along the pinch slot under the influence of wind pressure.
In the preferred arrangement for carrying out the invention the pinch slot ends in a small hole at its end furthest from the opening.
INTRODUCTION TO THE DRAWINGS
The invention will now be described in more detail, by way of ex
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Brittain James R.
Klingers Peg-Free Clothes Lines Pty. Limited
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