Clothes Line System with Horizontal Synchronized Pulleys

摘要

A clothes line system has a pair of spaced horizontal pulleys mounted respectively on support arms above the ground. Each pulley is formed with radially extending spokes having mounted on each end thereof a Y-shaped line engagement member that engages a clothes line entrained around the pulleys. The overall length of the clothes line is substantially a multiple of the linear distance between adjacent Y-shaped line engagement members on the pulleys. As a result, the Y-shaped line engagement members engage essentially the same location along the clothes line with the clothes aligning between the Y-shaped line engagement members as they pass around the pulleys. One of the pulleys maintains tension in the entrained clothes line utilizing a support arm structure that has a telescopic portion drawn toward a base member. A tilt adjustment device interconnecting the support arm and the vertical post orient the angle of the support arms.

主权项

1. A clothes line system, comprising:
first and second spaced apart support posts; a horizontal tensioning pulley rotatably supported from said first support post; a horizontal return pulley rotatably supported from said second support post, each of said tensioning pulley and said return pulley being configured with a plurality of spokes terminating in radially extending Y-shaped line engagement members; an endless clothes line entrained around said tensioning pulley and said return pulley engaged with said Y-shaped line engagement members on each respective said pulley; and a tension adjustment mechanism operable to adjust the distance between said tensioning pulley and said return pulley to effect synchronization of said tensioning pulley and said return pulley such that the Y-shaped line engagement members on said return pulley engage said clothes line at approximately the same location that the corresponding Y-shaped line engagement members engaged said clothes line at the tensioning pulley.