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US 11,753,762 B1Granted
Convertible trellis clothesline
OwnerMelbia L Jacksoninventor
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Abstract
A clothesline that folds, collapses, and converts into a decorative trellis when the clothesline is not being used as a conventional outdoor clothesline to dry clothes or air freshen items. The decorative clothesline trellis may be wall-mounted such that when fully collapsed, the clothesline presents as a wall-mounted decorative trellis of various and possibly interchangeable decorative styles.
Claims20
A decorative outdoor assembly that deploys into a clothes drying structure, the assembly comprising:
- a first panel comprising a first end and a second end with a first length between the ends, wherein the second end is rotatably affixed to a first end of a first rail;
- the first rail having a first rail end and a second rail end, and wherein the second rail end is rotatably connected to an anchor;
- the anchor comprising an axis of rotation positioned substantially at the first length above ground;
- wherein a closed configuration comprises the first end of the first panel is disposed adjacent the anchor and the second end of the first panel is disposed adjacent the ground, with the first rail is disposed in a vertical position between the first panel and the anchor;
- wherein an opened configuration comprises the first rail in a substantially horizontal position between the anchor and the second end of the first panel;
- and
- wherein at least one clothesline is secured to the assembly between the first panel and the anchor when the assembly is in the opened configuration.
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A retractable clothesline system comprising:
- a first support rotatably secured to a first end of a rail;
- a second end of the rail rotatably secured to a panel;
- wherein the panel is movable from a first position separated from the first support by the rail in a substantially horizontal position to a second position where the panel is adjacent the first support and the rail is in a substantially vertical position between the panel and the first support;
- and
- wherein at least one clothes hanging line spans between the first support and the panel.
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A trellis that converts to a garment hanging system, comprising:
- a first hinge configured to rotatably secure a frame to a stationary vertical support, the first hinge oriented at a first distance above ground;
- the frame configured to secure at least one article hanging line from a first point proximal to the vertical support on the frame to a second point distal to the vertical support on the frame;
- the frame further configured to be rotatably connected to a movable vertical support, where the movable vertical support has a height of substantially the first distance;
- the movable vertical support having a first position in which the frame is vertically disposed between the stationary vertical support and the movable vertical support, and having a second position in which the frame is horizontally disposed between the stationary vertical support and the movable vertical support.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.