Clotheslines

A collapsible clothesline comprising a casing, a telescopic stem telescopically retractible into and extensible from said casing, said stem comprising an outer stem element and inner stem element which in used is telescopically retractible downwardly into and extensible upwardly from said outer stem element, first sealing means disposed between said casing and said outer stem element to hydraulically seal said casing and said outer stem element together, second sealing means disposed between said outer and inner stem elements to hydraulically seal said stem elements together. a plurality of arms carried by said outer stem element and pivotable between a use position in which they extend substantially radially of said stem and a storage position in which they extned alongside said stem, a plurality of lengths of line interconnecting said arms, and a plurality of support ties so connecting said arms to said inner stem element at its upper end as to cause said arms to pivot from the storage position to the use position on extension of said inner stem element from said outer stem element and to permit said arms to pivot from the use position to the storage position on retraction of said inner stem element into said outer stem element, said casing being provided with inlet and outlet means for admission and exhaust of liquid under pressure and said inner and outer stem elements being provided with means actable on by such liquid under pressure to effect extension of said outer stem element from said casing and said inner stem element from said outer stem element.