US 4,592,472 AGranted

Portable, lightweight clothesline assembly

OwnerUmberto E. Carnerainventor

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Abstract

A clothesline assembly including an elongate chain, a pair of mounting strip members, and a pair of bracket members. The mounting strip members are preferably permanently secured to upstanding support structures such as walls. The amount of space between the mounting strip members substantially determines the length of chain that can be operably deployed therebetween. The mounting strip members are adapted to releasably receive the proximal ends of the respective bracket members. The respective distal ends of the bracket members are adapted to releasably engage links at opposite ends of the chain. Accordingly, the specific positions chosen for the placement of the bracket members on the mounting strip members substantially determines the height of the chain extending therebetween. Clothes to be dried are placed on conventional clothes hangers and the hangers are suspended from different links of the chain.

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Dependent claims

A portable clothesline assembly, comprising:

a pair of spaced apart, upstanding support surface elements;
a pair of mounting strip elements, each member of said pair of mounting strip elements being fixedly secured to an associated support surface element;
each member of said pair of mounting strip elements having the form of an angle iron, both of the walls of which have formed therein a plurality of spaced apertures;
an elongate, flexible chain;
said chain formed by a plurality of interconnected link members;
first and second bracket members;
each of said bracket members having first and second opposed ends;
the respective first ends of said bracket members being formed so as to be releasably secureable to the opposite ends of said chain;
the respective second ends of said bracket members being formed so as to be releasably engageable with preselected apertures formed in an associated mounting strip element;
and each of said link members providing a support means from which a clothes hanger may be suspended.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.