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US 5,393,027 AGranted
Clothesline prop apparatus
OwnerSamuel Koval, Jeanette Kovalinventors
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Abstract
A tubular shaft is arranged for supporting a clothesline, having a first end arranged for securement to an underlying support surface and a second end having a head member, with a T-shaped slot to receive the clothesline therewithin, and a cap arranged to receive the head to capture the clothesline within the cap and head structure.
Claims4
A clothesline prop apparatus arranged for supporting a clothesline, wherein the apparatus comprises,
- a rigid tubular shaft, having a first end spaced from a second end, wherein the shaft is coaxially aligned about an axis, with a first lug arranged for reception within a first end, with the first lug having a first lug flange arranged for abutment with the first end, and
- a spike fixedly mounted to the first lug flange projecting beyond the first end, and a second lug arranged for reception within the second end, the second lug having a second lug head, with the second lug head having a head side wall, the head side wall having a slot directed into the side wall, with the slot including a slot portion coaxially aligned along the axis for reception of the clothesline,
- a cap arranged for complementarily receiving the second lug head therewithin, the car having a cap skirt arranged for receiving the second lug head therewithin, the cap skirt having a plurality of diametrically opposed side wall slots, wherein the slots are arranged parallel and coextensive relative to one another for receiving the clothesline when the clothesline is directed through the slot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.