Patent Model - Improved Rotating Clothes-Drier
Maker and role
William Boyers, Patentee
John Livingston, Assignee
John Shaffer, Assignee
Production date
Mar 25 1862
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Wood, iron
Measurements
6 x 7 3/4 x 7 1/2" (15.2 x 19.7 x 19.1cm)
Description
Boyers's patent "consists in enabling persons to hang out clothes to dry from an upper window or door of a building and take them in again when dry by constructing [his] clothes-drier so that it can be operated upon at a given point by attaching it at an elevation to the corners of a house, and the operator standing at the window or door, which will also secure the clothes from thieves, and when the house is not properly constructed and it is desired...raise the pulleys and endless rotating cord on the top of three or more posts and operate from a platform, thereby avoiding unnecessary exposure." (Patent Number 34,802)
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Object number
2015.14.382
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