Clothes line

Abstract: The invention provides a clothes drying apparatus with a central post member, a collar member axially displaceably mounted on the supporting post member and a plurality of support arms. A plurality of clothes line portions extend between the support arms. Operating means are provided to spread the support arms from a rest position into an extended position in which the clothes line portions extending between the support arms are in an essentially stretched condition. In order to avoid a contamination and muddling of the hanging down line portions when the apparatus is in its inoperative position, cavities are provided between the central post and the support arms which receive and protect the hanging down line portions. To direct the cloth line portions, which loosely hang down on collapsing the clothes drying apparatus, into the cavities, guiding means are provided which are operatively connected to the clothes line portions, e.g. weight bodies fixed to the cloth line, or which engage some of the clothes line portion, e.g. gliding members slidably mounted along the support arms, which have projecting tappets forcing the hanging down clothes line portions towards the central supporting post.