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2. Hills Hoist - Wikipedia

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   A Hills Hoist is a height-adjustable rotary clothes line, designed to permit the compact hanging of wet clothes so that their maximum area can be exposed for wind drying by rotation. They are considered one of Australia's most recognisable icons , and are used frequently by artists as a metaphor for Australian suburbia in the 1950s and 1960s.

3. Gilbert Toyne - Wikipedia

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   Gilbert Toyne's final patented rotary clothes hoist design was in 1945 "Improvements relating to hydraulic clothes hoists" (Australian Patent No. 128009) [8] Hydraulic clothes hoists used fluid as a means of raising and lowering the clothes line frame. At least seven hydraulic clothes hoists had been patented in Australia prior to Toyne's design.

4. Hills Limited - Wikipedia

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   Hills is the evolution of Hills Hoist Ltd, the company founded by Lance Hill and Harold Ling in 1948 [1] to manufacture the Hills Hoist clothesline. Hills was a value-added distributor of security and surveillance systems, IT infrastructure, nurse call and patient engagement technology. In 2023, Hills went into voluntary administration. [2]

5. Clothes line - Wikipedia

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   A clothes line, also spelled clothesline, also known as a wash line, is a device for hanging clothes on for the purpose of drying or airing out the articles. It is made of any type of rope , cord, wire, or twine that has been stretched between two points (e.g. two posts), outdoors or indoors, above ground level.

6. Talk:Clothes line - Wikipedia

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   2 Merge: clothes line /washing line. 1 comment. 3 costing less a disadvantage? 7 comments. 4 Advantages/disadvantages to third parties. 2 comments. 5 Evaporation. 8 ...

7. List of generic and genericized trademarks - Wikipedia

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   Rotary clothes line: Hills Industries: Australian usage [126] Hoover: Vacuum cleaner: Hoover Company: Widely used as a noun and verb. [112] De facto loss of trademark in the UK. [127] Hula hoop: Toy hoop Wham-O [128] Indomie: Instant noodle: Indofood: Common in Indonesia and Nigeria as a genericized mark for any instant noodle. Jacuzzi: Hot tub ...