Talk:Hills Hoist

Patent Drawing
Does anyone know if we could put this in the article? ...maelgwntalk 00:29, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Confusing
The article doesn't detail the specific qualities of a hills hoist until almost 2/3 of the way through the article (in the features section). And it still doesn't make it clear what is the distinquishing feature; i.e. what makes hills hoist different than its predecessors. Pimlottc 15:00, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Copyedit
I've copyedited the article to: Any opposing views or comments about the rewrite are welcome - I'm, happy to revisit any point.
 * remove advertising links and text;
 * improve chronological order in the history section;
 * remove repetition of Lance Hill being the inventor - this is an important and referenced point but it need not appear four times; and
 * remove duplication of the benefits of Hills Hoists as well as some original research.

However I'd ask the advertising spam not be reinserted. A US marketing campaign to encourage people to buy clotheslines has relatively little to do with this article, and the constant addition of links to sites whose principal function is to sell products is a breach of Wikipedia's external links policy. Euryalus (talk) 07:25, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Altering Hills hoist page
Gilbert Toyne invented and patented the classic Australian all-metal clothes hoist in 1925. In fact the Hills Hoists company made a direct copy of this patent (which by 1947 had expired) for their first wind-up clothes hoist. Do check out Gilbert Toyne’s patent no. 24553/25 on AusPat.  This was his third clothes hoist patent and is significant as it has the crown wheel-and-pinion winding mechanism that has often been incorrectly attributed to Lance Hill. Casonline (talk) 08:07, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

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Goon of Fortune
Would someone acknowledge the fact this the rotary clothes hoist is also a piece of sporting equipment for the game of Goon of Fortune? GaryTalk to me 16:54, 5 March 2021 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Antalope (talk • contribs)

from: clothesline
from: clothesline:
 * Someone needs to so some deeper research on this whole Hills Hoist issue. I know we all like to think that the rotary washing line is an Aussie invention but apparently it isn't. The ABC broadcast a doco last year that traced the development of the humble hoist. It seems it was pre-dated by several decades by a British patent and that too was pre-dated by an American device that was shown in Scientific American magazine in 1855. Basic programme info is available from the ABC.

2601:646:201:57F0:A38B:FE07:1C1F:77ED (talk) 01:56, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

need redirect
rotary washing line 2601:646:201:57F0:A38B:FE07:1C1F:77ED (talk) 01:57, 7 May 2024 (UTC)