Patent ID: 7219611
Filing Date: 2007-05-22
Classification: D05B

Abstract:
1. A thread guide attachable to an embroidery and sewing machine spool pin rod, the thread guide comprising: a thread guide arm comprising an upwardly projecting element with an open loop on one end, the thread guide arm adapted to generally extend along a forward-rearward axis of an embroidery and sewing machine with the open loop spaced apart from and positioned opposite to a central portion of an embroidery thread spool of an embroidery and sewing machine between two ends of the embroidery thread spool in line with a release of an embroidery thread with the embroidery thread in a perpendicular alignment with a longitudinal axis of the embroidery thread spool, the open loop adapted to receive a line of embroidery thread through the open loop with the line of embroidery thread extending from an embroidery thread spool mounted on an embroidery and sewing machine on one side of the thread guide arm through the open loop, followed by the normal machine threading procedure, and onto a needle assembly on an opposite side of the thread guide arm, so that the thread guide maintains a line of embroidery thread in an elevated position with the line of embroidery thread extending perpendicularly from the longitudinal axis of the embroidery thread spool and creates an added tension between the thread guide arm and an embroidery thread spool thereby providing consistent feeding of the line of embroidery thread from the embroidery thread spool to prevent pooling and tangling of a line of embroidery thread; a means for attaching the thread guide to a spool pin rod of an embroidery and sewing machine at a base of the embroidery thread spool so that the thread guide arm extends perpendicularly away from a longitudinal axis of the embroidery thread spool.