Patent ID: 6540075
Filing Date: 2003-04-01
Classification: B65H,D05B

Abstract:
A bobbin retaining device for storing sewing machine bobbins of the type comprising a pair of circular discs connected by a cylindrical hub, comprising, a flexible rubbery trough having an interior shaped approximately arcuately in cross section and defining more than half a circle, the trough being open at an outer side, the trough having contained therein a plurality of bobbins of different diameters with side walls of the trough engaged against the disks of the bobbins, the bobbins being oriented with their circumferences generally concentric with the arcuate cross section of the trough, and the side walls of the trough being deformed to accommodate the bobbins but exerting inward force tending to return to the undeformed shape of the trough.