Patent Publication Number: US-2011048974-A1

Title: Embroidery thread organizing card with corresponding thread and embroidering information

Description:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION 
     The present invention relates to an embroidery thread organizing card, and more particularly to an embroidery thread organizing card being provided with corresponding thread and embroidering information for sorting and organizing differently colored embroidery threads, allowing users to conveniently and correctly locate desired embroidery threads. 
     BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     With the popularization of DIY (do it yourself), many half-finished products serving as material for DIY are available in the gift market now. A user can purchase such half-finished products and use them to produce desired DIY gifts in an easy, convenient and quick manner. The user can also extend personal ideas in the DIY gifts to make them unique. 
     Among others, cross-stitch embroidery has been used in producing unique DIY crafts. Cross-stitch is a popular form of counted-thread embroidery in which x-shaped stitches are used to form a picture. Cross-stitch is usually executed on easily countable even-weave fabric. The embroiderer stitches in each direction so as to form the picture. Nowadays, needlecraft kits for cross-stitch are readily available in the market. It is no doubt the best choice for both a green hand and a skilled embroiderer of cross-stitch to purchase a needlecraft kit for producing a DIY cross-stitch work. 
     The needlecraft kits available in the market usually include woolen yarns, embroidery threads, embroidery needles, a piece of Aida cloth, an instruction sheet, and a cross stitch pattern. These items are usually arbitrarily disposed in a clear polybag, a paper box, or a blister package while the embroidery threads and the woolen yarns are separately tied into bundles or extended through a blank card with a hole. 
     In practical use of the needlecraft kit, the user has to begin from the most difficult procedure of sorting and organizing embroidery threads. That is, the user has to sort the bundles of colorful and mixed embroidery threads and woolen yarns according to their colors, and carefully compares different threads and yarns with the color codes shown in an instruction sheet, so as to identify the correct color, stitching, number of strands, representing symbol on the embroidery pattern for each of the threads and/or yarns. With a highly complicated cross stitch pattern, the quantity of supplied embroidery threads and woolen yarns is also increased, and the user has to take more time to sort and organize the threads and yarns. Meanwhile, for some extremely fine design, the supplied embroidery threads and woolen yarns are so close in color that a user can hardly distinguish them with bare eyes. Therefore, the user would very possibly make mistake in sorting and organizing the threads and yarns and use wrong color threads and yarns in embroidering to result in an imperfect embroidery work. Sometimes, the user has to purchase additional needlecraft kits or threads and yarns in order to complete the embroidery work. Thus, the conventional needlecraft kits with disorderly packed embroidery threads and woolen yarns actually bring a lot of troubles to users in doing the DIY embroidery works, and also form a hindrance to prevent the manufacturers and dealers from expanding their business. 
     Further, the currently available needlecraft kits all include an instruction sheet. All information related to the embroidery, such as the thread color, the stitches to be used, the symbols shown on the embroidery pattern, the strands of threads to be used, or the special skill of mixing threads, is printed on the instruction sheet. The user has to check the instruction sheet to sort and organize the threads, to locate the correct thread from the bundles before embroidering, to confirm the correct stitch and the symbol on the pattern representing the thread, and to check the pattern for the positions of stitching the thread. All these complicated procedures tend to cause errors in doing the embroidery. It is therefore desirable to improve the embroidery thread packaging manner in the existing needlecraft kits for cross stitch. 
     SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     A primary object of the present invention is to provide an embroidery thread organizing card, on which information about thread color, color code, embroidering stitches, and quantity of threads needed in embroidering is provided, and a plurality of embroidery thread groups is sorted and orderly held to the card corresponding to the information, so that a user can select correct threads for embroidery according to the information provided on the card without the risk of selecting wrong threads due to insufficient experience in embroidery, and can know while selecting an embroidery thread the embroidery stitch to be used and the symbol on the embroidery pattern corresponding to the selected thread. Therefore, the time and procedures needed to sort and organize the embroidery threads can be reduced to increase the efficiency of embroidering and minimize the rate of error in embroidering. 
     To achieve the above and other objects, the embroidery thread organizing card with corresponding thread and embroidering information according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a thread organizing structure having a front panel and a back panel attached to a rear side of the front panel; a plurality of embroidery thread groups being clamped at an end between the front panel and the back panel and spaced from one another by a predetermined distance; and a plurality of information zones being provided on a front side of the front panel of the thread organizing structure in a number corresponding to that of the embroidery thread groups, each of the information zones being provided at a position corresponding to the embroidery thread group thereof with a thread color sample and other related information that is needed when using the corresponding thread to embroider. 
     Each of the embroidery thread groups includes more than one embroidery thread, and the embroidery threads in each embroidery thread group are spaced from one another by a predetermined distance, and each of the embroidery threads is formed from twisted yarns. The front panel and the back panel each are made of a cardboard. 
     In a preferred embodiment, the front panel is provided on the front side near a corner thereof with a barcode for the purpose of material management, and the information provided in each of the information zones includes a color sample, a color code, a quantity mark, an embroidery pattern symbol, and an embroidery stitch symbol corresponding to the embroidery thread group thereof. 
     In another preferred embodiment, the back panel includes a foam-rubber layer bonded to the rear side of the front panel and a cardboard layer bonded to a rear side of the foam-rubber layer, and the back panel is provided on a rear side of the cardboard layer with instruction information showing things to be noted during embroidering. The instruction information can include any combination of text descriptions, numerals and patterns. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
       The structure and the technical means adopted by the present invention to achieve the above and other objects can be best understood by referring to the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments and the accompanying drawings, wherein 
         FIG. 1  is an assembled front perspective view of a embroidery thread organizing card with corresponding thread and embroidering information according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention; 
         FIG. 2  is a front view of  FIG. 1 ; 
         FIG. 3  is an enlarged view of the circled area A of  FIG. 2 ; 
         FIG. 4  is an exploded perspective view of  FIG. 1 ; and 
         FIG. 5  is an assembled rear perspective view of the embroidery thread organizing card of the present invention. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS 
     Please refer to  FIG. 1  that is an assembled front perspective view of an embroidery thread organizing card with corresponding thread and embroidering information according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. As shown, the embroidery thread organizing card includes a thread organizing structure  10 , which consists of a front panel  11 , a back panel  12  attached to a rear side of the front panel  11 , and a plurality of embroidery thread groups  13 . The embroidery thread groups  13  each have an end clamped between the front panel  11  and the back panel  12 , and are spaced from one another by a predetermined distance. On a front side of the front panel  11 , there are provided a plurality of information zones  112 . The number of the information zones is the same as that of the embroidery thread groups  13 . In each of the information zones  112 , an area corresponding to the embroidery thread group  13  displays the thread color and information related to the use of the thread in embroidery. 
     Each of the embroidery thread groups  13  includes more than one thread  131 . The threads  131  in each embroidery thread group  13  are spaced from one another by a predetermined distance, and each of the threads  131  is formed from twisted yarns. The front panel  11  and the back panel  12  each are made of a cardboard. 
     Please refer to  FIGS. 2 and 3 . In the illustrated preferred embodiment, a barcode  111  is provided on the front side of the front panel  11  near one corner thereof for material management in producing the embroidery thread organizing card. And, each of the information zones  112  is provided with a color sample  1121 , a color code  1122 , a quantity mark  1123 , an embroidery pattern symbol  1124 , and an embroidery stitch symbol  1125 . 
     Please refer to  FIGS. 4 and 5 . In the illustrated preferred embodiment, the back panel  12  includes a foam-robber layer  121  being bonded at a front side to a rear side of the front panel  11 , and a cardboard layer  122  bonded to a rear side of the foam-rubber layer  121 . The cardboard layer  122  is provided on a rear side thereof with instruction information  1221  showing things to be noted during embroidering with the threads  131 . The instruction information  1221  can include, for example, any combination of text descriptions, numerals and patterns. 
     When a user selects an embroidery thread  131  of a desired color from one of the embroidery thread groups  13  held on the embroidery thread organizing card of the present invention for embroidering, the user can at the same time check the information zone  112  corresponding to the selected thread  131  to easily find the quantity of threads  131  to be used from the quantity mark  1123 , the type of embroidery stitch to be used from the embroidery stitch symbol  1125 , and the symbol on the embroidery pattern representing the selected thread  131  from the embroidery pattern symbol  1124 . In this manner, the procedures and the time needed for locating information related to the selected thread  131  can be largely reduced. Further, in each of the information zones  112 , since the color code  1122  and the color sample  1121  of the threads  131  corresponding to the information zone  112  have been clearly displayed, it is able to effectively avoid the problem of using a thread  131  with wrong color as frequently occurred when picking up embroidery threads simply according to personal experience. 
     In brief, the embroidery thread organizing card of the present invention includes a thread organizing structure, on which a plurality of information zones is provided; and, a plurality of embroidery thread groups is sorted according to the thread colors thereof and orderly arranged and held to the thread organizing structure corresponding to the information zones, so that the chance of selecting a wrong embroidery thread by the user is reduced. Meanwhile, by providing embroidery thread-related information in the information zones, the user can obtain all necessary information about the threads and the embroidery when the user selects the threads for use, and can therefore easily complete an embroidery work, such as a cross-stitch embroidery work. 
     The present invention has been described with a preferred embodiment thereof and it is understood that many changes and modifications in the described embodiment can be carried out without departing from the scope and the spirit of the invention that is intended to be limited only by the appended claims.