An Improved Device or Cover for Protecting Thread and the like Wound on a Card.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Mar., 1898-Accepted, 23rd Apr., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device or Cover for Protecting Thread and the like
Wound on a Card.
I, REGINALD HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert Haddan & Co., of 18, Buckingham
Street, Strand, W.C., Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a
communication to me from abroad by Louis Picavet, ainé, of No. 1, Rue Kleber, Lille,.
in the Republic of France, Sewing Cotton Manufacturer), and 'in what manner the same
is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
In
This device for protecting sewing cotton, silk, worsted or the like wound on cards
consists of a suitable folded sheet of paper, card-board; metal, celluloid or any other
material having a shape analogous to that of the card carrying the thread or differing
from the same. The said cover can also be composed of two independent sheets."
either case, each of the faces of the cover is provided in the centre with a corresponding
hole. In these holes a solid or tubular axle is placed. When a solid axle is used the
cover is arranged to turn round and on the same. When a hollow axle is used it is.
constructed to form one with the cover by means of hooks clasps or any other suitable
means.
In the annexed drawings:-Fig. 1 is a cross section of a form of the devices. Fig. 2
is a plan of the cover for same before it is folded. Fig. 3 is a side view of another
form of the device. Fig. 4 is a plan of another form of cover before it is folded. Fig. 5
is a plan view of the card on which the cotton or the like is wound. Fig. 6 shows a
plan of another form of the device in which the winder is enclosed in a box formed
by the cover. Fig. 7 is a cross section of the same.
The covers E are cut or punched out of the material and have such outline for
instance as shown by Figs. 2, 4 as may be required for convenience or the purposes of
ornamentation. These are then bent or folded over in such a manner at X Y as to
bring their opposed ends or edges towards each other and so have two parallel faces
which are held in this position, by the axle A or a collar or the like thereon and if
necessary also by pins or the like a. On the axle A is arranged a winder C similar to
those often used for winding thread and which consists of a star like sheet of cardboard
wood metal or the like or it may have any other convenient form or outline. On this
winder the thread or the like is wound round the parallel edges of the same in manners
as indicated in Fig. 5 in which f represents the thread. The winder is seated either
fixed or loosely on the axle A and centrally between the faces of the folded cover E
and is turnable within the same. The cover may be provided on one face with
perforations j for the purpose of viewing the colors of the thread and the quantity
remaining on the winder. A slot e of any convenient shape is cut in the cover at or
near the fold X Y and is for the purpose of the passage of the thread. Fig. 3 shows
the device provided with a handle or means of attachment R which may be cut from
the same sheet as the cover or be constructed of a separate piece or tongue, the axle A
in the latter case passing through its extremities. As before stated the cover can be
composed of two separate parts as shown by Figs. 6 and 7 in which the winder is
arranged between two dises E with edges F turned up at right angles and arranged
to fit one within the other so as to form a box. The thread is arranged to pass

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through a hole provided in the periphery of the box. By the arrangement above
described the thread is protected and kept clean and also it can be wound or drawn
off the winder with ease. The winders and also the covers may have any convenient
shape.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The herein described cover, of any form and material with a solid or hollow axle
fixed or movable for receiving a perforated card or the like on which thread or yarn has
been wound for the purpose set forth.
2. The construction of this cover in one or two parts separately or connected by a
handle or means of attachment for holding the cover outside the card or fixing it at
any place in order to pull the thread out with one hand, the other hand remaining
free.
3. A cover as herein described having at different places on the border eyelets
connecting the two surfaces of the cover.
4. A cover as herein described having holes of any form in the side surfaces for
showing the thread contained in the cover.
5. A cover as herein described having flanges on the side surfaces in order to form
boxes of any forms, with an axle for revolution and a lateral hole for the drawing out of
the thread.
6. The combination with a star shaped winder having thread or yarn wound
thereon substantially as described, of a cover comprising two connected side surfaces
and having an axle on which said winder may rotate or oscillate, the said cover being
constructed substantially as set forth and illustrated.
"Deted this and d
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