Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Feb., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 6th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 22nd Jan., 1889
I ELIZA BLACK, of 42 Camden Road, N.W. London, in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
1st. A Permanent Escape, which is to prevent the waste of thread usually
occassioned by getting entangled round the wires which are often employed for
keeping the reels together; this Escape avoids the waste of the worker's time in
seeking the end of the thread by a contrivance which causes the ends to be continually
pendant and in view, and therefore obviates the necessity of seeking them.
2nd. A self adjusting Lid, by which means the strength of Cotton Silk Wool &c. is
preserved being kept from contact with the air which causes them to become rotten.
In the drawings A and C, one side of the Box is arranged for Black and one for
White thread, with the colour and number of the thread printed on the Lid, causing a
still further economy of time, as by that means there is no occassion for the worker to
take the thread in the hand to look for the number and the colour.
The number of the partitions are not limited as there can be more or less than those
shown in the drawings B and C; the partitioned Box shall be made in card-board,
wood, or metal according to requirements.
The lid is made self adjusting by means of a spring hinge.

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An Improved Holder for Spools or Reels of Sewing Thread.
ELIZA BLACK. 6 Euston Square N.W. London, late of 42 Camden Road N.W.
London, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :—
My said Invention relates chiefly to Partitioned Boxes A Fig. 1. 2. 3. fitted with: 5
1° A Permanent Escape D by a perpendicular slit terminating in a hole in the
front of each partitions, by which Escape the thread of the bobbines passes in course of
consumption. Each partition contains only one reel. The Escape is to prevent the
waste of thread usually occassioned by getting entangled round the wires which are
often employed for keeping the reels together, to avoid the waste of the worker's time 1
in seeking the end of the thread which is continually pendent and in view, and to
obviate the necessity of seeking it.
2° Folding Lids B. C. Fig. 1 fixed by hinges E Fig. 2; which Lids by the
oblique form of each side of the box becomes self closing, so that the strength of
cotton, silk, wool, tape, ribbons and other like materials is preserved being kept from
contact with the air which causes them to become rotten; and the Printing on the
Lids is in view to indicate that the box is arranged one side for Black and the other
for White thread with the number of the thread, causing still a further economy of
time, as by that means there is no occassion for the worker to take the reel in the
hand to look for the number.
The number of the partitions are not limited, as there can be more or less than
those in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3. The partitioned boxes shall be made in card-board, wood
or metal according to requirements.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim, is:
1° The Permanent Escape by a perpendicular slit terminating in a hole in each of
the partitions.
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