Improvements in and in the Manufacture of Spools or Reels for Winding Twine or Thread upon.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 17th Nov., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and in the Manufacture of Spools or Reels for
Winding Twine or Thread upon.
I WILLIAM HENRY GOOD, of Yeovil, in the County of Somerset, Twine
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and claimed in and by
the following statement :---
My invention relates to improvements in, and in the manufacture of, spools or
reels for winding twine or thread upon, and has for its object to produce a spool
or reel upon which the twine or thread can be wound ready for use, to supersede
the old-fashioned form of winding in balls, further objects being to prevent waste
both in the winding of such twine or thread and in the use of same, and to allow
of such twine or thread being unwound easier and readier than was possible
heretofore, the process of winding the twine or thread being at the same time
rendered more speedy and economical than was formerly the case.
And in order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood, I
have shewn same upon the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings, wherein :
Fig. 1 is a front elevational view, partly in section of a complete spool or reel.
Fig. 2 being an end view thereof.
Fig. 3 is a view of a blank stamped or otherwise formed from a sheet of card-
board or the like, shewing the spool or reel in its first stage of manufacture,
while
Fig. 4 illustrates one end of the spool or reel after same is rolled up and before
the head is fixed on.
As is well known, in the process heretofore and at present employed of winding
twine and thread, the latter had to be first wound upon specially prepared wooden
reels or spools having removably fixed heads, which latter were removed from the
reels or spools when same were filled.
In addition to this process being lengthy and entailing considerable labour, the
twine or thread so wound was in the form of balls having a hollow centre, which
balls in the course of use, generally collapsed owing to the fact of the twine or
thread having to be drawn directly from the hollow centre aforesaid, thereby
occasioning considerable waste, as well as loss of time to the user through becoming
entangled.
Now by my invention these inconveniences are obviated as the twine or thread
is wound directly upon a spool or reel of inexpensive manufacture from which
such twine or thread has not to be removed except in the course of use the said
twine or thread being so wound as to be capable of being readily unwound as
occasion requires it.
Referring to Fig. 3 of the drawings, therein is shewn a blank stamped or cut in
any suitable manner from a sheet of card-board, mill-board or other suitable
material, such blank consisting preferably of a rectangular portion a terminating
at one end in a wider portion a', the edges a² and a³ of the respective portions,
being substantially at right angles to one another as shewn.
The blank is formed into the reel or spool, by rolling same in any suitable
manner from the end a¹ toward the end a, the wide portion a¹ having been
previously slit in a transverse manner from its parallel edges a¹ to a suitable
distance toward the centre of the enlarged portion a', as shewn by b, though these
slits may be formed in the portion at of the blauk, after the latter has been
b
rolled.

page_text: The rolled blank is then pasted or otherwise secured in its rolled form, and the
head secured in position, these heads consisting preferably of discs of mill-board
or other suitable material c having respectively a central circular opening through
which the respective slit portion of the rolled blank is passed, the tongues b¹
caused by slitting the blank as before described, then being folded up and down at
right angles to the main portion of the blank, so as to enclose the respective head c
between such tongues and the flange caused by the difference in width of the
portions a and a¹ of the blank.
A disc or other piece of paper, linen or other suitable material d is pasted or
otherwise affixed upon the outside of the heads c, so as to cover the tongues b¹ and
so hold the said heads securely in position, the aforesaid flanges preventing the
.heads c moving laterally toward the centre of the rolled blank.
The finished reels or spools are placed upon the winding machine and the twine
or thread is wound upon such reels or spools in the usual manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
1. The improvements in and in the manufacture of spools or reels whereon twine
or thread can be wound ready for use, consisting in providing a blank wider at one
end than the other which blank is rolled so as to form a hollow spindle and
secured in that form and slit at the ends either before or after rolling, and two
circular or other heads fixed in position upon the ends of the rolled blank, in
manner substantially as described and as illustrated.
2. The improvements in, and in the manufacture of spools or reels, for winding
twine or thread upon whereby same is ready for use, substantially as and for the
purpose specified, and as illustrated by the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 16th day of October 1894.
HUGHES, SON, & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.