IMPROVEMENTS IN HOLDERS FOR HOLDING REELS OR SPOOLS OF COTTON, SILK, AND OTHER THREADS."
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alexander Allen Ihne at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th April 1877.
"
ALEXANDER ALLEN IHNE, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manu-
facturer. IMPROVEMENTS IN HOLDERS FOR HOLDING REELS OR SPOOLS OF COTTON,
SILK, AND OTHER THREADS."
My Invention consists in constructing and combining in the manner herein-after
described the parts of holders for holding reels or spools of cotton, silk, and other
threads, whereby the holder is capable of holding one, two, three, or more reels or
spools of the same or of different sizes, and the filled reels or spools are readily
secured in, and the empty reels removed from the holder.
I will describe a reel holder constructed according to my Invention capable of
holding three recls. The said holder consists essentially of two plates between
which the reels or spools are held, the said plates being pressed together by means
of elastic ties of the kind herein-after described. Each plate has on its inner side
three equi-distant hollow bushes or bearings, upon which the ends of the barrels
of the reels are supported, and upon which they are capable of turning. The parts
of the holding plates described opposite the hollow bushes are perforated with holes
through which the elastic ties pass, the said ties also passing through the hollow
bushes and barrels of the reels. These clastic ties consist of pieces or bands of
india-rubber or other elastic material, having a head or button at one end and a
hook at the other end. To this hook the loop or eye of a second or detachable
head or button is toothed. The said heads or buttons, which are larger than the
holes in the holding plates, are situated on the outer side of the said plates, and act
as stops to the elastic ties.
By means of the elastic ties the two plates of the holder are pressed towards
each other so as to bear against the ends of the reels, and the bushes on their
inner sides are made to enter the barrels of the reels, and thereby support the said
reels.
By means of the said elastic ties the holder is capable of expanding, so as to
accommodate itself to different sizes of reels.
In order to remove an empty reel from the holder and replace it by a full one,
the elastic tie passing through the reel is removed by unhooking the removable head
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page_text: or button from the hook at one end of the tie. The reel may now be removed
from between the plates of the holder and a full reel inserted in its place. The
elastic tie being passed through the hollow bush in one plate, through the barrel of
the reel and through the hollow bush of the other plate, it is fixed in its place by
hooking the removable head or button to it. In this way any of the reels when a
required may be romoved from the holder, and others put in their places.
The threading or passing of the elastic tie through the plates of the holder and
the reel may be conveniently effected by means of a large needle or bodkin, but other
means may be employed.
For supporting the holder to the waist of the person a chain may be connected to
the ends of the side plates. The plates may either be plain or ornamented in any
desired manner, and although I prefer to make the said side plates of metal, yet
other hard and rigid material may be used in place of metal.