IMPROVED MEANS OF CON- TROLLING THE DELIVERY OF THREAD FROM REELS CONTAINED IN BOXES OR RECEPTACLES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Léonce Bernard Schmolle, of Aldermanbury, in
the City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVED MEANS OF CON-
TROLLING THE DELIVERY OF THREAD FROM REELS CONTAINED IN BOXES OR
RECEPTACLES."
Sealed the 14th July 1871, and dated the 19th January 1871.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Léonce Bernard
Schmolle at the. Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 19th January 1871.
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I, LÉONCE BERNARD SCHMOLLE, of Aldermanbury, in the City of
London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVED MEANS OF CONTROLLING THE DELIVERY OF THREAD FROM REELS CONTAINED
IN BOXES OR RECEPTACLES," to be as follows:-
Reels of various kinds of thread are sometimes enclosed in a box from
,which the thread is drawn as required for use, and my Invention relates
to improved means of controlling or checking the delivery of the. thread
from the reels.

page_text: . I mount each reel to rotate on a vertical pin or spindle fixed to the
bottom of the box, and carrying a tube or sleeve slightly tapered
externally, on which the reel is fixed, the two rotating together on the
pin or spindle. A spring is applied at the base of the sleeve to bear
against the latter, and act as a brake to prevent the too rapid rotation of
the reel. A number of reels are arranged in the box or receptacle, as
before mentioned, each thread being led from its reel out through an
adjacent hole or guide in the side of the box. I form a slit from the
edge of the box to each guide, into which the thread is slipped without
the necessity of threading it through the said hole or guide. Each
thread is retained in its guide by a spring catch or lever mounted in the
side of the box, which catch closes the slit and clips the thread, so that
when tension is applied to unwind the latter from its reel the friction of
the clip will serve to check the delivery of the thread. The tail end of
each lever projects from the edge of the box, and is depressed by hand
to raise the clip and uncover the slit when it is desired to introduce a
thread.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Léonce Bernard Schmolle in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 18th July 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LÉONCE
BERNARD SCHMOLLE, of Aldermanbury, in the City of London, send
greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Léonce Bernard Schmolle, Her special
licence that I, the said Léonce Bernard Schmolle, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Léonce Bernard
Schmolle, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain'
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an. Invention for

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a part side view and part sectional elevation through
line 1-2; Figure 2 of my improved reel box; Figure 2 is a plan of same
with the lid thrown open; and Figure 3, a transverse section taken on
line 3-4, Figure 2.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding
parts in all the Figures.
a is the box or receptacle for the reels, and b are straight steel pins
all fitted alike, each being screw-threaded at the lower end to receive
two nuts c, c¹, by which the pin is firmly fixed upright in the bottom of
the box a, in which holes are bored and countersunk on the under side
to receive the lower nut c¹. Each pin is turned or formed with an
enlargement or head d to retain a bush or sleeve e fitted loosely on the
pin to carry the reel of thread, which is fixed on the said sleeve and
rotates therewith on the pin or spindle b. The reel may be held on the
sleeve e, either by making the external form of the latter slightly
tapered, or preferably by means of a piece of bent watch spring f soldered
by one end to the sleeve e, as shown, and which is compressed when
the reel g is placed thereon, hare flat springs, each bent to the form.
shown, and placed beneath the sleeve e, and having a hole through
which the pin b passes, the spring bearing against the revolving bush
or sleeve e to prevent the too rapid rotation of the reel; i are double.
or hollow plates of brass or other metal fixed along the edges of the
box a, as shown, which are cut away to receive the plates. The latter,
are provided with guide holes j, one opposite each reel, through each of
which holes a thread is led, as shown, and confined and clipped thercin
by a bent spring, lever, or catch k working between plates i, and pivoted
thereto at l. The said catch has a tail piece m rising up through a slot
in the edge of the plate, by which the catch can be raised (as shown in:
dotted lines in Figure 1) when the lid of the box is opened for inserting.
the thread; n is a spring bearing against the tail piece of the catch k.
The box is provided with a lock, which is useful in workrooms, for
instance, to prevent the abstraction of entire reels of thread at a time.
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Having described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I declare that what I claim as my Invention to
be protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,―
1st. The combination with a fixed pin or spindle 6 of a bush or
sleeve e for carrying the reel of thread placed on the spindle, and acted

page_text: on by a brake spring f, all arranged and applied substantially as herein-
before described and shown in the Drawings.
2ndly. The combination with the hole j for leading out the thread,
provided with a slit or throat, of a spring clip or lever k, applied
substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose specified.
3rdly. I claim in a box for holding reels of thread the combination of
a number of spindles and their adjuncts with corresponding thread holes
and clips for checking the delivery of the thread, substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated in the Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Léonce Bernard Schmolle, have
hercunto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of July,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
one.