An Improved Apparatus or Appliance for Holding Balls of Twine, Thread, and the like, and Facilitating the Running Off or Unwinding thereof.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 20th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 24th Feb., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus or Appliance for Holding Balls of Twine,
Thread, and the like, and Facilitating the Running Off or
Unwinding thereof.
I, JOHN HENRY FOSTER, of 15 Great Shaw Street, Preston, in the County of
Lancaster, Hosier and Draper, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
s follows:-
This invention has for its object to provide an apparatus or appliance for holding
balls of twine thread and the like in such manner that the twine or thread may be
withdrawn from the interior of such balls instead of from the exterior thereof as is
usual with such appliances so as to prevent the twine or other ball from becoming
loose or ravelled during the operation of running off especially towards the finish.
The said improved apparatus or appliance consists of a suitable stand having a
fixed arm carrying a hollow pau or semi-circular cup. Facing the concave or
hollow-side of this cup is the hollow side of another correspondingly formed cup
mounted upon an arm fastened to the stand by means of a thumb screw a slot being
provided so that the two cups may be moved apart from each other when a fresh
ball is to be inserted and nearer to each other so as to embrace or partially enclose
and so hold the ball between them. The central portion of each cup has an
inwardly projecting part or dome-shaped nose which enters the central hole of the
twine or other ball and in the centre of the projecting part is a small hole through
which the end of the thread or twine is passed outwardly and so withdrawn as
required from the interior of the ball.
Dated this 25th day of April 1893.
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus or Appliance for Holding Balls of Twine,
Thread, and the like, and Facilitating the Running Off or
Unwinding thereof.
1, JOHN HENRY FOSTER, of 15 Great Shaw Street, Preston, in the County of
Lancaster, Hosier and Draper, 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 :-
This invention has for its object to provide an apparatus or appliance for holding
balls of twine thread and the like in such manner that the twine or thread may be
withdrawn from the interior of such balls instead of from the exterior thereof as is
usual with such appliances so as to prevent the twine or other ball from becoming
loose or ravelled during the operation of running off especially towards the finish.
The said improved apparatus or appliance consists of a suitable stand having a
fixed arm carrying a hollow pan or semi-circular cup. Facing the concave or
hollow side of this cup is the hollow side of another correspondingly formed cup
mounted upon an arm fastened to the stand by means of a thumb screw a slot being
provided so that the two cups may be moved apart from each other when a fresh

page_text: ball is to be inserted and nearer to each other so as to embrace or partially enclose
and so hold the ball between them. The central portion of each cup has an
inwardly projecting part or dome-shaped nose which enters the central hole of the
twine or other ball and in the centre of the projecting part is a small hole through
which the end of the thread or twine is passed outwardly and so withdrawn as
required from the interior of the ball.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. is a longitudinal vertical section ;
Fig. 2 a cross sectioù; and
Fig. 3 a plan view of the improved apparatus or appliance constructed and
arranged as hereinabove described.
ais a metal stand having the fixed arm b preferably secured to the stand a by a
screw e so as to be easily replaceable in the event of breakage. The fixed arm b
carries the hollow pan or cup d. d is another cup carried upon the movable arm e
which is secured to the stand a in the required position by means of a thumb
screw passing through the slot g into a screw-threaded hole in the horizontal
sliding arm share the dome-shaped noses projecting centrally from the
interior of the cups'd d' the said noses being caused to enter the hole through the
twine or other ball the latter being thereby guided into position concentrically
between the two cups. The ball is represented in Fig. 1 by the broken lines m m..
The string or twine n is passed through the small central hole o in the cup d. p is
a loop or eyelet for facilitating the hanging up of the apparatus against a wall or
other vertical surface.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. The use or employment for the purpose or purposes specified of two cups
arranged with their hollow sides to face each other with means whereby the said
cups may be brought nearer to or further apart from each other and fastened in
position one of the said cups having a hole through which the twine or thread may
be withdrawn from the interior of a ball of twine thread or the like held between
the said cups substantially as hereinabove described and shewn in the drawings.
2. The combination of parts constituting the improved apparatus or appliance
constructed arranged and operating substantially as hereinabove described and
shewn in the drawings for the purpose or purposes specified.
Dated this 20th day of January 1894.
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.