Improvements in or relating to Thread Holders applicable for Sewing and other Machines.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 8th Feb., 1896
COMPLETE SI
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Thread Holders applicable for
Sewing and other Machines.
We, JOHN ANTHONY TITLEY, of Victoria Flax Mills, Hunslet, Leeds, in the
County of York, Flax Spinner, and DONALD NOBLE of Prospect House, King's
Down Parade, Bristol, in the County of Gloucester, Engineer 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 reference to improvements in thread holders applicable for
sewing and other machines and its object is to produce a cheap, simple, and readily
applied thread holder in which a cop or reel can be placed in the cup of the
receiver in either a vertical or horizontal position, or a ball can be placed vertically
therein, and the thread drawn readily therefrom.
According to this invention the thread holder consists essentially of a suitable
bracket or support (hereafter termed the bracket) mounted or fixed by any
suitable and convenient means on the spool pin of the machine in such a manner
that the thread can be drawn from a ball, cop, or reel (mounted upon a spindle
armed with a dished diaphragm or cup) in a vertical position, or from a cop or reel
in a horizontal or vertical direction, and passed to one or more, preferably two,
though not necessarily so, eyes or eyelets, with or without tensioning devices,
formed for example say of twisted wire which is suitably bent and mounted as
hereafter described in or on the top of the said bracket.
In order that our invention may be more completely understood, reference is
given to the accompanying drawings, in which :-
Fig. 1 is an elevation of the thread holder with a cop or reel arranged in a
horizontal position.
Fig. 2 au end elevation of thread holder shown at Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 an elevation of thread holder with a ball shown in a vertical position.
A is a bracket which may be mounted or fixed by any suitable or convenient
means upon a spool pin B of the machine (by a spring A* or set screw) in such a
manner that the thread can be drawn off a ball, cop, or reel C in a vertical
position with the thread resting in a dished diaphragm, cup, or holder D¹ to be
presently described, or to run off the reel or cop in a horizontal or vertical
position.
The bracket A is provided with a base plate A¹ at a right angle to its pillar
portion A. At a suitable distance from the base plate A' is provided on the
pillar portion A a boss A* having a hole A³ in its centre for purposes to be
described. The pillar portion of the bracket A is armed at its back with a peg or
hook H for the purposes to be described.
On or in the top of the pillar portion of the bracket A is mounted or fixed say
for instance by screwing or soldering a piece of rigid wire or other guide E, bent
as shown, provided with two twisted eyelets or eyes F F1 with or without
tensioning devices. One eyelet F (or eye) is in a line with the centre or axis, say
of a ball of thread C when in a vertical position as at Fig. 3. The other eyelet
or eye F is in a line with the centre or line of axis of the pillar portion of the
bracket A.
The ball, cop, or reel receiver or holder, hereafter termed a receiver, is provided
with a pin D having a cup or dished diaphragm D', hereafter termed a cup,
|mounted at a right angle thereon and provided with or without a cloth or spring

page_text: washer not sliown in the drawings. The said pin D is of such a length that when in
a vertical position it projects above the ball, cop, or reel, and acts as a guide for
the thread; and its other end D' below the cup D₁ acts as a peg for holding the
receiver.in an upright. position in an axial bearing A* provided in the end of the
base plate. The upper end of pin D is also used as a peg for fixing the receiver
in a horizontal position, as shown at Fig. 1, in the hole A provided in the boss A*
of the pillar portion of the bracket A, the said pin D being held in position by a
spring Gwhich is, fixed-to, the bracket A.
The thread having been placed on the pin D and in the cup D', it may be drawn
from a ball C from its inside when in a vértical position, as at Fig. 3; or from a
cop or reel C, as at Fig. 1, from its outside, in either a horizontal or vertical
position and it is then led to the outer eyelet F of the guide E, thence to eyelet F
from which it passes to the peg or hook H at the back of the pillar portion of the
bracket A whereby a small tension is put upon the thread as it leaves the ball,
cop, or reel C for removing any kinks, twists, or the like from the thread.
If desired the peg or hook H and also the first eyelet F may be provided. with
tension discs, but it is preferred to dispense with their use.
The cup D prevents the thread passing underneath the cop or reel C, and when
using a ball will prevent the outer portion or shell from collapsing or ravelling
when using the last layer thereof.
Having now particularly described and, ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is -
1. A thread holder substantially such as herein described and illustrated
consisting essentially of the bracket having a bent guide projecting from its top
"and provided with one or more thread directing eyes, said bracket being capable
of being mounted or fixed upon the spool pin of the machine, with a ball, cop, or
recl receiver capable of being mounted on the said bracket in either a vertical or
a horizontal position as and for the purposes herein set forth.
:
2. In a thread holder substantially such as herein described and illustrated, the
combination of the bracket A capable of being mounted or fixed upon the spool
pin of the machine, bent guide E rigidly fixed to the top of said bracket and
provided with one or more thread directing eyes F F¹, with the ball, cop, or reel
receiver consisting of a pin D armed with a dished diaphragm or cup D' said
receiver being capable of being mounted or fixed upon the bracket A in either a
vertical or horizontal position as and for the purposes herein set forth.
Dated the Twelfth day of December 1805
JOHN A. TITLEY.
DONALD NOBLE.