AN IMPROVED DEVICE TO BE USED AS A REEL OR SPOOL FOR HOLDING THREAD
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frank Wirth, of the Firm of Wirth and Company,
Patent Solicitors, at Frankfort-on-the-Main, in the Empire of Germany, for
an Invention of "AN IMPROVED DEVICE TO BE USED AS A REEL OR SPOOL
FOR HOLDING THREAD." A communication from Peter Adt III., Peter Adt,
junior, Johann Baptist Adt, and Eduard Adt, trading under the Firm of Adt
Brothers, of Forbach (Germany), Ensheim (Germany), and Pont-à-Mousson,
France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frank Wirth at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st October 1881.
FRANK WIRTH, of the Firm of Wirth and Company, Patent Solicitors, at
Frankfort on the Main, in the Empire of Germany. "AN IMPROVED DEVICE TO BE
USED AS A REEL OR SPOOL FOR HOLDING THREAD." [A communication from
Peter Adt III., Peter Adt, junior, Johann Baptist Adt, and Eduard Adt, trading
under the Firm of Adt Brothers, of Forbach (Germany), Ensheim (Germany), and
Pont-à-Mousson, France.]
This Invention relates to an improved device to be used for containing thread or
cotton in place of the ordinary reels or cards.
This device is designed to be made in cardboard and to replace the ordinary
cards upon which thread is wound for sale to the public, which cards are not
capable of being used upon sewing machines as is the case with wooden reels. My
improved device or card is so made that it may be used on a sewing machine, and
is constructed as shown in the accompanying Drawing.
I so form the card as to produce three semi-cylindrical parts a, the two outer
ones being in line with the central one, as shewn. There are also two depressions
or curved parts b, b. This formation allows the card having the thread wound
around the same to be put on the spindle or reel holder of a sewing machine, as is
the case with the ordinary wooden reels. A notch for fastening the thread may be
provided on any part of the card. This card or device may replace with advantage
the wooden thread reels now in use. It is much lighter than the wooden reels,
cheaper, and can be packed quite as well. The formation or construction is
clearly shewn in the Drawing.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Frank Wirth in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st April
1882.
FRANK WIRTH, of the Firm of Wirth and Company, Patent Solicitors, at
Frankfort on the Main, in the Empire of Germany. "AN IMPROVED DEVICE TO BE
USED AS A REEL OR SPOOL FOR HOLDING THREAD." A communication from
Peter Adt III., Peter Adt, junior, Johann Baptist Adt, and Eduard Adt, trading
under the Firm of Adt Brothers, of Forbach (Germany), Ensheim (Germany), and
Pont-à-Mousson, France.
This Invention relates to an improved device to be used for holding or containing
thread or cotton in place of the ordinary reels or cards. This device is designed to
be made in cardboard and to replace the ordinary cards upon which thread is
wound for sale to the public, which cards are not capable of being used upon sewing
machines as is the case with wooden reels. My improved device or card is so made
that it may be used on a sewing machine, and is constructed as shewn in the
accompanying Drawing, in which
Figure 1 is a front view.
Figure 2 is a back view.
Figure 3 is a longitudinal section on the line A, B, Figure 1.
Figure 4 is a longitudinal section on the line C, D, Figure 1,
Figure 5 is a transverse section on the line E, F, Figure 1; and
Figure 6 is a transverse section on the line G, H, Figure 1.
I so form the card as to produce three semi-cylindrical parts a, the two outer
ones being in line with the central one, as shewn. There are also two depressions
or curved parts b, b. This formation allows the card having the thread wound
around the same to be put onto the spindle or reel holder of a sewing machine as is
often done with the ordinary wooden reels. A notch for fastening the thread may
be provided on any part of the card. This card or device may replace with
advantage the wooden thread reels now in use. It is much lighter than the wooden
reels, cheaper, and can be packed quite as well. The formation or construction is
clearly shewn in the Drawing.
Having thus fully described the said Invention, and the manner of performing
the same, I wish it understood that I claim,―
A card for holding or containing sewing thread or cotton formed with the three
balf-cylinders a, and the two depressions or curved parts b, substantially as described
and shown in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frank Wirth, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twelfth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty two.
FRANK WIRTH. (L.S.)