A NEW OR IMPROVD CASE AND HOLDER FOR REEL COTTON, AND ALSO FOR ADVERTISING PURPOSES
Year: 1878

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Richard Holding at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th December 1878.
GEORGE RICHARD HOLDING, of Laurel Cottage, Mackenzie Road, Beckenham, in
the County of Kent, Engineer. "A NEW OR IMPROVD CASE AND HOLDER FOR
REEL COTTON, AND ALSO FOR ADVERTISING PURPOSES."
My Invention consists of a new cotton holder for the purpose of preventing the
cotton from dropping off the reel when on the spindle of any sewing machine.
Also for preventing the cotton from unwinding from the reel when placed in a
cotton bag, work box, or other receptacle, and also as a means of advertising.
The manner in which I make and use my cotton holder is as follows:-I make
the cotton holder of paper, cardboard, tin, wood, or any other material which I find
the most suitable, and in the form of a cylinder, square, 5, 6, 7, or 8 agonal,
allowing sufficient room for a reel of cotton to rotate freely when placed inside; at
present I prefer to make it of cardboard and in a cylindrical form; a disc of the
same material with a hole in the centre is then placed in one end to form a bottom,
and a hole is pierced in the centre of the side of the cylinder; the end of the reel of
cotton is then passed through the hole in the side of the cylinder, and afterwards
the reel of cotton is placed in cylinder; I then place another disc exactly the
same as the before mentioned disc with a hole in the centre in the other end or
top of the cylinder, which completely encases the reel of cotton; I then take a
wrapper of paper and place in completely around the cylinder, and wide enough
to fold over the two ends of the cylinder, and stick it down onto the two discs
before mentioned which holds the two discs firmly in their places, and the
cotton holder proper is then complete. To use the cotton holder as a medium
for advertising, I have the advertisements printed on the before mentioned
wrapper previous to placing the wrapper on the cotton holder; the advertisements
I use or omit just as it may suit me to use or omit them. When a person is about
to use cotton from a reel encased in my cotton holder, they will find the
end of the cotton just under the cotton maker's label, or any other label I may
place on the end of the cotton holder; if the cotton is pulled from under the
label it will be found to run freely from the enclosed reel, which will rotate insidę
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page_text: the cotton holder; the action is precisely the same when used on a sewing machine,
but in this case it has an additional advantage, viz., a naked reel of cotton as used
heretofore on sewing machines is always liable to the inconveniences of the cotton
by various causes, dropping from the reel and getting around the spindle, or a
projection in a sewing machine, which is sure to cause the cotton to break; this
often occurs with full reels of cotton. My cotton holder effectually prevents this incon-
venience because the cotton is always pulled from the direction of the centre of the
reel of cotton by means of the small hole in the centre of the side of the cotton holder,
which acts as a guide for the cotton, and always pulls the cotton in the direction of
the centre of the reel of cotton, whether the cotton is unwinding from one end or
the other end of the reel, and as it cannot be unwound by any other means than by
being pulled by the cotton which is outside the cotton holder, no loose coils of
cotton can occur inside the cotton holder, and therefore the cotton cannot drop
off the reel and get around the spindle or any other part of a sewing machine.
Another advantage which my cotton holder has is that the cotton on the reel
cannot get soiled, whether used on or off a sewing machine. This cotton holder is
equally applicable for silk and thread.