A NEW, OR IMPROVED CASE AND HOLDER FOR REEL COTTON AND ALSO FOR ADVERTISING PURPOSES
Year: 1879

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Richard Holding at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th June 1879.
GEORGE RICHARD HOLDING, of Laurel Cottago, Mackenzie Road, Beckenham,
in the County of Kent, Engineer. "A NEW, OR IMPROVED 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 incases the reel of cotton. I then take a
wrapper of paper and place it completely around the cylinder and wide enough to
fold over the two ends of the cylinder, and stick it down on to 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 upon the
enclosed reel, which will rotate inside 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
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page_text: 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 inconvenience, 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,
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.