AN IMPROVED CASE FOR HOLDING BALLS AND REELS OF COTTON, SILK, AND OTHER THREADS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
CASE FOR HOLDING BALLS AND REELS OF COTTON, SILK, AND OTHER THREADS."
A communication from abroad by Théophile Denis Gustave Baudouin,
residing at Rue. St. Denis, Paris, France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald Brooman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
4th April 1862.
rm.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED CASE FOR HOLDING BALLS AND REELS OF COTTON, SILK, AND
OTHER THREADS," (communicated to me from abroad by Théophile Denis
Gustave Baudouin, residing at Rue Saint Denis, Paris, France,) to be as
follows:-
This case is formed of metal, ebonite, gutta percha, or other suitable
material, and with two compartments, each of which is provided with a cover,
and kept separate by one division plate or bottom, common to both com-
partments. Each cover has a hole formed in it for the passage of the thread
from the ball or reel, and there is also a notch in which the thread is engaged

page_text: to prevent it running back inside the case. Each compartment is made
sufficiently large to contain one ball or feel of thread. The thread is kept
clean, and is not liable to become entangled when these cases are used.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 4th October 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence, that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVED CASE FOR HOLDING BALLS AND REELS OF COTTON, SILK, AND OTHER
THREADS," (communicated to me from abroad by Théophile Denis Gustave
Baudouin, of Rue St. Denis, Paris, upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should, particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in, the Great Seal Patent Office, within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference. being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say:
This case is formed of metal, ebonite, gutta percha, or other suitable
material, and with two compartments, each of which is provided with a cover,

page_text: and kept separate by one division plate or bottom common to both com-
partments. Each cover has a hole formed in it for the passage of the thread
from the ball or reel, and there is also a notch in which the thread is engaged,
to prevent it running back inside the case. Each compartment is made
sufficiently large to contain one ball or reel of thread. The thread is kept
clean, and is not liable to become entangled when these cases are used.
Figure 1 is an elevation of one of the cases; Figure 2 is a plan; Figure 3
is a vertical section; and Figure 4 is a horizontal section through the upper
compartment.
a and b are the two compartments, separated by a plate common to both,
shewn with a ball of thread in each compartment; c and d are covers made
to hold by friction in the ends of the case, or they may be hinged to it; e is
the aperture in the covers for the passage of the thread; and is the notch
to keep the thread from running back.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, the improved
case herein-before described for holding balls and reels of cotton, silk, and
other threads.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of October, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-two.
R. A. BROOMAN. (L.8.)