Improvement in Bobbin or Reel Holder.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 7th June, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 7th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 11th Apr., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Bobbin or Reel Holder.
ROBERT BOWER Wholesale Stationer 29 Commerce Street Glasgow do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The holder may consist of a flat piece of wood with two side pieces rising pyramid
wise. Between these two side pieces the spool or reel is suspended on a wire or
other rod, which is prolonged at one end to form a hook this hook part being reposed
in a recess to prevent any movement of the rod. At each side a bent rod made of
wire or other material, looped in the middle, lies across the spool or reel and through
this loop the material upon the spool or reel is pulled. The holder may be of any
other material, and in one or more pieces, and the sides and bottom of any design.
The holder may also have an attachment permitting of its hanging from the wall.
The holder may also be made minus the bent rod attachment and in the bottom.
of the bolder two rings are fixed and the material from the spool or reel run through
them.
ROBERT BOWER.
ROBERT BOWER Stationer 29 Commerce Street Glasgow 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in bobbin or reel holders.
The nature of the invention is as hereafter described.
A stand is made of any suitable material as shown in the accompanying drawings.
At the points E. Fig. 2. 3. holes are bored through the wood, cast iron, or other
material of which the stand is made. Through these holes and through the bobbin,
reel, or other material to be held, is placed the wire, spindle, or runner, on which the
said bobbin, reel, or other material revolves.
This wire, spindle, or runner, is held in position by any suitable means.
For heavy materials for which this wire, spindle, or runner would prove too light
or would in any way be unsuitable, conical bearing pieces may be fixed in holes E..
Figs. 1. 2. 3. These bearing pieces may be made with conical or parallel ends, and
being screwed, or fixed by any suitable means in holes E. Figs. 1. 2. 3. act as and
for the aforesaid wire, spindle, or runner.
At point F. Fig. 3. holes are also bored through, or partly through the wood,
cast iron, or other material, of which the stand A is made. Into these holes is
sprung or placed the wire, brake, or combined brake and spindle, Figs. 4. 6. and
held in position by suitable means.
This wire, brake, or combined brake and spindle, which may be made of any
suitable material, or covered with rubber, cloth, or other material to prevent damage
being done to such substances as paper, ribbons, and the like, bears on the flanges
of the bobbin, or reel, wound with, containing, or otherwise holding a supply of
string, thread, worsted, wire, paper, cloth, ribbon, or other material.
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page_text: In the case of any such material, as is or may be wound on, contained, or other-
wise held by a bobbin, or reel, or such as may be wound, manufactured, or sold in
the same manner, not having flanges, a flange, or flanges, made of any suitable
material are to be fixed to the end or ends of the aforesaid material, bobbin, or reel,
and secured by any suitable means.
On this flange, or these flanges, the wire, brake, or combined brake and spindle
bears, and in all cases aforementioned, while bearing on the flange, or flanges, stops
the bobbin, reel, or other material from revolving, and being unwound.
The ends G. Fig. 4. 6. of this wire, brake, or combined brake and spindle may be
made of any convenient length, and they may also be made either parallel or conical,
⚫ if desired.
In several cases this wire, brake, or combined brake and spindle may act as, and
do away with the use of the aforesaid wire, spindle, or runner, Fig. 5. and the
holes F. will not then be required, as shown in Fig. 1.
To accomplish this object the ends of the wire, brake, or combined brake and
spindle project through the wood, cast iron, or other material of which the stand is
made, and become the centres, or axles on which the bobbin, reel, or other material
revolves. In the same manner the conical bearing pieces Fig. 7. may be done away
with.
The holes F. may also be dispensed with by making centres or holes in the ends
of the wire, spindle, or runner Fig. 5, or in the ends of the conical bearing pieces,
into which the ends of the wire, brake, or brake and spindle combined may be sprung
or placed, and held in position by suitable means.
The manner in which the arrangement works is as follows:-
(1.) If the bobbin or reel be wound with, contain, or otherwise hold a supply of
string, thread, wire, worsted, or other like material, it is first put in position as
shown in the accompanying drawing at Fig. 1. The end of the string, thread, or
other like material is passed through the loop in the wire, brake, or combined brake
and spindle, and a sufficient amount is allowed to project through the loop to allow
of a good hold being obtained of it.
On pulling the string, thread, wire, worsted, or other material, the aforesaid
wire, brake, or brake and spindle combined is lifted off the flanges, and the string,
thread, or other material is pulled off the bobbin or reel with ease.
Immediately the pull on the string, thread, or other material is reduced or
released, the wire, brake, or combined brake and spindle falls, and bears on the
flanges as shown in the accompanying drawings, and stops the string, thread, wire,
worsted, or other material from being unwound.
(2.) All such articles as paper, ribbons, and other materials which are wound on,
coutained, or otherwise held by a bobbin, or reel, or such as are, or may be wound,
manufactured, or sold in a like manner, the ends of which could not be led through
the loop in the wire, are to be led below the wire, and to project a sufficient distance
through, to allow of a good hold being obtained. The wire, brake, or combined
brake and spindle in these cases to be made without a loop, and to have if desired a
short roller placed on said wire, brake, or combined brake and spindle, in such a
manner as to clear the projecting flanges. This roller is to facilitate the pulling off
of the material.
On pulling the end of such material the ends of which require to pass below the
wire, brake, or combined brake and spindle, the said wire, brake, or combined brake
and spindle is lifted and the material is pulled off with ease.
On the pull on the material being released or taken away, the wire, brake, or
combined brake and spindle falls and bears on the flanges and stops the unwinding
of the material.
In all different styles, designs, or shapes, which may be of any pattern, and as
large or as small as may prove convenient for the various kinds of bobbins, reels, or
other materials, which the machine is intended to bold, a knife, knife edge, or other
means, may be placed in a suitable position for severing the part, or parts, wanted
to be taken from the main portion of the material.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
(1.) A combined arrangement of holder and brake for holding bobbins and reels.
of string, thread, wire, worsted, and any such material as may be wound, or contained,
or otherwise held by a bobbin, or reel, or any such material as is or may be wound,.
manufactured, or sold in the like manner. Which arrangement prevents the bobbin,
or reel from revolving, and the material from being unwound, on the release of
the pull, or when stationary, by the action of said brake.
(2.) An arrangement whereby the brake may act as the spindle, axle, or
centres, on which the bobbin, reel, or other material revolves.
(3.) An arrangement whereby a roller may be combined with brake to facilitate-
the pulling off of the material..
(4.) A bobbin or reel holder substantially made as described.
Dated this 6th day of March 1896.
ROBERT BOWER.