IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDS FOR THE RECEPTION OF SEWING SILK OR COTTON THREAD AND OTHER LIKE MATERIALS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Henry Johnson of 47 Lincolns Inn Fields in the
County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CARDS FOR THE RECEPTION OF SEWING SILK OR COTTON THREAD AND
OTHER LIKE MATERIALS communicated to him from François Ernest
Vaguez-Fessart a person residing at Paris in the Republic of France
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Henry Johnson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th March 1883.
"
JOHN HENRY JOHNSON of 47 Lincolns Inn Fields in the County of Middlesex
Gentleman "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDS FOR THE RECEPTION OF SEWING SILK
OR COTTON THREAD AND OTHER LIKE MATERIALS a communication to me from
Francois Ernest Vaguez-Fessart a person resident at Paris in the Republic of
France
This Invention relates to Improvements in Cards upon which Sewing Silk or
Cotton thread or other like materials are wound and it has for its object facilitating
the unwinding of the said Cotton thread or materials as hereinafter described-
Owing to the permanent flatness of the Cards heretofore employed it is not easy to
unwind the material therefrom and consequently thread wound upon cards of
ordinary construction is unfit for use in machines.
The said Invention consists in forming Cards for the purpose described of two
Cards or plates preferably connected together at their corners or end edges but
unconnected main part where the thread is wound
When the thread is to be unwound a cylinder is inserted between the two Cards
or plates which thus take a cylindrical form. The effect of this arrangement is
that the unwinding of the materials and the adjustment of the tension in the
machine is facilitated so that thread or materials wound upon the improved cards
are enabled to be employed in Sewing machines

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent and of
an Order of the Lord Chancellor filed by the said John Henry Johnson in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th October 1883.
JOHN HENRY JOHNSON of 47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the county of Middlesex,
Gentleman IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDS FOR THE RECEPTION OF SEWING SILK, OR
MATERIALS
COTTON, THREAD, AND OTHER LIKE
A communication to me from
abroad by François Ernest Vaguez-Fessart person resident at Paris in the
Republic of France
This invention relates to improvements in cards upon which sewing silk, or
cotton, thread or other like materials are wound; and it has for its object
facilitating the unwinding of the said cotton, thread, or materials as herein after
described.
Owing to the permanent flatness of the cards heretofore employed, it is not easy
to unwind the material therefrom, and consequently thread wound upon cards of
ordinary construction is unfit for use in machines.
The said invention consists in forming cards for the purpose described, of two
cards or plates preferably connected together at their corners or end edges, but
unconnected at the main part where the thread is wound.
When the thread is to be unwound, a cylinder is inserted between the two cards
or plates, which thus take a cylindrical form. The effect of this arrangement is
that the unwinding of the materials, and the adjustment of the tension in the
machine is facilitated, so that thread or materials wound upon the improved cards
are enabled to be employed in sewing machines.
In the accompanying drawings A Fig 1 represents one of the double cards or
plates referred to. Fig 2 being a plan of the same. Fig 3 shows the card A
mounted on a wooden cylinder B. Fig 4 is a plan of the same. Fig 5 shows the
card A, mounted on an ordinary reel B'. Fig 6 being a plan of the same, and
Figs 7 and 8 show in side and edge view a card of a similar description to those
already described with the exception that the silk, thread, or cotton as the case
may be, is wound in a number of rows, and instead of the card being open at both
ends, one end at a, is closed in lieu of fastening the edges or corners.
The letters c. c¹ Figs 2. 4 and 6 represent the two cards or plates.
Having thus described the invention what I claim is the construction of the
double cards c. c², connected at their corners or end edges, or closed at one end in
lieu of at the corners, as and for the purposes substantially as herein described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings, so that the cards may be placed either
on a cylindrical shaped piece, or on an ordinary reel or their equivalent, by this.
means rendering such cards capable and fit for use in sewing machines
In witness whereof I the said John Henry Johnson have hereunto set my hand
and seal this ninth day of October in the Year of Our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and eighty three.