Improved Combined Pin-cushion and Reel, Bobbin, or Spool for Cotton, Thread, and other Yarn.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Nov., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 16th Aug., 1890--Accepted, 11th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Combined Pin-cushion and Reel, Bobbin, or Spool for
Cotton, Thread, and other Yarn.
I JOHN HENRY CROSS Gentleman, and CHARLES SAMUEL CROSS, Manufacturer
both of Heath Lodge, Fleet, in the County of Hampshire, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in reels, bobbins, or spools for thread,
cotton or other yarn for land or machine use.
In one end of a spool, reel or bobbin such as may be ordinarily sold in commerce
we form according to our invention a shallow recess in which we insert a wad or
plug of tow or some other convenient substance or soft material, the top whereof
may be covered with felt or other convenient substance so as to produce a pin
cushion for handy use.
This wad or plug may be inserted by means of a tool which is concave or hollow
at its lower extremity. The under surface of this wad may be smeared with gum or
glue or some other adhesive substance and be thus secured to the bottom of the recess
formed in the said reel or bobbin.
The cushion may be of the same color as the thread, cotton, or silk wound upon
the reel or bobbin and thus disclose such color at a glance thereby avoiding the
necessity of withdrawing the reels or bobbins from the boxes or show cases containing
them.
We may also shape the said pin cushion like a mushroom, the stem of which
would be inserted in one of the circular holes usually found in the end of a reel or
bobbin.
In this case the under surface of the head of this mushroom shaped pin cushion
may be secured by means of gum or glue or other adhesive material to the top of
the reel or bobbin or left so that they could be easily transferred from one reel to
another.
As our improvements are capable of some modifications without departing from
the principle thereof we do not limit ourselves to materials, dimensions, or to the
circular shape or precise method of forming our pin cushion in connection with the
reel.
RAYNER & CASSELI,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Combined Pin-cushion and Reel, Bobbin, or Spool for
Cotton, Thread, and other Yarn.
We, JOHN HENRY CROSS, Gentleman of Heath Lodge, Fleet, in the County of
Hampshire, and CHARLES SAMUEL CROSS Manufacturer, of 606 Old Ford Road, Bow
in the County of Middlesex 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 and accompanying drawings (that is to say) :-
This invention relates to the combination of cushions for the convenient holding of
needles or pins, with reels, spools or bobbins for cotton thread and other yarn, which
combination we accomplish in several ways as represented in the accompanying
drawings, which are in illustration of this invention; all which drawings represent
the bobbin or reel with cushion in longitudinal section.

page_text: Figure 1 represents cushion and reel in two parts. In this case we shape the
cushion A of a button or mushroom form the stem of which would be inserted in the
circular hole usually found in a reel or bobbin B. The under surface of this mush-
room or button shaped cushion may be secured by means of gum, glue or other
adhesive material to the reel or bobbin, or left so that it could be easily transferred
from one reel to another; or the mushroom or button shaped cushion may without
a stem be secured to the bobbin.
Figure 2 represents a bobbin C with a recess D hollowed out in one or both ends,
in which recess or cavity we place according to our invention a wad or plug of tow,
cotton, sponge or other suitable material, which may be secured in position by glue
or other adhesive material, and the top whereof may be covered with felt or other
convenient substance so as to form a pincushion for handy use.
Figure 3 represents the same reel or bobbin the cushion of which has a hole
through its centre E in order to adapt it for use on a sewing machine.
Figure 4 represents a reel or bobbin in which the wad or soft material for the
purposes of a cushion, is placed in the cylindrical hole F usually found in such bobbins
or reels.
Figure 5 represents a reel with an enlarged end G so as to carry a wad or cushion H
of larger dimensions.
As our improvements are capable of some modifications without departing from
the principle thereof, we do not limit ourselves to materials, dimensions or to the
precise shape, or precise method of forming our pincushion in connection with the
reel.
Having now particularly described the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we claim is
The combination of a wad or cushion for the convenient holding of needles or
pins, with a reel or bobbin, either fixed or detachable, substantially as described and
shown.
Dated this 16th 1000