A HOLDER OR SUSPENDER FOR HOLDING COTTON AND OTHER REELS, SPOOLS, OR BALLS, PARTS OF WHICH ARE ALSO APPLICABLE FOR OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edwin John Green, Manufacturer, of Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, and Richard Mason, Machinist, also of
Birmingham aforesaid, for the Invention of "A HOLDER OR SUSPENDER FOR
HOLDING COTTON AND OTHER REELS, SPOOLS, OR BALLS, PARTS OF WHICH ARE
ALSO APPLICABLE FOR OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES."
Sealed the 14th June 1864, and dated the 21st December 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edwin John Green and
Richard Mason at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 21st December 1863.
We, EDWIN JOHN GREEN, Manufacturer, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, and RICHARD MASON, Machinist, also of Birmingham aforesaid, do
hereby declare the nature of our said Invention' for "A HOLDER OR SUSPENDER
FOR HOLDING COTTON AND OTHER REELS, SPOOLS, OR BALLS, PARTS OF WHICH ARE
ALSO APPLICABLE FOR OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES," to be as follows (that is
to say):-
Our Invention consists in a new combination of part or parts in connection
or combined with a certain construction of point-protected pin, as described
and exhibited in the Specification of a Patent granted to Charles Rowley, on
Price 8d 1

page_text: the 12th of October 1849, numbered 12,796, and which pin is well known,
and has been extensively sold under the name of "nursery and point-protected
pins," and which said pin was formed of one piece of wire; and our improve-
ments consist in so fashioning the part that stretches in the one direction for
protecting the point, and in the other to form a continuation of the pin, that an
elongated shank is formed either with the wire forming the pin or otherwise
for passing through the central holes of reels, spools, or balls of cotton or
other thread required to be progressively unwound; the said part that passes
through the reel or ball is provided with a swivel eye that secures the ball or
reel in position, and being thus arranged the ball or reel may be attached to
any convenient part of the dress of the user, as, for instance, a lady sewing,
crotcheting, or otherwise employed in needlework, her cotton or thread
whether on a reel or wound in a ball, may, by our improved addition to the
before referred to safety pin, be readily unwound from the front of her dress
or other part that she may prefer attaching it to for convenient use, the thread
being drawn off by the revolving of the reel or ball as required. As a modifi-
cation of this, the part that holds the reel or ball may be fashioned as a hook,
when it would be useful as a watch hook, or a variety of other purposes where
a portable attachment would be convenient. And as a further modification,
the part constituting our improvements may be so extended and fashioned as
to be highly convenient for attaching to ladies' garments by means of the
point-protected pin before referred to, while the addition at the same time
possesses the quality, with the aid of a small metal loop, of forming a suspender
for holding up skirts of female apparel or other such like purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edwin John Green and Richard Mason in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 20th June 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, EDWIN
JOHN GREEN, Manufacturer, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, and
RICHARD MASON, Machiuist, also of Birmingham aforesaid, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Edwin John Green and Richard Mason, Her special license that we,

page_text: the said Edwin John Green and Richard Mason, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Edwin John Green and
Richard Mason, our 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 night
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
A HOLDER OR SUSPENDER FOR HOLDING COTTON AND OTHER REELS, SPOOLS, OR
BALLS, PARTS OF WHICH ARE ALSO APPLICABLE POB OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES,"
upon the condition (amongt others) that we, the said Edwin John Green
and Richard Mason, by an instrument in writing under our 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 we, the said Edwin John Green and Richard
Mason, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement (that is to say):
Our Invention consists in a new combination of part or parts in connection
or combined with a certain construction of point-protected pin, as described
and exhibited in the Specification of a Patent granted to Charles Rowley, on
the 12th of October 1849, No. 12,796, father-in-law of the said Edwin John
Green, and which pin is well known, and has been extensively sold under the
name of "nursery and point-protected pius," the said pin being formed of one
piece of wire. And our improvements consist in so fashioning the part that
stretches in the one direction for protecting the point, and in the other to
form a continuation of the pin, that an elongated shank is formed either with
the wire forming the pin or otherwise for passing through the central holes of
reels, spools, or balls of cotton or other thread required to be progressively
unwound by the sempstress or user; the said part that passes through the reel
or ball is provided with a swivel, eye, or other suitable means that secures or
holds the ball or reel in position, and being thus arranged the ball or reel may
be attached to any convenient part of the dress of the user, as, for instance, a
lady sewing, crotcheting, or otherwise employed in needlework, the necessary
cotton or thread, whether on a reel or wound in a ball, may, by our improved
addition to the before referred to safety pin, be readily held and unwound as
required from the front of her dress or other part that she may prefer

page_text: attaching it to for convenient use, the thread being drawn off by the revolving
of the reel or ball. As a modification of this, the part that holds the reel or
ball may be fashioned as a hook, in which case it would be useful as a watch
hook, or for a variety of other useful purposes where a portable attachment
would be convenient. And as a further modification, the part constituting
our improvements may be so extended and fashioned as to be highly con-
venient for attaching to ladies' garments by means of the point-protected pins
before referred to, while the addition at the same time possesses the quality,
with the aid of a small metal loop, of forming a suspender for holding up skirts
of female apparel or other such like purposes, as will be well understood by
referring to the Drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 represents a reel, or spool holder, or suspender in connection with a
safety pin, the part A being formed of the same wire as the point B and
protector C, the part A terminating in a ring or loop for receiving the part D,
which we prefer also manufacturing of wire, and from its mode of connection
it will be seen that by turning the bar D into a vertical direction it may be
readily passed down through the central hole of a cotton reel, spool, or ball,
until the bar D is sufficiently free to be placed at right angles with the bar A,
as here shown, which will prevent the reel falling off, as may be readily seen
by referring to Fig. 2, which is identical with the last Figure, with the
exception that a reel of cotton marked E is here represented applied.
Fig. 3 shows as much of a female figure necessary for fully illustrating our
Invention in this particular; in this Figure we have represented a reel of
cotton, held by our reel holder, and attached to the front of the lady's dress by
the pin B, which is afterwards secured and protected by the part C.
We donotpurposeconfiningourselves to the mode of construction as exhibited
at Figure 1, as the part A may be made separate, and attached to an ordinary
point-protected or other pin, as may be seen by referring to Fig. 4; the
part Fin this case is represented as made of a piece of wire planished, and
made to clip the bar of the pin, as at G, the lower end of the part F being
fashioned into an eye for receiving the bar D, which of course may be cut out
of sheet metal or formed of wire, as here shown, and if necessary the bar H
and pin B may be lengthened for receiving two or more shanks similar to F, so
as to render it capable of holding more than one rzel, or the shank F may be
lengthened and so contrived that intermediate bars or stops may be applied
for keeping each reel separate, or they may rest on each other; and, again, an

page_text: additional shank, such as at J, may be introduced, terminating with a ring,as
here shown, or a hook, as indicated by the dotted lines, for suspending or
assisting in holding the work that the user may be engaged upon, or such
fancy or other work may be held by a separate point-protected pin and hook,
as exhibited at Figs. 5 and 6, the hook in this case K being formed of the
part or shank represented at A, Figure 1, and if by preference the portable
attachment or point-protected pin be desired in a vertical direction the same
may be constructed as exhibited in an edge and side view at Figs. 7 and 8;
and, again, if it may be found necessary to apply a catch or means for holding
the hook K to the part for attaching it to a dress or other purpose, the
same may be effected by passing the shank a, Figure 1, through the eye L
of a catch, as exhibited in a flat detached view at Fig. 9, and in a front and
edge view at Figs. 10 and 11, marked M, the hook and pin being identical
with Figures 5 and 6, with the exception of the catch, and instead of forming
the shank A, Figure 1, in the middle of the bar N, it may be formed at the
end of the bar N, towards the catch C, and made to terminate with a large
eye at right angles with the spring P, when it would form a convenient
portable means for attaching to a lady's dress, so that the loop before named
being brought in contact with the spring P, means are thus afforded by
which a lady's dress maybe conveniently held up and sustained,as will be fully
seen by referring to Figs. 12 and 13, which represent a side and front view
of a dress suspender; the pin Q secures the suspender to the under garment,
where it will be held by the point protector and catch R, while the part S,
which is equivalent to the part A in Figure 1, but being made of hard wire
forins a spring, and permits of its being opened, so that the dress may be
held between the loop T and spring P, when the loop U may be pulled
down, which will securely hold together the shank S and bar N.
Having thus described our Invention, and the manner in which the same
may be carried into effect, we wish it understood we do not purpose confining
ourselves to the exact shape as here delineated, as the same may be orna
mented and varied without affecting the spirit of our Invention, as, for
instance, instead of the point of the pin being held as exhibited at C,
we may apply the same mode as exhibited at Figures 9, 10, and 11,
for this object, as illustrated at Figures 14 and 15, forming a shank,
as at A, Figure 1, out of the bar N, or applying this part or parts as
exhibited at Figure 4; but what we claim and wish to protect by these our
in part recited Letters Patent is, the means for holding reels, spools, or balls
of cotton, thread, or other material so prepared for use, as herein exhibited
and described, as also the means of combining or fashioning the part A, as at

page_text: Figure 1, or its equivalent, into hooks or other shapes for other useful
purposes, as also the means of strengthening and hoiding such hooks by
means of a swivel catch, as exhibited and described at Figures 9, 10, 11,
14, & 15.
In witness whereof, we, the said Edwin John Green and Richard
Mason, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Tenth day of
June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
four.
Witness,
WILLIAM LOACH,
Clerk to James S. Cockings,
Patent Agent,
Birmingham.
EDWIN JOHN GREEN. (L.B.)
RICHARD MASON.
(L.S.)