Patent ID: 7992819

Claim:
A thread spool holding device, comprising: a base plate, elongated in shape and having an elongated slot, a series of spindles formed of unitary plastic, flexible, deformable material, each spindle having a grooved head and an elongated spindle stem extending from the head and configured and sized to compress when a thread spool is pushed over the spindle such that the spindle stem extends into a central cylindrical opening of the thread spool, so that the thread spool becomes gripped on the spindle stem, a hole in the base plate adjacent to and open to the slot, the hole being large enough to receive a spindle head inserted therein and to permit the spindle head to be slid into the slot whereby the grooved head becomes engaged onto opposed plate edges of the slot, the elongated slot being of length sufficient to hold a plurality of spindles, each with a thread spool on the stem, side by side on the base plate, and the grooved heads of the spindles being frictionally engaged on the opposed plate edges so as to allow sliding repositioning by pushing of the spindles along the slot of the base plate by a user, while still gripping the spindle heads and maintaining the spindle stems at essentially right angles to the base plate for holding a series of spools on the series of spindles.