US27101A - Twine-holdek - Google Patents

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ITT) STATES PATENT OFFTC.

THOMAS W. BROWN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TWINE-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 27,101, dated February 14, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS W. BROWN, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Twine-Holder; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described and represented in the following specication and the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l, exhibits a top view; Fig. 2, a side elevation; Fig. 3, an underside view; Fig. 4, a transverse section of it as it appears When in a closed state; Fig. 5, exhibits a side elevation of it as open or ready for the reception of a ball of twine.

The said holder consists of a hollow box A, mounted on a stand B.

In constructing the stand and box, each is to be formed in two separate parts a, a', b, b', each of the parts a, a, being arranged directly over and affixed to one of the parts o, and each two parts a, b; a', b, being cast or formed in one solid piece of metal or other suitable material as shown in the drawings. The two portions, b, b', of the stand are connected together by hinges or in other words by a rod c, extending through lips d, d, and e, e, projecting from the parts b, b', respectively as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the hinges being so arranged that when the stand of the twine holder is resting upon a table or other flat surface, the weight of the holder will operate through the leverage of the parts to keep the two portions a, a', of the ball case closed together. parts a, is formed at its upper end with a semicircular projection f, which enters a corresponding recess g, made in the other part a, the whole bein as shown in the drawings. An eye or ho e z., for the passage of the twine (while being unwound from a ball when in the case) is made through the center of the semicircular part or projection f. The perforated projection f, may be dispensed with and in lieu of it a simple hole may be made through any part of the case, or in the two parts a, a', at their junction.

The great objection to the common twine stand as constructed with a movable cover, is that the latter is very apt to be pulled off the former by the twine While bein drawn from a ball that may be Within thelaody of the article. Vith my improved twine stand, this difficulty is completely obviated.

I claim- The improved twine holder as made substantially in manner and so as to operate as described.

T. WV. BROWN.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE.

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