Classifications

• • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
  • D05—SEWING; EMBROIDERING; TUFTING
  • D05C—EMBROIDERING; TUFTING
  • D05C17/00—Embroidered or tufted products; Base fabrics specially adapted for embroidered work; Inserts for producing surface irregularities in embroidered products
  • D05C17/02—Tufted products

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a carrier for holding pieces of yarn and the like ready for use in making latch hook rugs and the like by hand.
• Attractive rugs, walls hangings, pillow cases and the like can be made by tying short pieces of yarn of uniform length to the threads of a coarsely woven mesh backing material, leaving the ends of all of the pieces of yarn evenly aligned with one another on one side of the backing material.
• the preferred type of backing material is commercially available, and is often sold in kits which provide all of the necessary materials for making a complete rug or other article.
• a pattern for the rug is often printed on the backing material, and various colors of yarn are provided so that a handicraft hobbyist may complete the kit by tying lengths of yarn to the mesh of the backing material. By following the pattern printed on the mesh the hobbyist can easily produce an intricate design in the finished article.
• a latch hook rug One such type of craft article is called a latch hook rug, because individual precut pieces of yarn are tied to the mesh backing material in a cowhitch or similar knot which may be most easily made with the use of a latch hook.
• Yarn is often provided in precut form in such kits, saving the hobbyist the time otherwise necessary to cut yarn into many individual pieces of uniform length.
• Such yarn when packaged in precut form, is commonly wrapped in a bundle, with all of the yarns parallel, to one another and their ends evenly aligned. Individual yarns are removed from the package when needed for tying into the mesh backing material. Although this type of package for the yarn is initially sufficient, it has several weaknesses. As pieces of precut yarn are removed, the yarn remaining in the package becomes looser and looser until the package no longer holds the yarn securely. As a result, the precut pieces of yarn may easily be spilled, making it difficult to work on a handicraft article of this sort in places such as buses, commuter trains, and the like, because of the likelihood of scattering the pre
• each precut piece of yarn must be bent double before it is tied using the latch hook.
• Precut yarn is commonly packaged straight, requiring the hobbyist to bend each piece of yarn individually, as he makes his handmade article. Additionally, such precut yarn is usually packaged in packets of standard sizes, which often provide too much of a particular color of yarn for a particular rug pattern, leading to wasted yarn. While to some extent it is possible to gain an idea of the eventual appearance of a handmade article by observation of the pattern printed on a mesh backing in a kit, or from photographs of exemplary finished articles, the colors printed on the mesh material or seen in photographs rarely are exactly the colors of the yarn actually provided in a kit. As a result, it is often difficult to form a good idea of the eventual appearance of a latch hook rug or similar article by observing the contents of a kit.
• the present invention overcomes the shortcomings and disadvantages of previously known yarn carriers for precut pieces of yarn by providing a carrier which comprises a pliable sheet of material such as thin cloth, flexible sheet vinyl material, strong paper, or other sheet material comprising randomly oriented fibers, which holds the individual precut pieces of yarn already bent in a "U" shape.
• the carrier of the invention may be used to hold in one convenient article all the pieces of yarn of each color required by the pattern of the handicraft article of which they are intended to become a part.
• each end of each precut piece of yarn extends through a perforation in the sheet of material forming the carrier of the present invention.
• Each piece of yarn is held securely in a "U" shape in the carrier by friction between the sheet material and the yarn in two places on each piece of yarn. This allows each precut piece of yarn to be removed individually from the carrier.
• the yarn may be inserted into the carrier before it is cut to predetermined length, by the use of a machine such as a carpet yardage machine, in which a plurality of needles perforate the carrier and simultaneously carry loops of yarn through the sheet material. The needles are then retracted, each needle leaving a loop of yarn extending through the perforation. Each loop is then cut off, leaving an end of each of two pieces of yarn extending through each individual perforation.
• a machine such as a carpet yardage machine
• cloth may be used as the material of the carrier, it is preferable to use a non-woven material such as a bonded randomly oriented synthetic fiber material, or strong paper, since such material may, if desired, be torn or cut along each row of pieces of yarn as the pieces of yarn are serially removed.
• a non-woven material such as a bonded randomly oriented synthetic fiber material, or strong paper, since such material may, if desired, be torn or cut along each row of pieces of yarn as the pieces of yarn are serially removed.
• FIG. 1 is a pictorial view of an exemplary yarn carrier embodying the present invention, the yarn carrier being full of pieces of precut yarn.
• FIG. 2 is a sectional view, at an enlarged scale, of a detail of the yarn carrier of FIG. 1, taken along line 2-2.
• FIG. 3 is a sectional view, at an enlarged scale, of a detail of a yarn carrier embodying the invention, showing one manner of inserting yarn into the carrier.
• FIG. 4 is a pictorial view of a yarn carrier embodying the present invention, along with a partially completed latch hook rug, showing the use of the yarn carrier of the invention.
• a carrier 10 embodying the present invention may be seen to comprise a pliable sheet 12 through which extend a plurality of short pieces 14 of yarn bent into a "U" shape.
• the entire length of each leg 16 of the "U" shape of each piece 14 of yarn extends from the top side 18 of the sheet 12, and the base 22 of the "U” is on the second or bottom side 20 of the sheet 12.
• the pieces of yarn may be arranged advantageously by colors, as in the bands 21 and 23, as will be explained subsequently in greater detail.
• the sheet 12 may be of any convenient pliable material which may be perforated to receive the yarn, but a flexible, lightweight and inexpensive, yet strong material is preferred for the sake of convenience. This allows the carrier to be bent, rolled, or folded to fit into a user's handbag or the like without being torn apart. While cloth is useable, a non-woven fabric, such as a tough yet flexible fabric of bonded randomly oriented fibers is preferred.
• each piece 14 of yarn extends through closely spaced perforations 24 in the sheet 12, with adjacent pieces 14 of yarn sharing perforations.
• One leg 16 of each of two adjacent pieces 14 of yarn thus extends through each perforation in the sheet 12. This permits removal of an individual piece 14 of yarn without unduly disturbing the remaining piece 14 extending through a given perforation. Since each piece 14 of yarn extends through two perforations 24 in the sheet 12, sufficient friction is provided to hold each piece 14 of yarn until it is Individually removed from the yarn carrier 10 of the invention.
• yarn may be inserted into the carrier 10 with the use of a needle 26 having an eye 28 near its pointed end 30.
• the pointed end 30 of the needle 26 is used to perforate the sheet 12 at the same time that it carries a loop 32 of a length of yarn 34 through the sheet 12.
• the needle 26 can then be withdrawn, leaving the loop 32 extending through the sheet 12.
• a predetermined amount of the length of yarn 34 is then pulled through the eye 28 of the needle as it again perforates the sheet 12 a predetermined distance from the previous perforation.
• Each of the loops 32 may be cut to separate the length of yarn 34 into individual pieces 14 such that the legs 16 extend away from the sheet 12 a predetermined distance. This process may be continued until a desired number of loops 32 have been made.
• pieces 14 of yarn may be quickly fastened in the carrier 10 in amounts of each color of yarn correspond ing to the requirements for the finished handmade latch hook rug or similar article.
• certain needles 26 may provide pieces of yarn of one color to create the band 21, and another group of needles may provide yarn of another color to make the band 23, and so on.
• the pieces of yarn 14 may be placed in the carrier 10 in a space considerably smaller than the size of a latch hook rug to be made from the pieces of yarn 14.
• the filled carrier 10 presents the pieces of yarn in a form similar to that of a finished latch hook rug, permitting a prospective buyer of a handicraft kit to preview the appearance of the various colors of yarn of the finished article, and thus to better appreciate its finished appearance.
• the individual pieces 14 of yarn may be serially removed from the carrier 10, as required to complete the design.
• Each yarn is then tied in place on the mesh backing material 36 to complete a latch hook rug 38, working from one side to the other, as indicated by the arrows 40 in FIG. 4.
• the carrier 10 may be held conveniently at hand, as on the user's lap, folded to give access to a particular row of pieces of yarn 14, during hand tying of a latch hook rug 38.

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