US105559A - Improvement in spool-stand ahd show-case - Google Patents

Description

E. B. FBNTON a H". s. PENPIBLD.

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Patented July 19', 1870.

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The Schedule referred to'in these Letters Patent and making par; of the same To all whom; it may concern .Be it known 'that we, EBEN B. FnNroN and HENRY S. PENFIELD, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and Stateof Illinois, have` invented a. new and improved Gase for Silk and other Spooled Threads; and we do hereby declarethe following to vbe affull, clear, and exact description thereof', which will enable others skilled in the art to which 4our invention appertains to make and vuse the same, reference' being had to the accompanying. drawing' forming part of this snecicntion. l I

Figure 1 is an elevation of our improved case;

'Figure 2 is a similar view from another side; and.

Figu're'is a detached 'sectional view of the rotary case..

Similar-letters of reference indicate corresponding 4parts in the several figures of the drawing.

l Our invention has for its object to providea case 'for thereceptionof spooled silk and other threads, which shall exhibit, through glass plates or windows,

samples of its contents, and whichwili permit there- 'moval of the spool or spools without opening a draw- I er or-door; and to this end,

.Our invention consists primarily in aAcase adapted for rotation `upon a vertical shaft 'afxed to'a suitable stand, so constructed 'as to receive the spools at -the ftop' and discharge them through the bottom, and 4which shall exhibit through. its exterior a sa'mple of. Athe silkorthread contained in its various compartments.

`It also consists in so arranging the rotary case upon Qits base or stand as tofdischarge the spools into' a refcess orldepression formed in' any side of the stand', the other. portions of the latter preventing' access to .the spools. f

1 It consists, lastly, in the construction and combinar l tion .of various parts, as will be heieirlaftenmore?fullyl described. I f

` In the accompanying drawing- A is 4he base of the spooled thread-case, constructed in the form of a rectangular or quadrangular box,4

provided'upon one` side with a series, of drawers, B.

x Above 'the'base A is mounted, upon a .central ver.

tical shaft,vthe rotating `spool-case O, constructed either with a surface oi`1'otation, oi` with angles.

In this example of ourfinvention, the case C is made hexagonal 1n form., l

The case is constructed with au interior casing, D,

i-shown in iig. 3, sol arranged with relation to the exterior casing as to leavea space between them, 'which l case from top to bottom, and are designed to receive- .the spools ot' silk or thread. l'

' The color of the silkor sample of the contents i each compartment is exhibited through a glasspla'te,

G,"let into each side of the rotary case near its buse,

as shown clearly in figs, 1 and 2. t

The compartments being lled with spools, their tops are closed by means ot' hinged covers H, to ex." clude the dirt, and to form an unbroken or ornamental surface.

To remove a spool from the case, the latter is rotated until the compartment containing the required spool is immediately above the recess I, formed in one side of the base A, :it the upper. edge, as shown in ii r. 2.

The Aoperator thenplaces his linger 4beneath the spool to be withdrawm-lilts it slightly, and attire same time pulls ordraws it toward the exterior ofthe case.

The lifting and drawing movement permits the bottom spool to clear the ledge F, when the operator re` moves his Vhand andthe spool drops ontfo't' the compartment by its own gravity and the pressure of those above it, where' more,V than one spool is contained with? in the compartment. The next spool drops ldown upon the ledge F, where it .is arrested and held in place.

The inner edge of the exterior case is beveled outward, as will be seen by reference to iig. 3, to permit the tipping of the spool andA allow it to drop, after having cleared the ledge. Y The bevel beneath ismade` somewhat shorter than a spool, so that, when a bottom spool is removed, thel one immediately above will be guided .vertically downward upon the ledge. f

4By this construction of arotary case, the spools are iled in at thetop and removed from the bottom,`a'ndI inasmuch as the width .of the glass 'plates are about equal to the length of a spool, only one of the latter is exposed to the sight as a sample in each compartment, and as the sample is constantly changing by the removal of spools,l the brilliancy of' the colors, especially in silks, remains unimpaired.

'.lhe spools lcan only be removed when the case isrotated to bring the compartments over the recess I, In all other positions they are inaccessible. The case, therefore, is so Aplaced upon a counter or table that 'the recess shall be upon the inside.

To facilitate the identification of4 spools the compartments may be numbered, so that-the purchaser looking at the samples upon the outside of the case can call lor the desired spool by number,'which spool .is readily identified and removed by the operator when the case is rotated.V

The drawers B are lintended to receive a duplicate stock. of silk or thread, and the spaces npon the exterior of the case above the gloss plates or windows are designed to receive advertisements tif various kinds.

Having thus described our invention,

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A. case for Silks and other spooled threads, adapted for rotation upon at vertical shaft, which shall receive the spools at the top and discharge them through the bottom, and which shell exhibit through its exterior :t s zimple of the silk or thread contained in its various compartments, substantially as herein described, for the purpose specified.

2. A rotary case for spooled threads, so arranged' upon its base or stand as 'to discharge the spools yinto a recess or depression formed in any side of the stond, substantially as described, for 'the piirpose speciiied.

specified.

EBENE. FENTON; HENRY S. PENEIELD.

Witnesses:-

G. H. FROST,

JAMES O. SMITH.

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