US1215824A - Holder for rotary balls or bobbins. - Google Patents

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F. J. LIGHTBODY.

HOLDER FOR ROTARY BALLS 0R BOBBINS. APPLICATION FILED APR. 8. I916.

1.215e824. Patented Feb.13,1917.

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FRANK J. LIGHTBODY, OF WATERTOVI'N, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR. T0.GAMBRIDGE NOVELTY COMPANY, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSA- GHUSETTS.

HOLDER FOR ROTARY BALLS OR BOBBINS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 13, 1917.

Application filed April 8, 1916. Serial No. 89,794.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK J. LiGH'rBoDY, a citizen of the United States, residing at VJatertown, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Holders for Rotary Balls or Bobbins, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for suspending a ball or bobbin of crocheting yarn from the operators wrist in such manner that the suspended ball is rotatable to give ofi the yarn as required.

The invention has for its object to provide a simple and effective holder, adapted to be quickly and conveniently engaged with a ball or bobbin, and with the operators wrist, and to permit free rotation of the ball and prevent downward movement or displacement thereof.

The invention consists in the improvements which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification:

Figure 1 represents a side view embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 represents a plan view of the ball seat shown by Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 represents a side view of the pointguarding support shown by Fig. 1, detached from the bodkin;

Fig. 4 represents a section on line 14 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 represents a section on line 55 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 6 represents a view similar to Fig. 5, showing a modification;

Fig. 7 represents a section on line 77 of 1Fig. 6, and a plan view of parts below said Figs. 8 and 9 represent fragmentary sectional views showing other modifications.

The same reference characters indicate the same or similar parts in all the views.

In the drawings, 12 represents a bracelet preferably of the approximately elliptical form shown by Fig. 1, the material of the bracelet being preferably cylindrical wire. The elliptical form of the bracelet enables it to be conveniently passed over the operators hand and brought to a bearing on the upper side of the wrist, the bearing or of a holder line of contact between. the bracelet and wrist being limited to the upper side of the wrist by the elliptical form of the bracelet.

13 represents a bodkin suitably c0nnected with the bracelet and projecting there from, the bodkin being pointed at its outer end to readily penetrate a crochet ball 1 1, shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, and the bodkin being made of cylindrical wire so that the ball is adapted to rotate freely on the non-rotating bodkin.

I prefer to connect the bodkin rigidly with the bracelet and locate the bodkin so that it is substantially in alinement with the major axis of the ellipse formed by the bracelet. The rigid connection of the bedkin with the bracelet enables the latter to be used asa handle whereby the bodkin may be conveniently forced through the ball 14. The bracelet and bodkin may, if desired, be made of a single piece of wire, the portions of the wire which meet to form one end of the elliptical bracelet being united by a solder joint 15.

To prevent downward displacement of the ball on the bodkin and to guard the pointed end of the bodkin which projects through the ball, I provide a point-guarding support which is detachably secured to the bodkin and is adapted to permit rotation and prevent downward movement of the ball.

In the preferred embodiment of my invention shown by Figs. 1 to 5 inclusive, the support includes a metal tube 16 having a closed end 17 and longitudinal radial slots 18 subdividing the body of the tube into a plurality of jaws which normally spring inward, as shown by Fig. 3. When the outer end portion of the bodkin is forced into the tube the jaws yield outwardly to a slight extent, and maintain a firm frictional hold on the inserted portion of the bodkin.

The said support is provided with a seat preferably of greater area than the tube 16, said seat being adapted to bear on the under side of the ball and permit its free rotation. The seat is preferably detachable from the tube and formed by a disk 19 preferably of sheet celluloid having a central hole 21 to receive the bodkin.

The tube 16 and seat 19 may be readily removed from the bodkin to permit the insertion of the latter in the ball. After the lindrical form of the Wire of which the bodkin is composed permits the ball to be freely rotated by the pull of the yarn of which it is composed.

Figs. 6 and 7 illustrate a modification in which the seat on which the ball rests is attached to the tube 16, said seat being a shell 19, which may have radial slots 16 forming continuations of the tube slots 16.

Fig. 8 shows another modification which includes a tube 16 which is not slotted and is formed to have a close frictional fit on the bodkin, and a seat 19 formed by the up per end of a shell attached to the tube. As indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 8, the tapering upper end portion of the shell enters the ball to a slight extent, but not sufficiently to prevent the rotation of the ball.

The support may be a ball 19, preferably of wood, having a hole formed to receive and frictionally fit the outer end portion of the bodkin.

Having described my invention, I claim:

A ball holder comprising a bracelet, a ball-piercing bodkin projecting from the bracelet and rigidly attached thereto, the bracelet constituting a handle whereby the bodkin may be forced through a ball, and a point-guarding support detachably secured to the bodkin and adapted to permit rotation and prevent downward movement of the ball.

In testimony whereof I have aifixed my signature.

FRANK J. LIGHTBODY.

Copies 0! this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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