US1367791A - Thread cutter and holder - Google Patents

Description

L. ALEXANDRE.

THREAD CUTTER AND HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 15. I919.

1,367,791. Patented Feb. 8,1921.

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THREAD CUTTER AND HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 8, 1921.

Application filed November 15, 1919. Serial No. 338,983.

To all QUZZOHL it may concern Be it known that I, LILY ALEXANDRE, a citizen of the Republic of Mexico, residing in the city and county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Thread Cutters and Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in thread cutters and holders wherein a cutting blade is held transversely and adjacent to converging spaces between resilient members.

The primary object of the present invention is to provide a new andimproved device adapted for use in connection with a sewing machine or the like wherein the threads extending between the material sewed and the needle and bobbin of the machine may be quickly and easily severed and those portions of the threads extending from the bobbin and needle 'held away from the work temporarily until the sewing machine is again operated, when such operation will automatically remove the ends of said threads from the holder. 2

A further object of the invention is to provide a new and improved device of the character described having means whereby the holding portion of the device may be adjusted to receive threads of different thick nesses.

Other objects will hereinafter more fully appear.

I accomplish these several objects by means of the improved device disclosed in the drawings forming a part of the present specification wherein like characters of ref erence are used to designate similar parts throughout the said specification and drawings, and in which:

Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved device;

Fig. 2 is an elevation of Fig. 1 partly in section, and

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of the device disclosing the manner in which threads are simultaneously out and held.

Referring to the drawings the numeral 1 is used to designate a preferably rectangular receptacle provided with laterally projecting flanges 2 having screw holes 3 therein by means of which the receptacle 1 may be secured to the plane surface of a sewing machine table or the like and adjacent to the needle and presser foot thereof and awav from the path 01 the material being sewed.

Within one end of the receptacle 1 I have provided a plurality of resilient members 4 havlng their upper ends rounded or convexed to provide converging spaces 5 between the upper ends of said members 4, the purpose of which will hereinafter be more fully set forth.

Between the members l and the wall of the receptacle 1, and arranged transverselv to the spaces 5 is a cutting blade 6 with its cutting edge uppermost and arranged approximately at the convergence of the spaces 5. N

A rod 7, having an annular flange or foot rotatably mounted thereon to engage the outermost member L, is screw threaded through one end of the receptacle 1 as at 9 and provided at its outer end with a knurled nut 10 or the like by means of which the rod 7 may be rotated to move said rod longitudinally and thereby provide various degrees of compression between the members -'.l-.

In operation the device is mounted or otherwise suitably secured to the plane surface of a sewing machine table or the like and adjacent the sewing needle and presscr foot of the machine, not shown, but spaced apart from the path of material being sewed.

After the operation of sewing the material is moved away from the needle leaving two threads 12, one extending through the table top into the shuttle or bobbin, not shown, and the other to the sewing needle of the machine.

These two threads 12 are merely forced into one of the converging spaces 5 and between any two adjacent members 4, the cutter 6 being positioned to sever the threads 12 after said threads have been depressed be tween said members 1, with the sewed material on the cutter side of the device.

This will sever those portions of the threads attached to the material sewed and leave the ends of the threads 12 extending to the needle and bobbin tightly compressed between the members 4.

lVhen the sewing operation of the machine is renewed such operation will pull the threads 12 from between said member 4:.

In this manner the loose ends of the threads 12 extending from the sewing needle and bobbin will be effectively retained and thereby prevent tangling as when said come dull through usage. It is also evident that the rods 7 may be utilized to detachably retain the members a in position as well as imparting various degrees of compression to i said members to accommodate threads of various sizes.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: V

1. A thread cutter and holder comprising a plurality of resilient members having convex ends and arranged adjacent each other to provide converging spaces; a cutting element arranged adjacent and transversely to the convergence of said spaces to cut a thread depressed through said spaces and between said members; and a receptacle adapted for engagement with a plane surface and to hold the resilient members and cutting element in operative position.

2. A thread cutter and holder comprising a plurality of resilient members having convex ends and arranged adjacent each other to provide converging spaces; a cutting element arranged adjacent and transversely to the convergence of said spaces to cut athread depressed through said spaces and between said members; and a receptacle adapted to hold the resilient members and cutting element in operative position and likewise having laterally extending apertured flanges by means of which said receptacle may be secured against movement.

3. A thread cutter and holder comprising a receptacle having means for securing the same against movement; a plurality of resilient members mounted within the receptacle and having convexed ends to form converging spaces between said members at the upper ends thereof; a cutting blade arranged transversely between the resilient members and the receptacle and adjacent and transversely to said members whereby a thread. or the like pressed between any two of said members will be severed by said blade; and means for compressing the resilient members together with various degrees of compression whereby threads of various sizes may be cut and held.

a. A thread cutter and holder comprising a receptacle having means for securing the same against movement; a plurality of re silient members mounted within the receptacle and having convened ends to form converging spaces between said members at the upper ends thereof; a cutting blade arranged transversely between the resilient members and the receptacle and adjacent and transversely to said members whereby a thread or the like pressed between any two of said members will be severed by said blade; and a rod screw threaded through one end of the receptacle and -impinging upon one of the resilient members and adapted to impart various degrees of compression between said members.

In witness whereof I hereunto set my signature.

LILY ALEXANDER.

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