US1401521A - Skein - Google Patents

Description

M. 0. CLAUSS,

SKEIN.

APPLICATION men JULY r0, 1920.

1,401,521 j Patented Dec.27,19 21.

an van-r06 .1560? 0% G'Zaws so a the skein cannot be. unwound unless the bands are removed from the skein and the i To all whom it may concern:

umrsn srra'rs's PATENT- OFFICE.

IA: 01530 CLAUSE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.,

. ASSIGNOR TO THE (mm mm GOI- ramr, or man, new means, a conromrron or new JERSEY.

4 Be it known that I Max O'rro CLAUSE, a citizen of the Unite -States, and resident of the borough of the Bronx, ,in the county of Bronx and the city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Skeins, of which the following is a dBSCIiPtlOIl. v

The invention relates to an improvement in'skeins.

Skeins of yarn, cotton, silk and the like for embroidery, knitting, crochetin and other urposes are put on the mar et in such orm that they must be untwisted or unfolded before a strandor loop of thread can be removed without entan ling the other threads or loops. Many e orts have been made to obviate'the necessity of untwisting or unfolding the skeins before a small portion thereof can be used, and to this end, it has been proposed to in'close' the skeins in packages so constructed that when the ends of the loops are cut the individual strands or single loops may be drawn out one at a time without entangling the other threads. These packages are more or less.

expensive to manufacture, and 'inclosing the skeins in this manner necessitates'the withdrawal of a complete loopat one time, whether or not only a portion of a loop is desired. 'It has also been proposed to put skeins on the market in' other forms in order to obviate the entangling ofvthe threads either in the skein itself or with the. threads work basket of the user. v None of these efforts have been successful as a. commercial proposition because, so far asknown, the usual'and commercialfform of skein consists of a number .of l6ops so inter-folded that skein untwisted or: unfolded. i i

The ob'ect of the invention isfto roduce a skein ormed in such manner t at the skein may be put on the market and used in w the condition in which it comes from the I gether with the usual bandor winding machine and which may also be 0 ed out or unfolded into a ser es of si mplz loops, as .is the practice with skems wound according to the usual practice now obtaining. The skein of the present invention is so constructed that while it is in its relatively short market len h, held tonds, it is in ofother skeinscontained in the receptacle or Specification or Letters Patent. Pate t d D 27" 1921 .Appllcatlonfiled July 10, 1920, Serial H0- 395,309.

. comes from the skein winding machine, but

it also ma be opened up or unfolded into a skem of t e usuallength.

w The improved skein comprises a series of main or primary loops, "having associated with them a plurali of series of intermedlate or subsldia oops. primary loops an intermediate or subsidiary loops are so associated that the skein composed of them may be unwound by pulling on or drawing out the proper strand, or the intermediate or subsidiaryloops may be separated from the main or primary 100 to form the skein into a series of simp e loops. The improved skein may be wound .in a nuinberof ways and in the accompanying drawi I haveillustrated some of the out in the appended claims.

ri re 1 is a diagrammatic view illustrate. mg t e fundamental principle involved the winding of the skein. I

Fig. 2 is a similar view, illustrating a sekcond phase in the development of the s em. I

' Fig. 3 is a view showing one complete cycle of the winding operation These main or inthe preferred embodiment of the inven- 1 tion.

- 4 is a'plan view illustrating the complete marketable product, and,

Fig. 5 is, a diagrammatic view showi :lkightly modifi I m in. Therm roved skein of the present invention as il ustrated in Fig. 4 and wound ac ethodof winding he T cording to the methods diagrammatically shown in Figs. 2, 3 or 5, consists of a continuous strand or thread formed into a skein of comparatively short length, from which the thread may be withdrawn without entangle ment of the looped thread" strands. I have found in ractice that this can best be accomplish by winding the'thread in the neral form ofa triangle as shown at. 5, in

ig. 1 of the drawings,the being car- 4 of the skein.

the thread and within the circuit of the main or rimary loop a plurality of secondary or sub idiary series of looped strands, as shown at 8, Fig. 2, before closing the main or primary skein loop by completing the cycle of the winding evo ution.

In order that the several looped strands of the skein shall not become entangled with) I each other when the thread is withdrawn,

and the loops straightened out, it is essential that in the winding evolution the looped strands shall not cross or intersect each other. Accordingly, the thread is wound in the manner illustrated in Fig. 2, and starting from one of the horizontally spaced points-6, the thread is first carried to the other point 7, as at a, defining the opposite end of the skein, and is then returned upon itself, as at b, without intersecting the strand a, and carried around the starting point 6, and then again returned, as at c, to the opposite end of the skein and carried around the point 7, and then carried to the other of the horizontally spaced points 6, as at d. From this latter point the thread is re turned upon itself to form the second subsidiar loop, as at e, and around the point ".7, wit vwhich the other looped strands have til the desired length of threa common engagement; Thethread is finally again reversed, as at f, and extended around and across the horizontally spaced points 6 to the starting point. This completes a single winding evolution, and is re eated unhas been wound upon the spaced points. In this manner it will be seen that there is produced a relatively short skein, which is made up first of the multiplicity of strands a and f, extending along either side of the triangular skein fi ure, and across the wider end thereof, which constitute the primary main or skein loops, and within the circuit of which the plurality of series of intermediate or subsidiary loops, eachv consisting of a multiplicity of looped strands e, c and d, e

respectively, are formed.

After the thread length has thus been wound, a suitable binder, indicated at 9, is applied to the ortion of the primary looped strands a, f, w ich extend between the horizontally spaced points above referred to, and a tubular label, indicated at 10, is then longitudinally slipped over the opposite ends of the primary and subsidiary skein loops to draw the same together into more or less compact relation, as indicated in Fig.

4. The ends of the skein thread, shown at 11, are left projecting in opposite directions from the wide end of the skein to which the binder 9 is applied. In withdrawin the thread from the skein, the end of the t read at which the winding evolutions were started is grasped and ulled. Theindividual loo ed strands of tiie series of skein loops ma 'ng up the completed skein will then readily separate from all ,of the remaining looped strands of the skein without becoming entangled with the latter. This, it will be seen, is due to the fact that these strands do not intersect with each other, so that as the strand is withdrawn, there will be no ;cross or-positive pulling contact with the adjacent strand, as would be the case if the direction of pull was across or at an angle to the adjacent looped strand.

In Fig. 5 of the drawings I have illustrated another manner of winding the thread or filament, wherein the skein is wound around the four spaced points or supports designated 12 13, 14 and 15 respectively, the points 12 and 14, and 13 and 15 being arranged in laterally spaced relation to each other, and defining the opposite ends of the skein length. The thread or filament is first engaged around the point 12, and then carried to the point 13, and reversed, and extended again around the point 12, and returned to the point 13 to form an intermediate or subsidiary loop 9. The thread is then carried laterally to the point 15, then longitudinally around the point 14, and returned to the point 15 to form a second intermediate or subsidiary loop, as at h. The thread or filament is now carried again around the point 14, and extended to the point 12 to close the main or primary loop, the latter loop being designated by the letter i. Thus in this case it will be seen that in each winding evolution in addition to the main or primary looped strand of the thread or filament, two subsidiary looped strands are formed in parallel relation with each other, and no one of these looped strands intersects with any of the other looped strands. This operation is repeated'until the desired length of the thread or filament has been wound to complete the skein. The series of skein loops, each consisting of a multiplicity of looped strands, are then removed from the su porting points, and the two series of subsidiary loops 9 and h are brought together in more or less compact relation, and the tubular label 10 then engaged over the skein in the manner above described, after which the binder is applied to the end of the primary skein loops 2', from the opposite sides of which the extremities of the thread or filament extend. Therefore, it will be apparent that a skein wound in this manner also possesses the several advantages hereinbefore referred to, and by pulling upon the end of the roper thread, the thread may be readily wit drawn fromthe skein without liabllity of .entangling the looped strands thereof.

It will be recognized from the above description that the improved skein, in addition to' being unwindable without entanglement simply by (pulling on or" drawing out the proper threa is unfoldable into a skein of greater length than the original skein by separating the intermediate or subsidiary loops from the main or primary loops. Whether the skein will be used in the form shown in Fig. 4, in which condition it comes from the skein winding machine, or whether the skein will be unfolded by separating the intermediate from the main loops, will depend upon the conditions under which the skein isused. For private or household use the skein will preferably be used in its original form, as shown in Fig. 4, and for general manufacturing purposes it will' be opened out into a series of sim le loops and the ends cut to constitute a series of strands. of uniform length.

From the foregoing description, considered in connection with the accompanying drawings,.the construction and several advantages of my invention will be readily understood. The loss of time and the manual exertion incident to the necessity of first winding the thread or filament into a ball in the use of skeins in crocheting as has been the practice heretofore is eliminated by means of the present invention. This skein is also advantageous in embroidery work, since any desired len h of the thread or filament ma be with rawn from the skein without isassociating the series of looped strands, or entangling the same with each other, and such wlthdrawn length of the thread or filament cut off.

The embodiments'of the invention herein disclosed, and particularly that illustrated in Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive of the drawings contemplate the-winding of one hundre yard skeins to produce a completed skein, which will be of relatively s ort length, without being unduly bulky. It is, however, manifest that if desired'a greater or less length of the thread or filament may be comprised in each skein. It will, therefore, be understood that the present invention is not to be limited to the specific exam les of the skein windings, herein referre to, but

1. A skein com osed of a continuous length of thread main or primary series of intermediate or subsidiary loops of substantially the same length as the main or primary loops formed within the circuit of the main or primary loops.

2. A skein composed of a continuous length of thread formed into a series of main or primary loops and a lurality of series of intermediate or subsi iary loops, said intermediate or subsidiary loops being separable from the main or primary loops so as t form a skein consisting of a series of simple loops.

3. A skein composed of a continuous length of thread formed into a lurality of series of 100 sof comparatively 5 said loops being separable into a skein of comparatively lon length and consisting of a series of simple loops.

4. A skein composed of a continuous length of thread formed into a lurality of series of loops unwindable by pu lin on the thread or loo first wound and un oldable into a skein oi greater length than the or.i inal skein consisting of a series of simp e loops. 1 i

5; A V skein composed of a continuous length of thread, having a series of main or primary "loops and a pluralit of series of intermediate or subsidiary oops formed therein, all of said loops extending the entire length of the skein, the main or primary and the intermediate or subsidiary loops being in such relation with each other that upon pulling the thread first wound the skein is unwindable without entanglement.

6. A skein composed of a continuous length of thread formed into a series of main or primary loops and a lurality of serles of intermediate or subsidiary loops of substantially the same length as themain or primary loops.

' In testlmony my invention, I have si MAX ormed into a series of that I claim the foregoing as ed 111 name. TTO AUSS.

loops and a plurality of ort length,

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