US1626080A - Fabric-roll holder - Google Patents

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im@ J ,47709 EY April ze, 1927.

G. GRAHAM ET Ax.

FABRIC ROLL HOLDER Filed Feb. l0. 1.926

Patented Apr. 26, 1927.

lll-TE@ STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE GRAHAM AND ADOLPI-I C. HELMUS, 0F DOUGLASTON, NEW YORK.

FABRIC-ROLL HOLDER.

Application filed February The present invention relates to improvements in fabric-roll holders, that is to say to forms or frames upon wiich fabrics are wound for storage purposes.

ln stores 'where cloth or fabrics are sold in the piece or in smaller quantities, the bolts are arranged in stacks. The purchasers frequently ask for small samples, and it has been a general practice heretofore',` for this purpose, to remove the bolts from the stacks and out small samples from the free ends of the fabrics. lQuite some work is involved inA this operation due to the fact that the required bolts may be located at or near the bottoni of the stack. On the other hand, the furnisl'iing of samples results in considerable loss to the merchant because that part of the free end of the cloth bolt from which the sample has been cut cannot be charged to a customer, it being mutilated, attention being called to the fact that usually a sample of a few inches in width and length is cutfrom the free end of the cloth bolt, the length of the sample not extending throughout the width of the cloth.

The main object of the present invention is to provide a casing-like form or cloth holder, in which is slidably disposed a small receptacle, adapted to contain small samples of the cloth or fabric wound upon the said form, said receptacle being adapted to be withdrawn from the form or holder, thereby enabling the attendant to furnish samples to the purchaser.

Another object of the invention is to provide a form or fabric holder of the character described which is simple in construction, eiiicient in operation, ldurable in use and capable of manufacture on a commercial scale, or in other words one which is not so diliicult to make as to be beyond the reasonable cost of such a contrivance.

With these and other objects in view, which will more fully appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the combination, arrangement and constructon of parts hereinafter described, pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated inthe accon'ipanying drawings, it being understood that many changes may be made in the size and proportion of the severaly parts and details of construction within the scope of the appended claims, without tdeparting from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention,

1G, 1926. Serial No. 87,365.

One of the many possible embodiments of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which lrigure 1 is a top plan view of a fabric holder constructed in accordance with the present invention, part of its covering being broken away in order to more clearly show the interior construction; Fig. is an end view thereof, showing the fabric wound thereon in dotted lines; F ig. 3 is a section taken on line 3 3 of Fig; 1, on a larger scale; Fig. l is a section taken on line el-t of Fig. l, also on a larger scale; and Fig. 5 is a top plan view, on a larger scale, of one of the corners of the holder. i

The form or holder comprises an oblong' frame, including two longitudinal members 10, united at their ends by two transverse members 11 and 12.y Transverse stays or braces 13 connect the longitudinal members, intermediate their ends. The longitudinal members 10 and the transverse members l1 and 13 are, preferably, made of wood, while the transverse member 12 is, preferably, made of metal, although this is not essential. The transverse member '12 is, in the case illustrated, in the form of a shell, including an end wall 14 and a continuous side wall 15, into which one end of each longitudinal member 10 is fitted. The elements so far described may be united in any suitable manner, thereby forming an oblong frame. This frame is provided with a bottom member 16 and a top member 17, preferably, made of cardboard, and the entire frame may be covered with some suitable fabric or paper, denoted by the numeral 18, to give the form or holder a finished appearance. As appears from the foregoing, the form or holder constitutes a casing, the longitudinal edges of which are rounded, as shown at 19, to permit of a proper winding of the cloth or fabric thereon.

In the end wall 14 of the shell above referred tois provided an oblong opening 20, through which is adapted to be inserted into the form or holder a receptacle or drawer 21, comprising a front wall 22, adapted to lie in the plane of the end wall 14 of the transverse member 12, a side wall 23, extending at right angles to the front wall 22, and an arc-shaped side wall 24, connecting the front wall 22 and the side wall 23, all of said walls rising from a bottom 25. The drawer is fixed by a pivot. pin 26 to the transverse member 12, where the latter joins one of the longitudinal members l0 of the frame. On the front wall 22 of Jhe drawer' is provided a knob 27, by which the said drawer may be swung around its pivotpin 26. At the junction point or' the side walls 28 and 2li of the drawer is provided an upwardly extending projection 2S, which abuis against ,he inner face of the end wall leioi2 the transverse ineinber i2 when Jdie drawer is shifted 'from ihe posicion shown in full lines in Fig. i oi the drawings into Jdie position shown in dotted lines in said ligure, thereby limiting the ouward movement of the drawer.

fis appears from 2 oi' ehe drawings, rhe cloth or fabric 29 may be wound upon an d unwound 'iroin the 'forni or holder without interfering` with the operation of the drawer 2l. into the drawer are placed small samples of the cloth or Yfabric wounr. upon the forni or holder. The cloth bolts are stacked in a manner tha convenient acceas can be had -io Ji'he said drawers, so tha, when a sample is to be removed from a drawer in any one of the forins or holders, this can be done wifchouJ removing; Jche bolt o cloth from the stack. Should a pureh: ser desire to examine the cloth, *che respective bolt is removed from the stack ior this rpurpose. A sample can then be withdrawn by taking hold oi the knob 27 on Jhe dra ver and shifting' the lacfer around the pivot pin 26 inl'o the position shown in dotied lines in Fin'. l of juhe drawings, whereb7 access can be had to the samples in said drawer. After the sample has been removed, the drawer is shifted into the position shown in full lines in Fig. 1 of the drawings, inv which the side wall 23 of the drawer abuts againsiI one of the longitudinal iframe members l0.

What we claini is:

1. A. cloth forni comprising an oblong cas" ing-shaped frame provided in one of its end walls with an opening, a drawer adapted to be inserted through said opening into said frame including a bottoni 'from which rises a fiat iront wall, a fiat side wall exending1 at right angles to said fiat front wall, and an arc-shaped side wall connecting' said fiat front wall and said flat side wall, a pivoJ pin extending' through said drawer into said casing-ahmed frame, said pivot pin beine; disposed ai the junction poino of said iiat iront wall and said iiat side wall adjaceniy to the opening in said casing-shaped ranie, said drawer being adapted to be around said pivot pin and thereby adapied to be inserted into and io be withdrawn from said i'ranie.

2. A cloth forni according` to claiin i, coniprising an upwardly ex'rending projection on said drawer at jhe junction poin of die side walls thereof, said projec-ion being` adapted to abut that end wall oi aaid casing-shaped iraine in which che opening is provided, thereby limiting the oulward movement oi: said drawer.

Signed at New York, in h e counfj; oi' New York, and State of New York, Jthis 4th day of February, AA D 1926A GEORGE GRAHAM. ADOLPH C. HELMUS.

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