US2016181A - Embroidery kit - Google Patents

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ZMIGJM P. C. SHARP EMBROIDERY -K IT @et l, @35

Filed Sept. 29, 1933 i@ may@ tl |N\ E Nuna m* Q N wm .wdnm wfffff? i? ft; b O .N\ .M. N\V\\\ H w WJ, %\\W G M S Q ./O o m W M m M m Patented Oct. 1, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Application September 29,'1933,'Seriall No. 691,473 VIn Canada October 12, 1932 3 Claims.

.My invention relates to improvements in embroiderykitsfand the object of the invention is to provide means whereby a complete arrangement of colours and shades of embroidery thread will "5 be available to the'worker in the most convenient form, and in such a manner as to permit ready identification of the embroidery thread required to replenish supply. Another object of the invention is to segregate the split threads and hold V them in convenient location for the convenience of theworker, and inthe following specification and the drawing forming part thereof, I shall describe and illustrate myv preferred form of invention, and a modification thereof, and what I claim as new will be set forth in the claims forming part of this specification.

Fig. 1 is a plan view of my embroidery kit opened out. Fig. 2 is a plan View of one of the thread holders, and Fig. 3 is a cross section on the line 3-,3, Fig. 1.

In the drawing, like characters of reference refer to the same parts.

Those who do fancy Work have no practical inexpensive means of holding the embroidery thread, and the result is that the average ladies sewing baskets contain various shades and colors of embroidery thread more or less in a disorganized state, thus rendering it troublesome to remove from this more or less tangled mass the thread she wishes to immediately use. Furthermore when embroidery thread is loosely dumped into a sewing basket, the thread not only becomes soiled, but there is a considerable percentage of -wastage through the thread becoming snarled or tangled up and unfit for use. My invention avoids these disadvantages. One practical feature of my invention that possesses value to the fancy worker is that by looking at her embroidery kit she can immediately determine what color or shade of embroidery thread she is out of.

The basic element of my invention is the thread holder 2 provided at each end with an indenture 3 shaped as desired to permit the embroidery thread to be wound longitudinally around the holder. Each holder is slit as shown at 4 thus providing means to receive the ends of the embroidery thread wound around the holder. 5 are tongues integrally formed with the body portion of each of these holders, and one at each end of a holder. These tongues are in alignment, and they may be separated from their adjacent portions of their associated ends by slitting these ends as shown at 6. The inner sides of these tongues 5 may be cut off at an angle thus forming V-shaped openings 1. The preferred con- (Cl. 20G-464) struction just described forms the outer end v'of each tongue somewhat pointed thus enabling these tongues to pass through slits 3 formed vin bothsidesof the leaf 9 which forms the foundationfof the'embroidery kit. The material com- `5 posing the thread holder 2 will be preferably of stout paper or cardboard thereby-providing zthe necessary flexibility in the tongues 5. Of course any other suitable material may be employed for 4the manufacture of this holder, lsuch'as celluloid 10 or cellophane. The cost of course will determine the nature of the material used to make the said holder.

Though not absolutely essential, each side of the leaf 9 may be provided with an indenture I0 15 in alignment with the indentures 3 in the holdf ers 2.

In Fig. 1, I have shown three holders 2 associated with a leaf 9. The advantage of having these holders is that they can be sold already 20 filled with the desired embroidery thread, and each holder is designed to have the color or shade of the thread it carries marked thereon, as Well as the number.

'Ihe place or location for any particular holder 25 may be fixed in respect of the leaf 9 by marking on this leaf in the proper location which will normally be behind any given thread holder the number of the thread carried by this holder as Well as the name of the shade or color of this 30 thread.

If a thread holder 2 should be lost, portion of the leaf 9 can be used in place thereof, and for this purpose I specially provide the indentures IB and the slits Il opening thereinto to receive 35 the free ends of the embroidery thread wound around the leaf. In this use, the slits 8 of course will not be used.

Very frequently the embroidery thread must be split before it can be used, and therefore I pro- 40 vide the leaf l2 with aligned slits I3, and opening at an angle from each of these is a slit I4.

I5 represents split threads which have been passed through the slits I3 into the slits I4. The formation of the passageways I3 weakens the 45 sides of the leaf I2, and therefore to stiifen the sides I provide a metal keeper I6, U-shaped in cross section which is slipped over the said sides. This keeper can be readily removed and replaced as desired. 50

The leaves forming the embroidery kit may be of any suitable number, and they may be flexibly coupled together after any suitable manner. In Fig. 1, I have shown each leaf provided with eyelets I'I through which links I8 pass. 55

As will be apparent from Fig. l, when a holder is coupled to the leaf 9, the pairs of slits 4, and

I I, as Well as the indentures 3, and IIJ, will be in alignment, and therefore when a free end of a thread Wound on a holder 2, coupled to the leaf 9, is passed through these said aligned slits, the holder will be additionally coupled to the leafto prevent the left-hand side thereof opping during handling of the device thus relieving the Jtongues 5, of undue strain at such times.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention and in Wh-at manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a flexible thread holder having slits I3 formed at each end thereof into which open slits formed in the body portion of the holder to receive the free ends of the thread Wound therearound, and a removable keeper adapted to be passed over each side of the said holder.

, 2. In combination, a leaf having indentures formed therein one at each end thereof, and a horizontal slit spaced apart from each indenture located in each end substantially in alignment With the bottom of its associated indenture; a flexible individual thread holder having indentures formed one in each end thereof of substantially the same size as the indentures formed in said leaf, and into which at one side near the bottom thereof open slits formed in the body por- 3. In combination, a leaf having indentures Y formed therein one at each end thereof, and a horizontal slit spaced apart from each indenture located in each end substantially in alignment with the bottom of its associated indenture; a flexible individual thread holder having indentures formed one in each end thereof of substantially the same size as the indentures formed in said leaf, and into Which'at one side near the bottom thereof open slits formed in the body portion of said holder to receive the free ends of 20 thread Wound therearound, and aligned flexible tongues formed one at each end of said holder at one side thereof and spaced apart from their adjacent portions of said ends by substantially V- shaped openings for a. .distance approximately 25 that of the depth of said holder indentures, thus providing said tongues with narrowed ends to permit them to be inserted into the slits inV said leaf to detachably couple said holder to said leaf.

PETREA, C. SHARP.

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