US2124064A

US2124064A - Ribbon pack

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Publication number: US2124064A
Application number: US69258A
Authority: US
Inventors: Jr William Harris
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1936-03-17
Filing date: 1936-03-17
Publication date: 1938-07-19
Anticipated expiration: 1955-07-19

Description

July 19, 193s. w. HARRIS, .m

RIBBON PACK Original Filed Ma'roh 17, 1936 mi. ATTORNEY.

Patented July 19, 1938 UNITED STATES RIBBON PACK William Harris, Jr., Paterson, N. J.

Application March 17, 1936, Serial No. 69,258 Renewed May 21, 1938 1 Claim.

Ribbon is usually prepared for sale and consumption by forming it into a helically wound mass, usually upon a core the latter if present being either with or without a ange or flanges which flank the ribbon mass. (Whereas the invention has been devised with respect particularly to textile ribbons, by the term ribbon as herein used I mean to include any strip of sheet material, whether textile or not.) Upon forming the wound body it is usually necessary to secure the free end of the ribbon in some way so that the windings may be retained during subsequent handling substantially in the same degree of compactness in which they were initially developed; and, where the ribbon is dispensed by cutting or otherwise detaching therefrom successive lengths which may vary in extent, as is usually the case, whatever securing expedient is used must take into account that usually the actual point of securing will not remain during the life of the pack always in the same radial plane. The conventional securing means, at once inexpensive and adapted to be applied in any radial plane of the Wound body thus to hold the ribbon clear to its free end and in compact wound form, is a common toilet pin which is pushed through the free end of the ribbon into the wound mass. But this forms perforations in the ribbon and so spoils each convolution penetrated, and the damage thus done may be more or less according to the number of times the pin is removed and re-entered at dierent points.

According to this invention, whereby the pinning is avoided without increase in the cost of production, given a body including a helically wound mass of ribbon, there is combined therewith an endless elastic band which constrictively embraces said body in crossing relation to the ribbon windings and exists throughout its own extent exterior of said mass, said band bearing against the periphery of the mass and said body having means to oppose dislodgment of the band therefrom in a direction transverse of the axis of the windings. If, as is usually the case, said body includes a core for the windings said core will usually be provided with said means, and if the core has a flange or flanges flanking the mass said means may take the form of notches in such flange or anges in which the band is received. With such core present and said means provided on the core the mass may be rotative relatively to the core in which case the ribbon may be withdrawn without detaching the band from the core and the band may be made to hold the ribbon clear to its free end.

(Cl. 20G-53) In the drawing,

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of one form of the improved ribbon pack;

Fig. 2 is a diametric section thereof in the plane of the notches; and

Fig. 3 is a section on line 3 3, Fig. 2.

The said body here includes the helical windings of ribbon I and an interwound strip 2, as of paper, formed on a cylindrical shell 3 of stiff sheet material, as cardboard, which forms with the windings what I term the wound mass, and a core on which such mass is free to rotate, the same comprising a wooden barrel 4 which freely penetrates the bore of such mass (specifically, of the shell) and two heads 5 nailed at 6 to the ends of the barrel and affording anges which ilank said mass, the barrel being of greater axial extent than said mass so that thereby, and because the bore of said mass is loose on the barrel, said mass may freely rotate on the core.

'l is the endless elastic band, here a plain rubber band, the same constrictively embracing said body in crossing relation to the ribbon windings and existing throughout its own extent exterior of said mass and bearing against the periphery of said mass, as at 8.

The said means to oppose dislodgment of the band from said body in a direction transverse of the axis of the windings is here formed by peripheral notches 9 and Il] in the flanges of the core, the notches 9 being coincident with that radius of the body in which the band bears against the periphery of the wound mass.

The construction is such that the band holds the wound mass in wound state and is itself held against dislodgment from said body. To withdraw any desired length of the ribbon the band may be removed, or, according to the example shown and described in which said body includes, with the wound mass, a core on which said mass is revoluble, the ribbon may be withdrawn with one hand, thus rotating the mass, while the core is held against rotation by the other hand. In such case it is always possible, upon cutting off a piece of the ribbon, to have it held clear to the end of the remaining windings. The drawing shows that in the operation of withdrawing the ribbon the core may be held against rotation by the thumb and middle nger of one hand while the forefinger of such hand is used to hold the band out of the notches 9.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim is:

The combination, with a helically wound mass of ribbon having an axial bore and a core to be 55 posed notches exposing laterally the windings of said mass for an extent greater than one-half of its radial thickness and in a radius remote from that of said notches other peripheral substantially opposed notches extending short of the periphery of the mass, and said band being received in the several notches.

WILLIAM HARRIS, JR.