US2781180A - Knitting box - Google Patents

Description

Feb. 12, 1957 MALTANIELSEN KNITTING BOX Filed March 6, 1953 FIG.2

- Inventor GERDA MALTA-NEILSEN Jo J n4 Attorney KNITTING BOX Gerda Malta-Nielsen, Kirkland Lake, Qntario, Canada Application March 6, 1953, Serial No. 340,793 1 Claim. (Cl. 242-146) The present invention relates to improvements in a knitting box and appertains' particularly to one designed to contain a plurality of spools arranged in a novel manner.

An object of the invention is to provide a knitting box for a plurality of spools of wool in which the individual spools may be arranged in the desired order and from which a spool or spools may be readily selected and/or removed.

A further object of the invention is to provide a knitting case that is especially helpful in knitting fancy, multicolour patterns such as fair isle and the like, having an auxiliary and rotatable spool container that facilitates unwinding threads that tangle as the knitting proceeds.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a wool holding device for use in knitting, of the nature and for the purpose specified, that is characterized by a structure simple, light and compact; efiicient in use; and capable of manufacture at reasonable cost whereby the same is rendered commercially desirable.

To the accomplishment of these and related objects as shall become apparent as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts as shall be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

The invention will be best understood and can be more clearly described when reference is bad to the drawings forming a part of this disclosure wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one preferred embodiment of the invention; and

Figure 2 is a transverse vertical section as taken on line 2-2 of Figure l, and showing the position of spools of wool therein.

The device here shown consists of a multiple compartment box A which I call the spool holder and an auxiliary spool container B rotatably mounted thereon which I designate the spinner. In using this wool holder, as in fair isle knitting, the. spools are wound in accordance with instructions in the knitting book, substituting spools for balls, and arranged in the spool holder in the order called for in the pattern instructions. When the border of the garment, usually knitted in the main colour, is completed, the spools bearing the Wool of the two colors to be interwoven are selected from the holder and placed in the spinner and as the knitting proceeds these two threads wind with every stitch. At the end of that particular two colour portion the spinner is revolved to untangle the threads, then any unwanted spool is returned to the holder and may subsequently be replaced in the spinner by another. At the end of a row, the knitting should be load right side up on top of the device and the whole box turned 180 degrees so that the spinner is on the near side. Thus in complicated multi-coloured patterns, the Wool from different spools is kept neat and orderly and the continual twisting is easily and quickly untangled.

In knitting, colored yarn from several balls may remain attached to the work piece at different points to be taken up further as the work progresses. Two or more colors can be knit at the same time but when such two colors are used together they wind with every stitch and twist upon themselves. It is accordingly one of the purposes of the present invention to provide means by which. these colors can be readily untwisted. This can be effected by allowing the color yarns to pass one under the other and by a spinning of the yarn about a vertical axis. also permitting the color yarns which are being worked to be moved laterally of the Work piece, they can be replaced by other color yarns without entanglement from the yarns being replaced. The knitting yarns will be car 7 ried in one container and separate from the main container and the yarns not being used for knitting at that time. Two colors are often knitted together at the. same time to get the desired effect and the present devicewill serve to keep them separated from the other colors while keeping the other colors available and untangled from each other and ready to preplace either one or both of the two colors.

Referring now particularly to the illustrated form of the invention, it will be noted that the holder A consists of an elongated rectangular box having a front 1, back 2, ends 3, bottom 4 and an open top 5. It is divided into ten individual compartments 6 by transverse partitions 7 joined to and preferably formed integral with the front and back and bottom of the box. The compartments 6 are substantially square in end elevation and of a width to accommodate a'spool (as seen in Figure 2) in freely rotatable relation. To facilitate the removal of an individual spool, the top edge of each partition, and also of the opposite end of the box if desired, is of reduced height at the centre to provide a depression or passage 9 for gripping the spool. For most ordinary knitting a wool holder of this design capable of carrying ten spools of wool in juxtaposed and tidy coaxial arrangement will prove useful and adequate.

On such a compartmented, open top box however, to substantially increase its utility, the spinner B hereinbefore mentioned is mounted. For this reason, the rear wall 2 of the box is made of sufiicient width to include an inverted T-shaped groove 10 in the top edge thereof extending longitudinally of the box. The instant design being of molded plastic, a plug 11 is sealed in an end thereof to close the same, while to save weight and material the underside of the thickened rear wall 2 of the box is made hollow. Slidable in the groove 16 is an inverted T-shaped block 12, the stem of which rises above the top of the box and on this stem the spinner B is rotatably mounted by a pivot 13. This spinner B is an auxiliary spool holder in the form of an open-topped rectangular box with a partition 14, centrally depressed like the partitions 7, dividing it into two compartments of substantially the same size as those in the main holder A. It is free to rotate on its pivot 13 and to slide in the groove 10 from end to end of the supporting box.

The spinner box has internal compartments the same size as the compartments of the holder box and comprises side bottom and end walls and a partition dividing the spinner box into the two compartments. The sides of the spinner box will at all times be rearwardly spaced from the front wall of the holder box so that the yarns in the holder box compartments can at all times be observed. The length of the box between the end walls is less than the distance between the sides and the spinner box is sufiiciently offset from the front wall of the holder box so that the spinner box may be swung to provide substantially full free access to the yarn holder compartments whereby the yarn spools can not only be observed at all i b t n e rem ed i o t nt riereaqe has; th

spinner box.

It will be readily apparentxthat in use this device, rettaining each spool of wool in neatly. wound and immediately available condition, in prearrangedtorderand with provision for carrying certain selected spools in-the longitudinally slidable and rotatable spinner will prove of great help, "eliminatetrouble from tangling threads and result in the saving of considerable time and efiort, V

Fromthe foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, it willtbetman'ifest that a knittinglbox' is provided that will fulfil all theneeessary requirements of such a device, but as many changes could be made in the above description and many apparently, widely difierent embodiments of the invention may be con;

structed within, the scope of therappended claim without departing from the spirit or scope thereof it is; intended that allmatters contained in the said accompanying specification and drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative andnot in a limitative or restrictive sense.

Having thus described the invention, what I'clairn as new is: a V

A device for use inmulti-yarn knitting operations comprising an elongated rectangular-shaped open top compartmentedyarn holder box having front, back, bottom and end walls, a plurality of longitudinally-spaced vertical partitions extending between the front and back walls and providing thereby a series of longitudinally-aligned open top compartments, each compartment being adapted to receive a spool of yarn, guideway means running parallel along-' the back wall throughout the extent thereof and V rearwardly offset from the compartments, a slide element movable along the guideway means, an; opentop twocompartmented auxiliary spinner hox having side, bottom and and a l and a sin le nas iest! ext nding. b twqa the sidewalls to provide'two open top compartments lying between its end walls, said spinner box pivotally connected to the slide centrally of its bottom wall'for free rotation about a vertical axis, said spinner box having i 7 its sides when brought parallel to the front wall of the yarn holder box rearwardly spaced therefrom in order 7 to have observation of the yarn spools in all of the compartments of the holder box and the length of the spinner box between the end walls being less than the. distance between the sides thereof and thespinner 'box' being 7 sufiiciently offset from the front wall of the holder compartment so that the spinner box may be swung sidewise to provide substantiallyfull free access to the yarn holder compartments, whereby two selected yarns extending from the compartments of the auxiliary spinner box may be untwisted by spinning the same and passing the yarns one under the other and the spinner box. slid' from one end ofv theholder'box to the othento pick unselected :yarnsf Without interference from the other yarns.

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