US3207394A - Thread package - Google Patents

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US3207394A
US3207394A US375998A US37599864A US3207394A US 3207394 A US3207394 A US 3207394A US 375998 A US375998 A US 375998A US 37599864 A US37599864 A US 37599864A US 3207394 A US3207394 A US 3207394A
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Robert A Claridge
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PACKAGE PRODUCTS CO Inc
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D05—SEWING; EMBROIDERING; TUFTING
    • D05B—SEWING
    • D05B91/00—Tools, implements, or accessories for hand sewing
    • D05B91/14—Thread-spool pins
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H75/00—Storing webs, tapes, or filamentary material, e.g. on reels
    • B65H75/02—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks
    • B65H75/18—Constructional details
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/30—Handled filamentary material
    • B65H2701/31—Textiles threads or artificial strands of filaments

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  • the present invention relates to a thread package, and more particularly to a package including a spool or reel having thread, line or the like wound thereon.
  • This application is a continuation-in-part of application Serial No. 243,355, led December 10, 1962, and now abandoned.
  • thread packages include a spool on which the thread is wound, which spool is usually formed of wood by a turning operation to form a cylindrical barrel having annular flanges of opposite ends thereon. A central opening is then drilled axially of the barrel and flanges.
  • spools are relatively heavy as compared to the weight of the thread wound thereon and are usually manufactured at a considerable distance from the thread manufacturing plant and then shipped to the thread manufacturing plant for winding of the thread thereon to complete the thread package.
  • Such shipping of the empty spools is quite expensive as is the shipping of the thread packages using these relatively heavy wooden spools since freight rates are quite high.
  • wooden spools of this type are manufactured from various types of wood having varying degrees of porosity. These varying degrees of porosity afford problems in securing labels to the ends of spools since the labeling machines normally are set up to supply a predetermined amount of adhesive to the labels prior to applying the same to the ends of the spools. This predetermined amount of adhesive is frequently insuflicient to maintain the labels on spools of these varying degrees of porosity in a flat, unwrinkled condition. A flat, unwrinkled label is important not only from an appearance standpoint, but also since wrinkled labels sometimes become detached from the spool.
  • a thread-holding notch in one of the flanges of said spools into which the free end of the thread is inserted after the desired amount of thread has been wound on the spool to prevent the thread from unwinding from the spool.
  • This notch is normally cut in the flange at an acute angle to the radius of the spool and frequently the portion of the spool between such thread-holding notch and the periphery of the flange becomes broken thereby releasing the thread and rendering the thread package unacceptable.
  • This thread-holding notch is the only means provided on conventional spools for holding the free end portion of the thread to prevent unwinding of the thread from a partially depleted thread package.
  • a more specific object is to provide a novel spool for a thread package which is lightweight, may be formed in a molding operation, will serve as a combination pin cushion and thread holder and wherein the free end portion of thread or line adapted to be wound thereon may be releasably secured at any desired point around the flanges thereof by forcibly moving the thread or line thereagainst to cause penetration of the flange material.
  • FIGURE 1 is a perspective view of a spool constructed according to the present invention
  • FIGURE 2 is a perspective view illustrating the notching of one of the flanges of the spool by thread forcibly drawn thereacross;
  • FIGURE 3 is a perspective view of the spool shown in FIGURE 2 and showing a needle disposed with the point penetrating into the lower flange thereof;
  • FIGURE 4 is an enlarged vertical section taken substantially along line 44 in FIGURE 3.
  • Thread package 10 which incorporates the features of the present invention. It is noted that while the thread package 10 is shown and described as a sewing thread package, the same may be a package of any suitable strand material such as string, yarn, line, such as fishing line, and the like without departing from the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the term thread as used herein is intended to include all such strand materials.
  • Thread package 10 includes a spool or reel 11 (FIGURE 1) including a preferably cylindrical barrel portion 12 and preferably annular flange portions 13 formed integrally with opposite ends of the barrel portion 12.
  • Barrel 12 and flanges 13 have an opening 14 extending axially or longitudinally therethrough and a thread securing notch 15 is formed in one of the flanges 13 usually at the end of the winding operation which places a thread 16 on spool 11.
  • Thread 16 is wound on the barrel 12 between flanges 13 in spiral wraps or courses to define a plurality of superposed layers of thread with the outermost layer being disposed inwardly of the periphery of flanges 13 such that the flanges maintain the thread on barrel 12.
  • Thread 16 terminates in a free end portion 16a which is normally inserted into thread securing notch 15 at the end of the winding operation which places thread 16 on spool 11 but which is shown herein as having been removed and used to form another notch in a manner to be described later. This completes the thread package and the same is then ready for subsequent labeling, packaging and/ or sale.
  • Spool 11 is constructed of a cellular plastic material which is molded into the desired shape in a preferably single step molding operation using a heated mold which forms a smooth surfaced, very thin shell on the exterior surface of the spool.
  • the cellular plastic material in spool 11 is of a density within the range of 4 to 13 pounds per cubic foot, since it has been determined from tests that spools having a density falling below this range are normally too soft to maintain their shape under normal usage and are too easily fractured.
  • barrel 12 and flanges 13 are shown as being formed integrally, which construction is preferred, it is apparent that the same could be formed separately and subsequently secured together by any suitable means, such as adhesive. Also, it is preferred that all of the spool 11 be formed of the cellular plastic materiaL but it is apparent that barrel 12 could be formed of other suitable material with flanges 13 being molded of the cellular plastic material. In some instances where all of the spool 11 is formed of the cellular plastic material, it may be desirable to have the flange 13 of a greater density than the barrel portion 12 since the flanges 13 are the portions of the spool normally exposed. In this regard, thread 16 normally covers the barrel portion 12 thereby affording some protection thereto and therefore flanges 13 are most susceptible to deformation and fracturing in normal usage of spool 11.
  • the cellular plastic material of the aforementioned density permits ready penetration of a pointed object, such as a needle 17, pin and the like thereinto, as shown in FIGURES 3 and 4, such that spool 11 serves as a combination pin cushion and thread holder for ready penetration of a fishhook in the case of a fishline package.
  • the cellular plastic material is highly buoyant and readily floats in water which also makes the same highly desirable for fishline packages.
  • the cellular plastic material of the aforementioned density permits ready displacement or notching of the material of flanges 13 by thread forcibly moved thereagainst or drawn thereacross as indicated at 18 in FIG- URES 24 to at least partially embed the thread therein.
  • This feature permits the free end portion 16a of thread 16 to be releasably secured to flanges 13 at any desired point around either of the flanges 13 merely by the user forcibly moving the thread against the flanges 13.
  • a novel thread package is provided wherein a novel spool is incorporated which serves as'a combination pin and needle cushion and/or thread holder and wherein the free end portion of the thread may be releasably secured at any point around the flanges of the spool by merely forcibly moving the thread thereagainst to cause at least partial penetration of thread into the flange material.
  • a thread package comprising a spool including a barrel and annular flanges at opposite ends of said barrel, and a plurality of superposed layers of thread surrounding said barrel between said flanges and terminating in a free end portion, one of said flanges having a notch therein in which said free end portion of said thread is releasably secured, at least the flanges of said spool being formed of an expanded cellular plastic material of a density within a range of 4 to 13 pounds per cubic foot, said spool being characterized by the flanges thereof being readily penetrable by a pointed object such as a needle, pin and the like whereby said thread package also serves as a needle and pin cushion, and said spool being further characterized by the flanges thereof being readily notchable by a thread forcibly drawn thereacross to at least partially embed the thread therein for releasably securing the free end portion of said thread at any desired point thereon.

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Cited By (9)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3432116A (en) * 1967-07-24 1969-03-11 Marguerite M Lauen Spool construction having a snap-off end portion
US3465433A (en) * 1965-12-30 1969-09-09 Sylvania Electric Prod Core winding arbor and method
US3486668A (en) * 1968-01-09 1969-12-30 Nellie Ancona Feld Device for stretching and drying textile articles
US3584819A (en) * 1969-05-23 1971-06-15 Amp Inc Storage reel
US3768640A (en) * 1971-07-16 1973-10-30 A Piscatelli Novel cloth winding board
US3934767A (en) * 1973-02-28 1976-01-27 Rohm & Haas Company Textile package of a cellular plastic core with wound yarn
US4917041A (en) * 1988-09-22 1990-04-17 R & P Enterprises Inflatable marking device
US5396991A (en) * 1993-11-08 1995-03-14 Lachambre; Patrick R. Yarn spool holding tray
US20060260966A1 (en) * 2005-05-23 2006-11-23 Lake Russell D Storage device for light bulbs

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US192523A (en) * 1877-06-26 Improvement in combined spool-holder and pin-cushion
GB190826526A (en) * 1908-12-08 1909-08-26 Frank Burden Improvements in and relating to Pin-cushions.
US2667010A (en) * 1949-11-18 1954-01-26 Anderson Orrin Elwood Receptacle for snelled fishhooks
US2829400A (en) * 1954-09-15 1958-04-08 Coats & Clark Method for producing foamed plastic spools
US2898057A (en) * 1955-11-18 1959-08-04 American Thread Co Spools

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US192523A (en) * 1877-06-26 Improvement in combined spool-holder and pin-cushion
GB190826526A (en) * 1908-12-08 1909-08-26 Frank Burden Improvements in and relating to Pin-cushions.
US2667010A (en) * 1949-11-18 1954-01-26 Anderson Orrin Elwood Receptacle for snelled fishhooks
US2829400A (en) * 1954-09-15 1958-04-08 Coats & Clark Method for producing foamed plastic spools
US2898057A (en) * 1955-11-18 1959-08-04 American Thread Co Spools

Cited By (9)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3465433A (en) * 1965-12-30 1969-09-09 Sylvania Electric Prod Core winding arbor and method
US3432116A (en) * 1967-07-24 1969-03-11 Marguerite M Lauen Spool construction having a snap-off end portion
US3486668A (en) * 1968-01-09 1969-12-30 Nellie Ancona Feld Device for stretching and drying textile articles
US3584819A (en) * 1969-05-23 1971-06-15 Amp Inc Storage reel
US3768640A (en) * 1971-07-16 1973-10-30 A Piscatelli Novel cloth winding board
US3934767A (en) * 1973-02-28 1976-01-27 Rohm & Haas Company Textile package of a cellular plastic core with wound yarn
US4917041A (en) * 1988-09-22 1990-04-17 R & P Enterprises Inflatable marking device
US5396991A (en) * 1993-11-08 1995-03-14 Lachambre; Patrick R. Yarn spool holding tray
US20060260966A1 (en) * 2005-05-23 2006-11-23 Lake Russell D Storage device for light bulbs

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