US506138A

US506138A - William c

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Publication number: US506138A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1893-10-03
Anticipated expiration: 1910-10-03

Description

-UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM C. SOUDER, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

SKE lN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 506,138, dated October 3, 1893.

Application filed November 17I 1892. Serial No. 452,284- (Il'o model.)

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. SOUDER, of Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Skein-Holders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention is an improvement in skeinholders designed for greater simplicity and cheapness of construction and certainty and efficiency of operation and by the use of which skeins of yarn can be supported in the proper position, during the process of winding it in the form of a ball. 7

A further object of my invention is to supply simple means for adjusting the holder to the length of the skein and at the same time preserve the balance of the device.

.Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the following description in which I have set forth fully the details of construction and the essential features thereof and illustrated them in the accompanying drawings in which similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts.

Figure l is a perspective view of my device attached to a table. Fig. 2 isaside elevation of the central portion with the clamp in section, and Fig. 3 is a side View of Fig. 2 with the clamp removed.

Reference being had to the above figures, A A represent two thin parallel strips of wood which are secured together at the required distance apart by means of the cross braces B B, into the endsof which and through the strips A A pass the screws 0.

Passing through the center of the strips A A midway between the cross braces B B is the spindle D, one end of which terminates in the head (01) while the other is screwed into the metal clamp E.

To obviate the wearing of the wood about the spindle D, I have supplied the metal strips F F, the latter of which is constructed of spring metal with one of its ends free, there by increasing the friction between the strips A A and spindle D.

At equal distances from the spindle D and passing through the strips A A on both sides of the spindle are corresponding series of holes (a), into which are intended to pass the central projections (f) of the cross pieces G G.

The manner of adjusting the holder to the length of the skein is, it is thought, readily seen from Fig. 1, which consists of adjusting the distance between the spindle D and cross pieces G G by placing the projections on the ends of the latter into the corresponding holes in the strips AA by spreading the ends ofthe strips. In applying the skein to the holder it is wound from end to end over the cross pieces G and G, until the holder is filled with the amount of yarn contained in a hank or'other bundle of the same and which is accomplished by rotating the entire holder.

I am aware that prior to my invention adj ustable skein holders have been invented, I therefore do not claim such a combination broadly; but

What I doclaiin as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In an article of the class described, the combination of parallel strips A and A, a spindle D, on which said strips are revolubly secured, a clamp E, secured to said spindle, cross braces B, B, connecting said strips A, A, the said strips, adjacent to their ends being formed with a series of holes passing therethrough, but being equidistant from the spindleD, cross pieces G, G, having projections at their ends adj ustably fitted in said holes and metal plates F, F, secured to said strips A, A, one of said plates being adapted to press outwardly against the head of said spindle, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM C. SOUDER.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. DREW, GEo. F. KINCAID.