US544877A - Thread-package - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

B. L. ARMSTRONG.

THREAD PACKAGE.

PatentedAug. 20,1895.

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BENJAMIN L. ARMSTRONG, OF NEV LONDON, CONNECTICUT.

THREAD-PACKAG SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 544,877, dated August 20, 1895.

Application filed December 18, 1894. Serial No. 532,258- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN L. ARM- STRONG, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of New London, and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and usefullmprovements in Thread- Packages, which improvements are fully set forth and described in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which*n Figure l is a perspective view of a package of my improved form, and Fig. 2 isan edge view of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the blank from which said package is folded.

On the 17th day of July, 1894, Letters Patent No. 523,139 were issued to me for an invention in thread-packages for protecting and marketing skeins of embroidery silk, floss, and the like stuffs, the essential features of said earlier invention being an envelope inclosing the skein and means within the dou bled end of the skein to prevent the withdrawal of the latter from said envelope.

My present invention has for its object the improvement of my said earlier package so that skeins of greater lengths may be inclosed and marketed in envelopes which, when complete, will be of the same length as those described in my said patent, No. 523,139.

Referring to the drawings, the letters a, b, and c indicate the three folds of my improved envelope or casing, the same being adapted to be folded upon each other after the manner of the envelope used in my said earlier package; but it should be noted that in this present inventionthe envelope-blank is of greater length and adapted to be folded midway its length on the dotted line d. One of the described folds, preferably the middle one b, has projecting from one end a flap e, which is spotted with gum. One of the folds a c is also gurnmed either before or at the time of making up the package. The skein of silk or other material is laid upon the central section b of the envelope-blank, and the flap e is passed through the loop of, the skein at one end. One of the sections a c is then folded over the skein and the remaining section is finally folded and stuck down upon the outer face of the flap first folded. The package thus provided is then doubled on line d and the flap e is stuck upon the outer face of the free end of section b, thus securing the two ends of the package together. When thus folded, the doubled end of the skein (which includes the knotted end of the silk) may be cut entirely through, leaving the cut ends projecting asin Fig. i. Each strand ofthe thread may then be successively drawn from the package by separating and grasping said strands at the doubled uncut portion immediately over the ap e. In this construction the doubled portion of the envelope takes the place of the flap in the form of envelope shown in my former patent, and keeps the thread from rendering too freely or becoming tangled when one of them is being removed. Fig. 1 shows a single strand as partly drawn from the envelope. By thus grasping the doubled part or center of each strand the free ends of the thread render freely through the doubled envelope, with no tendency to tangle or displace the other strands of the skein; or the threads may be removed by taking hold ot' either one of the ends and drawing upon it,

which will thereby cause the thread to pass' over the flap and also to pass around the doubled portion of the envelope.

It will thus be seen that a skein twice the length possible in my earlier package may be now packed in an envelope of the same length, and that its strands, notwithstanding their great length, may with equal facility be successively withdrawn; orinstead of using the thread of a double length both doubled ends of the skein may be cut and the threads removed by drawing from either side of the flap that holds the two ends of the envelope together.

Having described my invention, I claiml. A thread package, consisting of a substantially flattened tube "like envelope doubled upon itself substantially midway of its length, the outer side of one end of the tube being provided with a iiap of a less width than the width of the tube and secured to the outer side of the other end of the envelope, whereby theenvelope is completely inclosed except the short space between the edges of the flap and the respective edges of the ends of the envelope, substantially as set forth.

2. A thread package consisting of a substantially flattened tube like envelope doubled upon itself substantially midway of its length, the outer side of one 'e'nd of the tube being provided with a flap of a less Width than the width of the tube and secured to the outer side of the other end of the envelope, and a skein of material within the envelope, the doubled ends of which project from the ends of the envelope between the edges of the flap and the edges of the envelope, one of the doubled ends of lche skein being out and the other end being passed over the Hap, whereby the x threads may be drawn by pulling upon the uncut doubled end or on eitherl one of the out ends of the skein, substantially as set forth.

BENJAMIN L. ARMSTRONG.

Witnesses:

FRANK H. ALLEN, LILA D. PEALE.

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