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Patented Sept. 2, I902.

I. J. SHAW.

B E E L (Application filed May 24, 1902,)

(No Model.)

- WITNESSES:

Mora ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES SHAW, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE SHAW &

COOKER MACHINE COMPANY, OF PATERSON, NEW J ERSEY, A CORPO- RATION OF NEW JERSEY.

REEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 708,263, dated September 2, 1902.

Application filed May 24,1902. Serial No. 108,8 l3. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES SHAW, a citizen of the United States, residing in Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New J ersoy, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Reels; andI 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, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to the construction of reels for reeling-machines; and it has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and durable expedient for securing that blade of the reel which is arranged to collapse or move toward the axis of the reel (by virtue of its spokes or carrying-arms forming linklike connections with the hub portion of the reel) in its extended position while the reel is being used.

My invention will be found fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein corresponding letters of reference indicate like parts, and wherein Figure 1 is a plan viewof a reel provided with my improvement. Fig. Zispartial end view of the reel with the shaft in section. Fig. 3 is a sectional View taken on the line w a: in Fig. 1 and looking toward the left in said figure, and Figs. 4 and5illustrate modifications of the invention.

In said drawings, a designates the shaft of the reel, and b the spiders, which are car ried on saidshaft and to the ends of whose spoke portions 0 are secured the blades cl.

As is usual in reels of the kind above indicated, the spokes whichcarry one of the blades of the reel are pivotally mounted and pivotally connected with the blades, thus serving, in effect, as link-like connections between this blade and the hub portion of the reel. The object of thus pivotally mounting one blade is to render said blade collapsible, so that the material wound thereon may be conveniently removed. In the extended position of the blade in question its spokes abut against stops e, forming portions of the spi- 5o ders, and a more or .less cumbersome contrivance has been employed to keep the blade extended while the reel was in use.

As a substitute for the contrivance referred to I secure to the inside of the blade, as by screws, rivets, or other suitable means f, the end of a plate-spring g,which projects through the opening '5 of one of the pivoted spokes and is formed with. a tooth or projection 7, having its rear face 70 inclined and adapted to take against a pinl, traversing the recess 11 of the spoke or other suitable portion of said spoke. I prefer to place the latch which is thus formed adjacent one end of the reel, so as to engage the spoke, and tohave its free end long enough so that it can be conveniently reached by the operators hand, not withstanding that the reel has been wound fullof material. By having the rear face of the projection j inclined when the blade is moved to its extended position the latch will snap easilyinto engagement with the pin Z.

Centrifugal force may tend to disengage the latch from the spoke. So in order to obviate any possibility of accident I provide a removable pin m, which may be inserted through registering openings n in the other pivoted spoke, and a block 0, secured on the blade, or, as shown in Fig. 4, a pin 0 may be inserted in the spoke, which the latch engages, over said latch, or, again, the projection on the latch may be placed on the side thereof adjacent the-blade, as at q in Fig. 5, with the pin Z interposed between the latch and the blade. 7

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a reel for reelingmachines, the combination of the spiders, a blade, the spokes of said spiders which carry the blade serving as link-like connections between the spiders and the blade, and a spring-latch adapted to secure said blade and one of .said spokes in their extended positions and carried by one and engageable with the other of them, substantially as described.

2. In a reel for reeling-machines, the c0mbination of the spiders, a blade, the spokes In testimony that i claim the foregoing I of said spiders which carry the blade servhave hereunto set my hand this 23d day of ing as link-like connections between the spi- May, 1902.

ders and the blade, and a spring-latch car- JAMES SHAW. 5 ried by said blade and engageable with one Vitnesses:

of said spokes in the extended position of JOHN WV. STEWARD,

the blade, substantially as described. JAMES B. NEWTON.

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