US944105A - Quilting-frame. - Google Patents

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D. W. PHILLIPS. QUILTING FRAME. APTLIUATION Hmm JUNE 2a, 1909.

Q Patented Dec. 21, 1909.

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lurrn sfrarns DAVID W. EHI'LLI'PS, 0F SPBAGGS, YENNSYLVANIA.

QULTING-FRAME.

Specication of Letters. Patent.

Patented Dec. 21, 1909.

Application led June 23, 1909. Serial No. 503,810.

'the quilt, the same'is arranged to adjustably and conveniently hold the same, the stand being' sufficiently rigid to meet all the reuirements of the work, the structure being light, portable and readily arranged to the requirements ot' the work.

With these and other objects in view, the

present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the appended claim, it being understood that changes in the specific structure shown and described may be made Within the scope of the claim without departing from the spirit of the invention.

ln the drawings forming a ortion of this specification,- and in which like numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several'views, Figure 1 shows a side elevational view of a quilting frame embodying my invention, Fig. 2 is an end View thereof, Fig. 3 is an enlarged detached detail of one of the locking brace bars, Fig. 4 shows the traine as folded.

In the use of a quilting frame, it is quite desirable to have a supporting structure arranged so that the quilt may be held in such a manner that it may be unwound from one side and wound upon the other, as the work proceeds.

In the drawings, the numerals and 11 respectively designate two supporting standards which are in connection crosswise in being secured to the projecting ends 13 of the transverse supporting bar 12, as shown. Two such sets ot' supporting standards l() and 11 are. employed and are pivotally secured to the supporting pins 13 by any suitable means.

Each supporting standard at its upper end is provided with an opening arranged to receive a pin projecting from a Winding bar. These bars, there bemo' two used, are marked 15 and 1G respectively in the drawings, each bar beingrevolubly held within the upper ends of the supporting standards as shown. These bars are preferably of Wood while the projecting pins 17 passing through the upper ends of the supporting standards are of metal and have an opening at their ends to receive the Cotter pins 18 so that these winding bars are removably secured within the upper ends of these standards. Each winding bar at each of-its ends is provided with a ratchet wheel 20, while each supporting standard near its upper end is provided with a pawl 22 secured by means of a p in 21, theseipawls engaging the ratchet wheels as shown.

As shown, the teeth of the ratchet Wheels of the two winding bars incline` in opposite directions so that the work piece may be unwound from one winding bar to the other.

prefera ly made of bar metal and near its upper end each standard is provided with a supportinff ear 23 carrying a pin.24, and each ot' .these pins pivotaly receiving the up er end of a brace bar.. As shown four suc brace bars are used, and in the drawings they are marked 25 collectively. Each a pin opening 2G to receive the pin 24 while near its lower end each brace bar is provided with tWo openings marked 27 and 28v respectively. Passing through the intermediate opening 27 of each brace bar is a pivot in 29 passing through the supporting bar 12 so that each supporting standard is braced by means of one of these bars 25 in the manner shown. The supportingbar 12 is provided with two openings arranged t0 receive the set pins 30 these pins being arranged t'o extend through the oienings 28 to lock the lower ends of these race bars to the supporting bar. In order that the set pins may not become detached and lost, I provide the strand or chain 31 by means of whichthcse pins are secured to the supporting bar. The crooked lower ends.35 of these brace bars 25 are so angled, that when they are secured to the supporting bar, the supporting standards will be held in convenient position. in order to set the quilting frame, it is simply necessary to spread the supporting standards sufficiently so that The supporting standards 10 and 11 are brace bar near its upper end is provided with the openings 28 Will register with the openings Within the supporting bars l2 and then insert the pins 30. The brace Abars 25, being of strap nietal as shown in Fig. 3, are flexed in the operation of openingsl and closing the frame,

The'quilt is Wound upon one of the Wind ing' bars as the one l5 for instance, and has its opposite edge or side secured to the opposite winding; bar 16. Then as the work proceeds the quilt' is unwoundfrom the bar l5 land Wound upon the bar 16.

When not in use, the frameniay be folded to forni a neat and compact structure.

The brace bars 25 perform a double function in that they not only hold the supporting standards in spaced relation, but they also serve as a brace, insuring` the supporting frame being sufficiently rigid for the purposes in hand.

This saine device inay also be used as a lace curtain drier in stretching' a sheet from one winding;r bar to the other and securing the curtain to the sheet, thus making the structure serve a double purpose.

Having thus described inysaid invention,

What I. claim as new and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is:

il quilting frame having in combination, a supporting` bar, two supporting standards secured erossWise to each end of said Supporting bar, tWo Winding bars revolubly carried at the upper ends of said standards, a ratchet secured to each of said Winding bars, a pawl carried by said supporting standards engaging said ratchet Wheels, aP brace bar extending obliquely downward from each of said standards and being pivotally secured to said supporting bar, the lower end of each brace bar projecting beyond its pivot and having a pin opening registering With the pin opening in said supporting bar, and pins Within said pin openings'to secure the lower ends of said brace barsto said support-ing bar, as and forthe purpose setv forth.

ln testimony whereof I aiix my signature, in presence of tWo Witnesses.

DAVID W. PHILLIPS 'l/Vitnesses;

"l". BQ STEELE, HoMnR SPRAGG.

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