US972745A - Lace-reel. - Google Patents

Description

** sns LACE-REEL.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 2, 1909.

Patented Got. 11, 1910.

Serial No. 520,718.

To all whom it may concern! Be it known that we, JOHN BARRY and MIGI-IEAL L. SHAUGHNESSY, citizens of the United States, residing at Westphalia, in the county of Anderson and .State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lace-Reels, of which the fol lowing is a specification.

Tis invention relates to a lace reel, our object being to produce a device of this character by which lace, insertion or other ornamental fabrics may be quickly unwound from the card or equivalent device upon which they are shipped by the jobber or wholesaler and wound smoothly and evenly upon the reel.

A further object is to produce a device of this character embodying a removable frameconstituting the reel propercapable of being stored in a drawer or other receptacle where it will be conveniently accessible when it is desired to submit the lace or insertion to the inspection of a possible purchaser.

A still further object is to produce a frame of the type last mentioned upon which may be easily wound, side by side, a number of different pieces of lace or insertion of the same or varying widths.

With these general objects in view and others as hereinafter appear, the invention consists in certain novel and peculiar features of construction and organization as hereinafter described and claimed; and in order that it may be fully understood refer ence is to be had to the accompanying drawing, in which;

Figure 1, is a perspective view of a lace reel embodying our invention. Fig. 2, is a detail view of a part of the device, showing a card of lace mounted thereon and ready to be unwound from the card. Fig. 3, is a detail perspective view of a lace-spacing arm of the reel proper or frame. Fig. 1, is a detail view of a part of the device to disclose clearly the connection between the reel proper and one of the posts of the supporting frame.

In the said drawing, 1 indicates a stand, the same preferably consisting of a pair of short bars 2 to rest upon a counter or table (not shown), a pair of bars 3 connecting bars 2 and resting upon the latter, and a pair of posts 1 and 5, the former having a hole 6 and the latter a notch 7 alined with hole 6.

A swing-frame which by preference will rest upon the table or counter and assist in maintaining the stand in an upright position, is constructed as follows: 8 is a bar pivoted at one end on a pivot bolt 9 secured to one of the bars 3 of the stand. Bar 8 is provided at its outer end with a round hole 10 preferably of downwardly-tapering form and receiving the downwardly-tapering end 11 of a vertical post 12, and to secure said swing-frame in a position at right angles to bars 3 or at any other angle, a clamping nut 13 engages pivot-bolt 9 and the upper side of the underlying bar 3. 14: is a horizontal pivot carried by post 12 and journaled on said bolt is a rotatable bar 15 provided in opposite sides with longitudinal grooves 16. 17 is a pair of horizontal arms provided at their ends with clips or sleeves 18 snugly embracing bars 15 and provided with inturned flanges 19 engaging grooves l6,the clips or sleeves embracing the bars with sufiicient snugness to guard against accidental slippage, it being noticed that the arms 17 eX- tend parallel with pivot 14 and project in the same direction from bar 15.

From the foregoing it will be apparent that the swing-frame may occupy the position shown in Fig. 1, or may be swung on pivot 9 to the right or the left so as to dispose post 12 nearer to the right-hand end or left-hand end of the stand, for a purpose which hereinafter appears.

The reel proper or frame upon which the lace or insertion is to be wound and dis played, is of rectangular form and consists by preference of a pair of horizontal bars 20 connected by a pair of vertical bars 21, provided with alined outwardly-projecting pins 22 and 23, the former being adapted to fit rotatably in hole 6 of post 1, and pin 23 to fit rotatably in notch 7, and said pin 23 by preference terminates in a crank-handle 24 by which the frame or reel may be turned, and to more reliably hold the pin 23 in place, a removable pin 25 may be secured in post 5 above pin 28. Bars 20 are provided in their opposite sides with longitudinal grooves 26, and carried by said bars are adjustable arms 27, each preferably made of spring-wire bent to form a V, 28, wide enough at its base to receive either of the bars 20. At the base of the V the wire is bent to form inwardly-projecting arms 29 to enter the adjacent grooves 26, and said arms 29 terminate in parallel horizontal extensions 3O fitting in the grooves 26, for the purpose of preventing pivotal movement of the V-shaped arms on the bars.

As well known lace, insertion or analogous fabrics, are usually wound upon cards for distribution to the retailers who experience more or less trouble in handling the goods, because repeated handling tends to soil and wrinkle the lace. To transfer the lace from these cards to the frame or reel proper, the card 31 containing the lace 82, is slipped upon the arms 17 of the rotatable bar 15, (see Fig. 2). If it is desired to wind such lace upon the right-hand end of the frame or reel proper and between the endmost pair of arms 27 thereof, bar 8 is swung to the right on pivot 9 until post 12 is approximately transversely alined with the arms 27 second from the right-hand end of said frame. Post 12 is then rotated to dispose arms 17 parallel with the axis of said frame or reel proper. The outer end of the lace on the card is then drawn over and fitted on the reel or frame between said endmost pair of arms 27, and while such end is held, handle 24L is turned to simultaneously unwind the lace from the card and wind it upon the said frame or reel proper, it being obvious that the second convolution of the lace 011 the reel or frame proper will clamp the first convolution reliably thereto and thus relieve the operator of the necessity of holding it thereon, it being understood that the pull on the lace imposed by the rotation of the frame or reel proper, will cause the bar 15 to rotate at a corresponding speed on pivot let. \Vhen all of the lace has been wound upon the frame or reel proper the card falls to the counter or table and is replaced by a second card equipped with lace, which may be wound upon the frame or reel between the neXt pair of arms 27, after first swinging the bar 8 a sufiicient distance to the left, and rotating post 12 enough to dispose arms 17 parallel with the axis of the frame or reel proper. It will be apparent of course, that when the lace is being unwound from the card and wound upon the frame or reel proper near either end thereof, post 12 will preferably be turned so that arms 17 shall not only be parallel with. the axis of the frame or reel proper but I will project from bar 15 toward the vertical plane of the end of the frame or reel proper upon which the lace or insertion is to be wound. After the frame or reel proper has been filled with lace or insertion, pin 25, if employed, is removed, and the frame or reel proper is removed from the stand and replaced by a duplicate frame or reel if it is desired to equip a second one with lace. These flat frames are convenient for handling during the inspection of lace or the insertion thereon by shoppers and when the free ends otherwise, it cannot become unwound or easily soiled' or wrinkled. Vhen thus stored the handling of thelace is facilitated not only for display purposes but also when an inventory is made. When the stand is not in use, the swing-frame is folded up against it so that the device may be more readily and conveniently stored away until needed.

From the above description it will be apparent that we have produced a device embodying the features of advantage enumerated as desirable and which is susceptible of modification in minor particulars without departing from the spirit and scope or sacrificing any of the advantages of the appended claim.

Having thus described the invention what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

A. lace reel comprising a stand including upright posts at its ends, a reel between and pivoted to said posts, a swing frame comprising a horizontal bar pivoted to the stand between the posts thereof, and a post upon the outer end of said bar and susceptible of being turned, a bar pivoted to said post for rotation in a vertical plane, and arms projecting laterally from said bar and extending parallel with the pivot thereof.

In testimony whereof we afliX our signatures, in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN BARRY. MIGHEAL L. SHAUGHNESSY.

\Vitnesses:

V. W. MCGINNIs, G. F. SHAUGHNESSY.

of the lace or insert-ion are secured by pins or

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