US1926539A - Thread cutting and securing means - Google Patents

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Patented Sept. V.2, 1933 lAvpl'icfin einer, S5193?- 'salirovgtvj e Y --1 o1aim.i(o1.-3o-14) f This nvitin 'elati .ariA improredeihred, cutter and "securing" means' involving ajconibined holder andcutter, for use on a spool of thread. The primary object ofthe invention isl theV provision of a device of this characterwhich is coml paratively inexpensive in cost `of manufacture; which may with facility be attached to and used with a spool of thread, and which may with equal facility be withdrawn from or detachedY 1i' from .the spool, when the latter is emptied of its thread, and the device may thereafter beattached to another spoolof thread. VIn carrycutting edge for the thread, and utilizemeans for attaching Athe holder to the spool, kand `for holding the endof the-thread insuch manner that it may readily be cut Awhen a length of thread is desired, and the remainingendof the l thread is retained in positionwhere it is readily accessible for a succeeding length to be cut therefrom.

y nations and arrangements of parts as willlhereinafter be more fully` set forth land claimed.- `In the accompanying drawing there islillustrated one completeexample, and amodiiication thereof, of the physical embodiment'of the invention"A u wherein theparts are combined and arranged aclcording to the best mode.. thus far devised for Figure 1 is aside View ofhaspool ofA thread having one of the devices of my invention attached 35 f thereto.

Figure 2 is an end View as seen-from the right in Figure 1. Y

Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional View through. one end of the spool, as at line 3--3 of Figure 2.

Figure 2 is a transverse lsectional view* at line 4 4 of Figure 3. i 4. j

Figure 5 is a View at one end ofthe spool of thread showing the holder in section, as at linev 5-5 of Figure'2.

Figure 6 is an end View `of a spool of thread with a modied form of my invention attached thereto. l

Figure 7 is alongitudinal sectional view at one end of the spool, at line 7-7 of Figure 6. e

Figure 8 is a view at one end of the spool of thread, showing the cutter-holder in section as at line 8-8 of Figure 6.

In the drawing there is illustrated a conven- 4tional spoolof threadasS with the thread T anchoring`cleat'. Y Y

In Figure 1 the end of the thread T is shown `as caught and retained, under the holder or PATENT ,goFFifcEg; i

, .Y t.' THREADPTTINQLNDassomme f .1 1i. .Perha'm F. Hurst,fdeea'sed,` late of Seattle, Wash., i

fby Anna Beulah Hurst, administratrix, Seattle,

woun `thereon inusual manner, andfthesppol Thecofmb'ined thread holder and Vcutter comprises an attaching plate 2`formedwith an opening 3 therein, and `adapted toi lie flat against the end face of 'one of the heads ofthe spool. The athead of the spoolby means of a tack Llwhich is fashioned l. with a larger-ound headp, andthe tack of course is driven through Vthe hole 3 and `into the woodof the-spool for fasteningthedevice to-the spool.` .i

The attaching plate is preferably fashioned of and this flange, which conforms to the contourof the periphery of the circular headror flange of the spool, is of slightly greater diameter in its curvature, than the spool-head, to permit'the thread T to be slipped between the flange and the spool,

thread, and to facilitate -the entrance of theA thread to the space beneath the cleat, -the flange, j o A at its. opposite ends, isprovided with upturnedV `guides and' 8,`beneath which the thread is.

the plata-and this cutting' edge is located adjacent the junction of the attaching plate with the anchoring cleat, where itis readilyI accessible when a length of thread is desired fromthe spool of thread. In Figure 5 a'length of thread is `illustrated .in position toj be severed from the spoolof thread, and it will be noted that the `thread is passed under the anchoring cleat,v

around the attaching plate, andracross the cutting edge, so that a pull on thelength of thread will sever it on the cutting edge. After the length f of thread has been severed, the remaining end of Athe spool-thread, as indicated-by dotted lines, projects into position where it is readily acces- In Figures 6, 7, and 8, where. the modification Y is illustrated, the attaching plate l0 is fash- Gosh.,

taching plate is secured in vposition against the n resilient metal and has an integral, arcuate flange l 6 disposed at right angles to the attachingplate,`

A." and there be held' by friction. The flange 6 thus. i 4 Y Y forms an anchoring' cleat for the end of the The invention consists incertain novel combiioned with a triangular kor sharpened r spur or stud 11, lperpendicular to the plate, and driven `into the wood head of -the spool, and the cutting edge 12 is fashioned at'the left edge of the plate, instead-of at the rightedge as in Figure 2'.

As seen in Figure 8,l the thread ispassed beback and giving it a jerk against the cutting edge 12, leaving a shortend of the thread ,beneath the anchoring cleat for further use.

The end of the spool-thread is, thus, atlall times held beneath the anchoring cliporflange 6 Yto prevent displacement and unu'rindingy of the thread from the Spool, and the extremity of the j thread is accessible when it is desired to unwind a length fromthe spool. Y l t l Y o The combined holder and cutter is capable of usejin various ways, andthethreadsor threadthe anchoring'oleat by either a right-hand personV or a left-hand person, as it will be apparent that the thread 'may enter the 'holder beneath either. of the guides '7 or 8.

Having thus Vfully described the-invention, what iisI claimed as new and desired to be secured by `Letters Patent isyv The combination with anattaching plate, and

means ior fastening said plateto a spool, ofv an v forming an anchoring cleat, and a cutting edge fashioned on the plate adjacent-the junction of the flange with the plate' whereby a portion of the spoo1-thread 'may be loopedaround the plate and underthe upturned ends, and a length of thread severed'iroin the spool-thread, leaving a 5"-loose-endfon the spool `thread.

1 ANNA BEULAH BURST,

t -Aminstratfiof me Estate of Prham F. Hurst, ends mayibe' manipulated for engagementwith l n I

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