US889429A - Thread-cutting clip. - Google Patents

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PATENTED JUNE 2, 1908. H. R. BENDA. THREAD CUTTING CLIP. APPLICATION FILED OCT. 11, 1907.

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UNITED STA S HARRY R. BENDA, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

THREAD-CUTTING CLIP.

Application filed October 11, 1907.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY R. BENDA, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Thread-Cutting Clips; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to m ake and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification and illustrating one way in which my invention may be carried into effect, and in which Figures 1, 3 and 5 are end views and Figs. 2, 4 and 6 side views of a spool with my thread clip.

This invention relates to devices designed to be fastened or attached to, and forming part of, spools, reels and coils, or equivalent containers of, or means for receiving, wound or laid thereon, thread and similar fabrics, thin wire, or fibers of different nature, with the object and for the purpose of holding and retaining their outer ends, which devices at the same time afford a ready and simple means of and for severin or cutting ofi from the contents of such spoo ls, or coils of thread, etc., any desired part of the same, more particularly in such a manner as to cause the holding or retaining of the outer end of the coil of thread as a more or less direct consequence of the severing of the same.

A further object of my invention is to provide efiicient and simple ways and means for firmly securing and attaching such and similar devices to spools and kindred devices.

In my application for United States Letters Patent Serial No. 383,036 for Thread cutting clips filed July 10th 1907, I have de scribed a device of such a nature in which, to hold and retain the end of the thread or similar article, the same is pressed against the rim of the spool, or equivalent, by a springfing'er or resilient member of the device.

The object of the present invention is to provide a thread cutting clip which is adapted to be fastened to, and used on, spools the rims of which are either of a round contour or otherwise unsuited for that purpose.

I accomplaish this object by designing such a thread cutting clip in a self contained form, or holding the end of the thread irrespective of the form of the spool or container, by providing it with an independent clamp.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 2, 1908.

Serial No. 396,986.

Referring now to the drawing, in which like characters of reference indicate like parts in all of the views, (t represents a spool suitable for thread or the like. The body portion 1) of my newthread holding and cutting device or clip is attached to the fiat end of the spool by means of tongues c which form integral parts of the clip and which are bent over on themselves, preferably in two places, to enter the body or material of spool a through slits d provided in said body part b of the clip. Of the two bends of the tongues, which are ordinarily parallel to each other, one is approximately of 180 and the other of about 90. The position of these bends before the clip is fastened to the spool is indicated on the tongues by dotted lines, as at e. To give greater stiffness and strength to the clip and to the tongues, the bend which is of 180, as c Fig. 3, may have a greater width than the bend of 90.

In Figs. 3 and 5 the tongues c are shown after being blanked and before being bent, while in Figs. 2, 4 and 6 the tongues are shown bent and projecting into the flat end of the respective spools.

The thread holding and cutting device is shown to consist in Fig. 1 of a projecting part f which is bent over the rim of the spool approximately at right angles, and its end bent a ain, but at about 130 and in a plane paral e1 to that of the fiat end of the spool, thereby constituting a spring-finger or resilient extremity and forming a notch at the apex of which the cutting edges are located, that is at the terminals of line f (dotted). Broken line f indicates the position of part f before it is bent into a clamp.

In Fig. 3' the thread is yieldingly held or pinched through the medium of a resilient part, or spring-finger, as g, which is partly gouged out of, or raised from, the body por tion I) by the aid of an incision, at the terminals of which are located the cutting edges.

In Figs. 5 and 6 a resilient clamp is shown to be formed by extremity h which is bent over on itself about 180 from its blanked position as indicated by broken line h the cutting ed es being also located at the terminals of the Iine on which part h is bent into a clamp.

The arrangement of the clips shown in Figs 3 and 5 being symmetrical it is obvious that the thread may be drawn in under the respective clamp from either the right or the left side, according to the way the thread is wound on the spool, while the clip shown in A thread cutting clip comprising a body Fig. 1 may be fastened to either end of the portion provided with slits, tongues integral spool and thereby be adapted to s ools I therewith ada ted to project into the spool wound right or left. By arranging the 0 amp through said s its whereby the said clip is fason the periphery of the rim of the spool it be- I tened to said-spool, and a resilient clamp for comes practicable to place two or more i pinching the thread independently of the spools of thread on a spindle, on top of one P spool, said clamp affording cutting edges. another, as is often done on sewlng mach nes, In testimony whereof I have signed my wlthout interfering with the operation of the name 0 this speclficatlon 1n the presence or oli two su scri ing witnesses.

laving described my invention and in HARRY R. BEN DA. what manner the same may be carried into Witnesses: effect, what I claim as new and desire to se I E. J. VOGAN, cure by Letters Patent is: 1 HARRY F. PIEPER.

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