US2497653A - Embroidery thread kit - Google Patents

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Feb 14, 1950 M. E. BEARDSLEY EMBROIDERY THREAD KIT Filed Aug. 24, I1946 INVENTOR.

MABEL E. BEARPJLEY BY Patented Feb. 14, 1.1950

UNITED g STATES PATENT OFFICE l I n g 2,491,653 Y `f EMBRQIDERY` THREAD KIT I Mabel E. Beardsley, lSan Francisco, Calif. *t ApplicationAugust 24, 1946, kSerial No. 692,844

This invention relates to kits or folders for use by women in holding embroidery threads, needles and scissors. V y y -The object of the inventionis to provide a simpler, cheaper, and more convenient em'- broidery thread kit for the purpose indicated, than any prior device for the purpose with which I am familiar.

Fig. 1 of the drawing is a plan view of my improved embroidery thread kit showing the thread pocket unbuttoned at one end.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of the kit opened and with the threads passing through and wound spirally about the thread pocket, the thread pocket indicated as lifted up at its free end to show the scissor, needle and thlmble pockets below.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing the kit closed and the outer flap buttoned over.

Fig. 4 is a cross section of Fig. 3 taken along the line 4-4 .thereof showing the relation of the sprally wound threads about the relatively narrow elongated pocket.

Before describing the drawings in detail it is desired to state that embroidery threads as used by women are generally sold in small skeins of each color. In using these skeins they are generally cut through at one point, thus providing a small bunch of threads about a yard long and from which one thread at a time is Withdrawn, when required. As various colors are generally required in most embroidery work a woman soon has from a half dozen to a dozen or more of various colors and partially used cut skeins on hand. With the present kit these different skeins are all laid in one bunch, and one end of the bunch is buttoned into the narrow elongated tubular pocket of the kit with the major portion of the bunch extending from the open free end of the pocket so that one or more of any color thread may be pulled out for use, and when finished the extending bunch of threads is wound spirally about the pocket (which is hingedly connected at one end only to the body of the kit to permit such winding) and the four flaps of the kit are folded over it and buttoned closed.

In further detail the kit shown in the drawings comprises a piece of flat iiexible material, preferably soft thin felt, having a central oblong body portion or panel l with extending side flaps 2, 3 and extending end flaps 4 and 5, all of such proportions as to overlap when folded inwardly as indicated in Fig. 3 and with flap 3 buttoned over onto flap 2 as with snap fasteners 6 or the like.

4 claims. (o1. `20s-t4) The outer corners of flaps 2 and 3 are preferably rounded as.y indicated at 1 and the entire edge of the device extending around allv of the iiapsis preferably"pinked as shown at 8 so that z there lwill befno ravelingsaswell as to make a cheap but nicely finished edge.

On the inner side of the body panel I is another piece of felt 9 of substantially the width of the panel but of shorter length, pinked at the edges, and sewed to the body as by side marginal stitches lil and transverse row of stitches II spaced nearer to one end, thus leaving both extreme ends open as pockets I2 and i3, the longer one I2 to receive a pair of scissors as at I4 and the smaller one for a thimble, not shown, and the surface of the pocket being soft is adapted to function as a needle cushion with the needles stuck into it as at I5. The open ends of the pockets are spaced inwardly from' the ends of the body panel l so as to both be readily accessible.

Normally lying upon the body pockets or panel 9 is the elongated thread holding folder or pocket I6 which has an extension I1 hingedly secured to the body panel l as by transverse stitching I8 passing through an inwardly folded extreme end margin I9 of the extension. This thread pocket I6 includes two side flaps I9 and 20 which are arranged to overlap and fasten, as with snap fasteners 2| to any degree to snugly hold the bunch of threads 22 in place, and when so closed over the threads the assemblage is an elongated narrow tube about one half the width of the body panel I hingedly connected at one end only thereto as by the flexible extension or neck l1, all so that the free end of the tube may be lifted outward from the body panel I and the bunch of extending threads spirally coiled about the tubular pocket as at 22 in Fig. 2, the coiled mass lowered against the scissors pocket panel 9 on body panel I, and the end aps 4 and 5 folded over it, and the side iiaps 2 and 3 closed, all as shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 4 shows the relation of the folded parts as described and numbered.

The thread holding pocket is preferably also made of a simple piece of soft felt, pinked along its edges as indicated.

Having thus described my improvements in an embroidery thread kit of this kind, what I claim' is:

1. In an embroidery thread kit a flat piece of exible material comprising a central oblong panel provided with extending aps at both sides and both ends, and an elongated tubular thread pocket normally positioned upon the central panel and hingedly secured thereto at one end only and being free at the opposite end, said tubular thread pocket being of lesser width than the central panel to permit a bunch of threads extending from the pocket being wound spirally about it and closed within the four flaps when folded inwardly over it.

2. In the construction set out in claim 1 said tubular thread pocket provided with an elon gated neck at said one end of which the hinged connection to the central panel is made.

3. In the construction set out in claim 1 said tubular thread pocket being an elongated strip of soft material rolled lengthwise upon itself to form a tube and provided with means for adjusting the diameter of the tube to snugly grip various size bunches of threads.

4. In an embroidery thread kit. a at piece of flexible material comprising a central oblong panel provided with extending flaps at both sides and both ends, a tubular thread pocket normally positioned upon,l the central panel and hingedly secured ythereto at one end only and being free at the opposite end, saidtubulm thread pocket being narrower than said central oblongvpanel sufliciently to permit a bunch .of threads extending from within the tubular pocket being wound spirally about its outer sides, the tubular thread pocket being of a length to just permit its being enclosed within the four aps when folded inwardly over it.

MABEL E. BEARDSLEY.

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UNITED STATES PATENTS r"Number Name Date 250,430 f Engisch et al. Dec. 6, 1881 447,103 Cussen Feb. 24, 1891 695,821 Lyons Mar. 18, 1902 860,264 ,Stevens July 16, 1907 1,375,015 Reynolds Apr. 19, 1921 1,440,319 Spencer Dec. 26, 1922 2,317,200 Kinney Apr. 20, 1943 f FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country pate 351.742 Great Britain www July 2, 1931

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