US1081070A - Sewing kit. - Google Patents

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G. WALTERS. SEWING KIT. APPLIOATIOI rum) 11:23.23, 1912.

Patented D60. 9, 1913.

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ble shall have suliicient resilience to insure EEWINW Klll.

lldlllm'l Pciildation of Letters Patent.

Application flied February 23, 19th. Serial No. $79,422. lilo all whom it may concern:

We it known that I, Gnomes WALTERS, a citizen of the United States and resident of Dixfield, in the State of Maine, have "invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sewing Kits, of which the following is a s ecification accompanied by'drawings.

lie-invention relates to sewing kits for mending gloves, hosic and other, articles, obycct is to com ine in very compact form a number of useful articles, preferably includin e thread, darnin thread, thins ble, nee les, a darning beef and a finger torrn. I

in the preferred form of my invention, it combines means :tor holding a thimble and means in cooperation with the thimble tor holding a number of spools and needles, respectively, in two receptacles Within the head and handle of the device.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows the preferred form of the invention, partly in central cross section, Fig. 2 is the upper portion or darning head thereof, Fig. 3 is a view of the lower member, and Fig. i is a detailed sectional view of a modifica tion,

in the preferred form, the outer or con tainer elements comprise tWo members, each aving a receptacle, and a thimble forms a closure for one of the receptacles and the member containing such receptacle forms a cover or closure for the other receptacle.

Una member 5 is made of rounded, bulbilorm, suitable for a darning head or ball, and internally has a large cylindrical recess 0 fitted to appropriate spools with a smaller extension cl of such recess for receiving the end of a smaller spool. The

other out/er member comprises a handle f, of

form suitable for fitting Within the finger of a glove or the like, to be mended, and a spring dange 9 attached to lit and be snugly and resiliently retained Within the recess 0 of the head, a recess h Within such flange for fitting and holding a thimble, and a long axial recess which constitutes a receptaclej for needles. The peripheral flange 7c abuts externally against the end of the head 6. Saw cuts or slots 9 divide the flange g into-a plurality of spring) members. These saw cuts or slots prefera ly extend all the Way down to the flange la, Whereas the bottom against which the thimble Z rests is somewhat above the flan e la in order that the spring flange which tig tly fits the thimits holding the thimble in place. Preferably, therefore, the spring flange serves both to hold the handle to the head and to hold the thimble inthe handle. If the outer parts are made of wood or similar yielding material, the flange may be made sulliciently resilient without slotting it, but this requires an inconvenient accuracy of construction and lit. 'lhe upper end of the flange g is .loevclcd internally and externally to facilitote insertin the thimble and inserting the flange into t e head.

The thirnble Z, When fitted into place, forms a cover for the needle receptacle 9' and prevents the needles m being displaced.

Within the head are one or more spools ,7) of relatively large diameter, for example, two, Which are relatively proportioned to externally fit approximately the recess a in diameter, and longitudinally to be held. and approximately fit between the end of the recess and the flange g. Internally the spoolsp have a large axial recess and one or more, preferably three or more, spools r of smaller diameter, the smaller spools being received at one end in the extension 0? of the recess 0, and at the other end fitting around the raised or slightly pointed end of the thirnble l Which projects and is received Within the bore of the larger spool, as shown in Fig. l. The larger spools may conveniently carry darning silt: or cotton and the smaller spool tine thread suitable for mendingclothes and fine hosiery.

in the modification shown in 4:, the thimble Z is reversed and extends down into a recess in the handle 7, its edge being held, however, as before, by the spring flange g. It Will be seen that in this position one or tWo more of the smaller spools '1' may be carried, being partly received Within the thimble. In this modification, the length of the handle available for the needle recess is lessened b nearly twice the length of the thimble, an if it is desired to include a bodkin or very long needles, these may be placed Within the bore of the smaller spools and extend down into the thimble.

It will be seen from Fig. 1 that l have so combined the shapes and locations of the various articles and members as to combine a great many useful articles in approximately the minlmum possible space, and so adapted the parts to each other that they are all substantially retained in an orderly and convenient manner, ready for instant 1. In combination in a sewin chamber adapted to having a It will be seen that for some pursome features of the invention may kit, a new old spools,

and a handle having a chamber adapted to hold needles and opening into the spool chamber when the handle is in place,

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handle having a resilient flange which fits the said head and is internally adapted to engage and resiliently hold a thimble in position to separate the contents of the two chambers.

2 A sewing kit comprising a bulbous head forming one receptacle,

and a handle formin a second receptacle, the mouths of the sai receptacles being opposed and open into each other, and a separating means dividing the receptacles comprising a thimble, the said handle having a spring flange comrising a plurality of sprin members which rictionally clas and holf said separating means, said han le also engaging and fitting the receptacle in the bulbous head.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses: this 21st day of February, 1912.

GEORGE WALTERS. Witnesses:

HAaoLD BINNEY, AUGUSTA PSGHIERER.

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