US34397A - Improvement in spool-holding devices - Google Patents

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NrTEn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH LOFVENDAHL, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND N. P. LINDERGREEN, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SPOOL-HOLDING DEVICES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 34,397, dated February 11, 1862.

To all whom- Lt may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH LOEVENDAHL, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful implement or device for holding balls or spools of yarn for the convenience of persons while knitting; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figures l and 2 are perspective views of my invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

This invention consists in attaching one or more hooks to a bracelet or Wristband for the purpose of holding the balls or spools of yarn,

the bracelet or Wristband being placed on the arm of the person knitting, and the ball or spool suspended to the bracelet or wristband by the hook or hooks, so that the yarn may freely unwind from the ball or spool during the process of knitting.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I willl proceed to describe it.

A represents a bracelet or Wristband, which may be constructed of metal or of an elastic material, like india-rubber goods, such, for instance, as Suspenders. ,TvVlien constructed in this Way, they are provided with a suitable clasp or catch a for the convenience of securing them on the wrist of the operator. When constructed of metal, they may be formed of a solid ring of thin metal of such diameter as to admit of being freely slipped upon the wrist over the hand.

B, Fig. l, represents what may be termed a double hook, which may be formed of a piece of wire bent at each end to form a hook b, and then doubled to form an eye c, the latter being' tted in an eye cl,which is attached to the bracelet or Wristband. If only one ball of yarn is used, it is placed on one of the hooks b; but when two are used, of different colors, as is frequently the case, a ball is placed or suspended on each hook b. By this arrangement the ball or balls are suspended from the wrist or arm of the operator, and the yarn allowed to freely unwind during the process of knitting.

In case a spool of yarn is used instead of a ball, I construct a hook C of a piece of Wire bent so as to form an eye e at its center, which is tted in an eye f, attached to the bracelet or Wristband, said wire being bent at its ends to form two journals or axes g g, which are inserted in the ends of the spool, as shown clearly in Fig. 2.

Each bracelet or Wristband may be furnished with the two dierent kinds of hooks B O, and either attached as may be required.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, ist The construction of the bracelet or wristband A, and hooks B and C, either or both, to form a new and useful implement or device, for the purpose herein set forth.

W. A. RICHARDSON, THos. HUNTER.

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