US1462333A - Roll fabric holder - Google Patents

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J. GIRARD ROLL FABRIC HOLDER Filed Aug. 26. 1922 Patented July 17, 1923.

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ROLL FABRIC HOLDER.

Application filed August 26, 1921.

T 0 (all to hom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JoHN GIRARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Thomaston, in the county of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Roll Fabric Holder; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact de scription of the invention, such as will -enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to storage and display devices being particularly designed for storing fabric in convenient and compact form for ready handling when it is required to dispense the same.

Other objects and advantages Will be apparent and suggest themselves as the nature of the invention isunderstood.

While the drawing illustrates an embodiment of the invention it is to be understood that in adapting the same to meet different conditions and requirements, various changes in the form, proportion and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the nature of the invention.

Referring to the accompanying drawing forming a part of the specification,

Figure 1 is an elevation partly in section of the holder illustrative of the invention.

Figure 2 is an end view thereof parts being broken away.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and designated in the several views of the drawing by like reference characters.

The device embodies a suitable supporting frame which in the present instance is shown as consisting of a base 1 and upright 2. A shaft 3 is journaled in the upright 2 parallel with the base 1 and is provided with acrank handle 1. Disks 5 are secured to opposite end portions of the shaft 3 so as to rotate therewith. A plurality of cylinders 6 are secured between the outer edge portion of the disks 5 and are formed in their outer sides with longitudinal slots 7 for the egress of the fabric housed by the cylinders in the form of rolls. The cylin- Scrial No. 495,461.

ders 6 are preferably formed of metal and engage portions bordering upon the slots 7 which are recurved as indicated 8 to facilitate the egress of the fabric when drawn from the rolls. The casing 9 encloses the cylinders 6 and is secured to the disks 5. Blocks 10 are located in an end of the cylinders 6 to vary their effective length according to the length of rolls of fabric designed to be received in the cylinders 6. Pins 11 are located at opposite ends of the cylinders 6 and support core pieces 12 upon which the fabric 13 is rolled. An end portion of the fabric 13 protrudes through the slot 7 of each of the cylinders 6 to enable the desired fabric to be selected and facilitate drawing the same from the roll when required. Openings 14 are formed in one of the disks 5 concentric with the shaft 3 there being an opening for each of the cylinders. A pin 15 supported in an opening in one of the uprights 2 is adapted to engage any selected opening 14 to hold the device in any required position when drawing a particular fabric from the roll.

One set of the pins 11 project, as indicated at 11, to receive a crank 16 whereby the fabric may be wound upon the cores 12. A tape measure 17 is located upon one of the uprights 2 for convenience of measuring the fabric as drawn from the roll.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is A roll holder and display cabinet comprising a support, spaced disks rotatably mounted by said support, said disks having spaced openings around their outer edges, cylinders supported at their ends by said disks and extending between the same, the ends of said cylinders received in the openings in the disks, said cylinders having longitudinal slots in their outer sides, blocks in the ends of said cylinders, means carried by said blocks for supporting a fabric supporting coil within each of said cylinders, said blocks being of different length to vary the effective length of the cores and extending inward from the outer ends of the cylinders to reinforce the same at their point of connection with the disks, a metalslotsqin the casing being folded around the lie casing surrounding said disks and supported thereby, 'said casing having l0ngi tudinally extending slots registering With the slots in the cylinders, the edges of the blocks being adapted to be rotated to Wind fabrics onto the cores.

, b JOHN GIRARD. Witnesses:

WILLIAM J. RYAN, ROBERT P. WELTON.

edges of the slots in the cylinders to present a smooth surface to the fabric, and certain of the core supporting means carried by the

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