US2601222A - Toy bead loom - Google Patents

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June 17, 1952 F. WEHRLI 2,601,222

TOY BEAD LOOM Filed June 25-, 1951 Tifinl;

I J5 J9 INVENTOR 1 FREDERICK WEHRLI 8 'Y BY ATT NEY Patented June 17, 1952 UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE TOY BEAD LOQM Frederick Wehrli, New York, N. Y.

Application June 25, 1951, Serial No. 233,473

6 Claims. 1

This invention relates to a toy loom for making beaded articles such as beaded belts, bands. necklaces and the like.

It is an object of my invention to provide a toy bead loom which is sturdy, rigid, simple in construction, and which can be easily adjusted and operated. The frame of theloom is formed of a single wire having its ends joined together to form a continuous loop. The loop is substantially rectangular in shape, the central portion of the loop forming a base and the two ends of the loop being bent upwardly. The upwardly bent ends are provided with thread spacing members. At a midpoint of the base portion, a loop bend is formed in the wire at each side of the base. The loop bends extend upwardly for supporting an axle therebetween. A pair of rollers are mounted on the axle with their adjacent ends abutting each other. The threads extend from a thread holding member on one of the rolls over the two thread spacing members and are then anchored or fastened to a member on the other roll. By turning. the rolls the threads can be made taut, or they can be fed over the thread spacing members.

The invention will be more readily understood from the following description and the drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 shows a side view of one embodiment of my invention,

Fig. 2 shows a top view of the bead loom, and

Figs. 3 and 4 are sectional views of details.

Reference is made to Figs. 1 and 2 illustrating one embodiment of my invention. The loom includes a wire frame I formed of a wire of sufficient thickness to provide the requisite rigidity for the loom. The ends of the wire I are joined together, as by welding, to form a continuous loop substantially rectangular in shape. The rectangular loop is bent upwardly at the points 2 and 3 to provide a base portion 4 and a pair of upwardly extending ends 5 and B which have a certain amount of resiliency which helps to maintain the threads 2| taut. The base portion of the loop consists primarily of two sides I and 8 joined together by the upwardly extending nds 5 and 6. The base portion 4 is made rigid in a manner to be explained later. On the horizontal arms 9 and Ill of the ends 5 and 6 there are provided a series of grooves for holding the threads 2| properly spaced. The thread spacing grooves may be provided by springs II and I2 mounted on the horizontal arms 9 and iii. The springs H and I2 are placed on the wire I before the ends of wire I are joined together, and the springs are sufiiciently flexible to permit them to be moved along wire I into their proper positions.

The base portion 4 of the wire frame is provided with means for supporting a pair of rolls l3 and I4. Rolls l3 and I4 have thread fastening or anchoring devices 55 and it, respectively. Rolls i3 and I4 may be made of wood or any other suitable material, and the thread fastening devices l5 and 5 may benails or screws. Rolls I3 and I4 preferably are unequal in length. The roll |3 may be made approximately two to four times as long as roll [4. The. roll I3 is thus made wide enough to permit a wide beaded band to be rolled up thereon. The rolls l3 and I4 are supported above the base portion 4 on an axle H, which may be a long machine screw. The axle I1 is mounted in a pair of loop bends formed in the sides 1 and 8 of the base portion 4. A wing nut 20 is provided for clamping rolls l3 and I4 together so that rotation of one roll will cause the other to rotate. Further tightening of the wing nut 20 will clamp the rolls l3 and hi against the loop ends l8 and I9 tightly enough to prevent rotation of the rolls. The rolls I3 and 4 and the axle I! maintain the spacing between sides I and 8 and thus render the base of the loom rigid.

The general mode of operation of toy bead looms of the type herein disclosed is well known in the art. A number of threads are fastened at one end to the fastening device IE on roll I3. The threads are then fed through adjacent grooves of the spring or spacing member l2, and then through adjacent grooves of the other spacing member After being pulled tight the threads are anchored or fastened to the fastening device IE on the roll l4. After the loom has been properly threaded the threads 2| can be made taut by turning rolls l3 and I4 together, or by turning roll i 4 with respect to roll l3. The wing nut 20 is then tightened to prevent further rotation of rolls l3 and I4. If it is desired to feed the threads 2| through the grooved members [I and I2, the winged nut is loosened sufficiently to permit rolls l3 and M to rotate together to thereby unroll the threads from roll M and simultaneously roll up the threads or beaded band on roll I3. The threads 2| form the warp of the beaded article. The beads are threaded or woven on to warp threads 2| by a woof thread 22. One end of the woof thread is tied to one of the warp threads as at a point 24. The woof thread 22 is fastened to a needle 23 and beads 25 are then placed on thread 22. The number of beads placed on the woof thread 22 at one time may equal the number of spaces between threads 2|. Thread 22 is placed across threads 2| so that one bead lies in each space between threads 2|. The woof thread 22 may then be looped around the last of the threads 2|, and then again passed through the holes of the beads by means of the needle 23. This mode of operation is given merely as one illustration, it being evident that the beads may be woven or threaded in other manners.

It will be evident that I have provided a toy bead loom which is simple and durable in construction and in which the base of the frame is given additional rigidity by the rolls placed centrally thereof. The operation of the bead loom has been simplified by the reduction of the number of component elements and by arranging the rolls so that they can be turned together, and

released for rotation or fastened against rotation by a single adjustment. It will be evident to those skilled in the art that a number of modifications and variations of the single embodiment of my invention disclosed herein may be made without departing from the scope of my invention as defined in the following claims:

I claim:

1. A toy loom comprising a frame having a substantially rectangular base and bent-up ends, a member having a series of grooves mounted on each bent-up end of the frame, an axle, a pair of rolls mounted adjacent each other on said axle, and a pair of members extending upwardly from opposite sides of said base for supporting 3. A toy bead loom as defined in claim 2, in which each of the axle-supporting members consists of a loop formed in said wire at an intermediate point of said base.

4. A toy bead loom as defined in claim 2, including means mounted on said axle for holding the adjacent ends of said rolls in engagement for causing rotation of one roll to rotate the other roll and for clamping said rolls on said axle to prevent rotation.

5. A toy bead loom as defined in claim 2, in which one of said rolls is appreciably longer than the other roll.

6. A toy bead loom comprising a wire frame consisting of a single wire having its ends joined to form a substantially rectangular continuous loop, the ends of the loop being upwardly bent from a base portion of the loop, a series of grooves extending across each of said upwardly bent ends, a pair of upwardly extending loop bends in said wire at oppositely disposed points of said base portion, an axle extending through said loop bends, a pair of rolls of unequal length mounted on said axle, and means mounted on said axle for holding the adjacent ends of said rolls in engagement for causing rotation of one roll to rotate the other roll and for clamping said rolls to prevent rotation thereof.

FREDERICK 'WEHRLI.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,508,818 Poida Sept. 16, 1924 1,995,384 Fletcher Mar. 26, 1935 2,043,082 Wallach June 2, 1936 2,504,940 Wallach Apr. 18, 1950 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 135,152 Great Britain Nov. 20, 1919 428,995 Germany Mar. 2, 1927

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