US383573A - Jonathan hill - Google Patents

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J. HILL. TWINE HOLDER. N0.'383,'5'73. Patented May 29, 1888.

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' end I attach to the ceiling or rafters overhead JONATHAN HILL, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

TWINE-HOLDER.

QPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 383,573, dated May 29, 11888. Application filed January 5, 1888. Serial No. 259,863. (No model.

To all whom it may concern-r Be it known that I, JONATHAN HILL, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Twine-Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in twine-holders, and has for its object to provide a means whereby the cord when snapped will be automatically lifted from the table or counter, and wherein either fine, medium, or coarse cord may be employed with equally good results- The invention consists in the construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fullyset forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device, and Fig. 2 a section on line :0 w of Fig. 1.

In twine-holders heretofore employed but one size of cord can be used, adifferent holder being required for each size of cord, which renders their use more or less expensive and decidedly inconvenient.

To overcome these objections is the prime object of the present invention, and to that a length of chain, A, and provide a liftingarm, B, for attachment to said chain.

The lifting arm consists of a rod, preferably of wire, having its outer end bent at right angles, and provided with an eye, b, which may be formed by bending the wire at the In one of the aforesaid apertures b the lower end of chain A is fastened.

A short length of chain, D, is secured to the eye I) of the lifting-arm and also to a perpendicular rod, D, provided at its lower extremity with a hook, snap, or equivalent fastening device adapted for connection with the loop of any approved style of twine-cup. To the aforesaid short length of chain D another longer length, E, is fastened, purposed to act .as a guide for the cord, as will be hereinafter set forth.

Inthe event small cord is to be used, the chain A is fastened in the aperture nearest the eye I), as shown in Fig. l, whereby the shortest amount of leverage is obtained by the cup and rod upon thelifting-arm. WVhen medium-sized cord is employed, the chain A is shifted to the next aperture, and when the ball or cord in the cup is of the largest size the chain A is carried to the outer aperture. It is thus evident that by means of the grading attachment to the lifting-arm any sized cord may be placed in the cup, and that the lengthening of the leverage of said arm is conveniently and expeditiously effected.

In operation the twine H is passed up from the cup through the last link of the guidechain E, up through the eye I) of the liftingarm, and down through the usual apertures in the cup, or an eye attached thereto, to the counter. WVhen the cord is drawn from the cup, the lifting-arm is also drawn downward, and when the cord belowis broken the weight of the cup upon the short arm of the lever causes it to ascend, taking the cord up with it and from off the counter.

Having thus described my invention, what I of a twine-cup suspended from the short arm 5 of said lever and a guide-chain pendent from the cup-connection adjacent to the lever, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

3.- In a twine-holder, the combination, with asupporting-ohain andalever fulcrumed upon I whereby the cord may be passed from the cup said chain, provided with a graduated sleeve, I through alink of the guide-chain, through the [0 and having an eye at the extremity of the eye of the lever, and downward, as set forth. longer arm, of a twine-cup supported from the short arm of the lever by a rod and short length. JONATHAN L of chain and a guide-chain pendent from the Witnesses:

aforesaid short length of chain adjacent to the H. STEINERT,

lever, substantially as shown and described, MARY SAMETZ.

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