Patent Application
20190150614
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The disclosure and prior art relates to thread storing devices and more particularly pertains to a new thread storing device for storing and displaying a plurality of spools of thread to organize and facilitate access to the spools of thread.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a housing that has a rear wall and a perimeter wall attached to and extending forwardly of the rear wall. The perimeter wall includes a top wall and a bottom wall. A front side of the housing is open. A plurality of vertical walls extends between the top and bottom walls. The vertical walls are orientated parallel to each other. A plurality of horizontal walls is attached to the vertical walls and the vertical and horizontal walls forms a plurality of compartments. Each of the compartments includes a pair of lateral walls, an upper wall and a lower wall. Each of plurality of doors has an upper edge, a lower edge, a first lateral edge and a second lateral edge. The compartments each has one of the doors is pivotally coupled thereto to allow selective closing of the compartments. Spools of thread are positionable in each of the compartments for storage and transporting purposes.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
Each of the compartments 30 individually includes a pair of lateral walls 34, an upper wall 36 and a lower wall 38 to bound, along with the rear wall 14, what is defined as a thread receiving space. The compartments 30 each have a height between 1.25 inches and 2.5 inches, a width between 1.25 inches and 2.0 inches and a depth between 1.25 inches and 2.0 inches such that they are sized to only hold a single spool 70 of thread. The compartments 30 are arranged in columns and rows wherein the rows include at least five rows and the columns include at least four columns.
In an embodiment shown in
A plurality of doors 50 is provided and each of the doors 50 has an upper edge 51, a lower edge 52, a first lateral edge 53 and a second lateral edge 54. Each of the compartments 30 has one of the doors 50 is pivotally coupled thereto. The doors 50 each are coupled to an associated one of the compartments 30 adjacent to corresponding ones of the lower edges 52. This may be accomplished in a conventional manner such as with a hinge or pegs may pivotally couple the doors 50 to the vertical 24 or horizontal 26 walls.
A plurality of spools 70 of thread is provided and each of the spools is positioned within one of the compartments 30. The compartments 30 each have a size to receive only a single one of the spools 70. The spools 70 each include a pair of end walls 72 wherein both of the end walls 72 are horizontally orientated and one of the end walls 72 is positioned on an associated one of the lower walls 38. Thus the spools 70 each have thread 74 thereon which is wound about a vertical axis orientated perpendicular to the lower walls 38.
In use, the system 10 is utilized to store a plurality of spools 70 of thread in such a manner that the spools 70 are organized and easily identifiable. The doors 50 are translucent to allow light to pass therethrough and may further be transparent to more readily view the color of the thread 72 on each spool 70. The doors 50 are openable in a manner to allow the spools 70 to be easily slid outwardly of the housing 12 without falling out of the compartments 30 and retain the spools 70 within the housing 12 when the doors 50 are closed. The doors 50 may frictionally engage the lateral 34 and upper 36 walls when in a closed position and stops 58 may be utilized that are formed in the lower walls 38 or attached to the lateral and/or upper walls, to prevent the doors 50 from pivoting inwardly of the compartments 30 beyond a vertical orientation.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
