R. & LOUISE A. PHILIP. SEWING-CASES. No. 174,976. Patented March 21, 1876.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. ROBERT PHILIP AND LOUISE. A. PHILIP, OF SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA. IMPROVEMENT IN SEWING-CASES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,976, dated March 21, 1876; application filed February 19, 1876.

To all whom it may concern: to six or eight, the receptacles are numbered Be it known that we, RoBERT PHILIP and twice, in order to give all the numbers of LOUISE. A. PHILIP, of Sacramento, in the thread or twist most used in machine-sewing. county of Sacramento and State of California, On the inside of the box-cover K, in Fig. 1, have invented a new and useful Improvement the thimble, Scissors, and paper of needles are in Sewing-Cases, which improvement is, fully securely held by the spring-holders a, b, and c, set forth in the following specification, refer respectively. ence being had to the accompanying drawing. The needle-cushion d, Fig. 1, for sewingma The object of our invention is to hold and chine or common needles, is in the form of a secure, in a simple and convenient manner, in horseshoe, thus economizing space, and di a sewing-case or its equivalent, the most nec vided into sections, which are indicated in the essary implements of hand and machine-sew drawing by the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 56, and 7. ing, viz., spools, bobbins, scissors, thimble, and The label e in the inner curve of the cushion needles. is marked with numbers or letters correspond In Figure 1, A A are two bars, pivoted at ing with those of the needles on the cushion. the ends; into these bars pins B B are insert It is evident that one or more bars may be ed, which serve to hold the spools O and the used, that they may be longer or shorter, hav bobbins H. ing a greater or less number of pins inserted The bars A. A being pivoted at the ends, or attached, and that the bars and the recep they can be turned to an oblique position. In tacles for shuttle-bobbins may differ in form, the vertical section, Fig. 2, one of the bars, size, and arrangement without materially A, is seen thus turned, projecting the pin B changing the nature of their use. It is also upward, in order to allow the spool C and the plain that the mechanism for holding spools, bobbin H to be put on and taken off with fa bobbins, scissors, thimbles, and needles may cility. The bars AA are held in their normal be applied to a drawer or stand, or any other position by springs, so that, in case the box is receptacle for sewing implements, and that upset, the spools and bobbins cannot fall out. the separate parts may be used independently In Fig. 2 the bar A' is shown secured by the of each other. Y spring E. We do not claim the mode of numbering Along the upper edge of the bars AA, Fig. the spools, bobbius, and needles, northe needle 1, small wire springs DD are inserted, which cushion and label as such, as they are not new. serve to hold the end of the thread from the What we claim as our invention is Spool. The combination, in a sewing-case, of one or The numbers 40, 50, 60, &c., on the side more bars, A A pivoted at the ends and pro edges of the box, indicate the numbers on the vided with pins for holding spools and bob labels of the spools and of the thread wound on bins, the spring-receptacles for holding shut the bobbins. tle-bobbins, and the spring-holders for secur FF, in Fig. 1, are receptacles for holding ing thimbles, scissors, and other sewing imple shuttle-bobbins, the latter being secured by ments, all substantially as described. springs. In Fig. 3 a vertical section of one of these receptacles is given, showing the bob ROBERT PHILIP. bin J held by the spring G. The numbers on LOUISE. A. PHILIP, either side of the receptacles indicate the Witnesses : number of the thread on the bobbin. As the FRANCIs FosTER, number of bobbins used is generally limited HERMAN MUELLER.