Bobbin and spool management system
AssigneeDpg USA Inc.
InventorsSabrina Katz, Daniel Schaumann, Ronald C. Farnum, Nikhil Gupta
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Abstract
A bobbin and spool management system includes a bobbin topper having a central disc with upwardly and downwardly extending stanchions projecting therefrom, each being capped with a mushroom bolster and having a medially located chamfered collar. The upwardly projecting stanchion is adapted to mate with an axial bore in the barrel of a bobbin and retain the bobbin while the downwardly projecting stanchion is adapted to penetrate the axial bore in the barrel of a supply spool and be retained on the supply spool.
Claims4
A multi-cavity spool holder having, on a first face, a multiplicity of lower end receptacles each adapted to receive a first end of a cylindrical supply spool ranging from about 19 mm up to about 42 mm in diameter, each lower end receptacle having an upright post positioned therein adapted to enter a central throughbore in the cylindrical supply spool having a diameter of from about 6.9 mm up to about 7.8 mm whilst a second face has a plurality of dual level upper end receptacles formed therein, each upper end receptacle having an upper wall comprising a lowermost portion of one of the lower end receptacles, a shoulder being formed in each upper wall approximately 12 mm beneath an upper surface of the dual level upper end receptacle forming a bobbin receptacle adapted to receive a bobbin having an outside diameter of up to 26 mm and a height of from 8.6 up to about 12 mm and a retention portion adapted to receive a second end of the cylindrical supply spool having a diameter up to 42 mm when the bobbin is mounted upon the second end of the cylindrical supply spool using a bobbin topper interpenetrating a throughbore in the bobbin and the central throughbore in the cylindrical supply spool;
- wherein the multi-cavity spool holder is comprised of a translucent polymer or a transparent polymer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.