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US 4,757,956 AGranted
Collapsible spool holder
OwnerRuth F. McGuireinventor
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Abstract
A collapsible spool holder. A pair of vertically spaced apart horizontally extending walls are telescopically inner-connected and mounted to a base and are arranged to move outwardly from the base to an erect position or to collapse into the base. Each horizontally extending wall along with the base include a plurality of upright rods each of which holds a spool of thread. A plurality of knife blades are mounted adjacent each rod to allow the thread to be severed from each spool without removal of the spool. A lid is removably mounted to and encloses the upright rods with spools.
Claims5
A storage unit for storing spools of line comprising:
- a base with a plurality of passages;
- a structure telescopically mounted to said base and extendable therefrom when in a first state and collapsible therein when in a second state;
- a plurality of first upright rods mounted on said structure and a plurality of second upright rods mounted to said base to each hold a spool of line;
- locking means interacting between said base and said structure to lock said structure extended in said first state relative to said base to allow access to spools of line and to release said base and said structure to allow said structure with said first upright rods to collapse into said base in said second state for storage of spools of line;
- and,
- a plurality of line cutters mounted to said structure and positioned near said second upright rods to allow line on spools of line to be severed, said line cutters positioned outwardly of said base to cut line when said structure is in said first state but each alignable with said passages to be positioned within said base when said structure is in said second state.
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