Abstract
The new device for producing pompons comprises a ring carrier, which holds two winding disks in a holding region, wherein two half-ring-shaped disk halves together form a winding disk. Outside the holding area for the disc halves, the ring carrier has a handle. This handle can be grasped during the entire pompon production without hindering the winding process or the cutting.
Claims
1. An apparatus for producing pompons comprising a ring carrier (30) with two winding discs in a holding region (31), wherein two semi-annular disc halves (20, 21, 22, 23) each form a winding disc, characterized, in that the ring carrier (30) comprises a handle (35) outside the holding region (31) for the semi-annular disc halves (20, 21, 22, 23), wherein the ring carrier (30) is constructed of two carrier elements (37, 38), which are pivotally connected together at one end forming a handle end (351) and which have a closure part (361, 362) for a releasable closure (36) at the other end, further characterized in that each carrier element (37, 38) has an arm of two superimposed, semicircular carrier layers (32, 33), wherein each carrier layer (32, 33) releasably holds one of the semi-annular disc halves (20, 21, 22, 23).
2. The apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the two carrier elements (37, 38) are formed identically, wherein one of the carrier elements (37) is pivotally connected in an inverted orientation with the other carrier element (38).
3. The apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the two carrier elements (37, 38) have a through hole (355) at the handle end (351) and both through holes (355) together form a hinge eye for a bushing (40), wherein the central axis of the bushing (40) is a pivot axis of the handle.
4. The apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that a gap (34) is present between the carrier layers (32, 33) of each pair of carrier elements (37, 38).
5. The apparatus according to claim 4, characterized in that each semi-annular disc half (20, 21, 22, 23) has a lower insertion edge (26) in a grip-side clamping gap (324) of a carrier element (37, 38) and has an upper insertion edge (27) held in a closure-side clamping gap (324) of the same carrier element (37, 38).
6. The apparatus according to claim 4, characterized in that for detachable mounting of each semi-annular disc half (20, 21, 22, 23) on the outside of the carrier layer (32, 33) at least one clamping element (323, 333) is arranged, into which a corresponding insertion hole (25) of the semi-annular disc half (20, 21, 22, 23) engages.
7. The apparatus according to claim 5, characterized in that at the upper insertion edge (27) of one or more semi-annular disc halves (20, 21, 22, 23) beyond the closure-side clamping gap (325, 335) a tab (29) is extended outwardly, which serves to limit a winding area.
8. The apparatus according to claim 4, characterized in that the carrier layers (32, 33) have inner surfaces (321, 331), on which nubs (326, 336) are provided.
9. The apparatus according to claim 4, characterized in that the gap (34) between the semicircular carrier layers (32, 33) terminates by widening (354) at the handle end of the carrier elements (37, 38).
10. The apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that on the two carrier elements (37, 38) complementary closure parts (361, 362) are provided.
11. The apparatus according to claim 10, characterized in that the two carrier elements (37, 38) have an insertion opening (372, 382) and a clamping bushing (374, 384), wherein the insertion opening (372) of one of the carrier elements (37) cooperates with a clamping bushing (384) of the other carrier element (38) and the clamping bushing (374) of the one carrier element (37) cooperates with the insertion opening (382) of the other carrier element (38).
12. The apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the ring carrier (30) holds winding discs of semi-annular disc halves (20, 21, 22, 23) of a first diameter, or after their removal has winding discs from semi-annular disc halves (20, 21, 22, 23) of a different diameter or of a different shape.
13. The apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the ring carrier (30) is comprised of plastic.
14. The apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the semi-annular disc halves (20, 21, 22, 23) are made of plastic or cardboard and the semi-annular disc halves (20, 21, 22, 23) are of a color other than black or white or gray.
Description
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
(1) The following drawing shows:
(2) FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the device for producing pompons in the closed position,
(3) FIG. 2 is a plan view of the closed ring carrier of FIG. 1;
(4) FIG. 3 is a plan view of a disc half of the winding disks of FIG. 1,
(5) FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the device of FIG. 2 in the open winding position,
(6) FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the parts of the ring carrier of FIG. 2,
(7) FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the device for the production of pompoms during assembly,
(8) FIG. 7 is a perspective detail of the ring carrier of FIG. 2,
(9) FIG. 8 is a sectional view of the ring carrier of FIG. 2 before closing,
(10) FIG. 9 is a sectional view of the ring carrier of FIG. 2 in the locked position,
(11) FIG. 10 is a plan view of the apparatus for producing pompons according to FIG. 1 with disk halves according to FIG. 3,
(12) FIG. 11 is a plan view of a disc half for a smaller winding disk, and
(13) FIG. 12 is a plan view of the device for producing pompons with disc halves of FIG. 11.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
(14) FIG. 1 shows the new device 10 for the production of pompons, which comprises the ring carrier 30 and in the holding region 31 we see the winding disks, namely a winding disk on the front and a winding disk on the back of the ring carrier 30. Here, the winding disks are each composed of two semi-annular disk halves, namely the front winding disk of the disk halves 20, 21 and the rear winding disk from the disk halves 22, 23. The ring carrier 30 has outside the holding portion 31 for the disk halves 20, 21, 22, 23 a handle 35. By means of the handle 35, the device 10 can be well positioned in both the closed position shown in FIGS. 1 and 10 and in the open position shown in FIG. 4, without the handle 35 hindering handling in the manufacture of the pompons.
(15) The ring carrier 30 consists in this embodiment, as better seen in FIG. 2, of two support members 37, 38. The support members 37, 38 are pivotally connected to each other at the handle end 351 and each have a semicircular arm. Both arms extend to the other, free end, where closure members 361, 362 are provided. By means of these closure parts 361, 362, the arms of the carrier elements 37, 38 can be connected together to form a releasable closure 36 and form an annular holding region 31.
(16) The semicircular arms of the support members 37, 38 are configured in this example, that they comprise two superposed semicircular support layers 32, 33, wherein the upper support layer 32 is not immediately adjacent the lower support layer 33, but instead between the support layers 32, 33, a gap 34 is present. In order that the gap 34 is retained during the winding process, preferably nubs 326, 336 are arranged on the inner surfaces of the carrier layers 32, 33, which ensure a constant spacing of the carrier layers 32, 33 relative to one another during the winding process, see FIGS. 5 and 8.
(17) In the advantageous embodiment shown, the two carrier elements 37, 38 are formed identically, as shown in FIG. 5, where the individual parts of ring carrier 30, namely, the two support members 37, 38 and sleeve 40 which connects them are shown prior to assembly. For assembly, the two support elements 37, 38 are stacked, wherein a support member is positioned in reverse orientation. The two support elements 37, 38 each have at the handle end 351 a through hole 355, which through holes are aligned after juxtaposition and result in a common through hole, which forms a hinge eye for the sleeve 40. To this sleeve 40, the support members 37, 38 are pivotally mounted when the device is assembled. The central axis of the sleeve forms the pivot axis. In this example, the sleeve 40 has a collar 41 which rests on a clamping edge 356 of the through hole 355 of the one support member 37. At the other end face of the sleeve 40, two hook-shaped clamping elements 43 are arranged, which are held on the clamping edge 356 of the other carrier element 38. The insertion of the sleeve 40 into the carrier element 37 and subsequently into the carrier element 38 is facilitated by the slot 42 in the sleeve. After mounting the sleeve 40, the support members 37, 38 are pivotally movable between an open position shown in FIG. 4 and a closed position shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.
(18) For the closure 36, closure parts 361, 362 are provided on both carrier elements 37, 38. As best seen in FIGS. 7 to 9, both support elements 37, 38 have the same closure parts 361, 362, namely on the one hand a clamp receptacle 371, 381 and on the other hand a clamping bushing 374, 384. Since in the assembled position the one support member 37 is in reversed alignment with the other support member 38, thus the clamping receptacle 381 of the support member 38, which is located above the clamping bush 384, cooperates with the clamping bush 374 of the other support member 37, where the clamping bush 374 is located above. Furthermore, the clamping bush 384 located below in the carrier element 38 interacts with the clamping receptacle 371 of the carrier element 37 lying on top. When the closure elements 361, 362 of the support members 37, 38 are moved toward each other, the situation shortly before the connection is shown in FIG. 8. In the closed position, shown in FIG. 9, the clamping hooks 376 of the clamping bush 374 of the carrier element 37 engage behind a clamping edge 383 in the clamping receptacle 381 of the carrier element 38. Likewise, in the closed position of FIG. 9, the clamping hooks 386 of the clamping bush 384 of the carrier element 38 engage behind a clamping edge 373 of the clamping receptacle 371 of the carrier element 37.
(19) Semicircular disk halves 20, 21, 22, 23 can be attached to the ring carrier thus formed. Such a disk half is shown in FIG. 3. In the closed position, shown in FIGS. 1 and 10, the disc half 21 and the disc half 20 complement each other to form a winding disc, and its outer edge 24 gives the outer diameter of the winding disc. This outer diameter determines the size of the pompon to be produced. The disk halves 20, 21, 22, 23 are held on the ring carrier 30. For assembly, shown in FIG. 6, an annular disc 21 is inserted with its lower insertion edge 26 in a grip-side clamping gap 324 on the carrier element 38 and the upper insertion edge 27 in a closure-side clamping gap 325 on the same support member 38. Here, in this example, a recess 28 is provided on the disc halves 20, 21, 22, 23 in the region of the upper insertion edge. It represents an adaptation to the shape of the closure elements 361, 362 of the carrier elements 37, 38. After the insertion of the disc half 21, this is pressed onto the carrier layer 32 of the carrier element 38. In this case, a clamping element 323, which is located on the outer surface 322 of the carrier layer 32, engages in a suitable insertion hole 25 on the disc half 21, whereby the disc half 21 comes to bear against the carrier layer 32. In the same way, the other half disc 20 is mounted on the front side of the ring carrier 30 on the carrier element 37. The disc halves 22, 23 for the winding disc on the back of the ring carrier 30 are also inserted and fixed. Also on the rear side grip-side clamping gaps 334 for the lower insertion edge 26 and closure-side clamping gaps 335 for the upper insertion edge 27 and clamping elements 333 on the outside of the carrier layers 33 of the support elements 37, 38 are provided, see FIG. 5 and FIG. 6.
(20) In FIG. 1, all disc halves 20, 21, 22, 23 mounted and the device 10 prepared for the preparation of the pompons. To produce the pompons, the closure 36 is now opened. For this purpose, one support element, for example the right support element 38, is pushed forward and the left support element 37 is pushed forward, as a result of which the closure 36 opens. The support elements 37, 38 are pivoted apart. They turn around the sleeve 40. The winding process can now begin. Equally, an arm of the support member 37 is fully wrapped from the handle to the closure 36. On the closure side, a tab 29 is provided on the disc halves, so that the closure is not wrapped. The thread end is secured and then the arm of the other support member 38 of the device 10 is wrapped in the same manner and secured here the thread end. The ring carrier 30 is now closed again. With a slicing tool, such as a pair of scissors, the yarn that has been wound onto the disc halves is sliced in its periphery. Here, the scissors engages in the gap 34 between the winding discs, formed from the disc halves 20, 21 and 22, 23. This gap 34 is effected by the distance between the carrier layers 32, 33 of the ring carrier 30. Through this gap 34, the scissors during slicing of the yarn package is securely guided, namely, from the closure 36 to the handle 35. In the region of the handle 35 of the ring carrier 30, a gap widening 354 is additionally provided in the carrier elements 37, 38, see FIG. 5, so that the scissors are securely guided far into the grip area during separation. After separation, a double fastening thread is placed all around in the gap 34, pulled together and knotted. After the slicing of the yarn, the gap 34 is opened. The distance between the inner surfaces of the carrier layers 32, 33 is maintained by the nubs 326, 336. These nubs 326, 336 have the further advantage that when tightening the fastening thread a clicking sound is caused, namely when the fastening thread is pulled through the nubs 326, 336. This sound indicates that the fastening thread is in the correct position and can be knotted. Thereafter, the ring carrier 30 is opened and the pompon is obtained.
(21) Advantageously, as described above, the four disc halves 20, 21, 22, 23 with a first outer diameter of, for example, 9 cm, shown in FIG. 3, can be mounted on the ring carrier 30 shown in FIG. 3. But then it is also possible, for example, to make a smaller pompon, by using the same ring carrier 30 with four pulley halves 21′ each smaller in its outer diameter, for example, 7 cm. To change the size of the pompon, the disc halves 20, 21, 22, 23 can be easily detached from the ring carrier 30, namely the disc halves 20, 21, 22, 23 raised at the outer edge and pulled out of the clamping gaps 324, 334, 325, 335 and then disc halves 21′ of a smaller diameter, shown in FIG. 11, are mounted on the ring carrier 30. This then results in a device 10′, shown in FIG. 12.
(22) The individual parts of the device, in particular of the ring carrier 30, are preferably made of plastic. The disc halves 20, 21, 22, 23 may also be made of plastic, but may also be made of other materials such as cardboard. They can be colored and printed. In the case of several sets of disc halves 20, 21, 22, 23 for a ring carrier 30, it is advantageous to make the disc halves 20, 21, 22, 23 of the same size using color to indicate the size. According to the shape of the disc halves 20, 21, 22, 23, in particular round pompons are produced. However, the disc halves 20, 21, 22, 23 may also be shaped in other shapes, so as to be of the same or different diameter as templates for example to serve for different animal heads or such.
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(23) 10, 10′ device, pompom maker 20, 21, 22, 23 disc half 21′ half disc 24 outer edge 25 insertion 26 lower insertion edge 27 upper insertion edge 28 recess 29 tab 30 ring-bearer 31 holding area 32, 33 carrier layer 321, 331 inner surface 322, 332 outer surface 323, 333 clamping element 324, 334 grip-side clamping gap 325, 335 closure-side clamping gap 326, 336 nubs 34 gap 35 handle 351 handle end 354 widening gap 355 through hole 356 clamping edge 36 closure 361 connecting part 362 connecting member 37, 38 carrier element 371, 381 clamp receiver 372, 382 insertion opening 373, 383 clamping edge 374, 384 clamping bush 375, 385 slot 376, 386 clamping hook 40 jack 41 collar 42 slot 43 hook-shaped clamping element
