Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-19
NEEDLES OF ALL KINDS.

One needle Is pretty small item.
but the daily consumption of something
like 5000 900 needles all over the world
makes pretty big total. Every year
the women Of the United States break.
lose and nsekahent 800 100000 OF these
little Instruments.
Our needles are the finished products
of American ingenuity. skill and work.
manship and yet how many people.
threading needle or taking a stitch.
have ever given a thought to the vnri-
GUS processes through which the wire
must pass ere II comes out needle!
The manufacture of a single needle in
cludes some twenty-one or twenty-five
different processes. as follows: Cutting
the wire into lengths strengthening.
by rubbing while heated: pointing the
ends on grindstones; stamping impress
sion for the eyes: growing cycling, the
eye being pierced by screw presses;
splitting, threading the double needle
by the eyes ON short lengths OF fine
wire; filing, removing the cheek" left
on each side of the eye by stamping;
breaking. separating the two needles on
the one length OF wire: heading, heads
fled and smoothed to remove the burr
left by stamping and breaking, harden
ing in oil, the needle Is thus made
brittle; tempering; picking. separating
those crooked In hardening: straighten-
ing the crooked ones; securing and pol
shing; bluing, softenlng the eyes by.
heat; drilling or cleaning out the sides
of the eye; head grinding; point-set-
ing, or the final sharpening; final poll
shing; then papering, and finally, la
beling. For wrapping, purple paper Is
used, because II prevents rusting.
There are many sorts and kinds of
needless: First. there Is the surgeons
srewsome outfit-the probing needle,
made for tracking bullets or hidden
cavities of pus; the hairlip needle, the
leng pins for pinning open wounds, the
post-mortem needle of curious pattern.
| Come of these little instruments are
| hin, some are thick: others are long
| md straight: others, again, curve once.
| twice or three times The veterinary
'urgeon has his special outfit also. The
cooks needles are wonderfully, fear
| July made, His larding needle is used
| to sew large pieces of meat together.
| he trusting needle Is made on pur-
| uose to insert melted butter or sauce
| light into the vitals of a Christmas
| turkey It Is hollow and has a large
| opening into which the sauce Is poured.
| Nor less interesting are the needles
| which the upholsterer uses: some are
| half curved and some have round
points He has needles with curious
| oycs--long round, egg and counter-sunk
| ewes. the same kinds OF needles are used
| by collar-makeTs. Then there are tho
| delicate needles used by wlgmakers,
| glopemal5ors ana weavers; these are
often asihne as a hair. The glove need
| les are splendid specimens OF skilful
| workmanship; the finest OF them have
| 'hree-cOrnered points, The great SAN
| neo1le, which has TO be pushed with
g steel palm would puzzle most people:
go, too the broommakers needle which
| must also be pushed with steel palm.
| The curious knitting machine needle,
with MS latchet; the arrasene and
! -rewel needles and the needles for
| shlrring machines: the weaver's pin for
| clicking up broken threads. with an
! omen eye in the hook. The long lnstru-
nent used by milliners. the needle OF
| the rag baer. the knife-point ham
| needle used IN the stock yards. the
| 7strakhan medicines and other
varieties do not call for special notice.
The needle, ms we see II today, Is
| me evolved product OF centuries OF in
| rentlon. In It's primitive form II was
| made OF bone ivory or wood. The maxi
ing OF Spanish needles was introduced
into ENGLAND during the reign OF
Queen Elizabeth. Point by point the
manufacture has improved. until the
little instrument liz one Of the highly
finished products Of nineteenth century
machinery and sldll-H. r. Chrsty, in
Scientific American.