IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF SEWING NEEDLES TO BE USED BY HAND
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Morgan-Brown, of the Firm of Brandon and
Morgan-Brown, Engineers and Patent Agents, of 38, Southampton Buildings,
London, and 1, Rue Laffitte, Paris, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINES FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF SEWING NEEDLES TO BE USED BY
HAND." A communication from abroad by Theodore Francis Tillinghast, of
the City of New Bedford, County of Bristol, Massachusetts, United States of
America.
Sealed the 30th April 1880, and dated the 12th November 1879.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said William Morgan-Brown at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th November 1879.
WILLIAM MORGAN-BROWN, of the Firm of Brandon and Morgan-Brown, Engineers
and Patent Agents, of 38, Southampton Buildings, London, and 1, Rue Laffitte,
Paris. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF SEWING
NEEDLES TO BE USED BY HAND." A communication from abroad by Theodore
Francis Tillinghast, of the City of New Bedford, County of Bristol, Massachusetts,
United States of America.
This Invention relates to improvements in machines for the manufacture of
sowing needles to be used by hand.
The mechanism herein described is adapted to make a needle with a slitted
eye or side, to be threaded by drawing the thread through the said slit into the eye.
The needle forming blanks are held in nippers loosely connected with nipper
carrying blocks made to move intermittingly about a grooved bed which is made
to rise and fall each time the blank is to be placed in position to be acted upon by
a die, cutter, or other tool, a rigid finger connected with the frame work of the
machine, acting upon the nippers as the bed is lowered, to thereby place the blank
in exactly the proper position.
The Invention consists chiefly in the combination with a rising and falling needle
bed of a series of independently moveable blocks connected therewith and provided
with nippers to hold the needle blanks and move or carry them intermittingly
forward, substantially as hereinafter described.
Also, in a bed and intermittingly operated squares mounted at its ends, combined

page_text: with a series of independent nipper carrying blocks connected with the said bed and
squares, to permit the blocks to be moved along the sides of the bed and squares, the
squares transferring the blocks from one to the other side of the bed, substantially
as hereinafter described.
Also, in a bed and intermittingly operated squares at its ends, and independent
nipper carrying blocks fitted to the bed and squares, and adapted to be moved with
relation to the bed and squares, as herein after described, combined with pawls to
act upon and move the blocks from the sides of the squares into position to be held
and guided by the sides of the bed.
Also, a series of dies to shape and form the eye of a needle, and a series of
fingers or centreing devices fixed or located with relation to the said dies, as
described, combined with a series of loosely held or supported nippers, to permit the
said nippers to be moved laterally as may be required with relation to the fixed dies
and fingers to correctly place the blanks into the dies, as hereinafter described.
Also, in the combination with the rising and falling bed and series of independent
movable blocks connected therewith, of nippers loosely connected with the said
blocks to permit them and the blanks held by them to be moved laterally with
relation to the said blocks, as hereinafter described.
Also, in the rising and falling bed and a series of movable blocks with loosely
connected nippers, as described, and fingers fixed with relation to the dies, as set
forth to co-operate with the loosely connected nippers as the bed is lowered, to
thereby centre the nippers and their blanks correctly with relation to the devices
which operate to form the eye and head of the needle, as hereinafter described.
Also, in a peculiar shaped die, to shape the needle head and eye, it having a
central projection or teat, the grooves at each side of which are of different widths
and depths to make the die strong, and enable it to form a needle with one side of
the head or eye thicker than its other side.
Also, in other features, specifically pointed out at the end of the Specification.
Figure 1 of the Drawings represents in front elevation a needle making machine
embodying the Invention.
Figure 2, a detail of the shaping die.
Figure 3, details of the slitting device for cutting the side of the eye.
Figure 4, a top view of Figure 1.
Figure 5, a detail of the top plate of the rising and falling bed, it showing the
needle straightening bed, the needle lifter, its operating cam, and nipper opener
attached.
Figure 6, a horizontal section taken through one end of the rising and falling
bed showing a block and nipper thereon, and a square for turning the blocks.
Figure 7, a section on the line 2, 2, Figure 5.
Figure 8, an underside view of one of the squares removed from its post.
Figure 9, a top view of the extreme end of the bed, it showing the spring which
operates in connection with the notched underside of the square represented in
Figure 8.
Figure 10 is a top view of the needle lifter detached from the machine.
Figure 11 is a left hand end view of Figure 1.
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Figure 12, a section taken across the machine on line 3, 3, Figure 1, opposite
the cutters which trim the "flash or surplus metal from the sides of the eye.
Figure 13, a section on the line 4, 4, Figure 1.
Figure 14, details of the cutter to remove the surplus material from the end of
the head, and of the eye entering device, and bed die.
Figure 15, a section on the line 5, Figure 1.
Figure 16, a section on the line 6, Figure 1.
Figure 17 details showing face views and cross sections through the heads and
eyes of the blanks, they illustrating the successive changes produced by the several
devices which co-operate to form the head and eye.
Figure 18 is a longitudinal vertical section taken through the machine showing

page_text: the head of the blank successively.
Figure 19, a longitudinal horizontal section taken just above the bed dies and
notched guides in front of them.
Figure 20, a vertical section taken through the lever which operates the buffing
wheel or stone.
Figure 21, a sectional detail of the needle lifting device which elevates the
needle from the nippers preparatory to placing it upon the needle straightening or
rolling bed.
Figure 22, an underside view, in two different positions, of the carriage which
moves the slitting cutter.
Figure 23, a section on the line 7, 7, Figure 22.
Figure 24, a detail of the device for operating the lifter shown in Figures 10
and 21.
Figure 25 is a section on the dotted line, Figure 26.
Figure 26 is a section on the dotted line, Figure 25.
Figure 27 represents the nippers in detail.
Figure 28 shows a nipper supposed to be in place in front of a die, the finger for
centreing the nipper being shown in section, and
Figure 29 is a top view and cross section of the die which supports the blank
when the side of the eye is slitted.
In the embodyment of this Invention represented in the Drawings, the main
shaft 10 of the machine mounted in bearings 11 attached to the frame work, which
is of suitable shape to sustain the working parts, has a series of cams a, b, c, d, e,
fg, each adapted to operate a suitable lever a¹, b¹, c¹, d¹, e¹, f¹, g¹, attached to the
bars a, b, c, d, e, f, g², guided in suitable heads provided at their lower ends
with stamps and punches, and with entering devices for the eyes of the blanks,
each one of the said parts carried by the bars co-operating with its own proper die
a², b³, c³, d³, e³, ƒ³, g³.
The stamp as and die a³ receive the end of the wire or blank to be made into a
needle and groove the blank at its underside as at a (see No. 1, Figure 17) to form
or assist in forming the depression for the eye; from die a³ the blank No. 1 is
transferred, as will be herein after described, into position to be acted upon by the
stamp 21 and die b³, they shaping the blank as in No. 2, Figure 17, wherein it will be
noticed that the head of the blank has two depressions formed in it, one at each
side, the said depressions varying in depth from end to end, being deepest at or
near the central portions of the length of the grooves, and depressing the metal
most just where the punch 22 is to operate to form the opening for the eye.
The stamp 21 carried by bar 62 and the die b³, besides grooving the head of the
blank as just described, also define the shape of the outer portion of the head of the
needle about the eye, and the thickness of the walls of the eye, and, as shown in
this instance of this Invention, makes one of the side walls of the eye beavier than
the other.
Referring to Figure 2, showing the said die 63 enlarged, it will be noticed that
the grooves b, 6, cut into the die block to form the projection or teat 66, are cut
of different widths so as to throw the teat to one side of the die so that as the die
and stamp operate upon the blank, they leave more metal at one side of the eye
(as shown in Figure 16, the left hand side of the said eye) than at the other side.
If both sides of the eye are made of equal strength or size, and one side is slitted,
as herein after described, then the metal left in the unslitted side has not, it has
been found in practice, sufficient strength for practical work, but by increasing the
quantity of metal in one side of the eye and consequently the strength of that side,
and by slitting the weaker side for the purpose of threading, it is possible to make
a strong and serviceable needle.
The die 68, it will be noticed, is grooved at one side of the teat much deeper than
at the other side.

page_text: If the grooves were of equal depth, one wider than the other, the teat would be
unequally strained by the metal being driven down by the stamp into the said
grooves about the teat, and the teat being very narrow would be broken.
To obviate this breaking of the tent one groove (the narrow one) is made of less
depth than the broad one, thereby supporting the teat higher up upon that side,
which enables the teat to withstand the strain of the metal in the deeper and wider
groove.
Locating and supporting the teat in this way, it having at its opposite sides
grooves of different width and depth, constitutes a very essential feature of this
Invention, and makes practical the manufacture of slit eyed needles by machinery.
If the machine was to make the common hand needle the die 6s would be grooved
equally at each side of the teat.
After the eye is operated on by the stamp 21 the blank is removed and placed
under the punch 22 carried by the bar c², the punch co-operating with a die c³
having a hole down through it, and punching from the blank a portion of the metal
inside the grooves made by the stamp 21, leaving an open eye or passage, as denoted
in heavy black lines, Figure 17.
This blank, shown at No. 3, is then placed under the eye entering device 23 at
the lower end of bar d², which as it descends enters the eye and serves to hold
the blank in correct position on the die bed d³, while two rotating disc cutters or
saws d', d³, on a shaft de, mounted in bearings suitably attached to a sliding carriage
d (see Figure 13) are moved forward along the head end of the blank, or at the
sides of the eye, the said saws removing the flash or surplus metal from the eye
forming portion or wall of the needle.
These saws are preferably of unequal diameter to enable one to operate upon the
metal at one side of the eye in advance of the other, which operates thereon at the
opposite side, thereby reducing the strain upon the saws.
The carriage d' for the said shaft do is moved forward at the proper time by
means of a lever de operated by a cam d, a suitable spring moving the carriage
backward, or may be moved both backward and forward by a cam having a
groove in its face, a pin upon the carriage entering the groove of the cam.
This saw carrying shaft de has a pulley driven by a belt which is acted upon
by a belt tightener to provide for movement of the carriage.
After trimming the sides of the eye, as represented in No. 4, the blank is moved
under the cutter 24 at the lower end of the bar e², and laid upon or in the holding
die (see Figures 13, 14,) where the "flash" or surplus metal at the end of the
blank and eye is cut away.
An eye entering device e fitted within a grooved portion of the bar and cutter,
and held down by a spring e, enters the eye, and cooperating with the die bed e³
holds the blank firmly while the end cutter 24 trims the end of the head, leaving it
as represented at No. 5, Figure 17.
The spring e (see Figure 14) holds the portion e* down, and permits it to yield
as the cutter 24 trims the head.
The said Figure 14 shows at the left hand diagram the portion e' as holding the
blank, and the cutter 24 as just commencing to cut, and the next diagram shows
the cutter 24 as having performed the cutting operation.
This last operation completed the eye, and would be all that would be required
for the eye of a common hand needle.
The blank No. 5 is next presented to the action of the eye entering device 25 at
the end of bar f2, it cooperating with a proper support or die f³ to hold the blanks
firmly in position.
This die f is slotted at one side (see Figure 29), and the eye entering device 25
is so shaped that the slitting cutter f mounted upon a rotating shaft ƒ³ having a
belt pulley f operated upon by a band or belt in any suitable way may operate to
pass the edges of the cutter through the said slot, and slit the eye open at its thinnest
or weakest side, as shown at No. 6, Figure 17.

page_text: The shaft is supported upon a suitable carriage f' adapted to move longitu-
dinally, or in the path of the dotted line (see Figure 19).
This carriage f is actuated by a cam slide fº (see Figure 22), which shows in
underside view the carriage and the cam slide, the left hand diagram showing the
carriage in its backward position, and the right hand diagram the carriage in its
forward position.
The cam slide f is in this instance moved horizontally by means of a lever f
actuated by a cam f10, the lever being connected with the slide by a pin, as in
Figure 13.
After the eye is slitted as described the blank No. 6 is moved under the eye
entering punch 26 carried by the bar gå, and the said punch cooperating with a
suitable die bed g³ enters the eye, and carries outward the longer portion of the slit
side of the eye left by the slitting cutter in the condition shown in No. 6, and at the
same time the eye closer g, pivoted upon a reciprocating carriage 9, set in motion
by a suitable lever g, acted upon by a cam g', is moved so as to operate upon the
shorter side piece of the slit side of the eye outside the eye.
The pivoted eye closer attached to the said carriage at 98, as the carriage is
drawn toward the shaft 10, brings a portion at the rear of the closer against a
cam glo, and causes the closer to act upon the shorter portion of the eye next
the slot cut through the side of the eye, thereby straightening the slotted side
of the eye and closing the said eye, as shown at No. 7, Figure 17.
The blanks operated upon as herein before described were during the time they
were being presented to the stamps, punches, cutters, &c., held between nippers
mounted upon independent blocks moved progressively forward.
The completed nipper is shown in Figure 11; end view, Figure 6; in section
and in detail, Figures 27 and 28.
Each nipper is composed of a part h2, having a projection h³ to fit a groove in the
face of the block i, and of a part h* having attached to it a projection like h³ to also
fit the same groove in the face of the block, and the two parts h and h* are con-
nected together by a headed pin h³ fixed upon one part and extended into a hole
in the other, the said pin being provided with a spring hº, which acts to hold the
members h, h, of the nippers together, so that they may be separated to act as
spring nippers to clamp a needle blank.
The member h has a slot made through it to receive a screw i³ (see Figure 11),
which holds the nipper upon the block i, and permits it to have a slight longitudinal
movement thereon.
The lower edge of the part h* of the nipper has a notch h', which at the proper
time (as when the bed carrying the blocks is lowered, as will be hereinafter
described) comes substantially above a finger h³, which forms one member of a
nipper centering device, and the said finger enters the said notch h', which forms
the second member of the nipper centering device, and moves the nipper upon the
carrying block i either to the right or left, as may be necessary to ensure that the
nipper centers the blank and places it squarely in the die.
One of these fingers is shown in dotted lines at the right of Figure 18 and in
Figures 16 and 28. It will be understood that in practice one of said fingers will
be correctly placed below each die or bar to cooperate with each nipper each time
it is stopped in front of a stamp, punch, or other tool which is to operate upon the
blank or needle held by the said nipper.
The member h³ of the nipper has a shoulder h¹0, which at the proper time is acted
upon by the nipper opener k attached to a stud k¹ of a block k* connected with
the top plate of the rising and falling bed l' pivoted at upon the frame of
the machine, and raised and lowered by the lever vibrated by the cam l* on
the shaft 10, or by other equivalent or suitable mechanism.
This provision for raising and lowering the bed permits the blanks held by the
nippers to be settled or placed into the hollow of the grooves of the usual guiding
notches in line with and in front of the dies.

page_text: In this machine each nipper carries the blank held firmly by it, while each
stamp, punch, and the several cutters operate upon it to make and finish the eye of
the needle.
The nippers release their blanks just as they are to be straightened by rolling.
All the several stamps, dies, and cutters operate simultaneously upon a number of
blanks, each simultaneous operation upon each blank differing from the operation
upon an adjacent blank.
At the ends of the rising and falling bed are posts 15 provided with squares 7º,
having their four sides suitably grooved to receive dovetailed projections ³ at the
backs of the moveable loose blocks i to which the nippers are attached.
This bed is provided at its sides (see Figure 12) with corresponding grooves 1 to
guide the blocks i from end to end of the bed, and each block in its turn as it is
moved into the groove at the then outer face of the left hand square of the bed, is
by the progressive quarter rotation of the said square carried from the front line of
the bed about the post and into line with the back of the bed.
Before being changed from the front to the back of the bed each nipper is
supplied with a blank from hopper m of usual construction at the front of the
bed, the nipper being temporarily opened below the hopper by a suitable nipper
opener, not herein shewn in position, but which may be made substantially as the
nipper opener k.
The nippers, as the blanks are moved along the bed, retain the blanks and
present them progressively and successively as the blocks are moved horizontally
to each tool or device employed to complete the eye.
Each post 15 has fixed at its lower end a ratchet having four teeth (see Figure 25)
which are engaged by a pawl 18 on a pawl carrier 1° made as a sleeve fitted to the
post 1, each pawl carrier being provided with gear teeth, as shown in the Drawing,
to be engaged by the teeth of a gear wheel 710 loosely mounted upon a fixed stud
the said gear wheel 710 being reciprocated about its stud by means of a recipro-
cating toothed rack 7 actuated by a crank pin w¹ at the end of a shaft 7's operated
from shaft 10, the said crank pin, as shown in the Drawing, entering a slot in a
head w attached to the rack.
This rack has two series of teeth, as shown in Figure 25, to actuate the
wheels at each end of the bed 1, they moving the pawls and turning the squares
intermittingly.
Each block i will in practice have at its face a groove to receive within it a
holding pawl, which is thereby permitted to serve as a stop to act upon the rear
end of a block next in advance of that one in whose groove the pawl then rests, to
prevent the said block from being moved backward, as hereinafter described.
The rack bar 8 bas pivoted at its right hand end a pawl n, which, as the rack
bar is moved in the direction of the arrow, Figure 1, acts upon the rear side of the
block, which then rests at the front side of the square 70 at that end of the bed,
and moves the block acted upon by it from the front side of the square into the
groove w at the outer face of the bed, and at the same time each block acts upon
and moves the block next in advance of it, the last block of the series at the front
of the bed at the left being moved into a groove in that face of the left hand square
which is then at the front.
As the left band square presents at the rear of the bed a block taken by it from
the front of the bed, a pawl n¹ carried by a short rack bar n² moved by gear (10
strikes and moves the said block from the then rear face of the square into the
groove at the rear side of the bed, and this pawl n¹ by its action successively upon
the blocks i moves each block, and the whole series of blocks in advance of it at
the rear of the bed, progressively forward past the several tools which make the
eye, as before described, the square at the right hand end of the bed bringing the
blocks, nippers, and their blanks, having the eyes finished, forward into line at the
front of the bed at its right hand end.
At each face of the squares, and within their grooves, are placed springs o (see

page_text: Figures 6 and 26) to retain the blocks in correct position with relation to the faces
of the squares, the free end of each spring acting against a small projection at the
rear side of each block, as shown in Figure 6.
Each square is provided at its lower side (see Figure 8) with shoulders o³, which
are acted upon (as the squares come into correct position) by springs o³ in grooves
at the upper sides of the bed at its ends (see Figure 9) to retain the squares
in place.
Each block i, its nipper having a needle, the eye of which has been properly
shaped as described, as the blocks are brought in front of the bed at the right is
opened by the nipper opener k.
When a nipper with a needle comes into position to be acted upon by the needle
lifter a projection x at the upper edge of a cam finger p strikes the nipper opener,
held loosely upon its stud and pressed downward by a spring (see Figure 5), and
turns the nipper opener about its stud far enough to strike the projection h10 at the
top of the member h³ of the nipper, so as to move it away from the member h* of
the nipper and release the needle, the pawl then acting upon the rear end of the
second block at the rear end of the block carrying the said nipper (see Figure 27),
preventing it from being moved backward.
The cam finger is connected with a bracket p¹ of the rack bar 71%, and is moved
with the rack bar.
The lower edge of the cam finger is so shaped (see Figure 24) that as the finger is
moved backward in the direction of the arrow, as just described, the spring r on the
stem of the needle lifter 2, having at its top two lugs (see Figure 21), each
provided with two grooves ³, 74, is permitted to raise the said lifter so that the
needle held by the nippers is first received into the notches, and as the said
needle lifter rises the said needle is removed from the nippers by it.
The needle so lifted is next acted upon by the needle pusher 8 at the extreme
forward end of the rolling or straightening plate 8¹ attached to the bracket p¹ (the
rack bar then moving the said parts forward), and the needle is by the said pusher
carried forward from the notches of the lifter 2 into the notches.
During this removal of the needle from the notches to the notches * the lifter is
allowed to descend a very little, and the notches * are then so placed with relation to
the surface of the needle rolling bed a³ as to ensure the placing of the needle to
be rolled and straightened exactly at right angles to the direction of rotation of the
straightening or rolling plate, and also as the said plate 8¹ is being moved forward
a projection 8 of the plate 8' meets a > shaped cam 83 (see Figure 4), and lifts the
end of the said plate high enough above the rolling bed and lifter to lift the
pushing face of the pusher & above the needle, and while the needle is held by the
grooves of the lifter, the said pusher so raised above the body of the needle
passes beyond the needle, after which the plate 8' is permitted to descend (it being
a spring plate) directly upon the needle, and the lifter is fully lowered, and the
needle, then held only between the smooth lower surface of the said plate 8¹ and the
face of the rolling bed, is by the forward motion of the said plate rolled over the
said bed and straightened.
This rolling plate bas at one edge a recess 84 which is of sufficient size to permit
the head of the needle to project beyond the said bed, so that a rotating buffing.
wheel or stone t on a lever t upon the bracket t* connected with the stationary
frame work of the machine is permitted to operate upon the said head as the
needle is rotated, to thereby buff, grind, or finish the said head.
The shaft upon which is mounted the buffing wheel has a pulley t³ to be driven
by a suitable belt, and the lever this moved on its axis t so as to move the wheel
longitudinally along the head of the needle by means of a cam projection on the
rack bar 1, a suitable spring moving the lever in an opposite direction (see,
Figure 20).
A loose pin is placed between the lever t¹ and the cam t³.
The lower portion of the cam finger is shaped to provide for the proper rise and

page_text: 1all of the utter at the desired intervals of time, & p
bearing against the said lower portion of the said cam finger.
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The rolling and straightening plate s¹ in advance of the pusher portions has two
spring fingers 87, which extend forward and bear upon the bed while the pusher is
acting to transfer the needle from one to the other set of grooves of the lifter, the
said spring fingers preventing the needle from being thrown from the lifter.
In this machine it is obvious, instead of the exact mechanism shown in the
Drawings, that any other well known mechanical equivalents for producing the
movements of the parts may be employed.
When the several blanks being operated upon are to be changed from one die to
another, the bed is lifted in order to lift the blanks from the dies preparatory to
moving the blocks and nippers laterally.
The rod ws on the frame work u serves as a rest for the bed when in its
lowest position..
Having thus described and particularly set forth the nature of the said Invention
and the manner of carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that
what I claim is,―
The combination with a rising and falling needle bed of a series of independently
movable blocks connected therewith and provided with nippers to hold the needle
blanks and move or carry them intermittingly forward, substantially as described.
Also; in a needle making machine, a bed and intermittingly operated squares
mounted at its ends, combined with a series of independent nipper carrying blocks
connected with the said bed and squares, to permit the blocks to be moved along
the sides of the bed and squares, the squares transferring the blocks from one to the
other side of the bed, substantially as described.
Also; in a needle making machine, a bed and intermitting operated squares at
its ends, and independent nipper carrying blocks fitted to the bed and squares, and
adapted to be moved with relation to the bed and squares as described, combined
with pawls to act upon and move the blocks from the sides of the squares into
position to be held and guided by the sides of the bed.
Also; a series of dies to shape and form the eye of a needle, and a series of
fingers or centreing devices fixed or located with relation to the said dies as
described, combined with a series of loosely held or supported nippers, to permit
the said nippers to be moved laterally as may be required with relation to the
fixed dies and fingers to correctly place the blanks into the dies, substantially as
described.
Also; the combination with the rising and falling bed, and a series of independent
movable blocks connected therewith, of nippers loosely connected with the said
blocks, to permit them and the blanks held by them to be moved laterally with
relation to the said block's, substantially as described.
Also; the rising and falling bed, and a series of movable blocks with loosely
connected nippers as described, and fingers fixed with relation to the dies, as Bet
forth, to cooperate with the loosely connected nippers as the bed is lowered,
to thereby centre the nippers and their blanks correctly with relation to the
devices which operate to form the eye and head of the needle, substantially as
described.
Also; a needle head and eye shaping die provided with a teat located at one
side of the centre of the die, and grooved as described, the narrowest groove at the
side of the teat being of less depth than the widest groove, to thereby strengthen
the teat, substantially as described.
Also; the combination with the nippers to hold the needle, and a nipper opener,
of a lifter grooved as described to lift the needle from the nipper, substantially as
described.
Also; a nipper to hold a needle, and a lifter to remove the needle from the

page_text: nipper, combined with a pusher to remove the needle from the lifter to a rolling or
straightening bed, substantially as described.
Also; a straightening plate provided with spring fingers, and a lifter combined
with a straightening bed, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Morgan-Brown, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy nine.
WILLIAM MORGAN-BROWN. (L.S.)