AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN NEEDLES
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur George Baylis, of Redditch, in the County of
Worcester, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT OR
IMPROVEMENTS IN NEEDLES."
Sealed the 12th August 1856, and dated the 17th June 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur George Baylis at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th June 1856.
I, ARTHUR GEORGE BAYLIS, of Redditch, in the County of Worcester,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN NEEDLES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in the combination of an elliptical eye, with a
depression or groove running into the eye, as herein-after explained. In
carrying my Invention into effect I make the eyes of needles of an elliptical
or nearly elliptical form, and make on the body of the needle near the lower
part of the eye an inclined groove or depression running into the eye: The
said groove or depression is formed on opposite sides of the needle, so as to
run into the eye on both sides of the said eye. The combination of the said
inclined grooves or depressions with elliptical eyes renders the needles more
easily threaded, and also gives to the said needles a more ornamental
appearance than that possessed by needles of the ordinary construction..

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, file
by the said Arthur George Baylis in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
16th December 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ARTHUR
GEORGE BAYLIS, of Redditch, in the County of Worcester, Manufacturer,
send greeting...
WHEREAS Her. most Excellent Majesty. Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Arthur George Baylis, Her. special licence, that. I, the said Arthur George
Baylis, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Arthur George. Baylis, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others,.from,time to time, and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, sliould and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and.
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVE-
MENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN NEEDLES," upon the condition-(amongst others) that I,
the said Arthur George Baylis, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in' what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed. in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Arthur George Baylis, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same. is, to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by tho
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
:
My Invention consists of the improvement. or improvements in needles
herein after described, and represented in the accompanying Drawing, that is
to say, in the combination of an elliptical or nearly.elliptical eye with a de
pression, groove, or gutter, in the body of the needle running into the
eye of the
said; needle. I form the eye of an elliptical or nearly, elliptical figure; as
represented at a.in Figure 1; and I make on each side of the body of the
needle, near the lower part of the eye, an inclined depression, groove, or gutter

page_text: and 2, the said Figure 2 representing a section of the
said depression, groove, or gutter forming an incline or
ill be understood by an examination of Figure 2. The
id.inclined.depression, groove, or gutter with elliptical
eyes facilitates the threading of the needles, and also
gives to the said needles an ornamental appearance by
producing a brilliant reflection near the lower part of
the eye. The said depressions, grooves, or gutters
render the ordinary process of drilling unnecessary; the
said drilling consists of countersinking the eye on: both
sides i the said countersinking produces a brilliant
reflection around the eye, and facilitates, the threading
of the needle by making the eye more visible than it
otherwise would be. The said drilling, however, weakens
the sides of the eye, and leaves a burr in the interior of
the eye which injures the cotton or thread. My In-
vention possesses all the advantages of drilling without
the disadvantages, that is to say, the depression, groove,
or gutter renders the position of the eye very evident,
and facilitates the threading of the needle, without
weakening the sides of the eye or raising a burr in the
interior of the eye of the needle..
Although I have described the eye of my improved
needle as being of an elliptical figure, yet I do not
thereby wish it to be understood that the figure of the
eye must be of a strictly elliptical figure, as the eye of
the needle may be of a figure approaching to that of an
ellipse, its longest direction being in the direction of the
length of the needle. The length and depth of the
depressions, grooves, or gutters may be varied to suit
the different tastes or to produce different ornamental
appearances.
bed the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
o effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
details herein described and represented, as the same
departing from the nature of my said Invention; but
on the improvement or improvements in needles herein-
illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, that is to say,

page_text: the combination of elliptical or nearly elliptical eyes with depressions, grooves,
or gutters running into the said eyes.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur George Baylis, have hereunto
set my hand and seal; this Fifteenth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
ARTHUR GEORGE BAYLIS.. (L.S.)