AN IMPROVE- MENT IN NEEDLES FOR SEWING MACHINES
Year: 1884

page_text: I, JOHN DARLING, of Glasgow in the County of Lanark, North, Britain,
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for "AN IMPROVE-
MENT IN NEEDLES FOR SEWING MACHINES" to be as follows:-
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This Invention, which relates to an improvement in needles for sewing Machines,
has for its object to facilitate the threading of such needles. On one side of the
needle a long groove is formed, and from this groove a long eye passes through tho
body of the needle so that a considerably greater scope is provided for the passing
of the thread into the eye than is the case with needles when the eye is of a very
short length and as near as may be at the point thereof. As the sewing could not
be properly effected by keeping the thread working in the long eye, an inclined
block is placed in the lower part of the eye, at one side of which is a slit, which, as
the thread is tightened, allows the said thread to pass into the lower division of
the eye whilst the inclination of the said block prevents the thread during the
sewing operations from being forced upwards through the said slit. By means of
these improvements a shorter working eye than it has been possible hitherto to
provide in sewing Machine needles, is enabled to be produced.
J. H. JOHNSON, DAY & JOHNSON,
Petitioner's Agents,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I, JOHN DARLING, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for AN IMPROVE-
MENT IN NEEDLES FOR SEWING MACHINES and in what mannor the same is to bo
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My Invention, which relates to an improvement in needles for sewing Machines,
has for its object to facilitate the threading of such needles.-On one side of the
needle a long groove is formed, and from this groove a long eye passes through the
body of the needle so that a considerably greater scope is provided for the passing
of the thread into the eye than is the case with needlos when the eye is of a very
short length and as near as may be at the point thereof. As the sowing could not
be properly effected by keeping the thread working in the long oye, an inclined
block is placed in the lower part of the eye, at one side of which is a slit, which, as
the thread is tightened, allows the said thread to pass through the slit into tho
lower division of the eye whilst the inclination of the said block prevents
the thread during the sewing operations from being forced upwards through the
said slit. By incans of these improvements a shorter working eye than it has
been possible hitherto to provide in sewing Machine needles, is enabled to bo
produced.
In order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and readily carried
into effect, I will proceed to describe the drawings hereunto annexed.
Figure 1, is a front view, on an enlarged scale, of a sewing Machine needle
constructod according to and constituting my present Invention.
Figure 2. is a back view of the same.
At the front and back of the sowing Machine needle there are formed the long
groove a, and short groove b, similar to the grooves ordinarily provided in such
needles. From these grooves a, and b, the long eye c, passes through the body of
the needle, and at the lower part of this long eye c, the inclined block d, is
provided in such position that a slit or channel e, is left at one side thereof as
represented upon the annexed drawings. The block d, thus virtually divides the
long eye c, of the needle into two parts, the only connection between these two
parts being the slit or channel e-The inclination of the block d, is such that it
admits of a thread, after having been passed into and through the upper part of
the eye c, being drawn downwards through the slit or channel e, and into the
lower part of the eye c. In this lower part of the eye c, the thread is maintained
by reason of the contour of the underside of the block d, and is otherwise
maintained in such position by reason of the direction from which the thread is
fod to the needle.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
Sewing Machine needles having a long eye c, divided by the inclined block d, or
its equivalent and having a slit or channel e, thus dividing the eye c, into a long
upper portion and a lower short portion, all substantially as and for the purposes
hereinbefore set forth with reference to the annexed sheet of drawings.
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J. H. JOHNSON, DAY & JOHNSON,
Applicant's Agents.