Appliance for Threading Needles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Appliance for Threading Needles.
We, FRANZ LAMPE, Mayor, retired, of XVIII Gertrudplatz No. 5, FRANZ
HIRSCHLER, Merchant, of I, Johannesgasse No. 1, and LUDWIG NOWOTRY,
Merchant, of I Greisnigergasse No. 4, all of Vienna, Austria, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows;-
This invention relates to an appliance for threading needles of all kinds, in
particular for sewing machine, needles, by means of which even with the finest
needles, and without requiring to observe the needle eye, the threading thereof
can be effected in a simple, rapid and reliable manner.
This threading appliance consists of a small hook adapted to be inserted through
the eye, which hook on being passed through the eye and then drawn back again,
engages with a loop of the thread which has been laid round the needle and thereby
carries it through the eye.
The accompanying drawing shews an arrangement for carrying out
the said invention; Figs. 1 to 5 shew views of the needle, the
threading appliance and the thread in the several successive positions for threading
the eye;
Fig. 4 shews a plan of the position at Fig. 4.
The threading device consists of a small bar a the thin pointed end of which
is formed into an upward bent hook a² and is also bent into a loop at a', the two
parallel limbs of which are at a distance apart about equal to the thickness of the
one side of the eye c¹ of the needle c for which it is adapted. To the other end
of the bar a is attached a flat handle b, which, on being held in the downward
directed position shewn, determines the correct position of the loop and hook
relatively to the needle.
The hook a² is of such a thickness that it can be passed through the eye of the
needle, so that on applying the threading device with the bar a bearing against
the side of the needle and drawing it backwards until the bend of the hook as
bears against the front thereof, and then sliding the device downwards along the
needle, the hook a will, on arriving opposite the eye c¹, be at once drawn through
the latter without any trouble.
For the purpose of threading a needle by this device, the thread d is laid round
the needle in the form of a loop drawn tight against it and being held with the
one hand, while with the other hand the threading device is held by the handle b
against the needle in such a position that the hook a² is situated opposite the front
side of the needle, below the thread d, as at Fig. 1. The threading device is
then drawn backwards until the bend of the hook a bears against the front of
the needle and enters the groove thereof as at Fig. 2. The hook is then slid
downward along the needle, being effectually guided by the groove, until it arrives
in line with the eye, when on drawing the device backward, the hook will at once
pass through the eye, as at Fig. 3. After this has been done, the loop of thread d
is slid down the needle until it is close above the loop a¹, as at Figs. 4 and 4*.
Upon then pushing the threading device forward again, the hook a² will first

page_text: seize the part of the thread loop lying across the eye, and will then draw it through
the eye, as at Fig. 5.
This operation will be effected with certainty, no matter what the length of the
needle may be, so long as the threading device is held and moved in a plane
passing parallel through the eye of the needle..
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.
We, FRANZ LAMPE, Mayor, retired, of XVIII Gertrudplatz No. 5, FRANZ
HIRSCHLER, Merchant, of L, Johannesgasse No. 1, and LUDWIG NOWOTRY,
Merchant, of I. Greisnigergasse No. 4, all of Vienna, Austria, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to an appliance for threading needles of all kinds, in
particular for sewing machine needles, by means of which even with the finest
needles, and without requiring to observe the needle eye, the threading thereof
can be effected in a simple, rapid and reliable manner.
This threading appliance consists of a small hook adapted to be inserted through
the eye, which hook on being passed through the eye and then drawn back again,
engages with a loop of the thread which has been laid round the needle and thereby
carries it through the eye.
The drawing accompanying our Provisional Specification shews an arrangement
for carrying out the said invention; Figs. 1 to 5 shew views of the needle, the
threading appliance and the thread in the several successive positions for threading
the eye;
Fig. 4 shews a plan of the position at Fig. 4.
The threading device consists of a small bar a the thin pointed end of which
is formed into an upward bent hook a² and is also bent into a loop at a¹ the two
parallel limbs of which are at a distance apart about equal to the thickness of the
one side of the eye c¹ of the needle c for which it is adapted. To the other end
of the bar a is attached a flat handle b, which on being held in the downward
directed position shewn, determines the correct position of the loop and hook
relatively to the needle.
The hook a² is of such a thickness that it can be passed through the eye of the
needle, so that on applying the threading device with the bar a bearing against
the side of the needle and drawing it backwards until the bend of the hook a
bears against the front thereof, and then sliding the device downwards along the
needle, the hook a² will, on arriving opposite the eye c¹, be at once drawn through
the latter without any trouble.
For the purpose of threading a needle by this device, the thread d is laid round
the needle in the form of a loop, drawn tight against it, and being held with the
one hand, while with the other hand the threading device is held by the handle b
against the needle in such a position that the hook a³ is situated opposite the front
side of the needle, below the thread d, as at Fig. 1. The threading device is
then drawn backwards until the bend of the hook a bears against the front of
the needle and enters the groove thereof as at Fig. 2. The hook is then slid
downward along the needle, being effectually guided by the groove, until it arrives
in line with the eye, when on drawing the device backward, the hook will at once
pass through the eye, as at Fig. 3. After this has been done, the loop of thread d

page_text: is slid down the needle until it is close above the loop a¹, as at Figs. 4 and 4.
Upon then pushing the threading device forward again, the hook a³ will first
seize the part of the thread loop lying across the eye, and will then draw it through
the eye, as at Fig. 5.
This operation will be effected with certainty, no matter what the length of the
needle may be, so long as the threading device is held and moved in a plane
passing parallel through the eye of the needle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
An appliance for threading needles consisting of a rod a whose pointed end is
formed with an upward directed hook as the part carrying such hook being bent
laterally in loop form so as to produce two parallel arms a a¹ the distance apart
of which is equal to one half the thickness of the needle, so that for threading
the latter, the hooked arm ¹a is slid through the eye of the needle and after
engagement of the hook with a loop of thread laid round the needle, the hook is
passed back through the eye again, carrying the thread with it, substantially as
described.
Dotad this 20th day of Santambar 1898