IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CASES, ENVELOPES, OR WRAPPERS FOR NEEDLES AND PINS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Newhall, of Astwood Bank, in the County
of Worcester, Needle Case Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CASES, ENVELOPES, OR WRAPPERS FOR
NEEDLES AND PINS."
Sealed the 21st January 1868, and dated the 1st August 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Newhall at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
1st August 1867.
I, RICHARD NEWHALL, of Astwood Bank, in the County of Worcester,
Needle Case Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invențion
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CASES, ENVELOPES, OR WRAPPERS
POR NEEDLES, AND PINS," to be as follows (that is to say) :-
My Invention consists in making the cases, envelopes, or wrappers for the
containing or holding of certain quantities of needles or pins, say, for example,
quarter. packets or hundreds, by cutting out all the parts which subsequently.
form the envelope or case, in one piece of paper or other suitable material
previously outlined to the shape if desired without any separation of such
parts.. The blank thus produced presents an oblong centre, two side wings,
-and-top and bottom flap pieces, one or both of such flaps having pointed or
curved ends; each of the side wings are then suitably slit or cut in their width-
into three parts, and the top and bottom flaps are also indented with a slit;

page_text: the parts may now be folded inwards, the two centre portions of the side
wings being closed and secured upon each other, the remaining parts of the
side wings merely folding so as to be easily opened for the readier exhibition
or withdrawal of the needles or pins; and the envelope or case may either be
made to open at one or both ends for the purpose of exhibiting, as desired,
either the heads or the points of the needles or pins or both. If it be requisite
to produce a case opening only at one end the other end or flap piece is
secured down upon the already fastened body of the case, and the tongue of
the other flap piece passes through the indent before alluded to in the secured
or bottom end; but if necessary to form an envelope opening at both ends
neither of the flap pieces are secured down, but merely fold upon and pass
the one within the indent or slit in the other. Needle cases or envelopes thus
produced. may be suitably ornamented, printed upon, or labelled.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions. of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Newhall in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
30th January 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME I, RICHARD
NEWHALL, of Astwood Bank, in the County of Worcester, Needle Case
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most,Excellent Majesty Queen. Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Richard Newhall, 'Her special license that I, the said Richard Newhall, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Richard
Newhall, 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, should 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
CASES, ENVELOPES, OR WRAPPERS FOR NEEDLES AND PINS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I; the said Richard Newhall, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, should particularly 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
month's next-and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Newball, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the
letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say:
My Invention consists in making the cases, envelopes, or wrappers for the
containing or holding of certain quantities of needles or pins, say, for example,
quarter packets or hundreds, by cutting out all the parts which .subsequently
form the envelope or case in one piece of paper or other suitable material
previously outlined to the shape if desired without any separation of such
parts. The blank .thus produced presents an oblong centre, two side wings,
and top and bottom flap pieces, one or both of such flaps. having pointed or
curved ends; each of the side wings are then suitably slit or cut in their width
into three parts, and the top and bottom flaps are also indented with a slit ;
the parts may now be folded inwards, the two centre portions of the side
wings being closed and secured upon each other, the remaining parts of .the
side wings merely folding so as to be easily opened for the readier exhibition
or withdrawal of the needles or pins; and the envelope, or case may either be
made to open at one or both ends for the purpose of exhibiting, as, desired,
either the heads or the points of the needles or pins or both. If it be requisite
to produce a case opening only at one end. the other end or flap piece is
secured down upon the already fastened body of the. case, and the tongue of
the other flap piece passes through the indent before alluded.to in the secured
or bottom end; but if necessary to form an envelope opening at both ends
neither of the flap pieces are secured down, but merely fold upon and pass
the one within the indent or slit in the other. Needle cases or envelopes thus
produced niay be suitably ornamented, printed upon, or labelled.
:
In order that my Invention may be better understood I shall now proceed
to describe the same more fully and with reference to the Drawings hereunto
attached.
Figure 1 represents a blank for a needle case or quarter packet, or pin
case if desired, cut out of one piece of paper or other. suitable material
previously outlined to the form, and printed upon if desired.
The blank so produced presents two side wings, (a) and top and bottom
flap pieces (6, 61,), the top piece (6) being shewn as having a pointed end or
tongue; and if desired to form a packet of similar capacity opening. at either
Fend-it-will-merely-be-requisite-to-furnish-the-bottom-flap-piece-(b)-with-such
pointed end, or-both the flap pieces may terminate with curved ends, as shewn
in the blank, Figure 2. In forming a packet opening at one end only-the.

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side wings (a) of the blank, Figure 1, are suitably slit or cut in the direction
of their width, as, for instance, at (c); but in making a needle or pin case to
be opened at both ends the wings of the blank form must be slit into three
parts, as at (d), Figure 2. The parts of the blank, Figure 1, may now be
folded inwards, the lower portions of the side wings (a) being closed and
secured upon each other, the upper portions of the same merely folding so as
to be easily opened for the ready exhibition or withdrawal of the needles or
pins. The lower flap piece (1) is now secured upon the side edges of the
already fastened body of the case, a packet thus made and furnished with
needles being shewn at Figure 3.
:
For effecting the closing of the case I have illustrated two methods; the
'tongue piece (6) may enter at the unsecured top edge (e) of the bottom
flap (6) and fasten the case, as shewn at Figure 4, or an indent or slit (f),
Figure 5, having previously. been cut in the bottom piece (61) the tongue
piece (6) may pass into such indent for the purpose of securing the case. I
have already alluded at Figure 2 to the cutting out or. formation of a blank
for a needle or pin case opening at both ends, thus formed the centre parts
(g) of the side wings are closed and secured upon each other, the remaining
parts merely folding inwards, and the flap pieces either passing the one within
the other or underneath the central band or secured portion. :
Figure 6 represents.a similar form of blank to Figure 2, but of sufficient
size when made up for containing a hundred needles or four quarter packets;
if necessary, upon the centre or body of the blank may be secured a case or
sheath (h), Figure 7, for holding the quarter packets (i); the two.centre
parts (j) of the side wings are closed and secured upon each other, and upon
this part a cusbion or pad for odd needles and pins may be formed, and as
shewn at (k), Figure 7, which exhibits the case complete and ready for
fastening, Figure 8 shewing it closed, the ends (1) having been passed under
the band or cushion (k), and Figure 9 representing the other method of
passing the one end or tongue through an indent or slit in the other.
Figure 10 represents in an open view another method of forming the
wrappers for holding pins; in this instance I cut out a blank of paper or other
suitable material so as to present an oblong centre, two side wings (m), and
top and bottom flaps (n), here shewn without tongue pieces or curved ends,
though in some cases I may prefer to employ such ends; suitable lengths of
paper previously stuck with pins are secured upon the centre, side wings, and
top and bottom flaps of the blank, which will then only require to be folded,
that is to say, the side wings upon each other, and also the top and bottom
Aan nieces
3.

page_text: Figure 11 shews the wrapper folded, which may then if desired have an
elastic band to pass round it, or may be slid into a suitable cover or outer
case or sheath if preferred.
Cases, envelopes, or wrappers for needles and pins thus produced may be
suitably ornamented, printed upon, or labelled.
Having thus described the nature and object of my said Invention, and in
what manuer the same is to be carried into practical effect, I claim, without
limiting myself to these precise details, the improvements in the manufacture
of cases, envelopes, or wrappers for needles and pins, as herein more fully
set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Newhall, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
RICHARD NEWHALL. (L.S.)