AN IMPROVEMENT IN WRAPPERS FOR PAPERING NEEDLES, AND A NEW OR IMPROVED INSTRUMENT OR APPARATUS PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Victor Milward, of Ipsley, in the County of
Warwick, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN WRAPPERS FOR
PAPERING NEEDLES, AND A NEW OR IMPROVED INSTRUMENT OR APPARATUS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Victor Milward at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 22nd April 1870.
I, VICTOR MILWARD, of Ipsley, in the County of Warwick, do hereby
5 declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN WRAPPERS
FOR PAPERING NEEDLES, AND A NEW OR IMPROVED INSTRUMENT OR APPARATUS FOR
MEASURING OR COUNTING NEEDLES POR PAPERING," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists, firstly, of the following improvement in
wrappers for papering needles. I take a needle paper or wrapper of
the ordinary kind, and I take a second piece of needle paper of a length
somewhat less than the needles to be papered, and of a breadth some-

page_text: what greater than the packet of needles to be made.
The smaller
paper may be rectangular, but I prefer to cut off its corners. The said
smaller piece of paper is placed upon the ordinary needle wrapper near
its middle, and three of the sides of the smaller piece of paper are
attached to the needle wrapper by gum. or other adhesive matter.
There is thus formed a pocket to the wrapper, at the open end of which
pocket the needles may be introduced either loose or stuck upon cloth
or fabric. Before introducing the needles into the pocket the wrapper
is creased in the ordinary way. The wrapper when folded resembles an
ordinary needle wrapper.
My Invention consists, secondly, of an instrument or apparatus for
measuring or counting needles for papering constructed as follows:
The said instrument consists of a holder carrying at bottom two parallel
blades or thin plates, one of the said blades being fixed and the other
moveable. Between the two blades is a block of indía-rubber, and the
moveable blade is capable of being adjusted to a greater or less distance
from the fixed one by means of a screw, the india-rubber being
more or less compressed between the two blades. In using the said
instrument the moveable blade is adjusted so that the distance between
it and the fixed blade shall be equal to the combined diameters of the
25 or 12 or other number of needles to be counted or measured. The
needles being placed side by side on a flat surface the instrument is
brought down upon them, its blades enclosing between them the 25 or
other number of needles. The instrument is then drawn towards the
operator, and the 25 or other number of needles are separated from the
rest and taken hold of by a pair of broad forceps to be stuck into cloth
or introduced into the wrapper in the usual way. The india-rubber
between the blades keeps the counted or measured needles flat or
prevents them riding upon one another as they are being drawn from
the bulk of needles.
Instead of using in the instrument a fixed blade and an adjustable
blade as described, two fixed blades may be used; the distance between
the two fixed blades being equal to the combined diameters of the
required number of needles to be counted.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Victor Milward in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 13th October 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, VICTOR
MILWARD, of Ipsley, in the County of Warwick, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the
thirty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Victor Milward, Her special licence
that I, the said Victor Milward, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Victor Milward, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN WRAPPERS
FOR PAPERING NEEDLES, AND A NEW OR IMPROVED INSTRUMENT OR APPARATUS
FOR MEASURING OR COUNTING NEEDLES FOR PAPERING," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Victor Milward, my exccutors or
administrators by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one
of their hands and seals, 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 months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Victor Milward, 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
the following statement thereof, that is to say :—
My Invention consists, firstly, of the following improvement in
wrappers for papering needles. In making a needle wrapper according
to my Invention I take a needle paper or wrapper of the ordinary kind,
and I take a second piece of needle paper of a length about equal to or
somewhat less than the needles to be papered and of a breadth somewhat
greater than the packet of needles to be made. The smaller paper may
be rectangular, but I prefer to cut off its corners.
The said smaller

page_text: piece of paper is placed upon the ordinary needle wrapper at a short,
distance from its middle, and three of the sides of the smaller piece of
paper are attached to the needle wrapper by gum or other adhesive
matter. There is thus formed a pocket to the wrapper, at the open end
of which pocket the needles may be introduced, either loose or stuck
upon cloth or fabric. Before combining the two papers they are creased
in the ordinary way. The wrapper when folded resembles an ordinary
wrapper.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents the ordinary needle
paper or wrapper which I use, and Figure 2 represents the second or
smaller piece of paper which I use to form the pocket to the wrapper.
Figure 3 represents the smaller piece of paper, Figure 2, attached to the
ordinary paper or wrapper, Figure 1; and Figure 4 represents a section
of the same. Figure 5 represents the wrapper
folded up.
b
The ordinary needle paper or wrapper is marked a, and the smaller
piece of paper is marked in the Drawing. The said smaller piece of
paper is placed upon the paper a in the position represented in
Figures 3 and 4, and the three sides 62 of the paper bare attached to the
said paper a by gum or other adhesive matter. By the attaching of the
smaller piece of paper 6 to the wrapper or paper a a pocket marked c is
made to the wrapper, the end c² of which is open. The needles to be
held in the pocket c are introduced into the said pocket at the open
end c. The needles may either be stuck upon cloth or fabric d, as
represented in Figure 4, before being introduced into the pocket c, or
the needles may be introduced into the pocket c in a loose state. The
needle paper or wrapper a is creased with the ordinary longitudinal and
transverse creases, and the end and sides of the paper 6 from which the
pocket is made are also creased, as illustrated in the Drawing before they
are connected together. After the needles have been introduced into
the pocket c, the paper a, and the sides 6 of the pocket c are first folded
at the longitudinal creases, and the papers a and b are afterwards folded
at the transverse creases, and the ends of the wrapper engaged or tucked
together, as illustrated in Figure 5, when the papering of the needles is
complete, the wrapper when folded resembling an ordinary needle
wrapper.
My Invention consists, secondly, of any instrument or apparatus for
measuring or counting needles for papering constructed as follows:-
The said instrument consists of a holder carrying at bottom two parallel
:-

page_text: blades or thin plates, one of the said blades being fixed and the other
moveable. Between the two blades is a block of india-rubber, and the
moveable blade is capable of being adjusted to a greater or less distance
from the fixed one by means of a screw, the india-rubber being more or
less compressed between the two blades. In using the said instrument
the moveable blade is adjusted so that the distance between it and the
fixed blade shall be equal to the combined diameters of the 25, or 12, or
other number of needles to be counted or measured. The needles being
placed side by side on a flat surface the instrument is brought down upon
them, its blades enclosing between them the 25 or other number of
needles. The instrument is then drawn towards the operator, and the 25
or other number of needles are separated from the rest and taken off by.
a broad pair of forceps to be stuck into cloth or introduced into the
wrapper in the usual way. The india-rubber between the blades keeps.
the counted or measured needles flat or prevents them riding upon one
other as they are being drawn from the bulk of needles.
Figure 6 represents in front elevation, Figure 7 in edge view, and Figure 8.
in plan, a needle counting instrument or apparatus constructed according
to my Invention; Figure 9 illustrates the manner in which the instru
ment is used; e is the holder, carrying at bottom the parallel blades or
thin plates f. g. The blade is fixed and the blade is moveable, the
said moveable blade g being adjusted the required distance from the
fixed blade by the screw h working through a screw box made in the
arm i fixed to the holder e; k is the block of india-rubber between the
blades f, g, which block, as the moveable blade g is adjusted, is more or
less compressed between the two blades. The manner in which the
instrument is brought down upon the bulk of the needles placed on a flat
surface, and the blades f, g, made to enclose between them the number
of needles to be measured or counted, will be readily understood by
an examination of Figure 9, where a series of needles is represented
between the blades after the said needles have been separated from the
bulk of needles. The needles counted or measured by the instrument are
removed therefrom in the manner herein-before described. The manner
in which the india-rubber block between the blades prevents the needles
riding over one another as they are drawn from the bulk of needles will
also be seen by reference to Figure 9.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that

page_text: I do not limit myself to the precise details herein described and
illustrated as the same may be varied without departing from the nature
of my Invention; but I claim as my Invention,―
Firstly. The improvement in wrappers for papering needles herein-
before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, that is to
say, making a pocket to needle wrappers by taking an ordinary needle
wrapper or paper and attaching a second and smaller piece of paper by
three of its sides to the said needle wrapper or paper as described and
illustrated.
Secondly. The new or improved instrument or apparatus for measuring
or counting needles for papering herein-before described and illustrated
in the accompanying Drawing, that is to say, an instrument or apparatus
consisting of a holder carrying at bottom two parallel blades or thin
plates, one of the said blades being fixed and the other adjustable,
between which blades the needles to be measured or counted are enclosed,
the said blades having between them a block of india-rubber for the
purpose and substantially as described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Victor Milward, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
VICTOR MILWARD. (L.S.)