A New or Improved Combined Needle Case and Threader.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 15th June, 1889-Accepted, 20th July, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Combined Needle Case and Threader.
I JOHN DARLING of 11, Bothwell Street, Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This Invention which relates to a new or improved combined needle case and
threader consists of an oblong or rectangular sheath of about the same length as the
needles it is intended to contain and the width of whose interior space is about the
same as the thickest part of the needles.
In this way a sufficiently rigid and light sheath for containing the needles in such
quantities as they are ordinarily sold is obtained.
In order to render the sheath adaptable for threading needles there is affixed to
the one side of it a guide whereinto the eye part of the needle is laid by the person
desiring to have the needle threaded. In this guide there is a hole corresponding
in shape to the upper part of the needle wherein the eye is situated. As the needle
is drawn down the guide, the head thereof slips into the aforesaid hole which is so
shaped and of such size as to cause the needle to assume a position such that when
drawn out of the hole it slips over the threading hook fixed to the other side of the
sheath. When the needle is in position upon the said hook the thread is laid across
the hook which as the needle is drawn off therefrom pulls the thread through the
eye of the needle. In place of attaching the needle threader to a metallic case as
hereinbefore described it may be attached to the back of an ordinary paper case or
package such as that in which needles are ordinarily sold, or it may be made separately
therefrom.
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1000
ST. JOHN V. DAY,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Petitioner's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Combined Needle Case and Threader.
I, JOHN DARLING of 11 Bothwell Street, Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North
Britain, Engineer, 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 a new or improved combined needle case and threader.
In the carrying out of my Invention, I employ an oblong or rectangular sheath of
thin metal or any other suitable material about the same length as the needles it is
intended to contain, and the width of whose interior space is about the same as the
thickest part of the needles; in this way a sufficient rigid and light sheath for con-
taining the needles in such quantities as they are ordinarily sold is obtained.
In order to render the said sheath or case adaptable for threading needles, I mount
upon the one side of the case the threading arrangement which is shewn in the
annexed sheet of drawings. Figures 1 and 2 of which are plan and sectional elevation
of a needle case having threader arrangement attached. Figures 3 and 4 being plan
and sectional elevation of a modification of my Invention.
The needle sheath or case A, is made of any suitable material, but preferably of
thin metal. There is provided on its one side a groove or guide B, into which the
eye end of the needle is laid by the person desirous to have the needle threaded.
In the case of a metal sheath or case the groove as shewn in the drawings may
be formed by stamping so as to produce the elevations b, and depression or groove B.

page_text: In the said groove or guide is a hole C, corresponding in shape to the eye end of
the needle; when desiring to thread, the head of the needle being presented to this
hole, is brought into such a position that the eye of the needle is directly in front of
the book D, so that on the needle being brought down from the hole C, along the
guide B, the eye of the needle is passed on to the shank of the hook D. The thread
is laid transversely across the hook D, at or about the position marked a; on the
needle being now withdrawn from off the hook it carries the thread with it, the thread
being thus drawn through the needle's eye. The said hook D, may be mounted on
the needle case in any suitable manner; in the drawing I have shewn the needle
supported and fixed through the elevated portion E, stamped out from the metal of
the case.
In lieu of mounting the threader on the back or front of the needle case
or holder it may, as a modification of my said invention, be mounted on the edge
of the needle case.
As a further modification of my Invention I may so arrange the threader that it
may be used apart from the needle case as shewn at Figures 3 and 4. In this
modification the needle hook D, is mounted upon a handle piece F, the extremity of
which is formed with the groove B, at each side of which is an ear b, for facilitating
the guiding of the needle on to the shank of the book D; a hole C is provided as
in the first arrangement for the purpose of bringing the needles eye into proper
position in front of the hook; the said threader may also be attached or fixed in
any suitable manner to an ordinary paper case or package for containing needles.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is―
First. The general arrangement and construction of the parts constituting my
improved combined needle case and threader all substantially as and for the purposes
herein before described with reference to Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying
drawings.
Second. The general arrangement and construction of the parts constituting my
improved needle threader all substantially as and for the purposes herein before
described with reference to Figures 3 and of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 14th day of I .....
1000
JOHNSONS,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.