An Improved Pocket for Holding Needles.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Jan., 1887
Complete Left, 27th Oct., 1887
Complete Accepted, 29th Nov., 1887
An Improved Pocket for Holding Needles.
RICHARD WHEATLEY Jun. Manufacturer of Fancy Leather Goods, 6 Branston
Street Birmingham do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
The improvement I claim is that the pocket will stand upright when the case is
opened or upright on a flat surface the pocket made in the usual manner that is by
folding up a piece of paper & binding the ends then a piece of paper leather or
similar material attatched to the top or open edge of the pocket on each side This must
be rather deeper than the pocket to allow of a piece being bent up level with the
bottom of the pocket Then when this is pulled away from the pocket at the bottom
& glued down to a flat surface on each side it forms a sort of triangle & causes the
pocket to stand upright.
Another way to make the pocket stand upright would be to attatch on each side of
the pocket and at each end a gussett and attatch the other ends of the gussetts to the
flat surface.
RICHARD WHEATLEY, JUN.,
6, Branston Street, Birmingham.

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I, RICHARD WHEATLEY, Junior, of 6, Branston Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire,
Manufacturer of Fancy Leather Goods, 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 consists in the improved pocket for holding needles in needle cases
herein described which is so arranged that it will stand upright when the case is opened or
upright on a flat surface. The pocket itself is made in the usual manner, that is by
folding up a piece of paper and bending and connecting the ends together. In order
to make the pocket stand upright I attach to the top or open edge of the pocket and at
each side thereof a piece of leather, paper or similar material which must be rather
deeper than the pocket itself so as to allow of a piece along the lower edge being bent
up level with the bottom of the pocket; these pieces are then pulled out at the bottom
away from the pocket and when glued down on to a flat surface they form with the
surface a sort of triangle and cause the pocket to stand upright.
In a modification of my invention I attach on each side of the pocket and at each
end thereof a gusset and attach the other end of these gussets to the flat surface so as
to make the pocket stand upright.
On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 represents a general view of a pocket
constructed according to my invention and part of needle case open; Fig. 2 shews a
cross section of the same and Fig. 3 shews a modified form of pocket in which gussets
are employed at each end of the case.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the Figures.
Referring firstly more particularly to Figs. 1 and 2, A is the pocket proper which is
of ordinary form and open at the top a¹. B1, B2 are the two pieces of leather, paper or
similar material which are fixed at each side to the top or open edge a¹ of the pocket A
and at the bottom are pulled out a short distance from the pocket (as shewn in Fig. 1)
and turned up along each edge band glued or otherwise secured to the flat sides C, (
of the needle case thus maintaining the pocket in an upright position when the case is
opened into a flat state. When the case is closed the pocket A folds in between
the sides C, C3, as shown by Fig. 2.
Needles are held in my improved pocket in the ordinary manner their eyed ends
projecting beyond the top, and by the pocket standing upright when the case is opened
they can very readily be removed or replaced.
Fig. 3 illustrates the modification in which the pocket is kept upright when the case
is open by four folding gussets D1, D2, D3, D4 at the ends of the pocket which are fixed
to the pocket and to the case. When the case folded the said gussets bend inwardly
at d and lie flat against the sides of the case.

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:
1st. The improved pocket for holding needles herein before described and illustrated
by Figs. 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawing, that is to say, a pocket for the purpose
described having at each side and fixed at or near its upper edge a piece of leather,
paper or other suitable substance the lower parts of the said pieces being spread a
short distance apart so that when fixed to the sides of a needle case as described and
the sides of the case opened out the pocket will stand up therefrom substantially as
herein before set forth, and
2nd. The modified form of my improved pocket for holding needles hereinbefore
described and illustrated by Fig. of the accompanying drawing which pocket is
provided with side gussets at each end for the purpose of holding it upright from a flat
surface substantially as herein before set forth.