IMPROVEMENTS IN BODKINS
Year: 1885

page_text: I ALICE ISABEL LUCAN GORDON, Gentlewoman of 46 Princes Gate Hyde Park
do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
BODKINS, to be as follows:-
Bodkins as hitherto manufactured cannot conveniently be employed for carrying
wide material such as ribbon or other delicate fabric without injury by creasing it.
With the view of obviating this drawback, I have constructed a bodkin capable
of carrying ribbons and similar materials of variable width without injury thereto.
The bodkin I employ for this purpose is or may be of any size suitable for the
purpose to which it is to be applied, and is made of bone, wood, metal or other
suitable substance, whose section may vary, that is to say it may be elliptical, flat,
cylindrical or any other convenient form, and of any desired dimensions, having a
circular aperture pierced, stamped or otherwise cut in the head for the reception of
cord or other round substance.
Beneath this is a horizontal aperture for carrying small or narrow widths of
material, and below this again is an aperture cut or pierced either sloping at an
augle across the face of the bodkin or vertically arranged in the centre.
Figs. 1 and 2 represent a bodkin of the description embodying my invention
u being the circular eye or opening for round material, 6 being for narrow flat
substances, and c the sloped or vertical aperture for wider widths of ribbon or other
textile.
By increasing the size of the bodkin it is evident it can be employed for carrying
wide widths of ribbon and so forth.
It can be used for running ribbons into ruchings, tucks, tuckers, and so forth, for
use in various ways, in millinery and dress making and for running widths of
material in window curtains, coverlets antimacassars and indeed in all usages in
which widths of material are used which are too wide to be carried by ordinary
means.

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I ALICE ISABEL LUCAN GORDON, Gentlewoman of 46, Princes Gate Hyde Park
do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN BODKINS
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:—
Bodkins as hitherto manufactured cannot conveniently be employed for carrying
wide material such as ribbon or other delicate substance without injury by creasing
it whilst running it into tucks, ruchings or otherwise.
With the view of obviating this drawback I have constructed a bodkin capable
of carrying ribbons and similar materials of variable width without injury thereto.
The bodkin I employ for this purpose is or may be of any size suitable for the
purpose to which it is to be applied and is made of bone, metal or other suitable
substance and whose section may vary that is to say it may be elliptical, cylin-
drical, flat or any other convenient form and of any desired dimensions having a
central circular aperture stamped, pierced or otherwise cut in the head for the
.reception of cord or other round substance.
Beneath this is a horizontal aperture for carrying small or narrow widths of
material and below again is an aperture similarly cut or pierced, either sloping to
an angle or vertically arranged.
By increasing the size of the bodkin it is evident it can be employed for carrying
wide widths of ribbon and so on.
It can be used for running ribbons into ruchings, tucks, tuckers and so forth,
for use in various ways in millinery and dressmaking and for running wide widths
of material in window curtains, coverlets, antimacassers and indeed in all usages
were widths of material are employed which are too wide to be carried by ordinary
means.
Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 represent bodkins of the description embodying my invention
shown in different sizes a being the circular eye or opening for carrying round
material, b being for narrow flat ribbon or other textile, c being the sloped and
d the vertical apertures for wider widths.
In all cases the ribbon is carried into the ruching, tuck or what not in a per-
fectly flat state thus preserving from injury by creasing which cannot be so
accomplished with bodkins of the ordinary type,
The sides of the bodkins may be marked with the French and English measures
or centimètres and inches as shown by Fig. 4 by this means the bodkin can also
be employed as a measure, it will likewise serve the
purpose of
paper cutter.

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 method of constructing bodkins with combined horizontal, sloping,
vertical and round apertures whereby wider widths of material than hitherto can
be introduced into the various articles already specified in a perfectly flat and
uncreased condition.
2nd The method of forming the measure of the bodkin by marking on it the
French and English scales the whole as and for the purposes herein set forth and
as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.