Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 1st May, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 5th Oct.. 1888
I EDGAR ROBERT SMITH BARTLEET of the Abbey Mills Redditch in the County of
Worcester Manager of Works do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be
as follows:-
A self threading needle as ordinarily constructed consists of a needle having a
long eye which eye is situated nearer to one side of the needle than to the other.
The eye of the needle is consequently stronger on one side than on the other side.
The thinner side of the head is divided by an oblique slit passing from the outside
downwards and opening into the eye. The part of the head above the said slit
constitutes an elastic tongue. By pressing the cotton or thread on the said tongue
with a slightly downward pressure the cotton or thread depresses the said tongue
and passes by the slit into the eye. The tongue resumes its normal_position and the
cotton or thread is thereby retained in the eye of the needle. In self threading
needles of this the ordinary construction the cotton or thread is at liberty to pass
from end to end of the long eye in the act of sewing and to catch against and to be
injured by the sharp edge formed by the slit and also to become easily unthreaded.
The object of my invention is to remedy the defects of the ordinary self threading
needle and I effect this in the following manner.
Instead of making the eye of a slot or opening having parallel sides I contract the
eye at its upper part so as to give a circular or nearly circular figure to the eye at
that part. This circular part opens into the lower part of the eye by a passage
sufficiently wide to permit of the cotton or thread to pass readily from the lower to
the upper part of the eye. When the needle has been threaded in the usual way the
cotton or thread is either drawn up at once into the circular upper part of the
eye or when the first stitch is made passes of itself into the circular upper part of
the eye and has no tendency to leave it during the operation of sewing. The cotton
or thread thus has the steadiness of the cotton or thread in the circular eye of an
ordinary needle and is not exposed to the risk of injury hereinbefore referred to.
Dated this 1st day of May 1888.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: I EDGAR ROBERT SMITH BARTLEET of the Abbey Mills Redditch in the county of
Worcester Manager of Works do hereby declare the nature of my Invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
A self threading needle as ordinarily constructed consists of a needle having a long
eye which eye is situated nearer to one side of the needle than to the other. The eye
of the needle is consequently stronger on one side than on the other side. The thinner
side of the head is divided by an oblique slit passing from the outside downwards and
opening into the eye. The part of the head above the said slit constitutes an elastic
tongue. By pressing the cotton or thread on the said tongue with a slightly
downward pressure the cotton or thread depresses the said tongue and passes by
the slit into the eye. The tongue resumes its normal position and the cotton or
thread is thereby retained in the eye of the needle. In self threading needles of this,
the ordinary construction, the cotton or thread is at liberty to pass from end to end
of the long eye in the act of sewing and to catch against and to be injured by the
sharp edge formed by the slit and also to become easily unthreaded.
The object of my invention is to remedy the defects of the ordinary self threading
needle, and I effect this in the following manner. Instead of making the eye of a
slot or opening having parallel sides, 1 contract the eye at its upper part so as to give
a circular or nearly circular figure to the eye at that part. This circular part opens
into the lower part of the eye by a passage sufficiently wide to permit of the cotton
or thread to pass from the lower to the upper part of the eye. When the needle has
been threaded in the usual way the cotton or thread is either drawn up at once into
the circular upper part of the eye or when the first stitch is made passes of itself into
the circular upper part of the eye and has no tendency to leave it during the operation
of sewing. The cotton or thread thus has the steadiness of the cotton or thread in
the circular eye of an ordinary needle and is not exposed to the risk of injury herein
before referred to.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in elevation and section, the
head portion of a self threading needle made according to my invention, drawn to a
large scale for the purpose of better exhibiting the construction of the eye in the
said head; Figure 2 represents an elevation taken in a plane at right angles to that
in which the elevation of Figure 1 is taken, and Figure 3 represents the same
elevation as Figure 1 with the cotton or thread occupying the nearly circular upper
part of the nearly divided eye of the needle when the needle is in use. Figure 4
represents a modification of the thin or tongue side of the eye. The same letters of
reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the Drawing.
a is the long eye made in the head of the needle and b is the nearly circular upper
part of the eye into which upper part 6 the cotton or thread passes and is retained
during the operation of sewing. The said upper part 6 of the eye is formed by
contracting the upper part of the eye a by means of the curved inner projection or
division d in the thick side e of the eye which projection extends nearly to the flat

page_text: inner side of the tongue f. It will be seen that the width of the passage between
the said projection d and the thin side or tongue f of the eye is less than the diameter
of the cotton or thread as seen in Figure 3 and on passing the cotton from the part a
to the part 6 of the eye, the cotton is compressed in passing the projection d, the thin
side or tongue slightly yielding as the cotton passes the said projection d. The
thread c when occupying the circular upper part 6 of the eye and during the act of
sewing lies in the depressions at g in opposite sides of the extremity of the head of
the needle. The thin side of the head is divided by the oblique slit h passing from
the outside downwards and opening into the eye a. At the said oblique slit the
cotton or thread passes into the said eye a as herein after described. By dividing the
thin side of the head by the slit h two tongues f, fs are formed, the tongue ƒ being
elastic and for the purpose of guiding the thread to the slit the opposed sides of
each of the tongues f, gradually taper to the slit h as represented in Figure 2, the
narrowest part of the tapering tongues being at the said slit.
It will be seen that the sides of the two tongues f, f taper in opposite directions,
one upwards and the other downwards, so that whether the thread be pressed on the
tongue for the tongue f* it has a tendency to pass to the slit h.
Although I prefer to make the sides of the tongues f, f taper as described and
represented in Figure 2, yet I do not confine myself to the use of the tapering
tongues as in place of the said tapering tongues Figure 2, tongues having parallel
sides as represented in Figure 4 and marked i, may be employed. I prefer to
make the parallel sided tongues much narrower than the other or thick side e of the
eye as represented in Figure 4 as the upper tongue i is thereby made more elastic
and the needle is more easily threaded.
In threading my improved needle the needle is held in one hand and the thread is
doubled and a loop formed and the head of the needle is inserted in the loop, the thin
side of the head or tongue f being pressed against the loop with a slightly upward
pressure. The elastic tongue f is thereby pressed inwards and as soon as the thread
reaches the slit it passes at the said slit into the eye a. The needle having been
thus threaded the thread is drawn into the nearly circular upper part 6 of the eye, or
when the first stitch is made the said thread, by the tension put upon it, passes into
the circular upper part 6 of the eye as represented in Figure 3, and the said thread
has no tendency to leave the said part 6 during the sewing operation. As the thread
is thus isolated as it were during use from the sharp edge formed by the slit h, injury
to the thread from that source is avoided. The isolating or confining of the thread to
the
upper circular part
b of the eye also prevents the unthreading of the needle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim
as my invention of A new or improved self threading needle":
First. A self threading needle in which the upper part of the eye is contracted so
as to give it a circular or nearly circular figure by means of a single projection d
situated opposite and terminating a short distance from the inner plain side of the
elastic tongue the width of the passage left between the contracted upper part and
the lower part of the eye being less than the diameter of ordinary cotton or thread
substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
Secondly. Forming the sides of the tongues of self threading needles taper in the
manner and for the purpose herein before described and illustrated in Figure 2 of the
accompanying Drawing.
D
T
Anouot 1800

page_text: I EDGAR ROBERT SMITH BARTLEET of the Abbey Mills Redditch in the County of
Worcester Manager of Works do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be
as follows:-
A self threading needle as ordinarily constructed consists of a needle having a
long eye which eye is situated nearer to one side of the needle than to the other.
The eye of the needle is consequently stronger on one side than on the other side.
The thinner side of the head is divided by an oblique slit passing from the outside
downwards and opening into the eye. The part of the head above the said slit
constitutes an elastic tongue. By pressing the cotton or thread on the said tongue
with a slightly downward pressure the cotton or thread depresses the said tongue
and passes by the slit into the eye. The tongue resumes its normal position and the
cotton or thread is thereby retained in the eye of the needle. In self threading
needles of this the ordinary construction the cotton or thread is at liberty to pass
from end to end of the long eye in the act of sewing and to catch against and to be
injured by the sharp edge formed by the slit and also to become easily unthreaded.
The object of my invention is to remedy the defects of the ordinary self threading
needle and I effect this in the following manner.
Instead of making the eye of a slot or opening having parallel sides I contract the
eye at its upper part so as to give a circular or nearly circular figure to the eye at
that part. This circular part opens into the lower part of the eye by a passage
sufficiently wide to permit of the cotton or thread to pass readily from the lower to
the upper part of the eye. When the needle has been threaded in the usual way the
cotton or thread is either drawn up at once into the circular upper part of the
eye or when the first stitch is made passes of itself into the circular upper part of
the eye and has no tendency to leave it during the operation of sewing. The cotton
or thread thus has the steadiness of the cotton or thread in the circular eye of an
ordinary needle and is not exposed to the risk of injury herein before referred to.
Dated this 1st day of May 1888.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: I EDGAR ROBERT SMITH BARTLEET of the Abbey Mills Redditch in the county of
Worcester Manager of Works do hereby declare the nature of my Invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
A self threading needle as ordinarily constructed consists of a needle having a long
eye which eye is situated nearer to one side of the needle than to the other. The eye
of the needle is consequently stronger on one side than on the other side. The thinner
side of the head is divided by an oblique slit passing from the outside downwards and
opening into the eye. The part of the head above the said slit constitutes an elastic
tongue. By pressing the cotton or thread on the said tongue with a slightly
downward pressure the cotton or thread depresses the said tongue and passes by
the slit into the eye. The tongue resumes its normal position and the cotton or
thread is thereby retained in the eye of the needle. In self threading needles of this,
the ordinary construction, the cotton or thread is at liberty to pass from end to end
of the long eye in the act of sewing and to catch against and to be injured by the
sharp edge formed by the slit and also to become easily unthreaded.
The object of my invention is to remedy the defects of the ordinary self threading
needle, and effect this in the following manner. Instead of making the eye of a
slot or opening having parallel sides, I contract the eye at its upper part so as to give
a circular or nearly circular figure to the eye at that part. This circular part opens
into the lower part of the eye by a passage sufficiently wide to permit of the cotton
or thread to pass from the lower to the upper part of the eye. When the needle has
been threaded in the usual way the cotton or thread is either drawn up at once into
the circular upper part of the eye or when the first stitch is made passes of itself into
the circular upper part of the eye and has no tendency to leave it during the operation
of sewing. The cotton or thread thus has the steadiness of the cotton or thread in
the circular eye of an ordinary needle and is not exposed to the risk of injury herein
before referred to.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in elevation and section, the
head portion of a self threading needle made according to my invention, drawn to a
large scale for the purpose of better exhibiting the construction of the eye in the
said head; Figure 2 represents an elevation taken in a plane at right angles to that
in which the elevation of Figure 1 is taken, and Figure 3 represents the same
elevation as Figure 1 with the cotton or thread occupying the nearly circular upper
part of the nearly divided eye of the needle when the needle is in use. Figure 4
represents a modification of the thin or tongue side of the eye. The same letters of
reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the Drawing.
a is the long eye made in the head of the needle and b is the nearly circular upper
part of the eye into which upper part 6 the cotton or thread passes and is retained
during the operation of sewing. The said upper part of the eye is formed by
contracting the upper part of the eye a by means of the curved inner projection or
division d in the thick side e of the eye which projection. extends nearly to the flat

page_text: inner side of the tongue f. It will be seen that the width of the passage between
the said projection d and the thin side or tongue f of the eye is less than the diameter
of the cotton or thread as seen in Figure 3 and on passing the cotton from the part a
to the part 6 of the eye, the cotton is compressed in passing the projection d, the thin
side or tongue slightly yielding as the cotton passes the said projection d. The
thread c when occupying the circular upper part 6 of the eye and during the act of
sewing lies in the depressions at 9 in opposite sides of the extremity of the head of
the needle. The thin side of the head is divided by the oblique slit h passing from
the outside downwards and opening into the eye a. At the said oblique slit the
cotton or thread passes into the said eye a as herein after described. By dividing the
thin side of the head by the slit h two tongues fare formed, the tongue f being
elastic and for the purpose of guiding the thread to the slit the opposed sides of
each of the tongues f, gradually taper to the slit has represented in Figure 2, the
narrowest part of the tapering tongues being at the said slit.
It will be seen that the sides of the two tongues f, taper in opposite directions,
one upwards and the other downwards, so that whether the thread be pressed on the
tongue for the tongue it has a tendency to pass to the slit h.
Although I prefer to make the sides of the tongues f, taper as described and
represented in Figure 2, yet I do not confine myself to the use of the tapering
tongues as in place of the said tapering tongues Figure 2, tongues having parallel
sides as represented in Figure 4 and marked i, 1 may be employed. I prefer to
make the parallel sided tongues much narrower than the other or thick side e of the
eye as represented in Figure 4 as the upper tongue is thereby made more elastic
and the needle is more easily threaded.
In threading my improved needle the needle is held in one hand and the thread is
doubled and a loop formed and the head of the needle is inserted in the loop, the thin
side of the bead or tongue f being pressed against the loop with a slightly upward
pressure. The elastic tongue f is thereby pressed inwards and as soon as the thread
reaches the slit it passes at the said slit into the eye a. The needle having been
thus threaded the thread is drawn into the nearly circular upper part 6 of the eye, or
when the first stitch is made the said thread, by the tension put upon it, passes into
the circular upper part of the eye as represented in Figure 3, and the said thread
has no tendency to leave the said part d during the sewing operation. As the thread
is thus isolated as it were during use from the sharp edge formed by the slit h, injury
to the thread from that source is avoided. The isolating or confining of the thread to
the upper circular part 6 of the eye also prevents the unthreading of the needle.
.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed I wish it to be understood
that I am aware that self threading needles wherein a double eye is formed by two
stops on the inner sides of the eye are not new and that I lay no claim to such needles
but what I do claim is :-
First. A self threading needle in which the upper part of the eye is contracted so
as to give it a circular or nearly circular figure by means of a single projection d
situated opposite and terminating a short distance from the inner plain side of the
elastic tongue f the width of the passage left between the contracted upper part and
the lower part of the eye being less than the diameter of ordinary cotton or thread
substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
Secondly. Forming the sides of the tongues of self threading needles taper in the
manner and for the purpose herein before described and illustrated in Figure 2 of the
accompanying Drawing.
Dated the Thin Cunt dow LA1000