Improvements in Needle Cases or Needle Holders.
Year: 1888

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Needle Cases or Needle Holders.
I RICHARD BENNETT of No. 3 Grove Street Redditch in the County of Worcester
Foreman of Works do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:-
My invention consists principally in arranging or combining the parts of needle
cases or needle holders in the manner hereinafter described whereby ready access to
the needles in the said cases or holders is obtained and in opening and closing the
cases or holders the fingers do not come into contact with the heads and upper ends
of the needles in the said cases or holders.
My invention consists further of the minor details in the needle cases or holders
herein after pointed out.
.
In making according to my invention a needle case for holding say a packet or
group of twenty five needles I form the front of the upper part of the case of three
wing pieces namely of a middle wing piece and two side wing pieces the three wing
pieces when folded down upon the heads and upper parts of the needles meeting
edge to edge and completely covering the heads and upper parts of the needles. The
side wing pieces are turned from off the needles by a side motion and the middle
wing piece by a down motion onto the body of the case. By the use of the middle
wing piece in combination with the side wing pieces the fingers are prevented from
coming into contact with the needles on opening and closing the case. After the
three wing pieces have been folded down as described the needle case is closed and
the three wing pieces held in their places by an upper flap of the ordinary kind but
instead of the tuck or extreme end of the flap being inserted in an aperture or slit
which opens into the case itself containing the needles as usual I construct the front
of the body of the case of two layers as hereinafter explained between which layers
the tuck of the upper flap is inserted so that the said tuck does not enter the interior
of the case or touch the needles I make the case from a blank the middle portion of
which is oblong. This oblong portion has at one side a broad flap from which one of
the side wings and the middle wing described and the front of the case are made and

page_text: at the opposite side of the blank the other side wing and a narrow strip or fixing
down piece are situated. The upper flap of the case is made from the middle portion
of the blank by a cross crease in the line of the upper edge of the broad side flap
described and the lower flap is made from the middle portion of the blank by a cross
crease in the lower edge of the said broad side flap. The broad side flap having been
folded upon the middle portion of the blank the narrow strip or fixing down piece at
the opposite edge of the said blank is folded over the free or unconnected edge of the
side flap and the bottom flap having been folded upon the said side flap and glued or
otherwise connected to it and to the narrow fixing down piece the needle case is
complete the two layers of the front of the case herein before referred to being
formed by the folded down side flap and the bottom flap folded upon it.
My improved needle case or holder may be made of a breadth sufficient for holding
side by side two or more packets or groups of needles and needles of different kinds
and the middle wing at the front of the case and the upper flap of the case may carry
one or more packets or groups of needles. When the middle wing is used to carry
needles it has a rectangular figure.
One or more tucks may be made on the upper flap when the case is used to hold
two or more packets or groups of needles.
Dated this Twenty second day of March 1888.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: 1 RICHARD BENNETT of No. 3 Grove Street Redditch in the County of Worcester
Foreman 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 statenient :-
My invention consists principally in arranging or combining the parts of needle
cases or needle holders in the manner hereinafter described whereby ready access to
the needles in the said cases or holders is obtained and in opening and closing the
cases or holders the fingers do not come into contact with the heads and upper ends of
the needles in the said cases or holders.
My invention consists further of the minor details in the needle cases or holders
hereinafter pointed out.
In making according to my invention a needle case for holding say a packet or
group of 25 needles I form the front of the upper part of the case of three wing
pieces namely of a middle wing piece and two side wing pieces the three wing pieces
when folded down upon the heads and upper parts of the needles completely covering
the heads and upper parts of the needles. The side wing pieces are turned from off
the needles by a side motion and the middle wing piece by a down motion onto the
body of the case. By the use of the middle wing piece in combination with the side
wing pieces the fingers are prevented from coming into contact with the needles on
opening and closing the case. After the three wing pieces have been folded down as
described the needle case is closed and the three wing pieces held in their places by
an upper flap of the ordinary kind but instead of the tuck or extreme end of the flap
being inserted in an aperture or slit which opens into the case itself containing the
needles as usual I construct the front of the body of the case of two layers as herein-
after explained between which layers the tuck of the upper flap in inserted so that the
said tuck does not enter the interior of the case or touch the needles.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in front elevation, open, and
Figure 2 in edge view (partly in section), closed, a needle case or needle holder for
holding a single packet or group of needles made according to my invention;
Figure 3 represents the same view as Figure 1 with the side wing pieces and middle
wing piece turned aside and down for gaining access, to the needles: Figure 4
represents the blank from which the needle case or needle holder is made.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
Drawing.
a a² are the side wing pieces and 6 the middle wing piece which wing pieces a, a and b
when folded upon the heads and upper parts of the needles as illustrated in Figure
completely cover the heads and upper parts of the needles and thereby prevent the
fingers from coming in contact with the needles on opening and closing the case.
order to gain access to the needles the middle wing piece b is first turned down on
the body of the case and the side wing pieces a, a² are then turned from off the
In

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needles by a side motion as represented in Figure 3. The folded wing pieces a, a²,
are held in their places by the upper flap e the tuck or extreme end of which is
inserted between the two layers e, f at the front of the case (see Figure 2) so that the
said tuck does not enter the interior of the case or touch the needles.
The case is made from the blank represented in Figure 4. The middle oblong
portion of the blank has at opposite sides the wing pieces a, a, and the middle wing
piece b is made from the lower part of the front of the case. At the side of the
blank at which the side wing piece a is situated is a broad flap e which forms the
outer layer e at the front of the case between which outer layer e and the inner flap f
the tuck of the top flap c is inserted as seen in Figure 2. At the opposite side of the
blank to that at which the broad flap e is situated is a narrow strip or fixing down
piece. The top flap c of the case is made from the middle portion of the blank by
a cross crease at 2 in the line of the upper edge of the broad side flap from which the
side wing a and protecting flap e are made and the lower front flap f is made from
the middle portion of the blank by the cross crease f in the line of the bottom edge
of the broad flap e. In folding the parts of the blank to form the case the front flap
carrying the middle wing piece is folded upon the middle of the blank and the
narrow strip or fixing piece e2 is then folded upon the edge of the said folded front
flap. The broad side flap e is next folded over the said folded front flap fand the
free or unconnected edge of the said broad flap e is glued or otherwise connected to
the narrow fixing down piece e². The side wing and middle wing pieces a ab having
been folded down the tuck of the upper flap c is inserted between the parts e and fof
the double front of the case formed by the folded bottom flap fand the broad side
piece. The needle case is now complete.
My improved needle case or needle holder may be made of a breadth sufficient
for holding side by side two or more packets or groups of needles of different sizes
as represented in Figure 5, and one two or more tucks may be made on the upper
flap of this kind of case.
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 inven-
tion of "Improvements in needle cases or needle holders"
:-
First Completely covering and protecting the heads and upper parts of the
needles in the case or holder from contact with the fingers in opening and closing the
case or holder by means of the side wing pieces a a² in combination with the middle
wing piece b substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawing,
Secondly Constructing the front of the needle case or holder of two layers between
which layers the tuck or extreme end of the upper flap is inserted so that the said
tuck does not enter the interior of the case or touch the needles in the said
case substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawing.
Dated the 27th day of Novembar 1300